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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: 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.