Should New York City ban Columbus Day?

[DemPGH]

Since "LOL no" is not an option, I voted No.

[DemPGH]

Yeah, you have to watch saying, "People are talking about X when people are starving" because it can be applied to anything, but in this case it resonates a bit. The Columbus thing really strikes me as a pseudo issue/social justice warrior/keyboard warrior issue (whatever the moniker is) because a lot of people throwing around the verbiage about him being Hitler and genocide or whatever really, I think, are making a comparison that's simply not there. The acquisition of land and wealth drove people to spread out in the Middle Ages, and that's what was happening. The conquest of the NW was literally inevitable. Columbus did something that no one else did (discover another hemisphere), and the keyboard warrior detractors don't give him credit for it (nor, I bet, have they read any of his journals), which is the primary thing that loses me when they start their blathering. It could be said that he was a poor administrator, because he was really just a ship captain, and so Spain, the Church, and Europe saw fit to appoint bureaucrats to oversee the administration of the NW when they realized that the whole thing was a much larger endeavor than thought. But his accomplishment remains.