This Columbus Day, Trigger a snowflake
John Zmirak
We’re coming up on Columbus Day, a holiday that seemed old-fashioned and quaint until recently. I remember it in New York as a day for politicians whose names ended in vowels to march from one cannoli shop to another. Now it has taken on new importance. That’s because it’s the latest entrée on the menu of a left starved of meaning, which is eating everything in sight. (If only they’d stick to cannolis.)
The left specializes in grand, sweeping, emotive gestures. Ones that briefly set agnostics’ parched frontal cortexes on fire. Soon they’re coursing with neural activity that simulates redemptive action. These featherless bipeds might spend most of their lives quietly accepting the desperate premise that human life is a meaningless side-effect of evolutionary randomness. Just slag cast off by a vast, dead machine: The universe.
The Fetish of the “Fearless Girl”
But give these bipeds the chance, and they’ll stage a Great Awakening of sorts. Then once they’re all “woke,” and they’ve done their share of bullying and boasting, they revert to sleepwalking through life. At least till the next chance to virtue signal comes along. Witness the frenzy, noted well in Commentary by Noah Rothman, over the “Fearless Girl” statue on Wall Street. Remember how that little bronze “feminist icon” bravely faced down the raging “Bull” on Wall Street? How many giddy feminists of every sex preened alongside it for selfies? How proud they seemed of themselves? Note how the company that put up the statue anointed itself with virtue juice. It had “taken a stand” for women.
Except that the story fell apart like a scarecrow if you poked it. As Rothman documents, that very company was in the late stages of a massive sex discrimination suit whose plaintiffs were … guess who? Women. So the “Fearless Girl” was simply a brilliant piece of pre-emptive damage control. Like sexual harasser Harvey Weinstein’s fundraisers for Planned Parenthood.
But what does that matter? The Facebook accounts of thousands of socialist-leaning Democrats with fat 401k savings are stuffed with happy photos. Political participation trophies. They’re memories they can treasure of “sticking it to the man,” over $7 cups of coffee whose beans, they feel sure, are “sustainable.”
Modern attacks on Columbus are often fueled by the work of radical activist professors who seek to warp history.
Don’t ask too many questions of these quaint primitives. It’s just not fair. It’s like yanking the beard off Santa Claus at the shopping mall, to horrify all the children.
The Truth About Columbus
Likewise, it almost seems cruel to resist these people’s big plans for Columbus Day. They have raised up their hopes so high. As PJ Media reports:
Violent left-wing anarchists have announced a nationwide campaign to deface Christopher Columbus statues this coming Monday.
Five Christopher Columbus statues have already been vandalized in New York City in recent weeks, according to Far Left Watch. In one case last month, vandals defaced a “larger-than-life” statue of Columbus in Central Park, leaving blood-red paint on his hands, and scrawled, “Hate will not be tolerated” and “#SomethingsComing” on its pedestal.
What is coming appears to be a coordinated campaign to destroy monuments all across the country on Columbus Day.
Is it fair to spoil their fun by pointing out some inconvenient facts? Do we really want to deprive these poor souls, bereft of genuine purpose in their lives, of a brief frisson of meaning? Aren’t we just knocking down little children’s snowmen? (My beagle, Susie, used to do that all through Highland Park.) I feel we might be doing that if we pointed out any of the following. (Thanks to the lively website TruthAboutColumbus):
Columbus has been outrageously slandered and falsely accused of the crimes of others. The record shows he actually sought to treat the natives with respect and restrain mistreatment against them.
Opposition to Columbus is not a recent development. In the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan mounted a bigoted campaign against the explorer because he was Catholic, Italian and sailed under the Spanish flag.
Modern attacks on Columbus are often fueled by the work of radical activist professors who seek to warp history with a predetermined political agenda.
Contemporary attacks on Columbus are sometimes unknowingly influenced by anti-Spanish propaganda known as the “La Leyenda Negra,” which originated in the 16th-century during English and Dutch conflict with Spain and portrayed the Spanish as brutal and untrustworthy.
Here’s a fun and informative video from the site:
A Time for Triggering
You know what would be even meaner than pointing out facts like these? What would amount to running up to a bunch of adult crybabies and stealing their binkies? Asking one of them the following harsh, unfeeling questions:
Do you repent of the European settlement of North America?
If so, are you more than 51 percent Native American?
