The contemporaries who knew Christopher Columbus also thought he was trash Wild to me that someone's like "the most pressing issue facing NYC today is not having enough taxpayer-funded statues to trash" And he's in the lead - ThreadSky

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gregdoucette.bsky.social • 25 days ago

The contemporaries who knew Christopher Columbus also thought he was trash

Wild to me that someone's like "the most pressing issue facing NYC today is not having enough taxpayer-funded statues to trash"

And he's in the lead

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molicioushat.bsky.social•25 days ago

And he never said he found America. He was adamant until the very end that he found the "route to Asia." (Paraphrasing here but you get the point)

shorterexcerpts.bsky.social•25 days ago

They have a horrible track record with mayors but name recognition I think is doing a lot of heavy lifting

policegazette.bsky.social•25 days ago

I'm all for Italians having a statue. Take down the Columbus ones and replace them with Frank Sinatra. Problem solved.

strangernalps.bsky.social•25 days ago

He was punished by the Court for being a tyrannical maniac AT THE TIME

ragnarxiv.bsky.social•25 days ago

Ferdinand and Isabella of Castile, who were responsible for nothing less than the Spanish Inquisition, considered him unusually cruel and incompetent

tetsukaba.bsky.social•25 days ago

When you’re too cruel for the Inquisition…

madmadmonkey.bsky.social•25 days ago

NYC has always elected the worst people.

zeldaqueen.bsky.social•25 days ago

We need to find some other important Italian historic figure to bolster in his place. Can't we push for Leonardo da Vinci Day?

popelizbet.bsky.social•25 days ago

Every statue of him should be a monument to Sofia Petrillo

mseraphimsl.bsky.social•25 days ago

Hell, put up statues to Ettore Boiardi. He at least helped to popularize Italian food in the US. So far as I'm aware he never initiated a slave state or started a genocide either, so win-win.

thatac.bsky.social•25 days ago

As long as you don't try to go shopping on Columbus day its not so bad...

All of those Italians wandering around trying but failing to find the spice isle....

shivax.bsky.social•25 days ago

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