All this is old news to anyone, who has been in University over the past twenty years. The moral outrage and butthurt is strong and hard.
I attended University in Southern Ontario, and heard more than my share of blather about how neither Canada, nor the United States actually exist. Instead, most of the so-called “United States” is, in fact, Occupied Aztlan, and most of so-called “Canada” is, in fact, Occupied Québec.
Of course, trying to point out the cognitive dissonance in such arguments: i.e., that French and Spanish conquerors are somehow “more legitimate” than English ones, isn’t going to win you any friends.
Nor did my follow up argument that there is actually not so much as a single square centimetre of inhabitable land on this entire planet that hasn’t, at some point, been “stolen” from its previous inhabitants...
I was in graduate school in the 1970’s. One cafeteria featured the usual fast food plus an array of ethnic dishes; Mexican, Chinese, Indian, etc. Not bad, any of those, but I ordered my usual burger & fries.
The girl behind the serving line giggled, “Somehow I knew you would be ordering European!”
Guess my Caucasian face topped by a military haircut gave me away.
Anyway, Columbus Day still has a chance of survival in cities where the bro’s & hispanics do not care to confront the `goombahs’.
Youse know what I mean, doncha? Hey! I’m talking to you!
Exactly right. Because logic and reason are worth precisely jack squat in these sorts of controversies. Conservatives need to learn the lesson that the left fully understands and lives by, which is that in this imperfect world of ours, everything, or at least the important stuff, comes down to sheer willfulness. Conservatives need to move beyond just being right to being pit bull tenacious in sticking up for our worldview and forcing it upon the political system. It would be nice of we could win through reason alone but that’s not the world we live in.