11-27-2025, 03:03 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-27-2025, 03:21 AM by HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth.)
(11-26-2025, 05:05 PM)Hap Shaughnessy wrote: https://www.resetera.com/threads/a-reminder-thanksgiving-celebrates-a-myth-of-colonialism-and-white-proprietorship-of-the-u-s.1365442/#post-148158307
DigitalOp wrote:The Real Abed wrote:I mean, when we all sit down as a family to eat turkey, it's really just family getting together and celebrating life. No one is actually thinking about this stuff. It's just another holiday where you eat a lot of food like Christmas and Easter.And that's literally the exact to the definition problem.
Don't gotta think about. (don't care actually)
But will take every and all benefits out of the situation and also actively support those who work to keep the status quo upheld
All the"all of this is above me, I have no involvement" nonsense is done.
You actively decide if you stand for justice in the world or if you passively/actively want to keep inequality upheld
And yes, part of that process is working out being so feebly inept being unable bring up historical framework / national politics to a family dinner. It really shows how some have no skin in the game and truly posses privilege that they argue against
My family always talks politics at Thanksgiving because we have to
https://www.resetera.com/threads/a-reminder-thanksgiving-celebrates-a-myth-of-colonialism-and-white-proprietorship-of-the-u-s.1365442/#post-148158628
DigitalOp wrote:Like at our dinner when we bless the food, we even take time to bless the natives who endured all this nonsense and got us to this point
Like if yall not even doing that, then shut the hell up with the "I don't even think about this" bullshit
I read that first post and thought "What a wanker".
To be fair though, I tend to think that when reading any DigitalOp post.
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