Reader Mike L. sends me this little tale of bullshit:
Less than a week before Massachusetts observes Columbus Day, lawmakers and Native American advocates, some wearing traditional headdresses, asked a legislative committee to replace the holiday with Indigenous Peoples Day.
I’m getting so heartily sick of this nonsense, these attempts to rewrite history (at the expense of settled history, of course), and this glorification of what was essentially a bunch of savages.
Simply put: what did these glorious “indigenous” people ever do for us, for civilization and for the land which would become the United States? Where are their laws, their buildings and monuments, their written (as opposed to oral — i.e. invented) histories?
I’ll tell you where they are: nowhere, because they don’t exist.
So what’s to “honor”, other than to acknowledge that they once existed? Do we have “Neanderthal Day”? Of course we don’t — and do not for one minute think that I’m comparing “indigenous” American peoples to Neanderthals; although now that I think of it, I’m not exactly sure that the comparison isn’t apt, considering that the latter too left no laws, buildings, monuments or history pretty much for the same reasons. We don’t even know that the cave paintings scattered all over Europe and Asia were created by Neanderthals. Cave paintings weren’t much of a legacy, but they were something.
We commemorate achievements and actions precisely because what was done was (duh) memorable and had an effect on the world that followed. I have for example far less issue (in fact, no issue) with, say, Martin Luther King Day than President’s Day (which simply mashed all those wonderful presidents’ individual achievements into some amorphous reason for retail promotions and sales).
We don’t have to commemorate simple existence, we simply have to acknowledge it — for example, in written history (which they didn’t have) — and get on with life.
In terms of world history, what Christopher Columbus achieved was greater than anything achieved by all the Indigenous Peoples’ leaders and chiefs combined, ever. It is an absolute travesty to substitute his day of memory with some (once again) amorphous glorification of a group who collectively were nothing but inhabitants of this continent, whose originality was simply of greater vintage than people like Columbus, and whose legacy was… minimal, to be charitable.
Glorification of that is no more than a participation trophy, another artifact so beloved of the people who want to effect so insidious a change.
Fuck ’em. Fuck ’em all.
I looked them 2 bitches up, just as I suspected.
Ugly horz.
Never had any decent dik and are yoogly frustrated.
From that article:
“the goal of educating Bay Staters about the racism and violence that resulted from Christopher Columbus’ journey to the Americas”
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Upon putting foot on the ground the Columbus crew was immediately set upon with extreme violence by the native savages. With blunderbuss and blade the crew immediately laid waste to the attacking vermin.
The ugly horz are using standard mental defect ploys by appealing to the emotions of the like minded with open lies. That those 2 are even in office lends proof of the people that placed them there.
A great culling is way past due.
The burn off will be glorious.
Well, I think the Azteks did build some temples and pyramids. You know, for all the human sacrifices and stuff.
But yeah, the Indians were basically living a stone age existence – I’m not sure they even had a wheel, tools were minimal, and only a few had any sort of permanent housing (I think some built adobe houses in the far west). Comparisons to the neanderthal are appropriate. Any time a modern society comes up against the stone age, expect the stone age to lose. Badly.
The Aztecs had wheels – for toys. They never invented the wheelbarrow, and never bothered making roads suitable for carts. But remember, they didn’t have draft animals, so why bother making roads better than a bunch of slaves carrying packs needed
It appears that soon after crossing the Bering Straits, the Indian’s distant ancestors hunted to extinction the horses, mammoths, and nearly every other animal larger than a dog that their cousins that stayed in Eurasia managed to domesticate. The one exception in North America is the bison, which seems to be the same species as the “wild ox” or aurochs that was domesticated and bred down in size and intelligence to create cattle. But I’m sure the Eurasians that managed that feat had plenty of practice with sheep, goats, and ponies before starting with the _big_ creatures. Without that background, in the Americas the primitive humans learned enough about bison behavior that sometimes they could lure and drive a herd over a cliff, and were content with that – but the big wild cows were smart enough to often escape, unlike the mammoths and other creatures that were driven to extinction by this method.
“… some wearing traditional headdresses…” and by that they are referring to the large feathered ” War Bonnets” of Eagle Feathers worn by some Plains Indians and not any of the tribes found in New England. So more than likely imported lobbyists dressed-up as TV “Indians” looking for Network News time because for “News” producers it’s all about the imagery, not any actual truth or News.
However, if we are ever visited by Aliens with far superior technology since they are the ones who were able to cover vast distances between Planetary systems like the European explorers we will be the “Indigenous people” and the result will be the same. Think Independance Day but with a more realistic ending.
Ha! Next you’ll be sayin’ that all this Indigenous People Day is a bunch of hokum made up by some marketing firm someplace, like Oscar de Corti … 😉
DR:DC (Didn’t read, don’t care)
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Apparently, the press-release discusses casino-Indins, not curry-Indians.
Correct me if a bunch of hindoos showed up waving their left-handed (right-handed?) swastika flag and sprinkling turmeric for good luck.
a)
Apparently, those beseechers recognize their local bureaucrats as holding some sort of authority over them.
So, naturally, they believe they need to ask permission to modify known archeology in favor of ‘beliefs’ and sh*t.
There goes that whole theory of ‘sovereignty of nations’.
May as well close the casinos.
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b)
For authenticity, they probably did their beseech in their historical lingo of two hundred thousand years ago.
Geez Louize, the legislators were lucky to escape with their scalps intact.
How many got ate… to appease the history gods.
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Busy-bodies with too much time on their hands.
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c)
I want to avoid appearing callous for their cause.
But compared to the Irish and several centuries of enthusiastic negotiations in the isles, those folks are in kindergarten, trying out for the Big Leagues first time at-bat.
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d)
‘IP Day’.
Probably a meme in that…
You asked a great question: “Do we have “Neanderthal Day”?
We don’t but we will if I have may way. It should be a week before the local aboriginals start their grift fest. All of us of western European extraction from near the Neander valley (a small valley in Germany where the Düssel flows) should demand compensation from everyone, especially leftists.
And we don’t need a reason, just because.
sorry Indians, Feathers not Dots, your ancestors lost and lost bigly. Now bring me another drink while I split these 8s on the dealer’s 6 card.
JQ
It’s long overdue to play Cowboys and Woke Scolds so they learn they history of when we played Cowboys and Indians
JQ