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Hate_Gatekeeping t1_irxehob wrote

Reply to comment by -Horatio_Alger_Jr- in What's your opinion on renaming Plantation Street because it's racist? by [deleted]

Quinsigamond Plantation was the name of the first european settlement here. The name Quinsigamond itself has nothing to do with colonization and everything to do with the local natives.

You are using false equivalencies to support a very flawed argument.

As far as "today's slave labor", it has nothing to do with foreign slavery and everything to do with an attempt to correct mistakes of the past, and to not glorify any references to those mistakes. Its the exact same reason why confederate statues should be removed from public lands.

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Hate_Gatekeeping t1_irx30sh wrote

Reply to Well that didn’t take long by albalfa

From the information garnered here and elsewhere it looks like:

  1. Rotmans is not a major employer, espeicially for the amount of real estate it occupies.

  2. They have incredibly high mark-ups and constantly use gimmicky and dishonest sales tactics to rip off customers.

  3. Even if this is yet ANOTHER marketing ploy to drum up sales or restock inventory, it seems they should close anyways and make some room for honest business owners.

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Hate_Gatekeeping t1_irth0wh wrote

Reply to Italian Pride Parade by slum_life_frownface

Fun Fact: Columbus Day as a yearly National Holiday was lobbied for as late as 1966 in New York. Before then it was merely an observance.

Particularly on the 300th & 400th anneversary of the first landing.

It was signed into legislation as a federal holiday in 1968 and was first observed as a national holiday in 1971.

During the height of the Mafia's Power.

Makes you think that this is all politics either way and italians just want a holiday like st. Patricks day.

They should have picked somebody better, like Dean Martin.

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Hate_Gatekeeping t1_irs0rur wrote

Reply to Italian Pride Parade by slum_life_frownface

Is this a rant? Some of the big brass in Worcester are italian and they dont care about anyone but themselves, really.

Look at the far-right lunatics in city hall, they fall under the banner of "Colorio"

The police union is stewerded by Sgt. Anthony Petrone, an abusive landlord and columbus fanboy.

He also made sure to post very far right insanity in the now-defunct IBPO local 504 FB page.

There is very little difference between lauded members of the Italian community here in Worcester and the Proud Boys community nationally.

Basically they parrot eachother.

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