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Originally Posted by Willravel
The "oh cry me a river" issue?
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The "cry me a river" response was to those up on a soapbox and melodramatically playing the "white man's atrocities to Native Americans" and the "wars and genocide in the name of God" and the "holidays have become homogenized, and are no longer associated with the full and actual historical facts" cards.
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Originally Posted by Willravel
Don't you feel that what happened to the people native to North America was unjust?
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Of course it was unjust.
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Originally Posted by Willravel
And who does it serve ignoring that part of our (our meaning the United States, not your family) history?
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By all means, teach the full, unadultered story in schools. Just, not to a bunch of 5- and 6-year-olds.
As for the bleeding hearts, the politically correct, and those with a huge, generations-long chip on their shoulder: Quit using Thanksgiving as an annual opportunity to get up on a soapbox and admonish the "white man" for his atrocities against Native Americans, which took place generations upon generations ago. Face it, we're
all human beings, and thus we're all – no matter our race, religion, creed, or whatever – capable of committing atrocities, if put in to the "right" environment and subjected to the "right" conditions.