I went to my bank today to cash a check and it was closed for Columbus Day. I’m outraged.
Haven’t we heard ad nauseam that celebrating Columbus and his “discovery” of America in effect honors genocide, slavery of indigenous people and just about any other outrageous claim of wrongdoing the leftist critics care to put forth to be disseminated by their lapdogs in the LameStream media?
After all we’ve been told about this being an invalid holiday, after all the Columbus statues that have been taken down or boxed (more on boxings later) how can banks ignore this and close for the day, giving their employees the day off? Why is there no mail service today? Why are all manner of public offices and schools vacant today?
The cynic in me thinks that, when faced with a day off work or school, the work component coming without missing any pay, well, even the ideologues can put their professed outrage on the shelf in the interest of what’s good for them at the time.
Think of this in the category of flaming liberals who insist decaying, ineffective public schools are good enough for your kids, but their kids are going to exclusive private schools, thank you for noticing.
Can’t let your zealous causes interfere with a day off, or your children’s education.
Confused Joe Biden, looking to straddle the fence with the attendant risk to private parts (presuming he still has any) thinks we ought to celebrate Italian heritage with Columbus Day, but we also should give a nod to the competing holiday that has been chucked onto the calendar on the very same date, that being Indigenous Peoples Day.
Please note that for all the verbiage, it is Columbus Day that is the federal holiday. Indigenous Peoples Day is more like those feel-good examples of virtue-signaling that crowd the calendar.
Every day is national something day, often more than one national somethings day. We have weeks and months selected to honor causes and, again, often there are different causes for the same weeks and months.
It all gets pretty confusing, and relatively meaningless. Think of it as holiday inflation in which, just like monetary inflation makes every dollar worth that much less, every artificial holiday devalues the ones meriting the celebration.
But there are spoilsports who are infringing on the canceling of Columbus Day. A Pennsylvania judge has ordered Philadelphia to take down the box the city administrators erected around a Columbus statute, this box being designed to shield hypersensitive souls from having to view this tribute to a man they rank about on par with Adolf Hitler.
Yet many of these confused souls inexplicably wear Che Guevara T-shirts, honoring the memory of a man who was a murderer, a racist, notably anti-gay and someone who set up a concentration camp in Cuba for political opponents, but now has been whitewashed as a “revolutionary.”
And, again, the cynic in me wonders aloud if all these bleeding hearts so opposed to Columbus Day were willing to bypass the day off work today, or sent their spawn to vacant schools as a protest of closing those learning centers to honor a pariah like Columbus.
I think I know the answer, and so do you.
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