Getting upset about Columbus Day is peak Antifa absurdity

Published October 9, 2017 3:23pm ET



If you like Starbucks, Google, Facebook or your freedom not to like them (why wouldn’t you?) you can thank Christopher Columbus, explorer, navigator — and, in 2017’s political arena, rabble-rouser. In other words, Monday is Columbus Day: Are you ready to be offended?

In honor of the day an adventurous but flawed man trekked all the way to the New World with a crew of men on a few ships, social justice warriors, and even Antifa, are gearing up to protest — because nothing says thanks to the man who discovered the Americas like Americans holding a protest. Antifa declared Monday “Deface Columbus Day” and other groups have declared it “Indigenous Peoples Day.”

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