Why do we even celebrate "Columbus Day"?

[Wynd_Fox]

The founders of the US came a few hundred years after Columbus.

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[LordoftheUnclean]

[citation needed]

[otto-san]

If he discovered the Americas, why isnt North and South America called the Columbusians?

Checkmate, christains

because of another dude who was pretty swell that was along for the ride but we don't talk about him because his breath smelled like rotten french cheese that had been sitting out in the sun for too many years

[K1ng_0f_N0thing]

That means you lost a day of gaining knowledge.

not really

[Doomonkey]

IIRC europeans are natives of europe, africans are natives of africa. They all have a right by birth to the land they have. But the founders of the USA just walked right in and killed off the native americans just trying to live their lives normally.

Rome killed all the other people on their peninsula. They proceeded to then invade the land of the "barbarians" and cut of the right hands of the men.

Every civilization ever established killed off or enslaved the people on the land they controlled unless those people joined them. And being born on land doesn't give you the right to own it.

[Elecro]

The founders of the US came a few hundred thousand years after Columbus.

EDIT: I wasn't thinking when I edited this.

[Wynd_Fox]

because of another dude who was pretty swell that was along for the ride but we don't talk about him because his breath smelled like rotten french cheese that had been sitting out in the sun for too many years

I thought Amerigo Vespucci (that's the guy, right) actually had nothing at all to do with the Americas?

Um, no?

[BubbaGum]

columbus founded the united states of america and canada and mexico....

[otto-san]

I thought Amerigo Vespucci (that's the guy, right) actually had nothing at all to do with the Americas?

well don't ask me, guy, i'm not sure why
i thought of that, sorry if i seemed a brat
history is my worst, i hope i will not coerce
you to believe something wrong, that's for people whose brains are not very strong

[e-maxx]

Columbus founded cuba

[Darkness ZXW]

didn't we realize that Columbus did a bunch of really bad stuff and then we stopped recognizing it as a federal holiday?

[Cybersix]

He was the first European to discover the Americas.

Actually that honour would belong to Leif Eriksson

[LordoftheUnclean]

Rome killed all the other people on their peninsula. They proceeded to then invade the land of the "barbarians" and cut of the right hands of the men.

Every civilization ever established killed off or enslaved the people on the land they controlled unless those people joined them. And being born on land doesn't give you the right to own it.

But that was all near their own land usually, they needed to do it to become somewhat powerful. However, in North America's case, they travelled across the entire ocean, and killed off multiple civilizations just so they could have a little stretch of land in North America.

[Elecro]

didn't we realize that Columbus did a bunch of really bad stuff and then we stopped recognizing it as a federal holiday?

A lot of people are protesting (especially Native Americans) that this holiday should be celebrating a real hero.

[Elecro]

Actually that honour would belong to Leif Eriksson

He was Norse, which is European I think.