Posted on 10/12/2014 4:42:19 AM PDT by Kaslin
Tomorrow used to be called Columbus Day, but no more. Thanks to Seattle, it’s now “Indigenous Peoples’ Day!” Sound stupid? That’s only because it is.
This week the city council of Seattle voted unanimously to rename the day—within the city only; Columbus Day as we know it is a federal holiday—because, like with everything these days, some whiny people found a way to be offended by something that doesn’t really affect them at all and demand their grievance be addressed. Progressive governments such as Seattle’s eagerly cave if the crying crowd has a non-white face in front of it.
In Seattle that face belongs to Indians. For years, progressive Indian tribes, when not trying to convince people that the name “Washington Redskins” is offensive, have been campaigning with other progressives against Columbus Day. Progressives always have hated Christopher Columbus, viewing him as nothing more than a white, genocidal monster who enslaved natives and spread disease to wipe them out.
It’s really almost as stupid as “Indigenous Peoples’ Day” sounds.
Like a lot of stupid ideas, this one came from the schools. In the days before the city acted, its school district did. The school board passed a resolution that included, but was not limited to, this nugget of dumb, “WHEREAS, the School Board seeks to combat prejudice and eliminate discrimination and institutionalized racism, and to promote awareness, understanding, and good relations among indigenous peoples and all other segments of our District…” (Read the whole thing, it’s all amazingly crazy.)
A parade of progressive grievance groups threw support behind it, and the city council passed the change 7-0.
Councilman Bruce Harrell said, “We are celebrating the triumph of the indigenous people. We are not reveling in the pain of our past, but indeed rejoicing in the triumph… In honoring Indigenous People’s Day we are honoring the best of our self, the best of the city.”
This politically correct garbage stems from progressives’ hatred of the fact that Europeans more than 500 years ago figured out the planet had another half. They seem to think no one would have ever made it around the globe had it not been for Christopher Columbus.
They cite the fact that Columbus, and those who followed, brought diseases with them. Many natives died because they had never been exposed to those diseases and, therefore, had no natural immunity to them. But they act as though Columbus sailed with the Niña, Pinta, Santa Maria, and the Petri Dish. Columbus didn’t have a ship exclusively filled with diseases so, should he happen across a previously unknown people, he could get them sick. That’s idiotic progressive revisionism. In 1492, no one knew how disease was transmitted, or if they were a carrier.
Progressives also depict the western hemisphere prior to 1492 as a Utopian paradise devoid of strife, war and problems. Indians were not a Utopic people; they had wars just like the rest of the world. What they didn’t have was any significant technological, industrial or weapons advances in centuries. Europeans were, by far, a better equipped and armed people. That’s hardly their fault. Were the tables reversed, the history would’ve been too.
So when I first heard about this new victim holiday in Seattle I thought it was about the dumbest thing I’ve heard this year…that didn’t come out of the White House. Then I thought about it for a minute.
I was born here, my parents were born here, and so were my grandparents. I’m indigenous, as far as I’m concerned. If I’m now free to choose my gender on a whim, why not my “native” roots? So let’s embrace this new insanity and claim it as our own. Tomorrow, on Columbus Day, Seattle will be celebrating me! And you! Everyone born here, we’re all indigenous. It’s your day, take it!
I have no idea when my ancestors came here, nor do I care. As far as I’ve been told, the started off somewhere in Poland and bred their way west. They’d marry, mate, and the kids would move at some point. Always west. So I’m some part of just about everything between here and there. And I couldn’t give less of a damn.
I don’t eat pierogi, don’t wear lederhosen, prefer women who shave their armpits and shower, and I don’t subscribe to any traditions or customs of my ancestors, or even know what most of them are. And I’m better for it.
If you use the term “my people” in any way other than as a joke or in referring to your family and friends, you’re probably a bigoted and/or racist progressive jackass who cares more about people who look like them than people who don’t. You’re sick, and you’re the real problem, not some holiday no one ever thinks about. Still, tomorrow is your day, too. Even if you weren’t born here, self-identify as an indigenous person Monday and have some fun. It’s time to stop progressives from raping history and aborting facts and take them back. Celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day tomorrow, but make it about you – the American.
