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[-] shallot@hexbear.net 90 points 5 days ago

we will not be mocked

yea I bet this will help with that lol

[-] AntifaSuperWombat@hexbear.net 76 points 5 days ago

From their website:

Despite our contributions; the very culture we celebrate and our proud heritage is under attack. The Italian-American Civil Rights League (“IACRL”) celebrates our culture, while vehemently defending our history. This means celebrating Christopher Columbus, who discovered America and vowing to oppose those seeking to destroy his name and reputation.

Was it really Columbus that was there first or is it someone else that had their culture erased and their history rewritten? thonk

[-] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 49 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

lol

  • he was working for the spaniards
  • italy didn't even exist as a country
  • there were a bunch of people already living there
  • he wasn't even the first euro to "discover" it, the vikings got there like 500 years before

italian-am*rican hero

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[-] mrfugu@hexbear.net 43 points 5 days ago

Columbus sure didn’t discover america but he sure was the first Italian to be celebrated by WASPs

[-] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 36 points 5 days ago

Still waiting to hear who came over from North America and discovered Europe. Am I living on an undiscovered continent still?

[-] Rom@hexbear.net 61 points 5 days ago
[-] ComRed2@hexbear.net 30 points 5 days ago

*thousands of people dined

[-] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 66 points 5 days ago
[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 54 points 5 days ago
[-] uSSRI@hexbear.net 21 points 5 days ago

That handle lmao

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[-] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 55 points 5 days ago
[-] Esoteir@hexbear.net 52 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

i genuinely fail to understand the columbus crew, like zionists get stolen land out of blatantly supporting genocide, idk wtf anyone gains from dying on a hill for that one guy who was so shit at navigating he thought he was on a different continent and then proceeded to kill and enslave thousands and kickstart the largest genocide in human history. i guess a political bloc for the organizers?

[-] mrfugu@hexbear.net 40 points 5 days 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 5 days ago

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

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[-] axont@hexbear.net 43 points 5 days ago

Eeyyy I'm protestin here!

peppino-square-up

[-] LeninWalksTheEarth@hexbear.net 40 points 5 days ago

hahahahahahaha nobody gives a fuck about hating Italians, it's not the 1890s.

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[-] nothx@hexbear.net 41 points 5 days ago

christian_persecution_complex.png

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[-] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 39 points 5 days ago

how-much-could-it-cost You dislike Columbus because he's Italian, right?

[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 43 points 5 days ago

I can't help reading that flyer in the "I cook-a the pizza" voice

[-] MaxOS@hexbear.net 36 points 5 days ago

what episode is this from lol

[-] dditty@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 5 days ago

Just a shot in the dark, but could be the episode where AJ made a good football play

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[-] Gosplan14_the_Third@hexbear.net 31 points 5 days ago

The Italian-American Civil Rights League (IACRL) was originally formed as a political advocacy group created in New York City in April 1970. William Santoro, a defense attorney that represented many Colombo crime family figures, was responsible for the legal work that incorporated the league. Its stated goal was to combat pejorative stereotypes about Italian-Americans, but in actuality, it operated as a public relations firm to deny the existence of the American Mafia and improve the image of mobsters. In 2023, a new organization formed with the same name, but with no connection to the original IACRL. [1] [2]

[-] aanes_appreciator@hexbear.net 30 points 5 days ago

lmao scrolling through the poster until you're met with israeli flags instead of italian ones is so goofy. not even hiding it

[-] LeninsBeard@hexbear.net 34 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

"You are out there stroking your d**k over the Columbus statue, I am trying to keep Chicago police officers from being shot and you are trying to get them shot," ~~Lightfoot~~Mamdani allegedly said on a Zoom call, according to Smyrniotis' complaint. "My d**k is bigger than yours and the Italians, I have the biggest d**k in Chicago."

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[-] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 35 points 5 days ago

lmfaooo holy shit

[-] Des@hexbear.net 32 points 5 days ago

actually please mock us we deserve it

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 30 points 5 days ago

A 30 minute lunch break protest of a guy who isn't even in office yet

Yup.

Sounds about white

[-] OldSoulHippie@hexbear.net 26 points 5 days ago

If anyone needed any evidence that protests are useless, keep in mind this kind of thing happens just about every weekend.

[-] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 29 points 5 days ago

Brain meltingly stupid.

[-] sleeplessone@lemmy.ml 16 points 5 days ago

Celebrating Christopher Columbus to honor Italian American heritage is like celebrating Hitler to honor German American heritage.

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[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 21 points 5 days ago

Everything the chuds and libs are doing is making Zohran more popular, in the same identical but mirror fashion to Trump 2015/2016

The more they clutch their pearls and engage in these ACTUAL examples of hyper sensitive "political correctness", the more Zohran's image is elevated and the more apathetic voters he attracts

[-] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 17 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)
[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 23 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

lmao what

be funny to see how many of them actually turn up to a protest entirely sold on the point of "he flipped the bird at a statue"

[-] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 22 points 5 days ago

Is it wrong of me to want to be a counterprotester for this?

[-] TheRogueKitten@hexbear.net 19 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Reminder: The Italian American Civil Rights League has extensive ties to La Cosa Nostra (The Mafia) in particular the Colombo family.

[-] axont@hexbear.net 18 points 5 days ago

The Colombo family sounds cool. I like the little detective guy with the cigar who always talks about his wife's hobbies

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[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 days ago

I thought Columbus was from Ohio

[-] CupcakeOfSpice@hexbear.net 6 points 4 days ago

So is Zohran's "hate" just, like... winning the primary?

[-] ComRed2@hexbear.net 17 points 5 days ago

Furiously pressing my thumb against my pointer and middle finger.

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