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kzapwn t1_jbljgy6 wrote

My father was a Knight of Columbus: an Italian American and I paid money to the American Italian Anti-Defamation League counsel, we're the victims here

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ScrollHectic t1_jblmu4s wrote

Christopher Columbus, who we should remember enslaved many native Americans and while governor of Hispaniola would have the bodies of the native Tiano he killed paraded through the streets, has many streets, cities, towns, universities and even our nation's capital named after him. I think he's gotten enough recognition.

There's no shortage of famous and important people from Italy. No need to hold on to the legacy of one man with so much blood on his hands.

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sutisuc t1_jbly7k4 wrote

LMAO peak persecution fetish

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kzapwn t1_jblzj45 wrote

If he was a Madigan around nowadays he'd be a member of some victim's group: the fundamentalist Christians, the abused cowboys, the gays, whatever the fuck

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sutisuc t1_jbm0ela wrote

Yeah you got me I didn’t Catch the sopranos reference lol

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ScrollHectic t1_jbmnnw4 wrote

Me neither. Never watched the Sopranos. I know, I know...

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effort268 t1_jblpy6x wrote

They didnt destroy the statue, it will likely be put in a musuem where his story will be told, good and bad.

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kzapwn t1_jblq9oc wrote

He discovered America is what he did. He was a brave Italian explorer. And in this house, Christopher Columbus is a hero. End of story!

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ScrollHectic t1_jblvtbm wrote

He didn't discover it; there were already people here. And he thought he was in India the whole time...

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sutisuc t1_jblyazw wrote

He’s doing a bit from the sopranos

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kzapwn t1_jblwrte wrote

Antonio Meucci invented the telephone and he got robbed! Everybody knows that

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FriendlyBrownMan t1_jbm528b wrote

The amount of people “from jersey” that don’t get all of these soprano’s references bothers me. I laughed at all of them 🤣

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kzapwn t1_jbm56vz wrote

Didn’t most of these commenters almost drown in 3 inches of water? At the penguin exhibit.

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EngineSpecialist259 t1_jbm4i9e wrote

I’m literally part Viking, my ancestors were here 500 years before Columbus. NOBODY “discovered” a damned thing.

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kzapwn t1_jbm4xew wrote

Excuse me, let me tell you something... When America opened up the floodgates and let all us Italians in, what do you think they were doing it for? 'Cause they were trying to save us from poverty? No, they did it because they needed us.

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Newarkguy1836 t1_jbwb7q1 wrote

They didn't destroy the statue but they did damage it when they dumped it on a city vacant lot on Verona Avenue across the street from the shuttered Seton Factory. A local resident walking up Verona Avenue saw & recognized the mangled statue on a broken pallet among the weeds, in plain sight from the sidewalk. Separated from the public by a chain link fence.

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