Showing Her Ignorance

Boy, did City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito step in it by suggesting the city consider purging Christopher Columbus from his perch at the center of his Circle.

Installed in 1892 to mark the 400th anniversary of the great explorer’s landing in the New World, the 76-foot statue also expresses Italian-American pride: The funds for it were raised by Il Progresso, a local Italian-language paper.

But the modern left considers Columbus a symbol of all the evils of imperialism and colonialism that followed. And Mark-Viverito is the very model of a modern major leftist.

“There obviously has been ongoing dialogue and debate in the Caribbean — particularly in Puerto Rico, where I’m from — about this same conversation that there should be no monument or statue of Chris- topher Columbus based on what he signifies to the native population . . . [the] oppression and everything he brought with him,” she said.

So the politician who tried to turn a terrorist into a “National Freedom Hero” wants Mayor de Blasio’s task force on “hate” monuments to look into Columbus’ statue, too.

Mark-Viverito might do well to take a page out of Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie’s book.

Heastie has dropped his push for the removal of a mural in the War Room of the state Capitol, which happens to feature a Confederate flag. He flipped on being told that the artwork simply depicts the Battle of Gettysburg — which the rebels lost.

He could plead ignorance: The Legislature’s No. 1 “Star Trek” fan would never make a mistake about, say, Klingon history.