Posted on 11/24/2022 5:36:31 PM PST by bitt
Millions of Americans today will gather around the kitchen table to celebrate Thanksgiving with their families. For Joy Reid, though, this is just another day to bash our beloved nation.
Reid opened her show last night by acknowledging Thanksgiving is a day of “cherished traditions” for millions of Americans who also enjoy “turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, and pumpkin pie.” But then she said this:
“But it is also to unpack the myth of Thanksgiving. It is a holiday riddled with historical inaccuracies. It is built on this myth that the indigenous welcomed their colonizers with open arms and ears of corn. A simplistic fairytale interpretation of a 1621 encounter between indigenous tribes and English settlers that erases the genocide that followed.
It’s the truth that Republicans want banned from our textbooks. Because here is the secret they want so desperately to keep: we are a country founded on violence. Our birth was violent. In 1619, a ship with more than 20 enslaved Africans landed in Virginia ushering in two centuries of American slavery that left millions in chains or dead.”
None of this should surprise Gateway Pundit readers. In addition to her loathing of America, Reid has a long history of unabashed racism as well. The Gateway Pundit in January wrote about her ripping white Christian conservatives. Here is the video of her lashing out:
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No. My ancestors died in the massacre in August of 1764. But wow, what a story you shared, absolutely riveting. Thanks!
During what was incorrectly called ‘Pontiac;s rebellion’ a general attack by woodland Indians from Wisconsin to Pennsylvania spread south in its final manifestations and produced scattered but really violent attacks down the Appalachians into North Carolina. Indians were unpredictable neighbors.
Chief Pontiac was eaten
Really? Parkman just presents him being killed by an Illinous in what is now East St Louis over some him being an Ottawa.
He was also a cannibal
That’s how I learned it anyway
https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~rwest/wikispeedia/wpcd/wp/p/Pontiac%2527s_Rebellion.htm
The Ottowa’s were cannibals. The Illini weren’t as far as I know. Some tribes practiced the long pig thing some didn’t. Mostly the further north woodland tribes did. It nay have been a custom left over from when they were hunter gatherers and cannibalism was a significant way to avoid starvation.
Leftist ass-hat belief structure: create a disturbing paradigm that, if true, has to apply equally to all citizens, but imply that for an unstated reason known only to the teller of the story, it does not actually apply to them.
So while your presence is due to this violence, her presence is not. As a leftist, she is incapable of error or wrong-doing. It is just a form of magic thinking that leftists substitute for reason. And they even have a reason for not being reasonable — logic is a form of toxic masculinity.
Give thanks that you are not a leftist.
Thanksgiving = Kwanzaa?
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