Thanks a Lot

I haven't written in a while, and sadly I think it's going to stay that way - random updates here and there.



So I'm pretty late on the Thanksgiving blogging craze, but I still wanted to share my opinion about this grateful day. I never really put this holiday on such a high pedestal. Well, like all other holidays, Thanksgiving is obviously another corporate holiday with the black friday bullshit and all those sales. Every year, my relatives and I would usually have some sort of gathering to celebrate Thanksgiving. I never really cared about the holiday itself, it was always the food that interested me. This year we didn't do any of that. I didn't have turkey this year, and honestly, I don't really care. I really don't like this holiday because it stands for something that apparently our whole country doesn't get, the exploitation of Native Americans. Way to celebrate the way America scalped the Native Americans, introduced diseases, burned their vilages, strengthened their ideas of white supremacy, etc. A lot would call this holiday "genocide day" or "thankstaking", and frankly, I agree with those names. That's the right way to address such a horrible series of events. What gets me is that all of this is lost and replaced with this new bullshit meaning of "being grateful for those around you". It's such a slap in the face to those who have been victimized, such a disrespect towards their mourning for ancestors. The irony in this situation is astounding, a day of mourning has turned into a day of so much positivity in terms of what Thanksgiving has become. It's become a day for families to come together and embrace their togetherness and to give thanks for what they have. Aww, such happy times shrouding the true meaning of this holiday. Thanks, society, for spreading this falsity around. This is me saying, "Wow America, way to be a dumbass."

Turkeys are just chickens on steroids.