The recent Spain hate post reminded me of how Columbus Day is touted as super important to Italian Americans. I did a search and this garbage was one of the top results.

Some highlights:

The people who claim they are indigenous are the descendants of earlier migrants from Asia and are included in Columbus Day celebrations.

Well yuo seee, technically the indigenous groups are also immigrants because they migrated here 10s of thousands of years ago.

Indigenous Peoples Day is viewed by Italian Americans and other Americans as anti-Columbus Day. It is a day of race based political and social protest against the European and immigrant roots of America. It is not a Day of celebration of Native American culture but rather a day aimed against the European immigrant roots of the nation.

Gee, I wonder what issue indigenous groups could possibly have against the settler colonial - *cough* excuse me, immigrant - roots of the nation?

Columbus is an important historical figure. His voyage of discovery in 1492 is one of the greatest events in world history and changed the course of history. He sailed across an uncharted Atlantic with three trading ships as a navigator and explorer to set up new trade routes not as a conqueror.

Tell that to the Taino.

When Columbus Landed the native tribes were in a constant state of warfare and practiced widespread slavery and subjugation of other tribes and human sacrifice, cannibalism and torture.

Those injuns were no angels.

Italian-Americans have faced bigotry in many forms and the attack on Columbus Day is another face of that bigotry, Just another form of discrimination.

It’s anti-Italian discrimination.

People become pretty shitty once they’re allowed in the cracker club.