Christopher Columbus statue in Connecticut is beheaded

[yortsed snacilbuper]

Someone put the “cut” in Connecticut.

A Christopher Columbus statue outside City Hall in Waterbury, Conn., was discovered decapitated Saturday morning, and cops were investigating, The Hartford Courant reported.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/christopher-columbus-statue-in-connecticut-is-beheaded/ar-BB16l3N5?ocid=msedgntp

[Blue Owl]

1. Bart Simpson did it!

n/t

[soothsayer]

9. "I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, you can't prove anything!"

[PTWB]

2. Good Riddance!!!

We ought have no monuments to this monster. And certainly no holidays in his honor. I was extremely happy to see that even Republicans are pushing to replace Columbus Day with Juneteenth Day.

[Demovictory9]

4. our education system definitely needs to provide a full accounting of the actions of some of

these "heroes".

[BComplex]

7. You got that right!

We need a whole new education system. And we need to reinstate civics and government classes. We need to explain why government is equally important as private industry, not something to be pushed aside in favor of private industry.

[Ferrets are Cool]

3. Superb!!!!

[MagickMuffin]

5. Is he depicted wearing Native Clothes?

If so that isn't a good look on someone who caused GREAT harm to the Native Americans.

Columbus put down native unrest and revolt: he first ordered a brutal crackdown in which many natives were killed, and then paraded their dismembered bodies through the streets in an attempt to discourage further rebellion.

He was very much into dismembering bodies.

[kskiska]

6. The Columbus statue in Norwalk, CT, has been removed,

purportedly for "safekeeping," to avoid vandalism. There's a big to-do over it.

[BComplex]

8. The closet would be a good place for it.