[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Columbus had his flaws and there were plenty of negatives from European colonization , but there were also and continue to be plenty of positives. The fact is that somebody from Europe was going to discover America eventually, with a lot of the same results, and I’ll bet that person would have been demonized as Columbus has been. It is normal, but a mistake, for us to judge people from 500 years ago by the our standards, and more than a little blind and hypocritical considering the barbarity we have seen unleashed on the world in the last century, including in our present time.

Replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day is an attack on our civilization. It says none of us have a right to be here. Funny, since I’ll bet that most of the Columbus Day foes are proponents of a borderless America.

[Antoninus]

Indigenous Peoples Day

If people really understood what life was like in indigenous cultures prior to the arrival of Columbus, no one would want to celebrate it. No one in their right mind wants to go back to living in perpetual fear that your enemies would descend upon you at night, murder your family, take you captive only to torture you slowly and eat you.