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[–] Esoteir@hexbear.net 51 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (27 children)

i genuinely fail to understand the columbus crew, like zionists get stolen land out of blatantly supporting genocide, idk wtf anyone gains from dying on a hill for that one guy who was so shit at navigating he thought he was on a different continent and then proceeded to kill and enslave thousands and kickstart the largest genocide in human history. i guess a political bloc for the organizers?

[–] mrfugu@hexbear.net 40 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Columbus was diefied for the sake of italian-american pride. Change Columbus day to “Italian-American day” and I bet they stop caring about him in less than 10 years.

[–] CarmineCatboy2@hexbear.net 24 points 2 days ago (8 children)

there has to be another italian guy to deify in place of columbus

[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 19 points 2 days ago (3 children)
[–] CarmineCatboy2@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago

thats already a god

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 3 points 2 days ago

"Just one more thing." That's when you knew he got 'em.

[–] TheRogueKitten@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago

The good Colombo.

[–] CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sacco and Vanzetti are right there

[–] spudnik@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago

Garibaldi would be a good choice too

[–] TheLastHero@hexbear.net 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Giuseppe Garibaldi, easy, and he is actually Italian unlike Columbus (Genoese is not Italian)

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago

two

Knew immediately who you were talking about before I clicked the link lol

[–] jack@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)
[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

St Sebastian. He’s not American but…

  • Italian
  • Actually represents the evils of persecution
  • cute twink
[–] CarmineCatboy2@hexbear.net 2 points 7 hours ago

cute twink

i'm sold

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 days ago

they should. there's a puerto rican day, there's a dominican day, why not italian too?

[–] stink@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Columbus Day was given to Italian Americans after 11 were lynched in a New Orleans Riot

Several of the victims were repeatedly shot and several others were hanged, their bodies grossly put on display in the aftermath. Eleven men were lynched while the rest of the people in the prison managed to hide or escape. None of the men who were lynched were found guilty of being involved in Hennessy’s murder.

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The violent lynching strained international relations between the U.S. and Italian governments, with Italy removing their U.S. ambassador from Washington, D.C. To appease the Italian government and to gain the vote of Italian Americans, U.S. president Benjamin Harrison proclaimed the first nationally-recognized Columbus Day celebration to be a one-time celebration on Oct. 21, 1892.

[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There's a pretty good movie about that

[–] stink@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 days ago

Is it The Godfather

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