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Columbus Day: Slur of the Day

Did you know that there is a myth that Columbus was himself a secret Jew?  I hope not, since Columbus treatment of the people he found led to their slavery and extinction.
Of course if he were a Jew, undoubtably he would be called a  Christ killer …. the usual allusion to  Jews  as guilty of  deicide.
On the other hand, Christ Killer  can also be used as an anti-Italian slur on the basis that Romans, as ancestors of the present-day Italians, executed Jesus.

I prefer the latter definition. As the only Jewish kids in a strictly Catholic neighborhood, my brother sister and I were all called Christ Killer because the nuns taught that we the Jews had killed their God.


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