Change of Columbus day - what yea say? (1 Viewer)

[wazoo11]

I'm generally curious what the poli forum thinks of renaming Columbus day to Italian heritage day and the date would be march 11th as a federal holiday (honoring those that died during the brutal lynching in New Orleans) 

 

[lazyike]

This poll is nonsense and should be removed. Columbus Day has already been replaced for many as "Indigenous Peoples Day" and is less likely to be switched to Italian Heritage Day than the candidate from the Green Party would be elected President in 2024

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_Peoples'_Day

 

[FairWarning]

Leave it Columbus Day and put the statues back up.

 

[IvanKaramazov]

We should have more holidays that celebrate things and fewer holidays that celebrate people.  Juneteenth, Independence Day, Memorial Day, and stuff like that are all great.  Columbus Day and MLK Day are good candidates for replacement.  

 

[knowledge dropper]

Sopranos on Columbus Day

 

[supermike80]

We should have more holidays that celebrate things and fewer holidays that celebrate people.  Juneteenth, Independence Day, Memorial Day, and stuff like that are all great.  Columbus Day and MLK Day are good candidates for replacement.  

Agreed.   And frankly, Columbus didn't actually discover America so it is kind of silly to keep celebrating that.   

 

[FBG26]

I oppose March 11 solely on the ground that is too close to President's Day and we need to spread the holidays out. They also need to move MLK day from January because we don't need a holiday so soon after the new year. Give us something in say April so we don't have to go like four months between President's Day and Memorial Day. 

 

[beef]

We should have more holidays that celebrate things and fewer holidays that celebrate people.  Juneteenth, Independence Day, Memorial Day, and stuff like that are all great.  Columbus Day and MLK Day are good candidates for replacement.  

I get what your saying and like the idea of celebrating things over people, but I don't want to take another step towards eliminating Christmas.  

 

[Leroy Hoard]

I get what your saying and like the idea of celebrating things over people, but I don't want to take another step towards eliminating Christmas.  

We've already got Thanksgiving in late November & New Years Day a few weeks later.  All those December holidays just clog things up.

 

[IvanKaramazov]

I get what your saying and like the idea of celebrating things over people, but I don't want to take another step towards eliminating Christmas.  

Yeah, I know.  I left out Christmas because it's a weird holiday.  As a Christian, I'd be completely okay with treating it like Easter.  But I know lots of people enjoy it as secular time for family.  

 

[AAABatteries]

I get what your saying and like the idea of celebrating things over people, but I don't want to take another step towards eliminating Christmas.  

I’m not sure if you are joking and I’m missing it but there is zero chance that Christmas gets eliminated.  American Consumerism at its finest - no way corporations let that get messed with.

 

[Ramblin Wreck]

I'm fine ditching Columbus Day and replacing it with the Monday after the Super Bowl

 

[beef]

I’m not sure if you are joking and I’m missing it but there is zero chance that Christmas gets eliminated.  American Consumerism at its finest - no way corporations let that get messed with.

You got it.  Just a little stab towards the 30% that believe Christmas could be cancelled because of Tucker faux fear.  

 

[beef]

Could also replace Columbus Day with Caravan Fear Day.  Always seems to happen right around elections.  

 

[MAC_32]

Given my existing priorities, if I were in a decision making position and this subject was brought to my desk I'd fire the person on the spot. Not sure if hyperbole.

 

[BladeRunner]

We should have more holidays that celebrate things and fewer holidays that celebrate people.  Juneteenth, Independence Day, Memorial Day, and stuff like that are all great.  Columbus Day and MLK Day are good candidates for replacement.  

I'd like us to stop giving celebrations an entire month as well.  It's unnecessary.  Just take a day like everyone else.

 

[massraider]

We waste a month of summer in a large part of the country. 

Summer should be 4th of July to whatever the Columbus Day holiday is. September is nicer than June in much of the country. 

Do we need an Italian heritage day? Do Italian Americans care? Irish Americans seem fine with an Irish religious holiday becoming a drunken free for all.