Posted on 11/28/2019 5:44:19 AM PST by Kaslin
Just days before our national Thanksgiving holiday, a report explained that Millennial students in their wisdom say, "It's not okay to celebrate Thanksgiving."
What would we do without these young people correcting the rest of us, the fossil generations?!
According to The College Fix, college students think Thanksgiving represents "oppression" because it is "based off of the genocide of indigenous people." They see Thanksgiving in terms of the "themes of oppression and colonization." More to the point, with the focus on eating a "bunch of food," Thanksgiving is "just a bunch of capitalist b-------." Some of the students "believe most American holidays are rooted in oppression." Others see Americans celebrating "unethical holidays." A few proclaim that "no holidays with religious connotations should be observed."
No wonder today's students have such warped views of life; most have no grounding in history. They do not know, for instance, that half of the Pilgrims who braved the storms of the North Atlantic for two months in early winter died before the feeling the warmth of summer. A few died at sea before they were able to leave the Mayflower. They have little to no appreciation of the fact that throughout most of history, life for all but a few has been the struggle for bare survival. Thus, they cannot understand the fact that some Pilgrims were willing to endure being indentured servants for the desperate hope of an opportunity for a better life after they worked off the cost of their passage. The thankfulness of the Pilgrims was rooted in these harsh realities, something today's students should be thankful to have never experienced.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Better idea. Get rid of social justice warrior Millennials. They are welcome to move to another country if they hate America so much.
But they’ll enjoy the days off during these holidays....yup
I wish they would just go do their own thing and leave the rest of us alone to do our own thing.
Please. Not Millennials. Leftists.
There are plenty of X'ers and Boomers who want to get rid of Thanksgiving for the same reasons. These Millennial-bashing articles get old (particularly when we're not even talking about Millennials in this article but their younger siblings and cousins, Gen-Z or whatever they're called).
Things the left wants to get rid of: Trump, God, the USA, Columbus, right and wrong, fairness, George Washington, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter... everything that is good.
they’ve never experienced any adversity with their cushy capitalist lifestyles so they have to invent grievances.
Fake news
All my millennial neighbors are celebrating Thanksgiving
Utterly devoid of life.
That’s what I was thinking.
It is a guaranteed four day weekend at worst or a nine days off for three vacation days at best.
I wouldn’t say these are millennials, rather random voices from the moronosphere.
You left out America
Number 1 on the list is America
More turkey for the rest of us.
I like that...lol
Thanksgiving is the most favored holiday for our 26 year-old kid and has been since late in high school.
So many people hate every single thing about America. I don’t understand why they aren’t moving to countries more to their liking. Plane tickets have never been cheaper.
I wish there was a way for millennials to experience the world they desire without inflicting it on the rest of us. I can’t imagine the horrors that world would be. Who would provide the free stuff. Who would produce the food, utilities and products. The super ego and id mentality running amok can’t end well. After a few years of that, maybe they would be grateful for days like Thanksgiving and why it is important.
It will happen eventually. Sometimes I’m glad I’m old.
More turkey for the rest of us.
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Yes!
“They’ve never experienced any adversity with their cushy capitalist lifestyles so they have to invent grievances.”
Exactly. You beat me to it.
As another FReeper said, ‘When the fighting starts, these youth are going to be easy to kill and tender like veal!’
;)
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