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ACLU Demands Starting Thanksgiving With ‘Land Acknowledgements’
Front Page Magazine ^ | 11/27/2025 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 11/27/2025 11:12:17 AM PST by DFG

The ACLU used to pretend it supported free speech. Then it abandoned free speech and joined the rat pack of radical leftist groups trying to out-radical each other.

That means commemorating Thanksgiving by, according to the ACLU, beginning with a ‘land acknowledgement’.

“Start by acknowledging the land beneath you. All land in the United States is Indigenous land”

Like St. Matthew Island, Alaska. Which belongs to the ice.

“Challenge the false and harmful Thanksgiving origin story.”

Always the best way to start a family get-together.

“Many foods prepared for Thanksgiving are Indigenous foods: squash, corn, beans, pumpkins, and more. When Native people were violently removed from their land by white settlers, many Indigenous food traditions were lost. The forced displacement of Indigenous peoples was (and still is) a deliberate attempt to sever Indigenous people from their traditional ways of living, including food production and ceremony. However, many Indigenous-led movements are actively working to restore ancestral food practices. Native American people around the country have been reclaiming traditional foods, decolonizing their diets, and relearning how to use food as medicine to keep cultural food practices alive for generations to come.”

I didn’t realize Indians invented pumpkins. Or that eating a food gives you perpetual rights over it. I remember when the ACLU at least pretended to be reality based, but now it has to sing the same woo-woo about the magical wisdom of any people that didn’t invent the wheel.

Actively affirm that anti-racism and decolonization work is the responsibility of everyone not only during Thanksgiving, but always.

Actively affirm that the ACLU and its members are forever barred from your Thanksgiving meal.


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: aclu; aclusedition; destroytheaclu

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1 posted on 11/27/2025 11:12:17 AM PST by DFG
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To: DFG

ACLU should begin by apologizing for all of the victims of communism.


2 posted on 11/27/2025 11:14:27 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: DFG

You would think they’d oppose illegal immigrants since they’re yet more non-indigenous peoples.

Or are white Europeans the only objectionable racial group?


3 posted on 11/27/2025 11:15:26 AM PST by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: DFG

I’ll thank God, but if you want to play this game, the “indigenous peoples” stole it from God.


4 posted on 11/27/2025 11:16:30 AM PST by LizzieD
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To: DFG
“Start by acknowledging the land beneath you. All land in the United States is Indigenous land”

Every inch of populated land on this planet was likely taken by force from someone else.

The next time you hear one of these stupid land acknowledgments and they virtue signal to, for example, the Kwakiutl tribe, stand up and ask, "And who did THEY steal it from?"

Or "Really? So when will you be selling this property and giving the proceeds to the sacred indigenous peoples? Hmmm?"

5 posted on 11/27/2025 11:19:32 AM PST by Lizavetta
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To: DFG

Keep an eye on British Columbia and Eastern Canada where courts have found for the aboriginals right to land stolen from them by Europeans.

The Indians land claims are getting more and more bizarre by the day (e.g. the whole city of Kamloops).


6 posted on 11/27/2025 11:20:12 AM PST by llevrok (Voter apathy wins elections for liberals.)
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To: MtnClimber

Yup! We’ve been going through pics and I came across some from Berlin Germany from 1962. Yeah, no Thanksgiving for commies.


7 posted on 11/27/2025 11:22:35 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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To: DFG

These miserable people try to spray their bile on everything.

As usual, we will ignore their nonsense.


8 posted on 11/27/2025 11:26:22 AM PST by Allegra
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To: MtnClimber

I’m Choctaw and I am SO TIRED of this woke nonsense on Columbus Day and Thanksgiving. Myth, legend, or fact, Thanksgiving celebrates Indians and Pilgrams sharing a feast in friendship and comity. Let’s just celebrate that and give thanks to the Lord. It shouldn’t be all that hard.


9 posted on 11/27/2025 11:28:29 AM PST by oldplayer
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To: DFG

The turkeys at the ACLU can get stuffed.


10 posted on 11/27/2025 11:28:34 AM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: DFG

The indigenous people had open borders

The Massachusetts Bay Colony immigrants were fed and kept alive through winter by the generosity of the natives

Sounds familiar


11 posted on 11/27/2025 11:29:28 AM PST by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: oldplayer

Thank you!

Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family!


12 posted on 11/27/2025 11:30:39 AM PST by ConjunctionJunction (Vim vi repellere licet)
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To: DFG

really sicko

besides, those idolized predecessor occupants were not indiginous, anyway. they are descendants of immigrants, migrators, invaders mostly from northeast Asia.


13 posted on 11/27/2025 11:31:04 AM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: DFG

Shut up.
Just shut up.


14 posted on 11/27/2025 11:32:58 AM PST by Skooz (Gabba Gabba accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us )
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To: BradyLS

The ACLU can demand in one hand and cr*p in the other, and see which fills up first.


15 posted on 11/27/2025 11:33:22 AM PST by castlebrew (Gun Control means hitting here you're aiming!))
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To: LizzieD

The ‘indigenous peoples’ were often fighting and killing each other.


16 posted on 11/27/2025 11:34:36 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: DFG

The Indignant People who occupied these Indignant Lands were living in the Stone Age when the Europeans arrived. That’s why they were brought up to date with the rest of the world when the Europeans settled in and let the Indignant People stay here.


17 posted on 11/27/2025 11:36:10 AM PST by Bernard ("Nothing is as expensive as that which the government provides for free." - Ronald Reagan)
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To: DFG

Losers hate victory.


18 posted on 11/27/2025 11:39:45 AM PST by fruser1
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To: DFG

If anyone did this at my house they’d be tossed out physically.

L


19 posted on 11/27/2025 11:40:48 AM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: DFG

This country is filled with miserable people who have nothing in their lives but past perceived grievances to make them feel important. They do this because they have no future.


20 posted on 11/27/2025 11:41:46 AM PST by Toespi
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