Ahhhhh....lthe Seattle City Council. They’re bravely attacking windmills and demanding that ESPN cover the fight.
Private business employees don’t get this day off. This is a holiday for banks and government workers. Just about everyone else has to work.
A better idea, and one the left would not like at all, would be to rename Columbus Day as Explorer’s Day, dedicated to the *individuals*, not groups, who historically, today, and in the future, explore “new frontiers”, not just wallow in what is known, but who seek out the unknown.
The left would hate this, because it emphasizes individualism and accomplishment, not sheep-like herds of people staggering around without purpose and obeying their self-appointed masters, who contribute nothing but consumption. The ideal socialists.
Explorers also risk much for their success, and often lose their lives with failure. But were it not for them, the world would be like Detroit or East Germany. A decaying and filthy place, full of waste, pollution, decay and bad government.
And Christopher Columbus would still be there.
And so...Ebola?
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>> because many of those tribes practiced human sacrifice and lefties are still PO’d they were converted into Christians
The Left thrives on having the right to kill. Add in its desire for population control.
YES!!!.....The “white man’ should receive reparations from the Indian tribes “Gaming monopolies” for the next 1000 years....Its only FAIR!!!!
The Wallbuilders story, as well as the links it provides, should be publicized wherever efforts are made to get rid of "Columbus Day."
Since the late 1800's, when then self-described "liberals" (now self-described as "progressives") began their determined effort to "change" America, the so-called "public square" has been censored of many of the essential ideas of liberty enshrined in and underlying the Constitution's protections.
Even today, they are systematically dismantling the greatest protections for liberty ever established for a people.
"Ideas have consequences"(Weaver).
The ideas of 1776 came out of a set of ideas consistent with liberty.
We tend to forget, or have never considered, that other world views existed then, as now.
Unless today's citizens rediscover the ideas of liberty existing in what Jefferson called "the American mind" of 1776, we risk going back to the "Old World" ideas which preceded the "Miracle of America."
There are those who call themselves "progressives," when, in fact, their ideas are regressive and enslaving, and as old as the history of civilization.
Would suggest to any who wish an authentic history of the ideas underlying American's founding a visit to this web site, at which Richard Frothingham's outstanding 1872 "History of the Rise of the Republic of the United States" can be read on line.
This 600+-page history traces the ideas which gave birth to the American founding. Throughout, Richard Frothingham, the historian, develops the idea that it is "the Christian idea of man" which allowed the philosophy underlying the Declaration of Independence and Constitution to become a reality--an idea which recognizes the individual and the Source of his/her "Creator"-endowed life, liberty and law.
Is there any wonder that the enemies of freedom, the so-called "progressives," do not promote such authentic histories of America? Their philosophy puts something called "the state," or "global interests" as being superior to individuals and requires a political elitist group to decide what role individuals are to play.
In other words, they must turn the Founders' ideas upside-down in order to achieve a common mediocrity for individuals and power for themselves.
LIB idiots on parade. As an alternative I propose an “EXILE LIBS” day.
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Sucks for the indigenous peoples that their new holiday falls on Columbus Day. Should have picked a different day. Just sayin’.
Excellent!
I guess I’ve never celebrated Columbus Day. What do you do?
Liberals salute Cannibalism Day
And some sat the city council of Seattle don’t get stoned.
The Spanish colonization have been accused of tyrannical, here are evidence of its “tyranny”: «by law VI, Book III, title VI, Felipe II, in 1593, ordered: “all workers will work eight hours each day, four in the morning and four in the afternoon on the fortifications and factories which is done, spread to the more convenient to get rid of the rigor of the Sun times”»”, more or less what engineers arises, so not missing a point as possible, is also addressed to ensure their health and conservation”. This law is surprising when you see that 370 years in advance, the Crown of Spain regulated work eight hours, and which today has as a conquest of civilized peoples and labor movements worldwide, in modern constitutions and in the labor code. It highlights also the aspect of social welfare, when ordered to “also be attending to ensure their health and conservation.”» And in case outside little, protective laws were not limited to America, in 1589 Spain prohibited slavery in the Philippine Islands.
The rest of the history
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