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@zkat__ ("kat marchán") retweeted:
@crimethinc ("CrimethInc.") wrote:
Strangely, some people see #ColumbusDay as celebrating Italian heritage, even though it honors a man who initiated a brutal colonial conquest for Spain hundreds of years before Italy existed.
This thread explores a range of more honorable Italian role models.
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@crimethinc ("CrimethInc.") replied to a tweet by @crimethinc:
History offers many more examples of enterprising Italians who become deservingly famous in their field—Sacco and Vanzetti, Luigi Galleani, Carlo Tresca, Mary Nardini.
There's absolutely no need to retrofit Christopher Columbus for that role—nor to celebrate colonial violence.
