It's a holiday
I'm not sure rebranding Columbus as a terrorist is useful, but I'm pretty sure it's not "disrepecting Italian-Americans" to point out that Columbus's "discovery" was Eurocentric and resulted in as much harm as good.
(Oh, wait, is that heresy against American exceptionalism? So be it.)
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Don't forget that the Vikings arrived centuries earlier than Columbus.
Of course they did, but we never had a federal Leif Erickson Day.......
(So, we ARE we celebrating Columbus? It's because he was the start of a lasting thing, not a momentary aberration...)
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