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Originally Posted by mudwhistle
Now, progressives are trying to tell us that Thanksgiving isn't a happy holiday for Native Americans. I think they just want to make us all feel bad about yet another holiday similar to the way they've tried to destroy Christmas.
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Did anyone else notice this?
In the OP, we get shades of the standard blather about "The War on Christmas", liberals eating puppies, Thanksgiving being a holiday about God and liberals hating that, etc. Pretty standard Rush talking points and a strawman not really worthy of notice or discussion. But, then there was this,
cited by the OP:
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Originally Posted by wiki
Abraham Lincoln's successors as president followed his example of annually declaring the final Thursday in November to be Thanksgiving. But in 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared that Thanksgiving would be the second-to-last Thursday of November rather than the last. With the country still in the midst of The Great Depression, Roosevelt thought this would give merchants a longer period to sell goods before Christmas. Increasing profits and spending during this period, Roosevelt hoped, would aid bringing the country out of the Depression. At the time, it was considered inappropriate to advertise goods for Christmas until after Thanksgiving. However, since a presidential declaration of Thanksgiving Day was not legally binding, 23 states went along with Roosevelt's recommendation, and 22 did not
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It seems that the "real meaning" of Thanksgiving,
according to the OP's own source, is to tell people when it's appropriate to start engaging in materialism - the "real meaning" of Christmas. That's right, these two sacred days when we celebrate God (or something) are simply bookends for shopping sprees.
Of course, I don't believe that on a personal level, the fun of such (often relevant) cynicism notwithstanding. And, of course, the OP doesn't believe that (opting to believe instead, probably, that Thanksgiving celebrates the time that Jesus cooked turkeys for pilgrims'n'indians). I just find it sort of hilarious that, in a screed about Godless liberals ruining God-filled holy days, we would find such a reference.