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Thanksgiving Guests Freeze In Disbelief After Teenager Informs Them Of Native American Genocide (theonion.com)

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[...]Thanksgiving guests at the Ross family dinner reportedly froze in disbelief Thursday after teenage son Ryan informed them of the genocide of Native Americans. “No, no, it can’t be! Not my precious holiday!”[...]

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[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe we should just honor the actual creation of the holiday, which involved one woman pestering multiple presidents to create a national day of thanks since she felt our country was becoming too divided. (This was on the lead up to the Civil War, and ironically it was Lincoln that finally listened to her and made it a national holiday.)

[–] Juice@midwest.social 5 points 1 week ago

That's some sweet and relatable background in our current era! Adopting the strategy of pestering presidents in ways to make them listen to individual concerns may have been lost to time, and deserves to be celebrated