If not, when are you planning to hand your house over to the tribe that once resided on the land it sits on, and return to your ancestral home?
Do you regret the introduction of Christianity to the Americas?
If so, would you like to explain that to the hundreds of millions of Christians in Latin America, mostly of Indian descent? If we restored that Aztec human sacrifice custom, will you volunteer as a victim? We still have Montezuma’s recipe for human thigh, in chipotle sauce. (Available soon at your nearest … Chipotle!)
Do you favor returning every country that was once conquered and resettled by invaders to the original inhabitants?
So you agree that Israel was right to fight off the Arabs and regain its ancient homeland? That the whole Middle East should be given back to the Assyrians, Yezidis, Copts, Greeks, and Armenian Christians who once inhabited it? You know, before all those Arab conquests?
I assume that you also support the efforts of Europeans to stop their current colonization by Muslim Arabs with no claim on that land. Right?
Asking questions like these would be totally unpastoral. It isn’t winsome. It could trigger Ivy League students and send them running for their safe spaces, to curl up in fetal balls full of coloring books and Ovaltine.
Hey, Columbus Day might be more fun than I ever suspected. Pass the cannolis. https://stream.org/columbus-day-trigger-snowflake/
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I have a hard time seeing how Russian trolls could make Antifa look worse. That's like saying someone can make syphillis look more unattractive.
I have a hard time seeing how Russian trolls could make Antifa look worse. That's like saying someone can make syphillis look more unattractive.
You may be having such a hard time … that doesn't negate what the Russians are doing to stoke dissent among Americans … and that might account for all or part of your hard time.
I have a hard time seeing how Russian trolls could make Antifa look worse.
That must be the tip of an everestian ice berg of the stuff you have a "hard time" with. Facts and truth would dwarf this one.
I’m so confused about the willy nilly rule system here. The term “snowflake” is now only okay to use if you are a right wing douchebag?
The term “snowflake” is now only okay to use if you are a right wing douchebag?
That is the title of the article. A member can't use it on any side of the isle.
Why would the word snowflake be banned?
err... let Me Think,, err because it is prejudicial, SNOW does NOT Flake, get it :-)
The correct term is "Ice crystal". I shall use that in the place of the "S" word.
E.A About time you learn how to use the right word!!
It is taken for granted that the seeded article is worthless drivel. Thats pretty much a given, all things considered.
I know that it is possible to both love America and it's traditions, and want an honest telling of the history of this nation and this hemisphere. The two things are not mutually exclusive.
The idiot that wrote the seeded article seems to be arguing that either you love the exploits of Columbus, or you are someone who wants Europe to become Muslim and Israel to fall to Arabs.
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The seeded article is worthless hard right nutjobbery.
The article is open to comments again. Keep the comments on topic, about the article and it's subject, not the members, or moderation.
But, but, I wanna see all the insults and off-topic comments, what a rip!
Hi...what has happened to the forums? Whatever I click on, it reverts to Perrie's page of subjects yet the URL shows up as this:
Cannot get into the forums at all. A glitch? Was it something I said? LOL! Thanks for any help you can give.
Glitch repaired thanks to Perrie's efforts.
It is October 9th, 2017. Amidst all Comment removed for skirting the CoC [ph] it came. Just like the Grinch trying to stop Christmas, the liberals failed to stop Columbus Day.
HAPPY COLUMBUS DAY EVERYBODY!! 
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Why do you and others of your political stripe seem to believe that you are somehow macho badasses and that those of us with whom you disagree are somehow weak and cowardly?
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Pick so-called objections to Columbus Day that offend you, post those specific objections one-at a time, and I'll discuss each one with you. Should I agree on any, I will say so, where I might disagree, I will explain precisely my reason(s).
Comment removed skirting the CoC [ph] Lets just tell it like it is. The right wing media machine in the US has been out of control for many years, feeding these people gross misinformation.
you disagree are somehow weak and cowardly?
I'd look at which side suddenly think century old monuments are offensive, which children's books and murals are offensive and who has been in spoiled toddler mode since November. Whose groups are showing up at protests with their faces covered. Oh that's right. It's not the side I'm supporting.
Pick so-called objections to Columbus Day that offend you
Nothing about it offends me.
Whose groups are showing up at protests with their faces covered. Oh that's right. It's not the side I'm supporting.
