"A national holiday implies one's good nature." Err, like storming a Fortress used as jail (kind of Guantanamo Bay one)?
Re: Columbus Day Protests
"A national holiday implies one's good nature." Err, like storming a Fortress used as jail (kind of Guantanamo Bay one)?
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. Voltaire.
"I've been in few famous last stands, lad, and they're butcher shops. That's what Blouse's leading you into, mark my words. What'll you lot do then? We've had a few scuffles, but that's not war. Think you'll be man enough to stand, when the metal meets the meat?"
"You did, sarge", said Polly." You said you were in few last stands."
"Yeah, lad. But I was holding the metal"
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Re: Columbus Day Protests
As is said earlier in the thread, the reason why the day exists is because a group of Catholics wanted a Catholic hero/rolemodel for catholic children. It is about Colombus himself.Originally Posted by Sarmatian
Yes, storming the Bastille was a good thing.
you don't have a "building the Bastille"-day in France.
Still maintain that crying on the pitch should warrant a 3 match ban
Re: Columbus Day Protests
Yes, those lunatics were being oppressed.
Someone here said that history is about what were should shouldn't forgive or forget. The latter is fair enough, but the former is BS. The study of history isn't about whether we forgive people or not.
"Put 'em in blue coats, put 'em in red coats, the bastards will run all the same!"
"The English are a strange people....They came here in the morning, looked at the wall, walked over it, killed the garrison and returned to breakfast. What can withstand them?"
Re: Columbus Day Protests
Columbus day had been celebrated in the USA for many years. The highest popularity of the celebration coincided with the USA's most "jingoist" era, from our centennial up until World War II. During this era -- when Kipling wrote of taking up the "white man's burden" without seeing anything hypocritical in it -- it is safe to assume that "revisionism" was not being applied to the rather superficial knowledge most yanks had about Columbus. Catholics used him as a standard bearer -- including my Knights of Columbus -- because he was both Catholic and moderately popular as historical figures went.
Working together, the Knights and a powerful New York Tamany Hall leader (of Italian origin) convinced the Democratic President from New York to approve the Federal Holiday. In the NE, Columbus day was the Italian-American counterpart to St. Pat's for many people -- a celebrate your heritage day.
Most Americans today celebrate the Holiday by watching ALL of Sunday Night Football without worrying about getting up the next day. A huge slice of them couldn't tell you why this Monday was a holiday and if you told them it was President's Day or Veteran's Day instead of Columbus Day they would probably agree with you and certainly wouldn't care one way or another -- except that they have the day off.
Last edited by Seamus Fermanagh; 10-19-2014 at 20:42.
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