(American)
My family is always surprised that I don’t celebrate Thanksgiving (though I do like to eat). Maybe it has something to do with the fact that everyone is Christian, right-wing, straight and hateful - and vocal about it, while I am gay, satanic, soft-spoken and not right-wing. Maybe it’s because I see celebrating the day where we ‘gifted’ natives items that would knowingly harm and kill them, and even centuries later we’d still be trying to eradicate their people, freedoms, rights, history, land…
Nah, it’s definitely because I’m a godless heathen who likes gagging on guys. Most absolutely. More gravy with your confederate flag napkins, aunty? I’m so glad you brought enough for everyone.
(I might have my facts skewed but that’s what I took away from my history classes 20 years ago)
(I might have my facts skewed but that’s what I took away from my history classes 20 years ago)
I don’t think the typhoid blankets your referring to (at least that’s what I assume you meant by “gifts that would harm them”) were specifically given on the “first” thanksgiving, but you’re absolutely right that it happened. Even if the first thanksgiving was 100% as advertised (which it probably wasn’t) then it was a short-lived and tiny amount of human decency in what was otherwise a straight up genocide. Nevermind that the story was more about the natives helping the settlers than vice-versa, so really we’re just celebrating the time our victims were nice to us while we were still getting ramped up on eradicating their people
I’m really worried about the day my wife’s older Christian relatives find out my daughter is queer. The younger ones will probably be fine with it, but the older ones will pitch a fit. They’ll blame me because I’m a Jew.
Blankets with smallpox is a literally made up history fact that started in the 1940s because it sounded plausible. I used to need a pinned up selfpost on reddit for this fact lol.
There was 1. Literally 1… MAAAAAAYBE use of it being used as biological warfare at Fort Pitt… But even their own records people were like nah that shit’s stupid.
It’s about as stupid as when people started claiming the Blood is Thicker than Water quote wasn’t the full thing… then linking to Wikipedia who’s source was a literal Flatearther schizophrenic back2torah page lol.
https://www.history.com/news/colonists-native-americans-smallpox-blankets
One of the reasons I am partial to Harvest Festivals: all of the feasting with a better grab bag of associated hangups.
Eastern European here. Family gatherings must be almost universally like that. And then everyone is surprised I prefer just chilling on the internet and talking to my friends instead
Dead alive is such an amazing movie.
I used to own it on VHS, watched it a hundred times in the 90s. Watched it again Saturday (not on VHS)!
Nicely spotted! Was my first time experiencing that gloriousness and I cannot believe it took this long.
Grampa’s on the liquid racism again.
It wasn’t last weekend, it was the ninth.
Yeah, I hurt my back the other day so the weekend kind of blurred.
By the time I realized that, didn’t really want to edit the post in the name of thanksgiving day accuracy.