Whose groups are showing up with torches, yelling "Jews will not replace us", this, while intimidating congregations at black churches and congregants at Jewish synagogues?
If Nazis would stay home, so would the equal-and-opposite boys who showed up because the Nazis are expressing their hatred.
It's like this …
I'll give you half credit for trying.
This looks like it could be a whole lot of fun!
I should have copy and pasted here what I posted on Fox an hour ago.
So I'll try to remember 'cause I can't find what I posted there.
Now, now, lets be Crystal Clear on this one more time. Cristobolo Colombo aka. Cristobal Colon aka. Christopher Columbus, NEVER, EVER saw any part at all of what is now the US of A. That's NEVER, EVER as in NEVER, NEVER EVER, NEVER AT ALL .
And BTW neither did the other Italian Explorer Americo Vespucci. From whom America takes its Name. Who explored Central-America, the North Coast of South America aka. Colombia, Venezuela, the Guyanas and then the coast of Brazil to the Rio de Janeiro = River of January. And maybe even the Rio de la Plata = Silver river. For more on Americo Vespucci see this good article for Reference →
Who really cares about Columbus? I mean seriously, he was just a guy who wanted to get rich and got lucky. He wasn't even the first one here generally, nor the first European (Vikings). From what I understand, he was also kind of a dick from a personality perspective. Honestly, I don't even know what day it is, I don't get it off so it really isn't even worth knowing.
he was just a guy who wanted to get rich and got lucky. He wasn't even the first one here generally, nor the first European (Vikings)
But, but, but, certain poorly educated rubes want to believe he discovered America because their history education ended in the third grade. They don't want to hear about how he didn't actually discover America, was a horrible slaver, was even censured by his own government and thrown in jail, was a terrible governor who was accused of abuse of power and died basically locked in his own residence. That's all the stuff you don't learn until you get to college and there are so many "snowflakes" who don't want their childhood history melted so they refuse to seek higher education that might challenge their gut opinions and bible indoctrinated education. Columbus day is based on a lie, but then so is almost everything else they believe, they don't care if 97% of history teachers know it's a lie, they'd rather believe the 3% of doubters just like with climate science.
Pass the cannolis [sic]
If you're going to pretend you care about this silly holiday, you ought at least get the Italian correct. Cannoli is already plural (singular: cannolo).
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What a load of crap.
Seems to me that this person that wrote the article is creating an issue just to blast the left with no basis in reality.
And by the by? It was snowflakes that stopped Hitler.
It was brave men and women who stopped Hitler. They didn't need safe spaces, diversity training, black masks, urine bottles to throw at cops and reporters, biased college professors or vagina hats. They weren't snowflakes.
Yea, too bad they didn't have a Dodge Charger too, right mando?
One of your rightwing buddies under the name of "redding...something" does it with every post and pretends we don't see it.
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Do not bring up anything doing with who was what on NV. That is this site's policy.
Can we see the deleted comments? That back and forth between Loki and Frosty was probably quite entertaining! Also, you're pretty, but Perrie is a boy name!
They weren't, but the modern right/Reich wing is. The folks who stopped Hitler wouldn't be crying about football players kneeling, or ducking out of service with fake bone spurs like your leader.
No, but they might just take them "out back" and have a little "talk" with them.
It was snowflakes. Lots of them. All at once. And high winds and cold temperatures.
And it happened in the Soviet Union
What do you think they would be talking about, the 1st Amendment?
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Then, perhaps it's the company you keep.
Ah yes, the primary excuse for poorly educated fools not to get a college education. They don't want their "gut" and bible belt education being challenged so they'd prefer to just throw stones instead of getting an education and trying to fight what they see as elitism with facts and science, that would make them into what they hate most. We'd still be trying to pray away disease if it weren't for well educated scientists proving that germs do exist. Sadly, this year a giant germ has infected the white house and there's not enough penicillin (also developed by a scientist) to cure that small handed orange headed inflamed pustule sitting in the oval office.
I don't know if triggering snowflakes is such a good idea. They're pretty cowardly individually and usually start making up imagined persecutions or demanding hot cocoa.
As a mob they can be pretty violent and unpleasant.
I love to get this snowflake moniker. Here's what snowflakes can do when they work together:
But what's really funny about being called a snowflake by a rightwinger is the constant whiny-ass way it always comes off. As usual they can't even hear their shrill, panicky, high-pitched voices.
That is what you think will happen and here is