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Biden becomes first president to issue proclamation marking Indigenous Peoples' Day:
President Joe Biden issued a proclamation commemorating Indigenous Peoples' Day on Friday, becoming the first US president to do so, the White House said.
"The contributions that Indigenous peoples have made throughout history — in public service, entrepreneurship, scholarship, the arts, and countless other fields — are integral to our Nation, our culture, and our society," Biden wrote in the proclamation Friday. "Today, we acknowledge the significant sacrifices made by Native peoples to this country — and recognize their many ongoing contributions to our Nation."
Biden also marked a change of course from previous administrations in his proclamation marking Columbus Day, which honors the explorer Christopher Columbus. In that proclamation, the President acknowledged the death and destruction wrought on native communities after Columbus journeyed to North America in the late 1500s, ushering in an age of European exploration of the Western Hemisphere.
"Today, we also acknowledge the painful history of wrongs and atrocities that many European explorers inflicted on Tribal Nations and Indigenous communities. It is a measure of our greatness as a Nation that we do not seek to bury these shameful episodes of our past — that we face them honestly, we bring them to the light, and we do all we can to address them," Biden wrote.
More than 100 cities -- including Seattle, Los Angeles, Denver, Phoenix, San Francisco -- and a number of states -- including Minnesota, Alaska, Vermont and Oregon -- have replaced Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples' Day, choosing instead to recognize the native populations that were displaced and decimated after Columbus and other European explorers reached the continent. Berkeley, California, was the first city to adopt Indigenous Peoples' Day, in 1992.
Also at Al Jazeera.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 10 2021, @09:32PM (35 children)
I've never heard of a culture that hates itself as much as Americans. Everything resulting in what they have -> out the window with it. It's shit. It needs to be thrown away.
I've never heard of such a culture ....... so I wonder what's going to happen to it.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Username on Sunday October 10 2021, @09:44PM (4 children)
In your face china, you'll never hate us as much as we hate ourselves!
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 10 2021, @09:59PM (3 children)
Dollars to donuts, when you get down to it you'll find it's the Chinese fomenting this race and gender nonsense. They'll gleefully watch us destroy ourselves, knowing that their military might could never inflict such damage.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 10 2021, @10:17PM
I wish I could get donuts round here for a dollar.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 10 2021, @10:41PM
Yes, the lucky Chinese with their racial purity and perfect One Party state dictator-for-life. They must be laughing, because if they don't they'll get arrested.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Monday October 11 2021, @02:16AM
Well let's not blame them for being so successful then. Would all this "fomenting" make a difference if not for our own antipathy?
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 10 2021, @10:06PM (3 children)
》 I've never heard of such a culture ....... so I wonder what's going to happen to it.
It'll get voted out in 2024 and Trump will make everything great again. Hopefully this time he sends all the SJWs to Guantanamo for their traitorous activities during the interregnum
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 10 2021, @10:43PM (2 children)
For the shits and giggles, I hope that does happen.
Give us the chance to finally test the 25th Amendment, the Emoluments clause and various other Presidential exception bullshit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13 2021, @03:01AM (1 child)
Rightwing mod brigade is here, they laid low for a few weeks then came back when they figured staff was over it.
Aristarchus the prescient, the alt-right has steadily ruined this place with their racist garbage driving off most users.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13 2021, @03:37AM
Oh, can it, ari. You aren't "most users". You don't even represent "most users". You should get back in the closet, and stop drawing attention to yourself.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by darkfeline on Sunday October 10 2021, @10:10PM (4 children)
Actually there is one: communist/Maoist China. The Cultural Revolution was all about destroying the rich history and culture of China and replacing it with modern politically correct doctrine. Now that I think about it, that explains a lot about the current state of the US and some other Western countries.
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 10 2021, @10:27PM (1 child)
Sure, though another motivation was one of the primary tenets of communism: Slaughter people more successful than yourself then appropriate their wealth for "redistribution."
The "共匪" (communist bandit) moniker is quite apt in this regard.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 12 2021, @04:44PM
The stupidity is strong with this one, almost stronger than the blind faith of a ccp revolutionary. At least they had the excuse of being uneducated peasants. You? Just another greedy self-important asshole.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 10 2021, @10:45PM
Does it help explain that income inequality is greater than any time since the Great Depression?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday October 13 2021, @03:40AM
I think the Cultural Revolution was less about destroying history, than about elevating Mao above history, or anything else that might detract from Mao's greatness. A lot of stuff just happened to get broken in the process.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Opportunist on Sunday October 10 2021, @10:33PM (11 children)
You've never been to Germany, I take it?
