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Happy Thanksgiving. heading off a woke Thanksgiving, Wednesday, November 27th, 2019 by Douglas Wilson.

Introduction

So Thanksgiving is tomorrow, and perhaps you will be seated next to a garrulous and somewhat combative uncle,

a man who drinks in his opinions at moveon.org and he was voted for Bernie more than once.

He lives in Massachusetts and really likes the way things are going out there.

Thanksgivings in Arkansas are rough on him, and so he starts up various wringles with his

troglodite relatives simply as a way of coming up for air.

We should have more sympathy for him than we do.

Rewinding History

We live in a time when people are trying to rewind all kinds of history.

Columbus Day is now indigenous peoples day in many places, and this obviously has ramifications for the

mythic account of our Thanksgiving holiday.

That origin actually happened though, as Lewis taught us that Mythic need not be false.

The pilgrims held a three-day feast after they brought in their first harvest in 1621,

and it was attended by almost 100 members of the Wampanoag tribe and about half that

number of Englishmen. But it is also a mythic origin story because it didn't start to

turn into what we know is our Thanksgiving

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