If you really want to play Oppression Olympics here you’ll need a better opening move than this one
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This is true. But there are many businesses-- especially those where lower-income workers are, like retailers, grocery stores, gas stations-- that are open seven days a week, if not 24-7. So even on a weekend, they are unlikely to be given a day off to vote-- and lower-income people are the ones who need representation the most. And, as pointed out above, not every state requires workers to get time off to vote. So while a voting holiday is a nice thought, it really doesn’t go far enough. And feel free to scoff, but as someone who’s worked a few retail jobs, I had to work many, many holidays while most people were out enjoying themselves… so I know what I’m talking about.
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Io non capisco per quale motivo negli Stati Uniti di America sia partita questa campagna contro Cristoforo Colombo. Dagli Italiani viene vista con molto stupore, visto ache che i promotori non sono di solito indiani d’America, ma discendenti di migranti.
Per le votazioni, se si volesse incrementare la partecipazione basterebbe aprire i seggi alla domenica ed al sabato mattina, come si faceva una volta in Italia.
It is not unreasonable or surprising for people to object to the veneration of a genocidal rapist, even if those people were not the direct targets of the offence themselves. Columbus was utter scum.
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He also never set foot in North America, and has only a tangential connection to the USA.
If folks want an Italian-American to celebrate, try this one:
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it could be the hideous genocide he was party to, it could be the 500+ years of oppression and exploitation his arrival started off. there are better people we could celebrate. i’ve favored bartolome’ ever since i read about him. here’s a condensed version–
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State law, but in lots of states.
In New York, for instance, you have a right to enough time off that you have 4 uninterrupted free hours while the polls are open (6am-9pm in New York) in which to vote. If that time off is 2 hours or less and at the start or end of your shift, it’s paid.
Got my vote!
But my latest reason why I love her: She did not sign that letter (allegedly) committing to voting against Pelosi for Speaker. (Reasons why that’s the right thing are more than I can go into at the moment. Sorry.)
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Putting polling places in the mall, where the people are, would also help.
And your source…?
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The fact that every attempt to end Columbus day strives to strip Italian Americans of any trace of their existence
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Citation needed.
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Oh, come now. America is a nice Italian name.
So you’re accusing all Italian-Americans of having horrible hearing?
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That’s not the goal, the goal is not celebrate a guy who engaged in a brutal ethnic cleansing. given that so many Americans DO have italian heritage, I sincerely doubt that 's the goal of a shift away from Columbus day. Besides, Columbus would not have identified as Italian, but most likely Genoese, since a national entity known as Italy didn’t exist in the 15th century. it was a bunch of city-states and wasn’t a unifed nation-state until the 19th century. No one is attacking Italians. No one. No one is attempting to claim they don’t exist, that’s just silly.
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To be fair, not for many people who work in retail or other service industries. And that’s increasingly not true for people who work remotely, who are expected to be on call 24/7.
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That is one helluva a conclusion to ‘jump to’…
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Won’t somebody think of the Italians??
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