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Spurs’ Popovich Slams Italian-American Support for Columbus Day: Like Germans Being ‘Proud of Hitler’
breitbart ^ | 10 Oct 2021 | JOSHUA KLEIN

Posted on 10/11/2021 10:10:45 PM PDT by MarvinStinson

San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich attacked Columbus Day on Friday, slamming his “backward” hometown for marking the day while accusing the famed 15th-century explorer of initiating a “new world genocide” and branding Italian-American support for honoring the day akin to Germans “proud of Hitler.”

After the first-ever presidential proclamation for Indigenous Peoples’ Day — which honors Native American peoples — was issued by President Joe Biden on Friday, Popovich praised the move, which has long been pushed by the left, calling it “appropriate, important, needed and all those sorts of things.”

“Columbus?” he asked mockingly. “I mean he initiated a new world genocide; that’s what he did.”

“Beginning with him and what he set in motion, what followed, [was] the annihilation of every indigenous person in Hispaniola, which was Haiti and the Dominican Republic today, that’s what he did,” he continued.

“He took slaves, he mutilated, he murdered, and we’re going to say ‘slash’ and honor him?” he added. In March last year, the outspoken coach attacked then-President Trump over the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic, accusing him of being a “coward” because of his COVID policies, yet found himself unable to criticize China for its crackdown on the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong or its long record of human rights abuses.

In 2019, he stated that former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick “was very courageous” for starting the NFL anthem-kneeling movement. He also called his protest of the anthem “a very patriotic thing.”

In 2017, in response to then-President Trump denouncing national anthem protests, he called the U.S. “an embarrassment,” adding that white people are privileged and “especially” need to be made “uncomfortable” for any change to be made.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: columbus; greggpopovich; papabitch; popovich
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To: MarvinStinson
Spurs’ Popovich Slams Italian-American Support for Columbus Day: Like Germans Being ‘Proud of Hitler’

A DIP$HIT says DIP$HIT things!

21 posted on 10/11/2021 11:46:49 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: Skybird

Huh. For all the good that did him.

No disrespect to the hallowed halls of any of our top-notch military academies, but every cadet proves GIGO: most by way of stark contrast, a few by actualizing it.


22 posted on 10/12/2021 12:13:36 AM PDT by HKMk23 (The right of freedom of religion shall not be derogated even if the life of the nation is at stake.)
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To: VideoDoctor

PoopOvich is running for an office in F**k Joe adminisration!


23 posted on 10/12/2021 1:35:49 AM PDT by cambyses
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To: MarvinStinson

Is there any evidence that Christopher Columbus ever owned slaves?


24 posted on 10/12/2021 1:39:02 AM PDT by Gumdrop (Prpmotiong)
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To: MarvinStinson

Not the smartest PR move calling fans Nazis.


25 posted on 10/12/2021 1:49:47 AM PDT by ArcadeQuarters (Remember the 2020 backstabbers. No more RINOs ever!)
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To: MarvinStinson

GFY Poppy!


26 posted on 10/12/2021 2:05:38 AM PDT by Altura Ct. (We should mint )
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To: MarvinStinson

Popovich not Italian.

Who the h is he to disparage Italians?

Columbus sought a new trade route to “the east” (China) but bumped into the Americas.

Hitler sought lebensraum (”living space”) by conquering the countries to the east and exterminating or enslaving their people.

Columbus’ discovery was followed by the overthrow of despotic regimes that had subjugated tribes from Mexico to Peru. These regimes were replaced by feudalism, the same form of government practiced in Spain. Queen Isabella thus became known as Isabella “the Catholic” (or, universal) for treating all her subjects equally. (We, in the west, subsequently moved from feudalism to liberal democratic capiitalism.)

Hitler’s invasion of the east involved the replacement of one form of totalitarian government by another form of totalitarian government, and the murder by deprivation of millions of Poles, Ukrainians, Russians and other “lesser” people.

The Aztecs practiced a pagan religion, a state-religion, whose ceremonies involved the ritual slaughter and sacrifice of many of those they subjugated. This was replaced by the Catholic form of Christianity that teaches that all men are created in the image of God whose only begotten son became man and died so all can be saved.

