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The GabaGhouls are at it again (hexbear.net)

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[-] mrfugu@hexbear.net 40 points 1 month ago

Columbus was diefied for the sake of italian-american pride. Change Columbus day to “Italian-American day” and I bet they stop caring about him in less than 10 years.

[-] CarmineCatboy2@hexbear.net 25 points 1 month ago

there has to be another italian guy to deify in place of columbus

[-] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 29 points 1 month ago

[-] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago

Columbo obviously columbo

[-] CarmineCatboy2@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

thats already a god

[-] TheRogueKitten@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

The good Colombo.

[-] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 3 points 1 month ago

"Just one more thing." That's when you knew he got 'em.

[-] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago

Why not two?

[-] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

two

Knew immediately who you were talking about before I clicked the link lol

[-] TheBroodian@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago

luigi-dance

[-] TheLastHero@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Giuseppe Garibaldi, easy, and he is actually Italian unlike Columbus (Genoese is not Italian)

[-] CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago

Sacco and Vanzetti are right there

[-] spudnik@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

Garibaldi would be a good choice too

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

St Sebastian. He’s not American but…

Italian
Actually represents the evils of persecution
cute twink

[-] CarmineCatboy2@hexbear.net 3 points 4 weeks ago

cute twink

i'm sold

[-] jack@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Chef Boyardee

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 month ago

they should. there's a puerto rican day, there's a dominican day, why not italian too?

[-] stink@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 month ago

Columbus Day was given to Italian Americans after 11 were lynched in a New Orleans Riot

Several of the victims were repeatedly shot and several others were hanged, their bodies grossly put on display in the aftermath. Eleven men were lynched while the rest of the people in the prison managed to hide or escape. None of the men who were lynched were found guilty of being involved in Hennessy’s murder.

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The violent lynching strained international relations between the U.S. and Italian governments, with Italy removing their U.S. ambassador from Washington, D.C. To appease the Italian government and to gain the vote of Italian Americans, U.S. president Benjamin Harrison proclaimed the first nationally-recognized Columbus Day celebration to be a one-time celebration on Oct. 21, 1892.