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Columbus’s 1492 voyage was backed by the Spanish Crown. What followed wasn’t simply “discovery.” It involved enslavement, forced labor, and exploitation of Indigenous peoples. History deserves honesty, not myths. Why celebrate the arrival while downplaying the human cost?

Disingenuous nonsense

By this logic, you could put up a statue of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and claim it doesn't represent him, but all the victims of 9/11.

My husband is Italian and his family came from the same part of Italy (Calabria) as Alito. He hates Alito and Christopher Columbus.

Replace the statue with one of Galileo. Problem solved.

Hmm. His record on the Supreme Court is a far bigger insult.

I wonder what Alito would say if someone proposed replacing a Columbus statue with a Garibaldi statue. I assume he would be just as livid since the genocide, SA, and slave trade is the point.

That episode was pretty prescient.

I love that even the Sopranos mentions that Columbus wasn’t “Italian”, he was Genoese (Italian unification wouldn’t happen for several hundred years) and would have hated them because the Genoese and Napolitani, Pisans, Venetians, etc. all hated eachother and were in constant conflict.

That scene later in the car is one of my favorites. Particularly Christopher's one line. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb7B...

Alito is an insult to the AMERICAN community.

Nothing like commemorating your ancestors' oppressors bsky.app/profile/jake...

Over-privileged, over-entitled, rich, straight, White, fake Christian man feels insulted as he devotes the bulk of his professional life to insulting everyone else and degrading everyone else's freedom, autonomy, equality, and dignity. Quiet, piggy.

Personally I like Chef Boyardi! But would take the guy associated with the founding fathers!

Columbus was working for the queen of Spain, not the Italians

@notalawyer.bsky.social he’s desperate for your attention

How does he feel about the Mussolini statue?

Columbus was sent back to Spain in chains and stripped of his titles for what was considered in 1500(!) to be extremely cruel behavior Then again it’s no surprise Alito would defend human trafficking and enslavement that occurred in 1500 when he’s defending the same things happening today

Surprised he didn‘t suggest replacing it with a statue of Mussolini.

He was born in Trenton, but his hometown is across city limits in Hamilton Township, where my family has lived since late 2011 and where I would love to get this abomination taken down. Don't know why we are celebrating a fascist hack.

(hangs head, whispers) vergogna

Same

Nino could at least be funny once in a while.

Alito - Always on the wrong side of history.

I wonder what in the world does Columbus have to do with Italian peasants. There's like a 350-year gap there, if not more. Does the lady understand that?

...does he think Columbus immigrated to the US through Ellis Island or something?

Is he really Italian if his name doesn’t end in a vowel?

I’m sure he wouldn’t have a problem with Sacco and Vanzetti statues, then.

I’m Italian. Not insulted.

See Joe Colombo 1970/71.

Cut off the statue's head and put it in his front yard under his wife's traitor flag.

Substitute any immigrant group that is being vilified today (Haitians, Somalis, Muslims, etc) for Italians in Alito's statement and see how quickly he and the rest of the white Christian nationalists hit the "Yes, but" button

Sort of A Day of Vileness to Be Remembered

Pedo-defenders, all of ‘em

How about those Americans who were here for thousands of years before those immigrants arrived?

So “DEI” is good if it benefits the ethnic group Alito belongs to?

A prof of mine said that Justices live such long lives because they have easiest job in the judiciary. Alito has to do something to fill the time.

It is not like he is working hard weighing the equities or writing persuasive opinions.

Hmmm…poor Italians get a statue but poor Latinos get deported! They really do NOT hear themselves!

Do you think Sam has ever watched The Sopranos? I need to know if he ever saw the Columbus Day episode.

What if we kept the statue, but turned it upside down?

Columbus never set foot on the continent, so maybe all those tired immigrants who showed up hundreds of years later could be better represented....

Considering his views on immigration and citizenship, I find it ironic that Alito so clearly considers himself not an American, but an Italian-American.

The feelings mutual. The guy makes me apoplectic just looking at him. Sam Alito is an arrogant, intellectually dishonest, disgrace to the country (to say nothing of NJ).

Do we think he knows what gabogool is?

Italians conquered America culturally and gastronomically, Alito is soooo insane.

Promises made promises kept

has alito ever seen a little caesars restaurant or pizza box because i'm pretty sure that its named after an italian who existed long before the founding of la cosa nostra

And how about we celebrate Giovanni Caboto?

Responding to "can we all agree this guy was a raging assole?" with "who cares? He was Italian!" is maybe not the defense of your heritage that you intend.

did he say the line?

It absolutely enrages me on multiple levels to see him reference anti-Italian discrimination

Or Haitians.