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jgmiller

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12. I will probably get roasted for this

Thu Oct 9, 2025, 02:14 PM

Oct 9

Honestly statues of Columbus don't bother me like statues of confederate generals. Maybe I'm wrong but it seems to me that the confederate statues became festishized by white nationalists and that makes them wrong. Also they were the losers in the war and I just don't think losers in wars deserve places of honor.

Columbus is like other explorers, kings, priests they are symbols of a long gone age where the world was entirely different and they acted the way they did because of that world. Maybe some were truly evil, maybe some were good but just were products of their time. They are all history and we shouldn't destroy history because it makes us uncomfortable, we should learn from history. The Vatican was built by some truly horrible people; does that mean we should burn it to the ground? The pyramids were built by slaves, should they be blown up?

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Mayor Eric Adams moves to have 2 Christopher Columbus statues landmarked. Here's the response from some mayoral candidat [View all] Polybius Oct 8 OP

Back in 2020 Coldwater Oct 8 #1

if you want to honor Italian-Americans, why Columbus? DBoon Oct 8 #2

They weren't famous yet. BidenRocks Oct 9 #3

Times change. yardwork Oct 9 #10

Meanwhile, chump.. BidenRocks Oct 9 #14

Who? Polybius Oct 9 #5

You never heard of Enrico Fermi? yardwork Oct 9 #7

I'm sure I learned about him in school, but I forgot Polybius Oct 9 #20

Fermi has an element and a class of subatomic particles named after him muriel_volestrangler Oct 9 #16

I would have supported asylum for Italians fleeing fascism in the 30's and 40's Polybius Saturday #22

Because what better way to honor Italian Americans ForgoTheConsequence Oct 9 #6

Anthony Fauci. yardwork Oct 9 #9

It would have to be someone that the left and right BOTH love Polybius Oct 9 #21

An African-American supports a know slave trader. nt Javaman Oct 9 #4

A blatantly political effort to win over Italian-American voters. yardwork Oct 9 #8

The corrupt mayor desperately trying to create wedge issues on Trump's behalf Prairie Gates Oct 9 #11

I will probably get roasted for this jgmiller Oct 9 #12

Columbus was pretty awful - the king and queen of Spain thought he went too far muriel_volestrangler Oct 9 #13

Notice Isabella's reaction wasn't about slavery being bad but that she felt cheated by Columbus taking them. jgmiller Oct 9 #17

Yes, and the confederates were traitors fujiyamasan Oct 9 #18

Just put up a statue of BidenRocks Oct 9 #15

(Irrelevant aside) Ignorant me never knew... GJGCA Oct 9 #19