Have a safe and happy Thanksgiving everyone!
happy late thanksgiving!
when yall goināa change the date back? lol
Why are americans celebrating this? Did they forget about the genocide on the native americans?
Like theyāre celebrating the arrival of the pilgrims, which got help from the native americans who later got destroyed by them - and now people are celebrating it.
I donāt get it.
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Well, if you want to go down that slippery slope, why do people celebrate religious holidays? Throughout human history, more people have been killed for religious beliefs than any other reason.
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I donāt know what it is, but I guess that I have to give you my thank you,
so thank you, happy thanksgiving to you too
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Ignorance, but you already knew the answer.
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Well people arenāt celebrating the crusades, theyāre celebrating the birth of Jesus.
And Thanksgiving celebrates the harvest and blessings of the past year, not the massacre of native american indians.
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The more moral contradiction you can bring into peoples lives, the easier they will break their moral principles when put under pressure.
A big problem here is the small time window between the arrival, harvest, help from the natives and their massacre as soon as they were not needed anymore.
Iām not trying to defend religions either to get this clear, Iām not into any of them.
I just can not comprehend how people are celebrating thanksgiving, given how the colonisation and the genocide basically went hand in hand.
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Happy Thanksgiving! 
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A large part of what killed native Americans were the diseases that were brought over, which started with the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the 1500ās.
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chimingā in with a random fact here:
In the states, FDR changed the date of thanksgiving to give people more time to shop for Christmas back in the day. I remember seeing 3 stooges episodes that used this as the current hot topic. as at the time it was used like a modern political thing. as some people disagreed with the change and others wanted it, it helped drive a wedge between people.
kinda reminds me how folks complain about stuff nowadays ^.^
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This is so humorous. A lot of people believe those living in the Americas were some kind of ancestral beatniks, living in perfect harmony with Gaia, the original Garden of Eden.
But, seriously, they were doing a pretty good job of genocide against each other long before the white man appeared. The colonists and their successors were simply better at itā¦
So, spare us the PC, revisionist viewpoint. Itās ahistorical, preachy, and perfectly illustrates what C.S. Lewis called, āchronological snobbery.ā
In the future, generations will look back on us, and call us things weād never dreamed of. Who knows what criterion they will focus on. Perhaps, if youāve ever eaten a piece of meat, rode on an airplane, or used a plastic cup, they will call you a āecological colonistā or some other such clap-trap.
In cases like these, as always, itās best to follow the advice of the wisest man who ever lived: Judge not, lest ye be judgedā¦
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While diseases played their part in destroying the native populations, there were also active military and policy decisions by the colonies and later the United States to actively hunt down and displace native people. There were once bounties for the heads of Indian men, women and children. There was also never a treaty that we made with the Natives that our government didnāt break when it was opportune for us to do so. A real deep reading into that history isnāt pretty and really Iām not hyperbolic in my language, that is so common in our culture these days, when I say that itās a horrifyingly evil history.
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Lol we donāt need āFuture generationsā to tell us how Fād up the current status quo is. Especially since this generation is making sure there wonāt be much of a āfuture generationā as is. It should be apparent to anyone with a brain and a moral compass that things are screwed up from the top on down.
Heey, hereās an idea - how about we stop bringing up the past and be thankful for the present? As the saying goes āWhatās past is past, and nothing can change that.ā Be happy for the time you live in.
Happy Thanksgiving and may your belly be full of Turkey and Ham! (and lots of stuffing!)
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My fatherās side was here before America was even a thing.
Catawba tribe, lived harmoniously till the trail of tears.
There hasnāt been a time throughout history where people werenāt conquering each other.
Enjoy your break while it lasts.
The moment the lights go out, or the groceries close their doors, we will return to that way of life.
Not everyone is meant to win.
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I celebrate the crusades.
Shouldnāt have pressed into Europe.
The ones that fall off, only make room for those ready to seize the day.