Anonymous #4 3w

That’s fucked up why are Italian Americans so into a guy who was charged with genocide, and was considered excessively cruel by a government that owned slaves?

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Anonymous #4 3w

Also a day? Homie you have a month, and we’re in it right now.

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Anonymous #4 3w

I assure you, Italian Americans have better people to look up to and celebrate. Luigi Mangione, for one, or even my best friend would be better Italian Americans to celebrate

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Anonymous mushy.the.mushroom 3w

It’s not about Columbus. It’s about recognizing Italian Americans for the contribution to this country.

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Anonymous #6 3w

It’s not about Christopher Columbus. In 1891, 11 brave Italian Americans were lynched from the same tree for a crime they did not commit. No one was arrested. The measly shit little gift the federal government gave in response wasn’t even money for the families affected, no it was just a day off of work. so fine, change the name. But you change that name to another prominent Italian American or Italian American appreciation day. Indigenous peoples day can be on a different day. We deserve this.

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Anonymous mushy.the.mushroom 3w

It’s not about the man. Are you that cosmically dense that you can’t understand a simple concept as representation for something?

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Anonymous #4 3w

That’s funny, you know who else lynched people? Columbus

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Anonymous #4 3w

Yeah idk man, calling it “Columbus day” kinda makes it about the man.

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Anonymous mushy.the.mushroom 3w

Yeah, and the Lord Of The Flies isn’t about a Lord of flies. They called it Columbus Day so that they could celebrate a historical figure relating to American history, while not saying to the general public of the day was about Italian Americans. There was a strong anti-Italian American sentiment in the country at the time.

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Anonymous mushy.the.mushroom 3w

Yeah, and he’s dead. But the same federal government who allowed this tragedy to happen with no punishment still exists to this day. No one calls October Italian American history month but they do call Columbus Day, Columbus Day. In indigenous people want their own holiday? Great they can go make their own fucking holiday. This is Columbus Day. It is about Italian Americans, and Italian Americans only.

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Anonymous #4 3w

Bro is okay with celebrating genocidal rapists. Stfu, and by the way, kidnapped African slaves and indigenous peoples were the ones who built this country, not those white lazy mfs. This white pos is really trying to justify all that by saying “just give us Italians one day to be proud”. Stfu.

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Anonymous #4 3w

And by the way Columbus’s dumb ass thought he was going to the East Indies (Asia).

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Anonymous #7 3w

You ignorant, motherfucker. I am not defending Columbus. Columbus can eat a bag of dicks for what he did. First of all he was northern Italian, not southern. He stuck his nose up at all other kinds of Italians and then he goes and works for the fucking Spanish. Italians were not considered white. Go look up some political commentary back then you twit. Teddy Roosevelt once said he thought it was a good thing that Italians were being murdered in the streets. Pick up a book.

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Anonymous #4 3w

You said, “We deserve a day” aka “Columbus Day”. Which represents genocide, rape, and disease.

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Anonymous #7 3w

I think we should get rid of Thanksgiving too, we should change it too. Thanks to the indigenous people day. And we will all sit together and apologize for what occurred hundreds of years ago

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Anonymous #10 3w

Fuck Colombus and his fuckass 7 seas adventure

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Anonymous #9 3w

cope

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Anonymous #12 3w

if it wasn’t for that who the hell knows where we’d be

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Anonymous #10 3w

lets think 🫩🤞probably wouldn't have subjected countless natives and disrupted them from their own land

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Anonymous #14 3w

you can celebrate in your homes if you must but it’s rude to celebrate genocide by your ancestors fyi

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Anonymous #7 3w

Leave it to white America the diminish another cultures struggles. That day was gifted to the Italian American community after the atrocity of the New Orleans lynching. The single largest mass lynching in US history no one was arrested, no federal investigation. This holiday is all we got from that. Columbus was an animal, and the holiday should absolutely be renamed. But it belongs to Italian Americans.

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Anonymous #16 3w

In 1891 11 Italian Americans were lynched in New Orleans creating Columbus Day as a national holiday to appease the Italian American community. But no you’re right, totally just about genocide

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Anonymous #15 3w

so u think all whites must be slaughtered?

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Anonymous #16 3w

Vaffanculo for not seeing the big picture. We Italian Americans use this day to celebrate our ancestors, not all your ancestors are free of immoral actions so get off your high horse. Columbus Day was meant to celebrate Italian Americans it’s not just Columbus. I’m not saying he was a good guy by any means but he did something very important in world history. Also fyi Spaniards were were the ones who were more genocidal then anything Italians did, take a history class why don’t ya

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Anonymous #11 3w

preach it!

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Anonymous #4 3w

Thank you! Someone who gets it, don’t listen to these people celebrate our heritage man Italian Americans deserve a day to celebrate who we are and our ancestors

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Anonymous #10 3w

"hey I think its bad that we did this bad thing" "so whites should be slaughtered? wow" bro is making shit up atp

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Anonymous #15 3w

It amazes me out little you people know about Columbus Day

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Anonymous #9 3w

Literally

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Anonymous #10 3w

Yessir!!!

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Anonymous #4 3w

Actually fuck all the assholes who down vote this, talk about conforming to an oppressive culture, stfu and let us Italian Americans have our day!