You see, the first thing I noticed when I was in the US for the first time is the sheer amount of flags flying about. Not just from public buildings, private people having flagpoles and flying the US flag, not for independence day or other special occasions, but any day, all day.
If you see a German flag flying somewhere, you can be sure that there's a football world championship going on. Outside of these events, no flags please. Someone could think you're proud of your country, and that's not very German.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 10 2021, @10:48PM
Not just flags, endless signs and adverts. And homeless and wage slaves. Proud American folk.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 10 2021, @11:14PM (6 children)
A result of the denazification program [princeton.edu] in Western Germany, in which the US were advised by Herbert Marcuse. To a communist, the actual story of a genocidal lunatic seizing power and manipulating the population would be close to a confession. The "real" problems of National Socialism to a Socialist must therefore be nationalism (erroneously conflating civic-nationalism with ethno-nationalism) and Capitalism (which Hitler thought was a Jewish plot). Marcuse's claim that the German people were immune to "counter-propaganda" was an admission of exactly what he was doing.
The reason Germans don't fly national flags and the rise of "woke" in the US trace their origins back to the same anti-intellectual counter-propagandist. Isn't that interesting?
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 11 2021, @04:27AM (5 children)
Yes, because Hitler famously got along great with socialists and communists.
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 11 2021, @12:08PM (3 children)
Hitler was a Socialist who believed both Bolshevism and Capitalism to be Jewish conspiracies.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 12 2021, @12:58AM (2 children)
Disagree? [annefrank.org]
Does the NSDAP 25 point plan from 1920 [fordham.edu] read like it was written by a free-market capitalist?
Remember kids: just say "no" to socialism of either the nationalist or internationalist variety.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 12 2021, @05:15PM (1 child)
annefrank.org says only a small portion of Jews were communists! lmao! they were fucking taking over towns and assassinating politicians, as well as sabotaging Germany during ww1. They were/are a parasitic infection in any White nation. Hitler was right!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13 2021, @03:07AM
The world will be better off when you're no longer a part of it. Just a thought, though I guess you might be able to grow as a person so that this current "you" is gone. Either way would be a win, your call.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 11 2021, @04:50PM
Particularly fond of minorities and LGBTQ, I heard.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 11 2021, @12:22AM
When I still lived in Germany, an American lived in our village. She installed a flag pole on her short front yard and raised Old Glory.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 11 2021, @11:31AM (1 child)
By law you can't have the flag in the flag pole at night, atleast here in the Nordic countries. You have to use a pennant instead if you want to have it all day all night.
Don't know about German laws, but considering that they put the flag on every product they make, they sure are more proud than we in my country.
I've had this joke that US people need the flags so that they know they haven't gotten lost to Canada or one of the Mexican countries. Relax, it's just a joke and a joke within a joke, not that they are allowed anymore, but there you go, have a laugh or a frown.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 11 2021, @04:53PM
In America, we usually make our jokes funny. No flagging necessary.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 11 2021, @01:43AM
Great post, Runaway! I know, you posted this AC to avoid the wrath of aristarchus' sock puppets. But it's still a great post!
Darkies hate America. They've just convinced everyone else to hate America, too. I can't understand why we would create an American holiday for those who hate America. What's next? Renaming Veteran's Day to "9/11 Terrorists' Day" to be politically correct to sand niggers?
Star Trek: Voyager is a great analogy. Voyager is from a civilized part of the galaxy but ends up in the Delta Quadrant. The Kazon are the Star Trek equivalent of injuns, battling among themselves with no real technology. When civilized people show up with better technology, the Kazon attack them. Just like the injuns. There's a reason the Delta Quadrant was a technological backwater, other than the Borg. Of course the Borg deemed the Kazon unworthy of assimilation, so I can't imagine they'd find much value in injuns or any other darkies, either.
