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[-] sleeplessone@lemmy.ml 16 points 6 days ago

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

[-] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 7 points 6 days ago

hey don't give them ideas

[-] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 17 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)
[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 days ago

I thought Columbus was from Ohio

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 10 points 6 days ago

Americans pretending to be Italian and crackers pretending to be from Palestine unite to pretend to be oppressed

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

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

[-] shallot@hexbear.net 90 points 1 week ago

we will not be mocked

yea I bet this will help with that lol

[-] AntifaSuperWombat@hexbear.net 76 points 1 week 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 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 8 points 6 days ago

Americans have no conception of anything outside of the modern nation-state framework. How else are they supposed to do their blood quantum calculations to figure out that they’re 2.5% Italian 4.2% French 6.8% Irish and 0.2% Cherokee Princess?

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[-] mrfugu@hexbear.net 43 points 1 week ago

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

[-] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 36 points 1 week ago

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

[-] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 66 points 1 week ago
[-] Rom@hexbear.net 61 points 1 week ago
[-] ComRed2@hexbear.net 30 points 1 week ago

*thousands of people dined

[-] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 55 points 1 week ago
[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 54 points 1 week ago
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[-] Esoteir@hexbear.net 52 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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?

[-] huf@hexbear.net 3 points 6 days ago

he was a fuckwit who got extremely lucky once, landed in the caribbean, wrote down that the people he found there were the nicest, most hospitable and friendly people he'd ever met, and then immediately started enslaving and murdering them.

truly someone to look up to.

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

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

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[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 43 points 1 week ago

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

[-] axont@hexbear.net 43 points 1 week ago

Eeyyy I'm protestin here!

peppino-square-up

[-] nothx@hexbear.net 41 points 1 week ago
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[-] LeninWalksTheEarth@hexbear.net 40 points 1 week ago

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

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Crackers will find any conceivable way to pretend to be oppressed. They are also obsessed with their blood quantum ancestry calculations so they can pretend to be from whatever flavor of European nation-state is trendy right now

[-] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 39 points 1 week ago

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

[-] MaxOS@hexbear.net 36 points 1 week ago
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[-] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 35 points 1 week ago

lmfaooo holy shit

[-] TheRogueKitten@hexbear.net 5 points 6 days ago

"It's anti-Italian discrimination"

scowls like a grumpy dog

[-] LeninsBeard@hexbear.net 34 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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."

[-] Des@hexbear.net 32 points 1 week ago

actually please mock us we deserve it

[-] Gosplan14_the_Third@hexbear.net 31 points 1 week 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 1 week ago

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

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 30 points 1 week ago

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

Yup.

Sounds about white

[-] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 29 points 1 week ago

Brain meltingly stupid.

[-] OldSoulHippie@hexbear.net 26 points 1 week ago

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

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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"

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