Largely unwarranted bad news
Columbus, Feh.
There’s a lot of moral and historical doubt about Columbus Day, despite the indisputable advantage it’s a national day of loafing and hanging out at parades.
Depending on who’s telling the tale, anybody from Leif Ericson to some 15th century Chinese pirates discovered America, neither of which trumps the idea that indigenous natives were already here raiding each other and taking scalps and territory from each other on a regular basis.
The thinking goes that we should celebrate accordingly, expressing the proper measure of annoyance and superiority at other people behaving badly.
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