Column: What you don't know about the first Thanksgiving might keep you home for this one

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The first Thanksgiving was a celebration of survival, says Mary McNamara. 'If we are going to share in their gratitude, could we please do it in a way that does not fly in the face of all the hardship they had to endure?'

Yes, you can celebrate Thanksgiving , but you’ve got to be smart about it. We’re here to help.

So we currently have many Americans arguing — basically in Tisquantum’s honor, though most don’t know it — that they should be able to celebrate a holiday whose inception was bookended by a historic plague. To celebrate it, that is, in such a way as to accelerate a current pandemic.I like eating turkey and pie with friends and relations as much as the next person, but I will not be doing so this year because, my fellow Americans, this is a no-brainer.

Do you think any member of the Wampanoag or the Plymouth Colony would insist on some big feast if they knew it would result in more illness, more deaths? They lost children and parents and spouses and friends to diseases they could not even name, diseases that we can prevent with an inoculation or cure with pill.

 

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I have trouble feeling much sympathy for the Puritans, including my own ancestor, in light of the suffering we know the arrival of Christians has inflicted on Natives ever since and still does.

Mankind was so dumb for not being woke, socially conscience & more knowledgeable of the world 400 years ago. Man, I hate humans.

Nope. You guys got your protests and election parties we get our Thanksgiving with our loved ones. Deal with it.

The pilgrims, many of whom were too put off to do any farming themselves and the local meats and fish.... ewww, were grateful that the Native population took pity and helped them out before the Natives themselves were slaughtered.

geez,,,,,,,,,,isnt idiocy a laughably great thing these days?

let's see who can win the award for biggest virtual signaling here

'The first Thanksgiving' never happened. They slaughtered the Indigenous, colonized a continent and rewrote history.

*Thanxtaking Thanxtaking

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