Posted on 11/26/2025 2:06:03 PM PST by DallasBiff
From Columbus Day to Independence Day to Thanksgiving, the U.S. pretty much specializes in taking dates that celebrate genocide and discrimination, and repackaging them as family-friendly holidays. So each November, when Thanksgiving approaches, you may wonder exactly why Thanksgiving is bad.
Not only is Thanksgiving offensive to Indigenous people, but it glorifies colonialism, slavery, and even epidemics. Many Americans who celebrate Thanksgiving have no idea just how cruel the holiday’s origins are, while those who do may choose to either boycott the holiday, or just use it as an excuse to express general gratitude, gather with family, and eat comfort foods.
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They skip over pre-Columbian and even post Columbian tribal slaughter.
Sure. Whatever... Shut up and pass the gravy.
Democrats hate America.
Typical leftist denial of reality.
Land belongs to those who can take and hold it. Most of the land in North America was constantly changing hands as one tribe gained advantage over another. Very few tribes held land for more than a few centuries.
European Christians in North America were much less cruel than the societies they replaced.
None of these woke idiots ever acknowledges the fact that the “indigenous peoples” were almost constantly at war with each other and migrated widely over time, often because they had been attrited so badly in tribal wars that they had to migrate or be exterminated.
In most parts of the world, what we call today “indigenous people” are simply the descendants of the groups that were there when foreign travellers from literate cultures showed up and started writing things down.
In North America, the “ancestral homelands” are artifacts of the travel journals of European arrivals. Because the Europeans developed navigation and trans-oceanic navigation, this pattern holds for much of the rest of the world, although in Africa especially, Muslim traders (more often that not, slavers) were the first note takers. The Chinese were much more insular, but I imagine there are some Chinese exploration accounts as well.
In any event, if we want to do the progressive ethnic cleaning thing and send everyone back to their ancestral homelands, the entire human race would have to return to Olduvai Gorge and fight it out there. The rest of the world should be preserved as animal habitat.
Dinner at my sister’s tomorrow. She and my niece are typical Brian dead CA lib drones. I don’t think my brother in law has strong feelings. The other six adults are conservatives. I’m going to read a land acknowledgment after Grace and see how it goes over
I always tell people Thanksgiving is the holiday for immigrants. It celebrates success in a new country.
The Indians I work with enjoy it. (Dots, not feathers)
how easy it is to ignore the atrocities of the indians in colonial times.
In New England they massacred settlers up and down the lightly settled rivers, that was the cause of the first war in the region
woke people today just don’t know their history or worse they deliberately ignore it for political reasons
Perhaps the most indigenous people that inhabited the west was the Navajo Nation. They were not Hispeanics.
So has Sophie Hirsh returned to her ancestral homeland yet?
I didn’t think so. It’s much easier to be sanctimonious than it is to vacate one’s own parcel of blood-soaked stolen land.
The conquest of new lands included the disturbance of the indigenous folks’ lifestyles and dishonestly portrayed lives as peaceful and charming. But those are false pictures. The native Americans scrabbled to make a nomadic living, and were in constant wars with rival tribes. Slavery of black Africans was terrible and regrettable in many ways. But as has been stated by more than one historical figure; the people who explored, claimed and developed the continent, and even the slave owners, cruel as some of them were, gave these conquested people a chance at the gift of Christian Salvation; IF they availed themselves of it, as many blacks did and very few “indians” would accept. But to those who did accept, they received Eternal Salvation and everlasting bliss in the next life after this one.
And that’s my opinion.
To the author...Shut up! I have LIB Nitwit fatigue.
Each other. They’ve been killing and enslaving each other for thousands of years. The noble savage myth is serious crap.
CC
Can’t wait till AI takes her job, and that of all the other stupid people.
They colonized their relatives, other indigenous people.
Not only that, but many people get the day off from work, there's parades, good food, and a lot of good football on TV.
Thank you for that link.
“In bourgeois society,” Marx wrote, “the past dominates the present; in Communist society, the present dominates the past.”
author maybe should read the proclamations and reasoning behind the holidays instead of just speaking from her feelings and narrow mindedness.
I bet she’s a joy to be around at parties.
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