• Flying SquidOP
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      351 year ago

      Sorry, I don’t celebrate genocidal maniacs, but I am enjoying a happy Indigenous People’s Day.

      • @Malek061
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        -161 year ago

        The Aztecs committed genocide. Do you celebrate them?

        • Flying SquidOP
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          211 year ago

          I didn’t realize that the Aztecs were the only indigenous people.

          • @Malek061
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            01 year ago

            All humans were pieces of shit back then. Judging them by today’s standards is bullshit.

            • Flying SquidOP
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              21 year ago

              You know that even Columbus’ contemporaries condemned him, right?

              Columbus’ cruelty was recognized in his own day. Spanish churchmen condemned him for carrying off women from their husbands and subjecting them to the pleasures of other men. Friar Bartolomeo de las Casas, who accompanied Columbus on his third voyage, wrote, “The silence.” His published accounts included contemporary illustrations of native mothers drowning their children to save them from Spanish cruelty.

              https://www.telegram.com/story/news/local/north/2008/10/18/columbus-was-cruel-exploiter-great/52228974007/

              • @Malek061
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                11 year ago

                Yes. He still did something that changed the face of the world forever.

                • Flying SquidOP
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                  11 year ago

                  So did Hitler. Let’s give him a holiday too.

        • @samus12345
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          One of the most false equivalences I’ve seen in a while.

          • @Malek061
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            11 year ago

            All humans committed atrocities…

              • @Malek061
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                11 year ago

                Every group of people have murdered someone from another group of people.

                • @samus12345
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                  11 year ago

                  Also not true. You’ll need to be more specific. Every individual person has not committed atrocities and neither has every group of people. Once you start getting into governments of countries you might be getting somewhere.

                  • @Malek061
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                    11 year ago

                    The Cree murdered people. The picts murdered people. The crips murdered people. The colmbian cartel murdered people. Liverpool fans murder people.

        • @lennybird
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          51 year ago

          It’s not Aztecs Day, ya goober.

      • Tb0n3
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        -91 year ago

        That’s today. They deliberately tried to make an indigenous people’s day because they didn’t want Columbus Day. We still have Columbus Day today.

        • @[email protected]
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          91 year ago

          Backwards people might still have a columbus day, those of us in 2023 celebrate IPD instead

          • @Wrench
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            111 year ago

            My people celebrate “huh? We have Monday off next week? Nice.”

            We celebrate it several times a year.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          Which was a total cop-out.

          You don’t reform by renaming Evil Guy Day to Victims Day.

          You drop it from the calendar to make outcasts of anyone who still celebrates the guy.