Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Before the Knights of Columbus we did have Columbia as a national icon. But the Columbia character was a woman, highly abstracted away from the specifics of Christopher Columbus. https://t.co/ONDHYEBsDy https://t.co/lpJfQgFZog — PolitiTweet.org

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Columbus Day originated as Gilded Age DEI initiative by reconceptualizing a Spanish conquistador as an Italian-American immigrant. https://t.co/ONDHYEjjpq https://t.co/s8F6E9nnUT — PolitiTweet.org

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And of course the 20th century Italian-American Columbus is a bit odd. Columbus’ native Genoese dialect was closer to French than to Italian; he did all his writing in Spanish, his work for the Spanish crown. And he didn’t come to the USA. But it was a nice gesture! — PolitiTweet.org

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