Columbus Day, a clash of civilizations

Published October 10, 2022 12:00am ET



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This week, we celebrate the 530th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s landing in the Western Hemisphere. Oct. 12, 2022, will commemorate the day the Italian explorer united the Old World and the New World, forever changing the course of human history. Until about 1992, this was a national holiday and a day to celebrate Italian American heritage.
Columbus Statue BeheadedOct. 12 has since become a day to scorn Western civilization, as the American Left and “multiculturalist” academics, through various Native American front groups, have used the occasion to recite various atrocity stories and criticisms of the settlement and conquest of the Americas by Europeans.

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