https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian-American_Civil_Rights_League

The Italian-American Civil Rights League (IACRL) was originally formed as a political advocacy group created in New York City in April 1970. William Santoro, a defense attorney that represented many Colombo crime family figures, was responsible for the legal work that incorporated the league. Its stated goal was to combat pejorative stereotypes about Italian-Americans, but in actuality, it operated as a public relations firm to deny the existence of the American Mafia and improve the image of mobsters.

Indistinguishable from a bit, this is incredible

is apt because it's from an episode of Sopranos where they were mad about people protesting Columbus day lol

Also fuck Christopher Columbus. He was a genocidal, racist piece of shit even for his time.

roving mobs

Oh, so now you don't like mobs

this is fucking spectacular comedy

real from Mr Crispy

indigenous activists, and other anti Italian American sympathizers

murder is bad actually

if you're a POS (person of spaghetti) you deserve to be drug out into the street and shot

Eternal reminder that back in the day Italian citizens groups trying to promote the idea that Italians were "real Americans" picked Columbus out of a hat because he was the only important Italian (he is not) anyone could think of that had anything to do with the US. He was an actual DEI hire. They formed groups like the Knights of Colombus and that's basically the only reason anyone in contemporary American knows or cares who Colombus was.

this is fake. real communiques from these people are sent by fax from a Best Western in Paramus and are very distorted from being covered in greasy fingerprints and globs of tomato sauce.

Yeah a guy hired by the Spanish crown who never stepped foot on the mainland is super important to Italian-American culture. If they want an explorer figure to venerate, Giovanni de Verrazzano makes way more sense as he explored most of the east coast.

Holy macaroni what on Earth is going on

they're really desperate for something to stick like the couch thing

I eata-da-Crispi Pizza!!

From Breakfast of Champions, by Kurt Vonnegut: "Teachers of children in the United States of America wrote this date on blackboards again and again, and asked the children to memorize it with pride and joy:

"1492

"The teachers told the children that this was when their continent was discovered by human beings. Actually, millions of human beings were already living full and imaginative lives on the continent in 1492. That was simply the year in which sea pirates began to cheat and rob and kill them. Here is another piece of evil nonsense which children were taught: that the sea pirates eventually created a government which became a beacon of freedom to human beings everywhere else."

oooh mama mia! Somebody a toucha his spagget!

oh! they're callin me a fuckin colonizer, and what's worse, they're sayin it's weird! get the fuck outta here

live audio of the statues being removed

anglos will say anything in order to feel like part of an oppressed group.

Oh, ey, I'm walzin' here!

idk maybe this guy's alright after all

The Republican party is a psyop to make the Dems look good

"They tore down the Columbus statue! (Also they apparently killed two people or something idk whatever)"

I'm gonna take a page out of the chud playback and say "I'm not racist but....." Italians really need to be taken down a peg or two.

Had about enough of them getting upset you didn't use the right kind of $100 ham in a pasta dish but defending re-electing literal Mussolinis.

Oh wow, idpol is a wheezily manipulation tactic with no substance? Being a marginalized group doesn't automatically make you correct?

Just wait until I tell tumblr about this.