Niggers, kikes, towelheads, wetbacks, chinks, dune coons, pajeets, japs, pakis, gooks, injuns, and all other darkies hate America. That's why I hate darkies. My hate is strong and I'm damned proud of it. In fact, my hate is getting stronger as I talk to you people. However, I'm not racist, and there's nothing racist about my post. Of course, the left will try to label me a racist because they can't refute anything I posted. If darkies didn't hate America, they wouldn't pillage and burn our cities while calling their riots free speech and free expression. I'm attacked because I'm a strong, independent woman who doesn't mindlessly accept leftist propaganda. It's funny that when I don't say that I'm a woman in my posts, people tell me I'm one of the best posters on this site. When leftists mod me down and spam mod me, it's because they're misogynists who can't handle the truth.
The left wants to indoctrinate an entire generation of Americans to hate America. That's why they're pushing critical race theory in schools, spreading propaganda for darkies and teaching our kids to hate America.
Darkies are trying to invade and destroy America. We're fools for aiding and abetting them.
Melissa
(Score: 2) by shortscreen on Monday October 11 2021, @02:50AM
For some reason your post has me wondering if software development could be a culture. They wouldn't be able to observe a holiday for more than two consecutive years without slapping a deprecated/legacy alert on it.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by bradley13 on Monday October 11 2021, @09:25AM (4 children)
To be fair, that pretty much only applies to "woke" Americans.
Conquest was the norm throughout most of human history. Conquering the indigenous tribes in the America's was just human "business as usual".
One can say the same about slavery. The US wasn't even one of the big players. History happened.
All the modern Angst about the doings of people long dead is, frankly, pretty dumb. We are where we are. Learn from the past, sure, but look towards the future.
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 11 2021, @04:55PM (2 children)
And I'll just inherit this nice big house that I earned while you keep renting a shack for 50% of your wages. That's only fair.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 11 2021, @09:18PM (1 child)
It takes 1 to 2 generations for dirt poor, non-white immigrants to make it to the upper middle class. Those who are poor for generations are mainly poor due to their culture and upbringing that they then pass on to their kids who repeat the cycle. Never before in history has there been so many free resources for you to use to make your life better. That they so often go unused is 'your' fault, not mine.
How many of those poor families grabbed old clothing, manually sewn them into masks, and bootstrapped themselves into something better? I know one family of immigrants who did just that and ended up going from something like 17k a year to 30k. Almost doubling their incoming while being able to work at home sitting in front of the TV. Still poor by many standards, but they certainly feel rich now.
Rundown shacks go for cheap and you can rebuild them from the inside out while living there or out of your car or in a tent. Then resell for 500% markup and repeat. How many poor bother to do that? Learning to do so isn't difficult. There are always new shacks being put on the market.
(Score: 2) by SunTzuWarmaster on Wednesday October 13 2021, @02:28PM
Pretty much. Look at basically any immigrant population in the US. "Ha ha ha, Indian people own all the gas stations, ha ha ha, Apu. Simpsons". Like - I know a few Indian people that moved to the country with nothing, got a big loan on a gas station property, and now own/operate three mostly-restored gas stations for $200K/year net income. Their kids went to college while ignoring the "student debt crisis".
The Patels did so with the motel industry.
The Korean people did so with dry cleaners.
The list goes on.
(Score: 1) by Well placed aim... on Sunday October 24 2021, @04:29AM
THANK YOU! Shit, I do like it when I read common sense!
W.P.A.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 11 2021, @07:18PM
this is due to cultural marxist jews teaching the kids indirectly through dumb goy slaves. it's not just america but all white nations. all part of the kalergi plan.
(Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Monday October 11 2021, @09:34PM
You remind me of my cousin, when I would suggest that we as a people need to be using less resources. He would rant that "I wanted us to go back to living in caves!". The only ones with your attitude are those who believe that any suggestion we aren't living sustainably, and that we haven't behaved the best way possible while getting where we are, are attacking your entire way of life. If we are, then you seriously need to reexamine the way you live. Acknowledging past mistakes is not "throwing every thing away". Behaving better (by this I mean treating them as we would want to be treated) towards marginalized groups is a step forwards, but taking that step seems to enrage many who perceive that they have benefited (whether they really have or not) from such mistreatment. We can't roll back the clock and we can't fix past mistakes, but by acknowledging we have made mistakes maybe we can prevent ourselves from making them again.