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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another attempt to ruin a holiday by shaming Americans.

Get your own holiday to cry over.[/quote]

America does have a dark past. We should reflect on the massive human cost of building this country.

-Mayflower descendant 
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The funny thing is that the most obnoxious commenters on this topic likely arrived more than one hundred years after your family. [/quote]

I arrived 44 years ago, almost to the day. What’s your point? I give two figs what some internet cosplay Mayflower descendant says? That entitles them to what, exactly, in terms of moral authority or understanding of the situation?

Best I can tell from your perspective an actual Mayflower descendant is up to their elbows in blood and owes all kinds of land and reparations. You should go over her house and take what you want from her garage. Leave me out of it. I’ll be sitting comfortably in my house with friends and family, drinking wine and watching football, thanking the good Lord I managed to navigate UMC American life without being indoctrinated to feel so much shame and joylessness about my country, culture, and self.

Enjoy your day of mourning. [/quote]

[b]None of what you’re enjoying would be possible without the genocide of indigenous people (and enslaved people).[/b] Pretty sh1tty you won’t even *acknowledge* that.

It’s not about shame, it’s about awareness and acknowledgement. 
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Let me say this clearly for the thick-headed and those in the back: We don’t care. Truly, we DO NOT CARE. Certainly not on Thanksgiving.

Every single country, culture, civilization, race, ethnicity, and every other category of human being you can come up with has a history of murder, rape, genocide, conquering, seizing land, expelling others, committing atrocities, rewriting history, and myth making its own origin story. Point me to a group that didn’t do this and I’ll extend the timeline and show you you’re full of sh&t. Africans did more enslaving and slave trading than white Europeans. Asians were annihilating cities and stacking skulls 50 feet high well before Columbus. The Japanese created hell for Chinese and Koreans across centuries of war. Both returned serve, and hey look over there the Chinese are doing it to the Uighurs in real time! Persians and Muslims, right this way! The havoc and terror brought on South America by the Conquistadors and other Euro settlers was catastrophic… unless you compare it to the torture and misery doled out routinely by the Aztecs before they got there.

Humanity has been rough business. Get over it. [/quote]

Tell me you have a piss poor knowledge of history without telling me you have piss poor knowledge of history. Everything you wrote is demonstrably false. What's worse is that, you wrote it with such confidence . If i were you, I'd refrain from talking about Africa unless you want me to embarrass and lay bare your idiocy masqueraded as knowledge of history.[/quote]

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