Facebook Follies of Friends and Families

[Zanza]

The person remembers that Hitler was a Muslim that tried to destroy Western societies from within? 

[Admiral Yi]

That's excatly what Hitler was.

[Valmy]

The person remembers that Hitler was a Muslim that tried to destroy Western societies from within? 

I am getting a little tired of all the bizarre conspiracy theories trying to act like doing anything to help the poor and not give unlimited power and resources to the rich is some kind of evil act that will destroy all of civlization. These people really have no shame. They must think we are all brain dead idiots.

[Razgovory]

This is basically what Facebook is these days.

[The Minsky Moment]

Maybe stay away from FacebooK?

[Razgovory]

I think it's a problem with more than just Facebook.  

[viper37]

[Valmy]

Thanksgiving was established by Abraham Lincoln to give thanks for kicking the crap out of the Confederacy. I don't know what this retcon about native Americans is about.

[viper37]

Thanksgiving was established by Abraham Lincoln to give thanks for kicking the crap out of the Confederacy. I don't know what this retcon about native Americans is about.

[HVC]

Thanksgiving was established by Abraham Lincoln to give thanks for kicking the crap out of the Confederacy. I don't know what this retcon about native Americans is about.

Marketing gone bad probably. Someone highlighted pilgrims and Indians to sell mashed potatoes or something. Like the cokes ads overwriting the Santa tradition... only racist

[Valmy]

Thanksgiving was established by Abraham Lincoln to give thanks for kicking the crap out of the Confederacy. I don't know what this retcon about native Americans is about.

Marketing gone bad probably. Someone highlighted pilgrims and Indians to sell mashed potatoes or something. Like the cokes ads overwriting the Santa tradition... only racist

Ironically it is a nationalist myth intended to create unity. The marketing ploy has become a culture war hot spot. But still all the people upset about it due to the genocide thing are mistaken. If you read the proclamations by Lincoln and later FDR which established Thanksgiving for real nowhere are pilgrims or native Americans ever mentioned.

[Savonarola]

Ironically it is a nationalist myth intended to create unity. The marketing ploy has become a culture war hot spot. But still all the people upset about it due to the genocide thing are mistaken. If you read the proclamations by Lincoln and later FDR which established Thanksgiving for real nowhere are pilgrims or native Americans ever mentioned.

And (at least according to the Florida Historical Society) the first Thanksgiving in the present day United States was held in St. Augustine, about 70 years before the Pilgrims arrived.  It's too bad that didn't catch on as the national myth, we could be having holiday manatee rather than turkey.

Edit, reading up a bit more on the subject, it looks like the association of Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims and Indians was actually intended to be divisive.  The association began during the waves of immigration at the end of the 19th century and the US government issued stamps and coins featuring Pilgrims in the early 1920s at the a height of anti-immigrant hysteria and the rise of the Klan.  There's very little information about the settlers of Plymouth Colony and the Wampanoag confederacy sharing a Thanksgiving meal (it comes from a single letter, and Linus's speech in "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" pretty much tells it all).

[crazy canuck]

Interesting, thanks!