FoolishFool [she/her] to chapotraphouse • edit-22 years agoMy ideal Thanksgiving. No one else. Just me, Donny T. and reruns of The Apprentice as we enjoy our Feast of Ronaldimagemessage-square13 fedilinkarrow-up138file-text
arrow-up138imageMy ideal Thanksgiving. No one else. Just me, Donny T. and reruns of The Apprentice as we enjoy our Feast of RonaldFoolishFool [she/her] to chapotraphouse • edit-22 years agomessage-square13 Commentsfedilinkfile-text
minus-squarePresident_Obama [they/them]hexbear3·edit-22 years agoWhat's the long and short of Thanksgiving anyway? I hear lefty Americans say it's got its history in the genocide of indigenous peoples, but I don't know what they mean by that. link
minus-squarePresident_Obama [they/them]hexbear4·edit-22 years agoRight so Thanksgiving was (and is) a European Christian thing, and in the US there's a different back story for it. Is thanksgiving a secular ordeal in the States? link
minus-squarePorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]Mhexbear3·edit-22 years ago Is thanksgiving a secular ordeal in the States? More or less. It serves as a crossover harvest celebration/"family day" sort of holiday in practice. Absolute death if you work in grocery retail though. link
minus-squareFindom_DeLuise [she/her, they/them]hexbear2·2 years ago Is thanksgiving a secular ordeal in the States? It is in as much as anything is over here; it's steeped in that peculiar brand of non-denominational manifest destiny civil religion. link
What's the long and short of Thanksgiving anyway? I hear lefty Americans say it's got its history in the genocide of indigenous peoples, but I don't know what they mean by that.
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Right so Thanksgiving was (and is) a European Christian thing, and in the US there's a different back story for it.
Is thanksgiving a secular ordeal in the States?
More or less. It serves as a crossover harvest celebration/"family day" sort of holiday in practice.
Absolute death if you work in grocery retail though.
It is in as much as anything is over here; it's steeped in that peculiar brand of non-denominational manifest destiny civil religion.