Posted on 11/30/2024 5:00:29 PM PST by MtnClimber
The left has become a modern version of the Puritans.
Strange, isn’t it, how some people can light up a room?
And then there are those who enter like a soggy dishrag, wringing out all vitality and joy until even the pumpkin pie wants to surrender.
John Steinbeck nailed it: “Such people spread a grayness in the air about them.”
These days, that grayness comes accessorized with a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion certificate and a handy list of reasons why your Thanksgiving dinner was actually an act of oppression.
Yes, the militant left’s DEI-industrial complex was working overtime this year, turning one of America’s most beloved holidays into yet another guilt-ridden funeral dirge.
If you thought Thanksgiving was about gratitude, family, and an unreasonable amount of carbs, think again. To the self-appointed cultural scolds, it’s a festival of colonialist horror, complete with “settler narratives” and “erasure of Indigenous voices.” (Also, if you enjoyed the Macy’s parade, congratulations—you’re probably complicit in capitalism, fossil fuel use, and, despite the best efforts of Hamas-aligned militants, upholding a cherished American tradition.)
The Post-Thanksgiving Guilt Tour
This year, campuses across the country invited us to “reimagine Thanksgiving” as something called a “Day of Mourning.”
At the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), the Center for Inclusion and Diversity led this charge, encouraging participants to reflect on the holiday’s “problematic” origins. Caltech urged students to reject traditional narratives in favor of “honoring Indigenous and Native communities.” (Because nothing says “happy holiday” like guilt.)
Not to be outdone, the University of Oregon hosted a Nov. 21 event titled “Thanks But No Thanks-giving: Decolonizing an American Holiday.”
The event description proclaimed that Thanksgiving is, at its core, “a celebration of the ongoing genocide against native peoples and cultures across the globe."
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The crux of Thanksgiving is grateful to GOD.
"Reimagine" whatever ... means "tell lies about" whatever.
I don’t pay attention to stuff that makes no sense to me.
Going blissfully one’s own way is the antidote to this crap. (And smile all the way - it makes them wonder what you’re up to.)
Exactly!
I wonder if these commie miscreants realize that ALL land on planet earth 🌎🌍🌏 is stolen land. But I also doubt they’re that self aware.
I worked for a liberal group until earlier this year.
At their conferences they do what’s called a “land acknowledgement “.
Basically they grovel and say what Indian tribes were last on the land .
Our director mentioned one she was at in South Dakota . After looking it up i realized that area had 3 different Indian tribes who were on it in the past 200 years.
Yes they raided and killed each other to get the land.
But whites were suddenly the bad guys .
We had 17 people for Thanksgiving Dinner in our small house. Friendship, thanks, feasting and gaiety aplenty. Most of us are Choctaw. It is our favorite family celebration of the year.
Liberals can’t ruin it, no matter how they try, because it is God in his graciousness that blesses us with all we have, the good and the bad alike.
Screw ‘em. I had a great Thanksgiving with family I haven’t seen in many years. Most of them don’t see the world like I do, but we agreed to put that aside and enjoy each others’ company for a few days. These joyless, hell-bound scolds can pee up a rope.
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