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Singer-songwriter Kacey Musgraves blasted Italian explorer Christopher Columbus shortly before Columbus Day.
As she spoke to the Texas crowd during her second night at American Airlines Center Sunday, Musgraves noted that the next day, Monday, was Columbus Day.
“Tomorrow’s Monday? … Ew, that’s right, wait, it’s Columbus Day? It’s what now?” she asked as the audience booed and corrected her, saying it is Indigenous People’s Day.
“Yeah, no yeah yeah, actually, obviously f— Columbus. Literally the lamest person to probably ever exist. Like for real. What a loser,” she said. “You’re a loser, Christopher Columbus, we hate you!”
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While revered for his voyages across the Atlantic Ocean that paved the way for European exploration in the Americas, Columbus has also been heavily scrutinized by activists and academics over his treatment of Indigenous people and the start of mass colonization. As a result, in recent decades there have been repeated flare-ups of national tension over whether the explorer should be celebrated.
Musgraves has made headlines recently for her political activism.
In August, she had urged her fans to donate to Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights.
“It’s a wonderful organization, and they help give aid — legal aid — and money to children whose parents have been deported unfairly,” Musgraves said. “It’s not a political thing. It’s just, these kids need help.”
More recently, Newsweek reported that Musgraves hosted Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico at a concert in Dallas over the weekend, siding with him as she mocked former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
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Theo Wold, a former White House deputy assistant for domestic policy under President Donald Trump, spoke to Fox News Digital, defending Columbus and arguing Musgraves is off the mark.
“Obviously, no one expects a corporate-backed recording star to know a damn thing about world history, but, unfortunately, the abysmal educational standards of our public schools have made Musgrave’s misinformed views widespread among regular Americans.
“That’s the real problem. Columbus was a courageous adventurer and ahead-of-his-time navigator to whom we owe much of the prosperity we now enjoy. The kind of prosperity that makes it possible for Musgraves to rake in millions while spouting uneducated hot takes with no basis in reality.”
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