Alaska Renames Columbus Day ‘Indigenous Peoples Day’!

[Teeqoz]

Nautilus said:

Teeqoz said:

The thing is that celebrating Columbus and what he did is exactly that; hiding and erasing the bad parts of human history. ¨

 

Your argument is correct, however it kinda works against you in this case...

Well, if it werent for him, we wouldnt have the countrys, and its cultures, that we have today, or at least the countrys wouldnt be the same, so its not only bad things that he has done.But I understand what you mean.

The problem is, if we apply that though to all holidays or prizes names we have, we would need to change many of their names.An easy example would be the Noble prizes.The guy that came up with the idea to award prizes to excepcional people, and that includes peace prizes, was the same guy that build bombs and armaments for living.He only came up with the idea of awards because he didnt want to be remember as a man who build weapons that killed people.Should we then rename the Nobel prize because of that?I agree that we shoudlnt forget the horrible things that Colombo did, but also completely ignore his achievements, even if the means are completely wrong, is not right

There's a difference though. Alfred Nobel's research resulted in horrible things, yes, but that wasn't his intention. He was a good man. Chirstoffer Columbus on the other hand...

I am not saying we should completely ignore his achievements, but that doesn't mean we have to celebrate Columbus Day.