It was a joke. The smiley face was the tell!
Still too subtle, clearly. (For some!)
(Also, I think you’ll find that y’all picked Canadian Thanksgiving to celebrate Columbus Day on!)
I celebrated Columbus Day as usual. Pretty much ignore it. I have a couple checks to deposit and that has to wait until Tuesday.
I’m a state employee and I don’t think it’s an official holiday for me. I don’t remember. We get some of the minor holidays during Christmas break. They use a couple days of our holiday hours and apply it to Christmas when we’re closed for 2 weeks. That way we don’t burn so much of our Vacation hours.
Mine was a joke too. I guess I should’ve included a smiley face.
Damn, you’re right.
Which is actually quite offensive to people familiar with Canadian Thanksgiving as a sexual position.
Whoa, settle down Beavis.
The fact is that the local Indigenous groups were quite busy slaughtering each other before Christopher arrived. And some of these groups even teamed up with the Conquistadors so they could slaughter their local adversaries. Pre-Columbian America was no Nirvana, it was a violent, savage place. Columbus and the rest didn’t improve the situation, but the slaughtering between the local groups would have gone on with or without his arrival.
I’m at work like usual, talking to, or at, you people.
Well said.
Exactly! I spent a few moments today reflecting on the warring and slavery that was commonplace among America’s “Indigenous Peoples” and wondering why so many people seem to find them worthy of honoring instead of Columbus. I’ve also been wondering how could they be so ignorant, especially in this day and age.
Corn, tobacco, and watching out for Falling Rocks.
You would think someone would have spotted him by now.
Fun fact, if there is a reservation near you, its post office is probably NOT closed. My cousin used to be a mail carrier on the rez. They made sure they had mail for this special day.
I decided to camp on the neighbor’s yard without permission.
Hoilidays seem to be ephemeral as the winds change. Lincoln’s and Washington’s birthdays are now President’s day, Decoration Day is now Memorial Day. Halloween replaced the original holiday on the following day, Robert E. Lee’s birthday is no observed at all, nor is May Day since the communists stole it as their holiday. Nobody even remembers Flag Day anymore, and when I was in school, we celebrated VE day and VJ Day. More important new ones are added, like Black Friday and Super Bowl Sunday.
So I just treat all holidays as if they are someday going to be inappropriate for some reason or other.
Frankly I cant think of anything that wouldn’t be offensive to Indians. I cant imagine doing a parade or anything.
I’d like to see New Years Day observed on a different day. I’m usually too hung over from celebrating New Years Eve to really enjoy New Years Day.
There were warring and slaving and raping Native Americans, and there were peaceful (or at least less warlike) and non-slaving Native Americans, just like there were warring and slaving and raping Europeans and more peaceful and non-slaving Europeans.
Columbus was in the “warring/slaving/raping” group. Why should we honor him, when there were so many better people from the era, among both Europeans and Native Americans? Columbus was shitty even for his time. It’s false to deify the Native Americans as a group, and it’s also false to slander them as any worse than Europeans in general.
I know in your secular religion the cardinal sin is to imply Western culture is any better than paleolithic, but we have to agree to disagree on that. Western culture even in the late middle ages contained the seeds for major human advancement not seen everywhere else, definitely not among stone age people.
It doesn’t mean individual people are anything other than all God’s children (sorry, that’s how I see it so why sanitize it by phrasing it differently?). Doesn’t mean Columbus was a great guy, but his discovery (from the Western perspective, our perspective) the start of a great thing. The holiday isn’t IMO about celebrating him as a great guy. Also, here in the northeast US with it’s much higher concentration of Italian Americans than elsewhere in the US, it’s as much Italian Pride Day as anything else.
I thought the preferred sexual position for Canadians was doggy style, so they could both watch the hockey game.
I don’t celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day. I celebrate Moral Superiority Day, where I look condescendingly down on the less spiritually advanced than I. But I don’t limit it to just one day.
Regards,
Shodan
What gets me is do they really think if Columbus had not let it slip out that there was a whole new continent here, that someone else would not have done it? And perhaps done something worse?
Holidays are silly. But I’ll take my day off, thanks.
I cleaned and printed seating cards for a party that’s coming up.