Every day, I half expect to see a report confirming what a long suspected, that Salon is actually a Long Con by Alt Right operatives trying to create the most hysterical and intellectually vacuous image of the American Left possible. So its almost unfair to note this, but I couldnt help myself.
Scott Eric Kaufman is one of those people I truly hope is cynically peddling faux outrage in order to make a decent living. If he is actually triggered by these things he writes about, I dont know how he makes it through the day.
Todays crime against humanity is the hashtag #ColumbusWasAHero. Kaufman kvetches:
Despite the fact that its pretty much inarguable at this point that Christopher Columbus was a monster of historical proportions the debate is, at this point, how great of one he was, comparatively speaking there are many people who still vehemently defend him as a sort of sad proxy of their childhood or ideology.
[Twitter embraces and unloads on the #ColumbusWasAHero hashtag campaign, October 12, 2015]
There follows the typical Point and Sputter treatment as Kaufman declares he is shocked, just shocked at right wingers posting obviously true things such as: Dear Columbus: thank you for helping civilize this continent. We are better off for it.
Happy Columbus Day everyone. #ColumbusWasAHero. And as long as the real America remains, well honor the Admiral of the Ocean Sea.
Poster Comment:
Happy Columbus Day to all American patriots, with a shout out to my fellow American's who share some of Columbus's Italian blood. To all you anti- American dope smoking hippies who rage against Columbus, ESAD hippy fags!