KKKolumbus? Are You Serious?
Look, Ty, we get it, okay? You don’t like Columbus. You know, on the merits you’re pretty correct: Columbus was really the start of the colonialist movement in the Americas and did a lot to get that whole Carribean slave-trade thing off of the ground. I don’t have a thing to say in the man’s defense, really. I won’t even go with that “product of his times” nonsense, because people in the past were basically backwoods jackasses and nostalgia is for chumps. I’m completely willing to say that some cultures are better than others, and that modern Western (classical) liberal culture is a whole hell of a lot better than anything in the past and anything else presently. Okay, so, look, I’ll give you that Columbus was a bad dude sponsored by other equally bad people during a backward, horrible time in human history (it should be noted that in 400 years the present will be a backward, horrible time in human history). We probably shouldn’t laude his achievements, really, but I’ll take any excuse for a day off of work.
That said, Mr. Schwoefferman, your insistence upon a moronic and obnoxious spelling convention (or “konvention” as you might put it) is not only a distraction, but also incredibly off-putting. I’m sure glad your “kopy editor” “kaught” at least one of them, I guess. I suppose maybe the other kids in your dorm haven’t seen this “klever” leftist way of relating objects of scorn to the Ku Klux Klan, but to the rest of us it isn’t exactly new, and it certainly isn’t entertaining.
And, while I’m at it, I’d like to take a minute to laugh at your idea for “Indigenous Solidarity Day”. Let’s ignore that the “indigenous” peoples of the Americas did a pretty good damn job of killing one another long before Columbus ever showed up, and just note that trying to make today’s white US citizens feel guilty for the events of 500 years ago is roughly equivalent to making you feel guilty that your Germanic ancestors sacked Rome.
Ty must be in Charles (alias: Chuck) Hunt’s class this term.
I said benefits, not inventions 😉
Andy, you have been a victim of the KKKolumbus Day conspiracy.
The printing press was invented in China : /
I’ll take the beer though.
Nevermind the benefits of western civilization…such as the printing press and photography. Oh, and life-lengthening medicine. And cars, and the internet, and beer, and less hard labor, and more nutritious food, and, well…you get my point Ty.
And of course removing the Columbus day holiday will vastly improve the lives of indigenous people. Charging them higher incidental fees is surely the answer because of all the benefits the multicultural center gives them.
My favorite part was the solution. Tell us Ty, what does your “standing in solidarity” accomplish? What’s that? It’s just an empty gesture that requires no actual sacrifice but allows you to be self-reighteous as hell?
It all makes sense now.