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Columbus Day is giving people pause

Malinda Maynor Lowery - The Conversation

Olin Tezcatlipoca from the Mexica Movement speaks to demonstrators in front of a statue of Christopher Columbus during a protest against Columbus Day in Grand Park, Los Angeles, California on October 11, 2015. The Mexica Movement is amongst a growing group of people and US cities that want change the name of the 'Columbus Day' holiday to 'Indigenous Peoples Day. (MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images)

The truth about Columbus Day, explained

Christopher Columbus Monument in Baltimore, Maryland (AP)

Christopher Columbus in the New World

Peter C. Mancall - The Conversation

Indigenous People's Day - The Daily Wire (YouTube/The Daily Wire)

Daily Wire's racist Columbus Day cartoon

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O'Reilly accidentally debunks Columbus

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How Columbus became a national symbol

William Francis Keegan - The Conversation

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Columbus Day is not a day of hope

Ta'Sina Sapa Win of South Dakota's Cheyenne River Reservation chants in front of police during a protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline outside Saint Anthony, North Dakota, October 5, 2016. (Reuters/Terray Sylvester)

It's 1492 all over again

Boys dressed as Christopher Columbus march in the annual Columbus Day Parade in New York City on Oct. 8, 2012 (Reuters/Keith Bedford)

"Most massive act of genocide"

A Columbus Day protest in Los Angeles. (Kevork Djansezian/Reuters)

Goodbye, Columbus Day

Rush Limbaugh and Donald Trump

Nauseating Columbus Day hate

Amanda Marcotte

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#ColumbusWasAHero?

Scott Eric Kaufman

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Everybody, hate Chris!

(Reuters/Keith Bedford)

Columbus gets his comeuppance

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