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.
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Anyway, my view of this isn't that some of our ancestors were "colonizers" - we were just immigrants. And doesn't the left love immigration.
As Bill Maher said, give it back or STFU.
To properly cite their work ACLU must acknowledge that they do not support or identify with America, Christianity or Western Civilization.
Once again White Liberals speaking on behalf of the “oppressed”.
Every inch of populated land on this planet was likely taken by force from someone else.
The journals of Lewis and Clark noted several "peaceful" indian tribes. They also noted many "fierce" ones. The Sioux and Blackfoot, among others. Raiding parties, murder, kidnapping, scalping were practiced loooong before any Europeans appeared.
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I thought it was the lawyers that stole their land at the behest of others???
I’m thankful brave and adventurous white Christians tamed the land and founded the nation on which I live.
How’s that, ACLU?
“Start by acknowledging the land beneath you. All land in the United States is Indigenous land”
Anything that starts like that, I’m walking out.
I’ll be thankful that our ancestors conquered the land from the Indians or else we’d still be living in Ireland which is in the process of being conquered by non-indigenous Muslims.
Um, how about no.
Grovel before us! Beg forgiveness! We are your masters!
Anyone bending over for this BS is nuts
The Injuns owned only what they could win from the other Injun tribe trying to occupy the same dirt
We ain’t no different...just better at winning
I'm all for more national holidays and vacations because I think Americans need more rest days and quality time with loved ones to begin with.
So as a Choctaw, do you think - instead of REPLACING Columbus Day or Thanksgiving - it's better to have a Native American Day of some kind? (That isn't woke-grievance based.)
MLK Day for example, was established by President Reagan for example, which I think pays rightful homage to the Civil Rights movement and the end of segregation. And Juneteenth is worthwhile too...(If it were properly observed as commemoration of the Emancipation Proclamation, instead of as a Marxist BLM battle cry.)
Thoughts?
No money in it for the victim mongers.
Long ago, National Lampoon had a one-page pictorial of "Dinosaurs That Didn't Make It." One was called the "masturbaton," the caption for which read "Time has passed him by, and so shall we."
I heard this bullcrap at a couple of non-profit conventions I went to.
What they left out was that multiple Indian tribes stole it from each other.
Or at Lake Superior they don’t mention the French fur traders were there before the Ojibwes.
But of course they say the Ojibwes are the natives!
No doubt that Indians suffered a lot when we came from Europe. But this stuff is stupid
“Then it abandoned free speech and joined the rat pack of radical leftist groups trying to out-radical each other.”
ACLU aka American Criminal Lunatic Union.
ACLU demands?! LOL!
They’re not “indigenous” peoples, they are first peoples.
They’re ancestors were from Asia and crossed the Bering Strait.
They were here long before the ancestors of Europeans but they weren’t plopped in the Western Hemisphere by the Almighty.
And many of these tribes did horrific things to one another.
The Democrats have deliberately made Thanksgiving into an issue to break up families.
Historically, families have tended to create systems of loyalty not derived from the state.
Over and over again in differing cultures. Family loyalty is part of being human, not part
of this or that particular culture, religion or ideology.
That is what the Democrats are trying to destroy. Their other seemingly irrational
positions often have the same end, not just the Thanksgiving business.
To that end they have adopted the cult tactic of encouraging shunning of apostate family
members. More generally the Democrats adopted a doomsday cult mentality, complete
with explicit prophesies. But instead of God it's Democrats who win the final battle and
straighten everybody out.
The land beneath my feet was fought for and won by a superior force... It’s that simple.
Every indigenous tribe here also fought other indigenous tribes for their territory, took slaves and raped women. Our ancestors came here and won.
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