It's utter bullshit. Look, without Columbus Western Civilization wouldn't be what it is. He's a major player. Native Americans? Hate to say it but they're a damn unsophisticated group. Seriously, what the fuck have they given the world in terms of inventions, literature and culture? My parents' ethnic tribe can be found all over the world yet Native Americans are mostly found in the US. They haven't moved.
Removing monuments and pushing to rename holidays because the person commemorated had ties to slavery or genocide is some puritanical "holy" pathology.
As a child of immigrants and as a non-white, those who push and support this movement are basically fulfilling the old "my child came back for Thanksgiving break and refused to celebrate it because of the killings of the indigenous people" archetype. If the powers that be decide to change it the Native Americas are still an unsophisticated group of low-achievers. It does nothing to get them out of poverty.
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