Indigenous Peoples Day

[wsquared]

So as I’m sure everybody knows it’s columbus Day today. But the narrative being spun is that it’s indigenous peoples day. Currently having to deal with this at my work and I’m not sure if I should keep my mouth shut or say something I’ll post a screenshot. Now I wouldn’t have a problem with recognizing this, but the fact is is that the narrative is clearly trying to dismantle the great things my forefathers and the explorers had to go through to help create the west. I work with a bunch of immigrants as well and it pisses me off to my core that these people coming to my country are trying to erase my history. I’m not sure what to do or how to respond i would t mind some feedback. I thought I’d create a post to help keep American and the west’s history from being perverted by those who wish to control us

[Don't upload photos with people's private information. -Mod]

 

[Muffuguh]

RE: Indigenous peoples day and how they stole your past to control your future

Saw a linkedin comment today by some black developer in Finland criticising white male privilege. So Finland was generous enough to let you or your ancestors in and provide you the opportunity to have a good job as a software developer, but it's still not enough, and you can post about your resentment of white people openly and not risk anything. This stuff is pervasive and not worth losing your job over, thankfully there are some companies where this isn't the norm.

 

[RIslander]

RE: Indigenous peoples day and how they stole your past to control your future

I went to my small town's Columbus Day parade and it was America AF. Several military units including a T-6 Texan flyover, police cars with antique ones from my town, firetrucks throwing candy to children. Happy girls from the dance and cheerleader squads followed by the football team breaking each others balls. American and Don't Tread on Me flags. Church representation and the Knights of Columbus.

Guess what wasn't there.

Not one single fag flag.

 

[Barry Scrotada]

RE: Indigenous peoples day and how they stole your past to control your future

Recently flew over the Gulf of Mexico. The blue was endless as if it was an ocean itself. Seeing the boats as white dots with nothing for miles around illustrated for me not only our powerlessness in the vastness of nature but also the sheer courage it takes to pilot a boat into the sea, even with today's technology. Meanwhile people can't go across town without their GPS reminding them how to get out of their subdivision.

Christopher Columbus, his predecessors, successors, and contemporaries - da Gama, von Humboldt, de Champlain, Lewis and Clark, Hudson, Erikson, the polar and space explorers, and so on - plus their unsung crews, all had more courage, curiosity, faith, and fortitude in their pinky fingers that any of us today.

Sure, give a day to the nebulous idea of 'indigenous peoples', fine. But to pedastalize uncurious tribes as superior to the men listed above is just one more clear cut example of the pathetic and ultimately doomed agenda. Men have aspiration in their veins. Columbus' voyages are aspirational. Nomadic hut hopping is not.

 

[Dr. Howard]

RE: Indigenous peoples day and how they stole your past to control your future

So as I’m sure everybody knows it’s columbus Day today. But the narrative being spun is that it’s indigenous peoples day. Currently having to deal with this at my work and I’m not sure if I should keep my mouth shut or say something I’ll post a screenshot. Now I wouldn’t have a problem with recognizing this, but the fact is is that the narrative is clearly trying to dismantle the great things my forefathers and the explorers had to go through to help create the west. I work with a bunch of immigrants as well and it pisses me off to my core that these people coming to my country are trying to erase my history. I’m not sure what to do or how to respond i would t mind some feedback. I thought I’d create a post to help keep American and the west’s history from being perverted by those who wish to control us

Play dumb.

"Its what day?"

She responds "blah blah blah"

respond "oh ok, I looked up today on the federal register and it says columbus day. Is native people's day a state or municipal holiday?"

 

[Rotten]

RE: Indigenous peoples day and how they stole your past to control your future

Columbus explored for Spain. Last time I checked, there was a lot of Spanish or Hispanic people in America.

Respond to any attack on Columbus by a SJW as if the speaker is attacking Spanish culture. Scalp a few heads this way, and Columbus Day is safe forever.

 

[Papaya]

RE: Indigenous peoples day and how they stole your past to control your future

A couple of years ago I was sitting on patio of some good friends and neighbors

 

[Douglas Quaid]

RE: Indigenous peoples day and how they stole your past to control your future

I must have had three seperate years in grade school where we had to write a paper on if Columbus was a hero or not. Of course, they tried to encourage us to pick a certain side, and most students went with that. I said Columbus was a hero. Public school and the social justice brainwashers can kiss my ass.

 

[Augustus_Principe]

RE: Indigenous peoples day and how they stole your past to control your future

It boils down to anti-white propaganda. Were we to live in some alternate reality, and an African discovered the Americas instead of a European, there would be statues of said African in every City in the U.S, absolutely no negative views would be allowed to be expressed, and a whole month would be dedicated to him...exactly how we celebrate MLK.

For the sake of keeping your job, you shouldn't say anything unless you have a good savings and dont care looking for another job. If you must say something, take Dr. howards route.

 

[scotian]

RE: Indigenous peoples day and how they stole your past to control your future

I will celebrate indigenous day by giving the drunk Native guy outside the 7/11 a couple of smokes and a can of Lysol.

