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In response to "Krusty, I have been typing a big long response but I realized the board will roll and I have to go to work. " by crash davis

I’ve nothing to say to defend Christopher Columbus except I wonder if the people tearing down the statues are willing to actually give up the privileg

Posted by JackDawson (aka dawson) Jun 21 '20, 09:19

E they have thanks to him

Give the lands back to these First Nations? Or just shoutout bones at the beginning of the film screening ?

And if Churchill’s conquest of Africa cancels him, is the USA going to give back...Puerto Rico? Texas? California?

Tear down the statues of the truly horrendous people whose deeds no one serious countenances today (slavery, Holocaust, etc)

Once you get beyond that, it seems like empty gestures to me

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I, for one, support giving back the land that is being pulverized for oil and timber. BEFORE it gets pulverized, that is. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 21, 09:24 2
- Where is the line drawn? Does the land the Aztecs took from the Zapotec go back to the former or the latter? What year is the demarcation? -- nm - JackDawson Jun 21, 09:30 1
  - I can really only speak to the situation here in BC. And even then, I'm inappropriately biased in my thinking. - Beryllium Jun 21, 09:36

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I’ve nothing to say to defend Christopher Columbus except I wonder if the people tearing down the statues are willing to actually give up the privileg

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