The state-religion of Russia taught that all men are nothing but evolved worms of no meaning or consequence in themselves, to be used by the state for its purposes. Hitler replaced this with a pagan-religion/pseudo-scientific theory of evolution that there is a master race and other, inferior races that could and should be subjugated.

Popovich, in his attack on Columbus, shows that he worships the false religion of the intellectual elites. A false religion not unlike Stalin’s communism or Hitler’s naziism. The twist on totalitarianism of Popovich’s religion is that it worships an elite, treating it as a master race, and treating the common people as so many deplorables and irredeemables, to taxed and regulated as the elite see fit.

Because the elites need a majority of the vote until they consolidate power, they use racist and other forms of hate to divide the common people from each other. The common people who vote for the elites should be warned: how long will the elite provide them with generous welfare benefits when their votes are no longer needed?

The question facing us and the world at this time, is whether we, the common people, will join together in solidarity to overthrow the dictatorship of the elites.

God, in his wisdom, has given us different gifts and different amounts of gifts, whether it be brains or beauty, personality or athleticism. These gifts are not to make anybody master over others, for we have but one master who is the living God. Rather, the purpose of these gifts are to serve God by reflecting his glory, and to serve others.


27 posted on 10/12/2021 2:19:06 AM PDT by Redmen4ever
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To: Redmen4ever

If Columbus was so cruel why didn’t he end up like General Custer? Ships back then had crews of only 40 or 50. His force would have been vastly outnumbered by the locals. They could have had Columbus for dinner, literally.


28 posted on 10/12/2021 2:35:22 AM PDT by Stevenfo
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To: MarvinStinson

Can this Popovich guy be any bigger an a-hole?


29 posted on 10/12/2021 2:45:45 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Dementia Joe and the WhoreStacey, leaders of the Free world. ( F-you dementia Joe.))
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To: MarvinStinson

I hope these folks in San Antonio say something:

https://www.ccis-satx.org/


30 posted on 10/12/2021 3:46:24 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: MarvinStinson

LeBron say dance white boy!


31 posted on 10/12/2021 3:46:47 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: Redmen4ever

The Romans dumped their criminals in what is modern day Serbia. More Titos than Teslas have come out of the region.


32 posted on 10/12/2021 4:36:11 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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Popovich, ever read Columbus' writings? The natives were not peaceful - they were EATING EACH OTHER. Others were enslaving others ..

You need to resign because you are a jackass...

33 posted on 10/12/2021 4:45:00 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (I'm the one trying to save American Democracy...Donald Trump 6/21 at the NCGOP convention)
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To: Bookshelf

Your post is clueless.

Tito was not from Serbia or Yugoslavia.

There is no record of Tito’s existence in Yugoslavia until he appeared during WWII.

He was a Russian plant.


34 posted on 10/12/2021 5:44:17 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

Left loonies will be coming after Christmas soon.


35 posted on 10/12/2021 6:09:53 AM PDT by wardamneagle (c)
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To: MarvinStinson

This guy really does hate himself.

36 posted on 10/12/2021 6:13:24 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: MarvinStinson

Josip Broz, AKA Tito was born in Kumrovec, Croatia. A Croat but still a brother Slav.


37 posted on 10/12/2021 8:49:19 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: Bookshelf

There is no proof of where Tito was from.


38 posted on 10/12/2021 8:57:53 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: Stevenfo

good point Steven

I’m thinking the people he met were as curious about him and his crew and their fascinating ship, as he was about them.

Among the people he brought was an expert in languages, Luis de Torres. The fellow knew many languages, but not the language of the natives. So, he interacted with the natives and learned their language.

There were some problems. When Columbus left a party of about forty on that island (to continue his explorations), the natives fell on them and killed all forty.

This attack is sometimes said to be justified as retribution for men of Columbus courting or simply buying girls and young women (a practice of the natives). Of course, any attack on whites is always o.k., and buying and selling girls and young women is o.k. for native people, even executing people in religious ceremonies; but, courting or buying a girl or a young woman is an unforgivable sin for a white man.


39 posted on 10/12/2021 9:09:07 AM PDT by Redmen4ever
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To: MarvinStinson

Let’s go, Poppy!


40 posted on 10/12/2021 9:13:58 AM PDT by windsorknot
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