re: Austin City Council renames Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day

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Celebrating Columbus...well yeah, he did some bad things. But to have an Indigenous Day instead is PC idiocy. Columbus wasn't an American (obviously) and wasnt the first to discover America either. Why do we need a federal holiday commemorating him again? It's a holiday for a foreigner whose reputed achievement is dubious at best. leaving aside whatever his crimes were, it's just asinine to have a day for him.

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Well, let's have a Leif Erikson day then?

How about this:
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Evidence shows stone age Europeans here prior to the Asian migration.
Maybe the "indigenous people" killed off the original founders of the New World?

Is that PC though?

Let's have an American Day that celebrates where we are today and for all of the MANY good things we have done for this world from the people of ALL ethnicities that are here and have contributed.