[lbo-talk] Happy Thanksgiving, you dopes

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Sun Nov 27 23:31:58 PST 2005


Holidays are not about what really happened. Holidays about constructing national myths and living in the today. Thanksgiving in 2005 has about as much to do with what actually happened in the 1700s-1800s as Christmas has to do with the winter equinox.

--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> Chris Doss wrote:
>
> >Ditto. Thanksgiving is the best US holiday.
>
> WBAI did 8 hours of anti-Thanksgiving programming
> yesterday. We
> listened to some of it, featuring Jim Craven.
> They're absolutely
> right on the historical point - the holiday's
> relation to genocide,
> and the foundational crimes of the USA. But I really
> doubt you're
> going to win any friends this way. People like
> Thanksgiving, and it
> seems to me a real uphill climb to persuade the
> masses to the
> contrary. Craven even implied that a lot of Indians
> celebrate the
> holiday.
>
> Doug
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