Great minds think alike, I guess?

Saturday late morning/early afternoon I went to the library, where I needed to return a few things and pick up a couple of things. But the doors were locked, because it turned out they were closed a four day weekend for Indigenous People's Day. Usually I'm good about keeping up with stuff like this but there were extenuating circumstances. 

It got me to thinking, though, about Indigenous People's Day. It used to be Columbus Day. Now a lot of people feel a lot of different ways about Christopher Columbus. But the important thing is that he was an individual, and thus it's possible to feel affection or esteem for him. A faceless mass of Indigenous People, though? It's too bloodless to inspire positive or negative responses, really. And the substitution on what used to be Columbus's day just makes them look like objects of pity. 

I figured these were deep thoughts, and was still thinking about how to put them across, when I found something similar also expressed in, of all places, a Sunday Hi and Lois. Is it something in the water, or something in the air?