Why Far-Left Has Worked So Hard to Cancel Christopher Day

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🗓️ 14 October 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

The far-left’s obsession with canceling Christopher Columbus does not have as much to do with the man, but rather what he represents, according to historian Jarrett Stepman. Efforts to cancel men like Columbus come from “cultural Marxists who thought that you need to change American culture to truly change our policies at the highest level," says Stepman, a columnist for The Daily Signal and author of "The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America's Past." Stepman joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss the history of Columbus Day and the role the explorer played in the opening of the “transatlantic exchange that led to the creation of the United States.”

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Monday, October 14th, Columbus Day.
0:10.0	I'm Virginia Allen, and today we are looking at the history of Columbus Day who exactly
0:16.3	Christopher Columbus was and why he has become such a boogie man to the left.
0:22.7	Jarrett Stetman is a columnist for The Daily Signal.
0:26.0	He's also author of the book, The War on History,
0:29.8	The Conspiracy to rewrite America's past.
0:32.8	And he joins us in just a moment
0:34.8	to answer some of those questions
0:36.9	as to why exactly the left seems so bent
0:40.7	on removing the memory of Christopher Columbus from US history.
0:44.7	Stay tuned for my conversation with Jared Stetman after this.
0:48.4	Your government is out of control.
0:50.2	It's doing things it has no business doing.
0:52.4	It spends way too much money. It gets involved in way too many wars.
0:56.0	It not only tells you what you can and can't say, it actively censors you.
1:00.0	And the things your government should do, it can't or worse won't do at all.
1:04.4	It can't keep your streets clean of crime and filth. It can't keep your
1:08.0	neighborhoods safe enough for kids to play outside. It can't even prevent your
1:11.6	country from being invaded by millions of illegal immigrants.
1:14.7	Why is that?
1:15.7	Because your leaders no longer represent you.
1:18.5	They represent themselves and their friends.
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