I once signed an online petition to change Thanksgiving to White Killer Day Or was it Kill Whitey Day?
I just don't get it. College students being introspective, reading the actual history of our nation somehow is threatening you from enjoying a good meal with your family on a holiday? College kids tend to care. They tend to be introspective because they are absorbing new content. That glimmer often is lost once people start having full time careers, spouses and children. Less time to introspect about these historical issues. Let college kids learn and think and reflect. They aren't threatening your way of life on Thanksgiving day. You can still go buy turkey. You can still have a family dinner. The same people who say "this is why Donald Trump got elected" because they believe coastal elites rag and make fun of rural voters too much seem to not have any logical consistency when they constantly bash 18-22 year old kids. It's pathetic.
College kids enjoy being edgy and going against the grain. Nothing there is new. They often get too much voice though. I really don't care what you learned because everyone already knows about the history. Even when I was in university people were saying the same thing. Largely I have no problem with the conversation points being brought up, but I do think people are guilty of drawing a false equivalence between Thanksgiving and the bad things that befell indians. That said, I am thankful we have a day like Thanksgiving.
Good lord Trumpers are so bratty. Nobody is taking away your guns, your Bible, your truck, your rush Limbaugh, and your GDamn pumpkin pie. Get over yourself and have a happy Thanksgiving followed by a happy consumer capitalism day.
Oh alt righters. Reaching more and more into the depths of the internet to create talking points that dont exist. Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
lol...youre triggered brah! also, i think its funny that a hardcore-republican-turned-trump-suck-up like yourself is talking about "self-hate". you must really hate yourself texxx. you were arguably the biggest supporter of the iraq war on this message board and now you are a suck-up for someone who says it was the biggest mistake in our nations history. 15 years ago you attacked those who said the iraq war was a mistake. and now you LOVE IT when trump says it. you are arguably the biggest supporter of the bush family on this message board and now you are a suck-up for someone who constantly attacks them and says how terrible they are. you claim you are a fiscal conservative, but are a suck-up for someone who is driving up the debt and deficit to unprecedented levels. you are a staunch reagan republican who now sucks-up to someone who continually sides with a former KGB agent over our own country. you claim you support the military, but you are a suck-up for someone who attacks POWs, gold star mothers, abandons the kurds without consulting the military first, undermines military justice and morale and also lies to the troops about increasing their pay. the self-hate is strong with you texxx.
I miss King of the Hill.. On a related tangent I recommend "Bless the Harts" it looks like it has potential. It even has a Mega Lo Mart so it's in the King of the Hill universe.
Vegans now claiming that ‘stuffing the turkey’ to be sexual assault https://wokennews.com/2018/12/25/vegans-now-claiming-that-stuffing-the-turkey-to-be-sexual-assault/
Thanksgiving may not have the best history - but there was some moments of coming together between native populations and settlers. In any case, today Thanksgiving is so divorced from that it really has little to do with settlers and a lot more to do with just having a day to eat well and be with family. It's a pretty harmless holiday. I can understand why some oppose it, but it's not the confederate flag here.
related story https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-revolt-against-the-colonials-11574967089?mod=hp_opin_pos_2 A Revolt Against the Colonials Students say the team name ‘glorifies the act of systemic oppression.’ By The Editorial Board Nov. 28, 2019 1:51 pm ET George Washington Colonials guard Justin Mazzulla (0) bursts past Stony Brook Seawolves guard Akwasi Yeboah (15) during a college basketball game on November 06, 2018, between George Washington University and Stony Brook University at the Smith Center in Washington. PHOTO: TONY QUINN/ZUMA PRESS Perhaps it was inevitable given political trends on American campuses, but at George Washington University students no longer want anything to do with the school moniker since 1926: the Colonials. Yes, America’s founding isn’t nearly woke enough, or something. In March students passed a referendum, with about 54% of the vote, calling on GW to ditch the Colonials. A petition argued that “no matter how innocent the intention,” the name is “received as extremely offensive” because it “has too deep a connection to colonization and glorifies the act of systemic oppression.” And here we were taught that the American colonists fought against British oppression, but forgive our OK Boomer education. The GW administration seems to be adapting to the new history. Shortly after the student vote, the school said it was “following the conversation” but had “no specific comment.” This summer a remodeled space called Colonial Central was re-christened the Student Services Hub. Freshman orientation is no longer Colonial Inauguration. Last year the basketball rally Colonial Madness became GDub Madness. Then last week the school’s board of trustees created a Task Force on Naming. It will recommend, the board chair said, “principles and procedures for addressing name change requests,” with the focus being on campus buildings and facilities. A GW spokesman says linking the task force to the Colonials name controversy is “not accurate.” Yet everyone knows where this is likely heading. A history professor picked for the task force has publicly urged the school to “show the institutional courage to at least study GW’s nickname and possible alternatives.” One of the student members is a leader in the campus Anything But Colonial Coalition. The student petition suggested three alternatives. One was the Revolutionaries, staying mercifully on brand. The others were the Hippos and the Riverhorses. This is a reference to a campus statue of a hippopotamus. The statue’s plaque is an elaborate joke, saying George Washington used to watch “these wondrous beasts” cavorting in the Potomac River. We’d laugh, but the sight of students debasing their school’s history and tradition for the political fashions of the day would have made old George cry.
