r/technology • u/MothersMiIk • 2d ago

Politics This The New PBS?! Viral Kids Cartoon Teaches Slavery As ‘No Big Deal’, Company’s Co-Founder Wants To Indoctrinate Children With Right-Wing Ideology

https://bossip.com/3762710/prageru-slavery-video/
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u/enaK66 2d ago

The efforts of many Italians living in the United States.

From wiki:

"In 1966, Mariano A. Lucca, from Buffalo, New York, founded the National Columbus Day Committee, which lobbied to make Columbus Day a federal holiday.[21] These efforts were successful and legislation to create Columbus Day as a federal holiday was signed by President Lyndon Johnson on June 28, 1968, to be effective beginning in 1971."

The wiki mentions like 5 other times before this when Italians tried to make Columbus Day a thing. I guess a lot of Italians living here back in the day really liked that one of them "discovered" America.

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u/wildcarde815 2d ago

wait... 1966? wtf? I had assumed it was much earlier than that at the least.