Indigenous People’s Day. Fuck that other guy.
The fucking liar that knew he wasn’t in India and still called the people Indians? Yeah fuck that fucking guy.
The impact on indigenous people was certainly significant, so that makes sense. However there was also significant impact on European history which would be missing. The advantage of calling it Columbus Day is he was central to all the lasting effects
Fuck him and fuck you.
The 9th day of Halloween. What, y’all don’t celebrate all month long?
All month? This is the 342nd day of Halloween. All days lead to Halloween.
You have my full support.
Another work day that I don’t get off.
I call it Columbus Day.
Many people hate this name because they find the character of the man reprehensible. Many also argue that since he wasn’t the first person from the Eastern Hemisphere to come to the Western Hemisphere his name shouldn’t be enshrined in the name of a holiday.
To my knowledge there isn’t a single historically significant person who we today could call a wholly good person. Setting this aside momentarily. Columbus is arguably one of the most significant people in all human history. We describe the Americas before European contact as Pre-Colombian, we could describe the entire world similarly. It would take too long to list all the ways the world is different after Columbus. Just listing the foods would take too long. Just listing the places named after Columbus is exhausting: a country, a Canadian province, two us state capitals, the us capital, the second largest city in Panama, cities/towns/villages all over the Americas and streets, rivers, and lakes as far off as Italy and the Philippines.
Most people know that Brazilians speak a Portuguese dialect while the majority of South and Central America speak a Spanish dialect. This is because in 1500 Pedro Álvares Cabral accidentally discovered Brazil while trying to go around the Cape of Good Hope. In some alternate reality there’s a Cabral Day and a pre-Cabralean America and all those placenames are named after Pedro Álvares Cabral.
It isn’t the man that causes me to call it Columbus Day it is the immensity the historical significance that does. The man did some terrible things. Unfortunately, when you study history that’s how it just goes. If you discount every historical person based on whether they meet modern ideals of good and evil then history books will become rather slim. History is full of people who do good things and bad things but they all do significant things.
If you want to call it Indigenous Peoples Day thats great. The same day can have multiple holidays. If you want to call it Columbus Day that’s great too. Let’s just remember that it’s easy to celebrate what we see as good while forgetting what’s uncomfortable and they should go hand in hand.
I enjoy this nuanced perspective. In light of all that, I will now call this holiday Fuck Columbus Day.
That’s entirely your right
So why can’t we name it America’s day. We just need to stop using people names for shit.
If it’s very important to you then you could get signatures supporting changing the name to America’s Day or you could petition your state or local government. Things can be changed it just needs someone to enact that change.
Why Do I Have To Work Today Day
Leif Erikson Day - Hinga dinga durgen!
My family celebrates Columbo Day by watching murder mysteries.
Indigenous Peoples’ Day
No Mail Monday, but I won’t remember until I check it anyways.
For me it’s “Sometimes day off” day, if it’s not a major holiday, idrc what day it is only if I get a day off or not lmao
I call it “oh shit, is it a holiday today?”
I call it get me the fuck off work day
I looked it up and there are about 20 holidays on that day.
Curiously, Google Calendar calls it both!
I don’t celebrate it at all so I just call it Monday.
I don’t think I’ve even noticed it since high school
