One meme perfectly exposes the hypocrisy of methods we discuss thanksgiving

For generations, Thanksgiving is becoming an idealized, commercialized American tradition that focuses on poultry and football, largely ignoring the true history from the holiday while easily portraying the Pilgrims as benevolent visitors in a genial social gathering.

This G-rated form of the vacation is perpetuated by Thanksgiving rhetoric &#x2014 "going home," "giving thanks," "plentiful"&#x2014 and imagery that reimagines history to be able to whitewash the bloody legacy from the European colonist&aposs management of their first hosts.

Quite simply, we disregard the historic reality from the feel-good holiday to be able to perpetuate a imaginary form of the founding of the usa.

Go into the following meme, which captures not only the romanticization of contemporary Thanksgiving portrayals but the ironic way the vacation continues to be appropriated to suit a particular &#x2014 white-colored &#x2014 agenda. That much better depiction ought to be needed viewing for those Americans this holiday, especially individuals who make an effort to reason that white-colored individuals have earned the authority to live within peace.

The meme clearly delineates the ever-evolving notions of patriotism and nationality. Just like Thanksgiving has been known as a "cleverly produced slice of cultural propaganda, yet another inside a lengthy type of inspired nationalistic myths," exactly the same can be stated for which this means to become a united states today.

White-colored Europeans weren’t the very first Americans. These were visitors &#x2014 illegal aliens, in tea party parlance &#x2014 inside a foreign land which had lengthy been occupied by various Native American tribes. 

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COMMENTS:

{CHOLÉ}: the ravioli stain is still on Papa Franku's shirt…x'D

ghost user9: is that Sehun? lmao

jhall the dank train: {CHOLÉ} from the life hax video

firedash .trygender: 0:07 rare fotege of an American man giveing an homeless Japanese man a dollar after losing everything in the war (circa 1945 )

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Nikolaus Jones: god i love the old ethan. "where does that leave you? idk fuck off thats the end of the video"

Nikolaus Jones: BeautifulScented CatRoams I agree, the peep and creep vid was hilarious. But vids like those are just a bit sparse these days. His general take on things, and way of conveying his points is different than it used to be. I dont deny he's still funny, just different

Daniel Chacon: hahah yea i loved it

Aidan Dunworth: Ya know his face turnin red like a tomater

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Astrosive: I love how the Daniel guy talks to everyone like they're retarded. Completely contradicts the point of the video.

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Lewis: lol

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