{"id":45738,"date":"2014-10-13T10:48:28","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T16:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/13\/the-columbus-day-backlash-backlash.html"},"modified":"2014-10-13T13:13:58","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T19:13:58","slug":"the-columbus-day-backlash-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/13\/the-columbus-day-backlash-backlash.html","title":{"rendered":"The Columbus Day Backlash Backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh, for pity's sake …<\/p>\n

'In Seattle, where the measure passed the city council unanimously, some Italian-Americans are arguing the decision to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day on the same day as Columbus Day denigrates the accomplishments of their culture. “We empathize with the death and destruction of the Native Americans,” activist Ralph Fascitelli said Thursday during a news conference. “But we think right now this is almost going too far in terms of political correctness.”'<\/i><\/p>\n

1. I am Italian-American. I<\/i> don't identify with Columbus as nationalistic inspiration or a cultural hero. Nor do I really understand how renaming the holiday "denigrates the accomplishments of [Italian-American] culture." (Do we need to maintain a catalog of Italian-American accomplishers in US history? Really?)<\/p>\n

2. I'm often leery of slap-dash labeling of things as "political correctness," as it seems as often to be a way to shut down conversation as making a considered argument about what accommodation to make to changing sensitivities, particularly about minorities.<\/p>\n

In this case, I'd ask Mr Fascetti that if you acknowledge the "the death and destruction of the Native Americans" associated with the European invasion of the New World, but don't think that justifies changing the name of the holiday from the person who both initiated and exemplified<\/i> that history — what would it take? When would it not<\/i> be something you would label "political correctness"?<\/p>\n

#columbusday<\/a><\/p>\n

Originally shared by +Alan Williamson<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nIs ‘Indigenous Peoples’ Day’ a long-overdue change, or political correctness run amok?<\/a><\/span>
\nAs Seattle’s mayor signs a measure adopting Indigenous People’s Day into law Monday, some Italian-Americans in the city says the new law denigrates their culture’s accomplishments.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Oh, for pity's sake … 'In Seattle, where the measure passed the city council unanimously, some Italian-Americans are arguing the decision to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day on the same day as Columbus Day denigrates the accomplishments of their culture. “We empathize with the death and destruction of the Native Americans,” activist Ralph Fascitelli said Thursday … Continue reading “The Columbus Day Backlash Backlash”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,69,108,68,8],"tags":[711],"class_list":["post-45738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-family","category-history","category-holidays","category-zt-pc","tag-columbusday"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135024,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/09\/donald-trump-comments-indigenous-peoples-day.html","url_meta":{"origin":45738,"position":0},"title":"Donald Trump comments on Indigenous Peoples Day","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 9-Oct-17 3:48pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, indirectly. 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