Harris haunted by her revisionism and past attacks on Columbus Day



Leftists have worked feverishly in recent years to deracinate and disorient the population, severing America's ties with its history and vilifying those dynamic figures who paved the way for the United States to ultimately become the envy of the world.

Over the course of this resentment-fueled campaign, iconoclasts and revisionists have changed place names, renamed species, toppled hundreds of statues, melted down busts, removed church windows, advanced bogus alternate histories, dug up graves, and built a parasitic industry geared toward racial division.

The Trump campaign and other critics issued reminders Monday that Kamala Harris has long been a proponent of this campaign — and that Columbus Day is one of her many targets.

Karoline Leavitt, national press secretary for the Trump campaign, told Fox News Digital, "Kamala Harris is your stereotypical leftist. Not only does she want to raise taxes and defund the police, she also wants to cancel American traditions like Columbus Day."

Leavitt appears to have been referring to Harris' indication prior to the collapse of her previous presidential campaign that she would officially change "Columbus Day" to "Indigenous Peoples' Day."

When asked at a 2019 town hall in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, whether she supported the controversial name change, the Washington Times reported that Harris first began by talking about legislating to make lynching a federal crime.

'Those explorers ushered in a wave of devastation for tribal nations — perpetrating violence, stealing land, and spreading disease.'

"People did not want to deal and accept and most importantly admit that we are the scene of a crime when it comes to what we did with slavery and Jim Crow and institutionalized racism in this country, and we have to be honest about that," said then-Sen. Harris. "If we are not honest, we are not going to deal with the vestiges of all of that harm, and we are not going to correct course, and we are not going to be true to our values and morals."

Harris added, "Similarly when it comes to indigenous Americans, the indigenous people, there is a lot of work that we still have to do, and I appreciate and applaud your point and your effort, and count me in on support."

On her first Columbus Day as vice president, Harris issued a statement effectively condemning the immigrants who first diversified the continent:

It is an honor to be with you this week as we celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day, as we speak truth about our nation's history. Since 1934, every October the United States has recognized the voyage of the European explorers who first landed on the shores of the Americas. But that is not the whole story. That has never been the whole story. Those explorers ushered in a wave of devastation for tribal nations — perpetrating violence, stealing land, and spreading disease. We must not shy away from this shameful past, and we must shed light on it and do everything we can to address the impact of the past on native communities today.

In 2022 and 2023, Harris doubled down, celebrating the Columbus Day alternate.

Columbus Day, which commemorates the daring 15th-century Italian whose four transatlantic voyages opened the way for European exploration of Americas, is one of 11 official federal holidays.

The Pew Research Center noted that it was first observed as a federal holiday in 1937 — initially conceived of as a celebration of Italian-American heritage and largely the result of lobbying by the Knights of Columbus.

The Knights of Columbus is a Catholic fraternal organization known for its charitable outreach. Not only does Harris want to rename its hard-won holiday, she has suggested that the group's members' Catholic faith disqualifies them from serving in federal courts.

As of October 2023, only 16 American states and the territory of America Samoa observe the second Monday in October as an official public holiday called Columbus Day.

Axios noted that the day is officially known as "Indigenous Peoples' Day" in New Mexico, Maine, Vermont, and Washington, D.C.

President Joe Biden proclaimed Oct. 14, 2024, both "Indigenous Peoples' Day" and Columbus Day.

"President Trump will make sure Christopher Columbus' great legacy is honored and protect this holiday from radical leftists who want to erase our nation's history like Kamala Harris," added Leavitt.

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Porsche apologizes after viewers notice it erased a historic Christian landmark from its new ad



Porsche elicited outrage over the weekend after keen observers recognized the company had edited a historic Christian landmark of its new advertisement. Although the German company has issued an apology and taken down the video, questions persist about the motivations behind the company's virtual iconoclasm.

The German company, owned by the Volkswagen Group, recently put out a video celebrating 60 "very fast years" of its signature two-door sports cars, the latest of which goes for over $290,000.