 

[DogLover]

RE: Indigenous peoples day and how they stole your past to control your future

I must have had three seperate years in grade school where we had to write a paper on if Columbus was a hero or not. Of course, they tried to encourage us to pick a certain side, and most students went with that. I said Columbus was a hero. Public school and the social justice brainwashers can kiss my ass.

Today, the brainwashing is about the environment. I've seen ten year olds indoctrinated to think that ANYTHING that isn't pro-green is bad, and that the earth is dying. This is a 10 year old! So much propaganda.

So, of course, I used it as a learning opportunity and taught her that not everything her teachers tell her is true, some of it is to manipulate her to not think for herself, and the real trick in life is figure out when that happens.

 

[Douglas Quaid]

RE: Indigenous peoples day and how they stole your past to control your future

I must have had three seperate years in grade school where we had to write a paper on if Columbus was a hero or not. Of course, they tried to encourage us to pick a certain side, and most students went with that. I said Columbus was a hero. Public school and the social justice brainwashers can kiss my ass.

Today, the brainwashing is about the environment. I've seen ten year olds indoctrinated to think that ANYTHING that isn't pro-green is bad, and that the earth is dying. This is a 10 year old! So much propaganda.

So, of course, I used it as a learning opportunity and taught her that not everything her teachers tell her is true, some of it is to manipulate her to not think for herself, and the real trick in life is figure out when that happens.

You're spot on about the environmental brainwashing. Here in Seattle during the climate protests, the schools had kids marching in the streets with "Save the planet" signs and rabid looks on their faces. They're being groomed to be good, little commies.

It shows how evil and pathetic the Left is to be doing this to children. I think the teachers went through a slightly less extreme form of brainwashing themselves, and see absolutely nothing wrong with it.

 

[debeguiled]

RE: Indigenous peoples day and how they stole your past to control your future

I wouldn't mind changing Columbus Day to Indigenous Day if there was a guarantee it would end there.

 

[Thomas Jackson]

RE: Indigenous peoples day and how they stole your past to control your future

My favorite way to troll red man festishization is to say I'm Native American. America was founded by Anglo settlers indigenous peoples were not American. Fun fact they were not even given citizenship until the 1920's.

 

[Kona]

RE: Indigenous peoples day and how they stole your past to control your future

I was looking at some photos on the internet of some if these Indigenous Day protests.

Something seems to stick out in all of them.

Was Columbus mean to white people too?

Aloha!

 

[RIslander]

RE: Indigenous peoples day and how they stole your past to control your future

I heard he didn't care for Jewish Hawaiians.

 

[wsquared]

RE: Indigenous peoples day and how they stole your past to control your future

so its just a part time job, im not in a financial strangle hold as i have primary source of income, but i did leave a response and this is what it was feel free to criticize.I made this bed and will lay in it. But god help me if im not gonna stick up for what i believe in. If they fire me, so be it LA fucking sucks anyway. Here was my response:
"So this may not be a big deal to some of you but it certainly is to me. I respectfully ask that today be referred to as Columbus Day. I understand that people may not like or agree with it, but that does not give you the right to change it. This is my history and heritage to which I am extremely proud. I find it insanely disrespectful and hypocritical that people are trying to rewrite my country's history and holiday's. If i were to move to another nation and try to change a historically significant holiday there, I would rightfully be regarded with contempt as a credulous outsider. All I ask is that you respect me and mine as I would you and yours, thank you."
Btw the fact that this girl can freely give her opinion and im nervous about defending my own country is uhh pretty nerve racking gotta say lol

 

[Bolly]

RE: Indigenous peoples day and how they stole your past to control your future

We can celebrate indigenous peoples day like the indigenous people do. Go drink heavily and wreck our trucks at the end of the night and see how many people die. Then just the leave the smashed up cars wherever they landed for years to come.

 

[Dr. Howard]

RE: Indigenous peoples day and how they stole your past to control your future

so its just a part time job, im not in a financial strangle hold as i have primary source of income, but i did leave a response and this is what it was feel free to criticize.I made this bed and will lay in it. But god help me if im not gonna stick up for what i believe in. If they fire me, so be it LA fucking sucks anyway. Here was my response:
"So this may not be a big deal to some of you but it certainly is to me. I respectfully ask that today be referred to as Columbus Day. I understand that people may not like or agree with it, but that does not give you the right to change it. This is my history and heritage to which I am extremely proud. I find it insanely disrespectful and hypocritical that people are trying to rewrite my country's history and holiday's. If i were to move to another nation and try to change a historically significant holiday there, I would rightfully be regarded with contempt as a credulous outsider. All I ask is that you respect me and mine as I would you and yours, thank you."
Btw the fact that this girl can freely give her opinion and im nervous about defending my own country is uhh pretty nerve racking gotta say lol

My prediction is that they will passively aggressively fire you or cut your hours to nothing.

 

[beta_plus]

Columbus - the first immigrant

I wouldn't mind changing Columbus Day to Indigenous Day if there was a guarantee it would end there.

It wouldn't - give them an inch and they'll take a mile.

Though I was amused by The_Donald saying that we should remind people that Columbus was a Spanish speaking Dreamer migrant, who brought diversity and vibrancy to the Americas.