[lbo-talk] Happy Thanksgiving, you dopes

[Chris Doss]

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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