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Anonymous #14 3w

Yea man the Italian Americans are really facing a lot of discrimination in America today you’re so white I mean right

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Anonymous mushy.the.mushroom 3w

You clearly didn’t take a history class bro, why don’t you actually learn why this day became a national holiday instead of spreading your ignorance over social media, try learning something instead of always thinking “I know best” cus that’s gotta be ur mentality after such a comment

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Anonymous #4 3w

Thank you for actually knowing our history and understanding where this community comes from, don’t listen to these ignorant assholes they are the reason we need this day more than anything

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Anonymous #14 3w

Bingo my friend! People like to pretend that just because we’re not stigmatized against nearly as much anymore that we can’t bring up our own history. The only reason we are as accepted as we are is because our people conformed to white America. They were hard-working immigrants, who realized what’s more important for their families future.

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Anonymous #4 3w

Preach! 👏🏼 we brought the statue back to Chicago and we will fight for our day! And your exactly right my nonni had to conform to become welcomed into this country but our ancestors and heritage matters just as much as anyones does and I thank you for actually being knowledgeable because it’s people like you that can see past the BS people spew and look at the big picture

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Anonymous #14 3w

This would be like Germans getting mad that nobody wants national Hitler day anymore

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Anonymous mushy.the.mushroom 3w

Italian Americans were persecuted and were victims of racism in early America. And this holiday was literally born out of that fact. But I guess pop off on the worlds worst analogy

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Anonymous #10 3w

No one said that buddy💀🫩

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Anonymous #15 3w

Who’s we

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Anonymous #11 3w

Source? Preferably one that does not come from Truth media or Fox

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Anonymous #9 3w

But aren’t you doing just that by trying to tell them not to force their opinions on others. You’re asserting your opinion that they shouldn’t have freedom of speech to honor a day that recounts how this country try was founded on the backs of black and brown and Asian people with their literal blood

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Anonymous #11 3w

I have a feeling that’s not the real reason, cause there are definitely other Italians that exist

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Anonymous #14 3w

Fun fact Prager U gives Columbus a more Spanish persona in their video excusing the fact he murdered and enslaved indigenous people. So not even the people who “care” about Columbus Day actually know anything about him.

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Anonymous mushy.the.mushroom 3w

No actually. He didn’t. Sure even the Spanish government ruled him excessively cruel. He was a racist, a rapist, And a pedo, but let’s not try to raise the legacy of lynchers to the status of such a great man

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Anonymous #21 3w

Free speech doesn’t mean people should just accept your opinion no matter what. It means you are able to say whatever the fuck you want. There will always be someone who doesn’t agree with you or wants to not have someone else shouting their opinion in your face like it’s the only right one.

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Anonymous #21 3w

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1891_New_Orleans_lynchings

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Anonymous #14 3w

As an Italian, let’s be so fr our ancestors tbh thought he was actually stupid and he still very much is stupid 💀 anyways happy Leif Eriksson Day, the first man and Viking group to actually find North America!

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Anonymous #26 3w

Nah fr I’m tired of seeing his ass here and in the sex advice yak

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Anonymous #10 3w

You make it embarrassing for the rest of us white people bro, shut up good lord, Columbus wasn’t even the first person to discover North America. As an Italian, he was an awful person who genuinely shouldn’t be celebrated, back then all of Italy thought he was crazy and he still very much was even after “discovering” North America.

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Anonymous #11 3w

i love you italian americans and i understand where you are coming from, but they did not name it columbus day just thinking about the lynchings. two things can be true at once, and it’s very important we acknowledge both. just like we can call it indigenous day, maybe consider calling it Little Sicily remembrance day or Mantraga remembrance day. then we can all learn the true history instead of Prager Us spanish columbus

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Anonymous dark_clown 3w

Finally someone that gets it

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Anonymous dark_clown 3w

Also everyone knows Columbus was actually black

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Anonymous #4 3w

Then get a better figure to replace him why dontcha? Surely you’ve got some better people to replace him with like Marconi or garibaldi or literally anyone else?

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Anonymous dark_clown 3w

yall know he never stepped foot in north america right 🤨

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Anonymous #10 3w

now where did anyone say that 😭 yall r so whiny

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Anonymous #31 3w

He landed in the Bahamas which is part of the continent of North America. Maybe do some research before your reply to people’s posts. 🙄

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Anonymous #6 3w

Luigi mangione will rot in hell

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Anonymous dark_clown 3w

Why? Cause he killed a ceo who profited off of denying people coverage and driving millions into medical debt? I hate to break it to you but Jesus woul have approved of Luigi’s actions despite how drastic they were.

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Anonymous dark_clown 3w

except it’s not the continent of north america bc the bahamas is an ISLAND, maybe think about what ur saying before u say it

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Anonymous #16 3w

Personal offense nor stupidity is license for censorship and repression

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Anonymous #19 2w

What does that have to do with the fact Columbus Day shouldn’t exist

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Anonymous #29 2w

Let’s remember Columbus also died thinking he made it to India and didn’t believe the earth was round, he just believed India was a lot closer than people thought

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Anonymous #23 2w

Leif Erickson also discovered the americas some 400 years prior, landing in modern day canada

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