In the original iconoclastic version of the video — which has been rendered private on YouTube by the company but saved by one Twitter user — the car whizzes through the decades, years, and various locales, interrupted by the captions, "No matter how fast you move forward ... never forget where you come from."

Despite this plea to remember the past, viewers noticed that the company saw fit to erase one key piece of history from memory.

As the 911 speeds past the 25th Abril Bridge, which connects the Portuguese capital city of Lisbon to the municipality Almada, a pedestal can be seen in the background without its historic statue.

That 269-foot base has been holding up the iconic Cristo Rei ("Christ the King") statue since before the first Porsche 911 took to European asphalt.

After World War II — and the conclusion of Porsche's days manufacturing war machines for the Nazi Reich, likely with forced labor — Cardinal Patriarch of Lisbon Don Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira ordered this monument be made, taking inspiration from the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The statue of Jesus Christ was intended as thanks to God for sparing Portugal from the ravages of the war, according to Lonely Planet.

Portugal.net indicated that the 92-foot statue and its 269-foot base were approved by Portuguese bishops in 1937. Construction began in 1946, and the monument was officially inaugurated in 1959.

It appears the marketing team at Porsche figured 2023 was an ideal time to virtually raze it.

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The erasure of the Christian symbol from the European car company's promotional footage has triggered fury online.

The Twitter account Wall Street Silver asked, "Why would they do that?"

Ricardo Regalla Dias Pinto, chief of staff for the right-wing Portuguese politician André Ventura, tweeted, "For me, @Porsche is not an option anymore!"

Jack Posobiec, senior editor at Human Events, wrote, "They aren't hiding it anymore. They won't stop until Christ is erased from the world."

A Gays Against Groomers ambassador from Portugal wrote, "As a proud Lisboeta and a Christian, this is disgusting to me. If you don't like my country's culture, don't f***ing film there @Porsche."

Polish lawyer and politician Kacper Płażyński tweeted, "'Progressive Free World.' Well, @Porsche made a fortune from World War II and the supply of engines for German (slave-built) tanks. Hitler wanted to destroy Christianity. @Porsche sticks to his Nazi roots."

Płażyński appears to have been referencing how Adolf Hitler vowed by 1942 to "root out and destroy the influence of Christian Churches," deeming them "the evil that is gnawing our vitals," as reported by the Washington Post.

Hitler reportedly told the German politician Hermann Rauschning that he intended "to stamp out Christianity root and branch" and stated elsewhere, "We will wash off the Christian veneer and bring out a religion peculiar to our race."

Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn noted in "Leftism" that the Nazis planned "for a total crushing of Christianity to be carried out after a victory which, fortunately, never came," stating on Feb. 2, 1942, that he would exterminate Christianity, referring to the religion as a "cultural scandal."

Concerning Porsche's latest scandal, a spokesman for the company told the Daily Mail, "In a previously uploaded version of the 911 S/T launch film, a landmark was removed. This was a mistake, and we apologise for any offence caused. The original film is online now."

The company told Fox Business in another statement, "In an early version of a film created in Europe, the Cristo Rei Statue does not appear. We are truly sorry and can fully understand the hurt this has caused. This film has been removed."

The Daily Mail indicated that this is hardly unprecedented.

For instance, in 2017, the German international retail chain Lidl, which has stores in the U.S., erased Christian symbols from packaging to remain "religiously neutral."

While woke corporations apparently seek to stealthily erase Christian culture, Western leftists have taken a less subtle approach in the streets.

Radicals tore down a downtown Los Angeles statue of Fr. Junípero Serra — recognized by Catholics as a saint — in 2020.

Another Serra statue was toppled in San Francisco the same year, along with several more religious statues of Christ and Mary.

BLM activist Shaun King called for the destruction of all statues depicting Jesus as white.

Many such statues have been destroyed amid a spate of North American church burnings.

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