Posted on 11/20/2017 10:49:18 AM PST by drewh
It’s that time of year again; one can smell the pumpkin pies, the turkeys, and the celebrities signaling their virtue at the expense of hallowed American traditions.
Big Bang Theory actress Mayim Bialik posted a video to Youtube on November 16 explaining the 4 reasons why she doesn’t like Thanksgiving. Buried underneath the milder complaints of “eating copious amounts of food” and the proximity of Thanksgiving to the Jewish traditional version of Thanksgiving, Bialik brought up a ridiculous reason to loathe an American holiday:
“History is written by the winners. I grew up coloring pictures of pilgrims and indigenous people -- we called them Indians when I was a child -- having this beautiful Thanksgiving together. The truth is, European invaders came to this land, took it from the indigenous people, raped, pillaged, gave them all sorts of diseases, called it their own, and desecrated a culture. It is one of the grossest examples of genocide in recent history and much as I don’t want to think about that, it’s really hard for me not to think about that when I think about Thanksgiving.”
Ouch. So ignoring the beautiful tradition that has been practiced by families in America for hundreds of years, people shouldn’t celebrate Thanksgiving because the pilgrims, among other things, were “invaders” who brought “all sorts of diseases” to the Native Americans? If that’s the case, then whoever brought the Black Death to Europe in the 14th century was a war criminal. And if she wants to rant and rave about how dreadful the colonials were, every country, every nation, and every region has had the lion’s share of enormous human flaws and brutality.
As a vegan (and nobody virtue signals like a vegan!) Bialik also doesn’t like having a turkey on Thanksgiving. She said, “I don’t like the tradition of killing a bird that in most cases has been genetically modified so that it’s so big that it can’t even stand up and then you lay it’s carcass on a tray and you carve it up and then you eat it. I don’t like that tradition. I don’t want that one. And I know. You think, “you vegans ruin everything.” Well, you know what? I think your tradition of killing an animal and laying its carcass and eating the skin and the flesh of it -- I think its gross. That ruins it too.”
There are some issues with being vegan too. For starters, many of the ingredients used by vegans, including quinoa, are harvested from third world countries. This causes the prices of food in places like Peru to go up, and poor people end up having to pay more. Being vegan is not necessarily the greatest lifestyle to have, if someone wants to talk about injustice and genocide.
of The perks of Thanksgiving for Bialik? The “attitude of gratitude” and the Macy’s Day Parade. Hating on mainstream positivity and modern cultural customs is a bridge too far for Bialik. Think of the bad publicity!
Unless it’s her money being given away.
Mmm. As an Orthodox Jew how does she feel about the fate of the original residents of Jericho. Or at least how the Book of Joshua reported their fate.
Truth be told, the American Indians were committing genocide on one another long before the influx of Europeans.
I don’t suppose it’s occurred to Mayim to be thankful that the genocide is over.
Yet another retard...surprise.
I’m pretty sure she’s not a religious Jew, so she probably has no clue what the Torah might say about the fate of the Jews.
Maybe she should read the Torah where God commanded the Israelites to exterminate entire cities of people.
There is a new theory that there was an indigenous ‘American’ aboriginal that the ‘Indians’ wiped out once they settled here from Asia.
Yes.
Every liberal is a violent totalitarian thug.
Times like this I’m glad i’m asking WHO
LOL!
It’s not really that new. Do a search for “Caucasian mummies”. Some really interesting stuff, particularly the saga of the “Kennewick Man” and the “Si-Te-Cah”.
What stops this a$$hole from being thankful for whatever.
Sit down and shut up!
God Bless America.
After about third grade you begin to realize that the Pilgrim story is apocryphal. The day was declared a day of thanksgiving for the Constitution and then again during the Civil War.
It is a day where most of us take a few minutes to reflect on our lives over the past year.
I stopped doing the whole New England Thanksgiving stuff a few years ago. We were all sitting around the table, enjoying ourselves and we started talking about how we did not really like Turkey. That was the last time we had Turkey. Now its a nice filet, or lasagna, with all of the culturally appropriate trimmings.
If you don’t like the way we treated the Indians, I guess that is your right. But if you are trying to talk me out of Thanksgiving day...you are wasting your time.
All that education and all she learned was to hate America.
The Jewish holy book is the Talmud. I heard interviews from four Jewish Rabbis and that was an eye-opener -- the major Jewish sects pretty much reject the Bible starting in Genesis 1:1.
A true Jew would recognize Jesus as the Messiah, as Jesus explains:
I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another comes in his own name, him ye will receive. How can ye believe, which receive honor one of another, and seek not the honor that cometh from God only? Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust. For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words? (John 5:43-47)
Paul explains in Romans 2:28-29:
For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: But he is a Jew which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter,; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
“It is as simple as this: If the White Man wanted to commit genocide against American Indians, there would be none left.”
That’s a fact. It is also a fact that the various Indian tribes of North American killed off and enslaved far more of each other way before the white man ever reached these shores.
Female child stars seldom grow up to be attractive. Precociousness comes at a price.
Between this and Wil Wheaton, I am over this show.
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