Your perspective on Halloween and the holidays that follow is thought-provoking. I totally get not being into scary movies because The Witches was what gave me nightmares! The way you connect the lack of horror movies for holidays like Thanksgiving to the real horrors of its history is incredibly insightful.
Your take on Thanksgiving, in particular, is excellent. The way you highlight the need for acknowledgment and reparation instead of celebration resonates deeply. It’s a reminder of the importance of confronting our history honestly.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and for making me reflect on these holidays in a new way 😊
Um, what I know is that no matter how you spin it, us white folks came to the Americas uninvited, proceeded to colonize and practice genocide, all while demonizing Indigenous people for doing what is perfectly natural and reasonable: defending themselves. I have no doubt that in some cases, that self-defense was more violent than necessary. Nevertheless, it was still self defense, and comparing colonial aggression to violence as an act of self defense is a very disingenuous false equivalence.
1) You are an unapologetic bigot, and that will not go unchallenged on my substack. Race is a social construct created for the sole purpose of pretending that some are "superior" to others, and it is ridiculous and disingenuous.
2) There is plenty that can be done with history. Most notably, we can learn from it. We can look at past mistakes and learn to do better, if we aren't too afraid of the damage that education will do to our fragile egos.
3) You are endangering the world with your anti-vaxx bullshit. It is conspiracy level misinformation. It is anti-science and dangerous. I will not entertain that for even one second.
4) I'm not going to waste any of my precious time on the fodder you feel entitled to assign to me. I have not consented to follow your lead. You've proven to me that you, like so many other bigots, are just haplessly attempting to find a new way to repackage the same insecure, fragile egoed bullshit that the world is increasingly realizing to be just what it is. I have neither the time nor the inclination to humor you by accepting your assignment.
5) If you want to have a conversation, as equals, based on facts rather than conspiracy theories, and instead of barraging me with your condescending, disingenuous interest in helping me understand the errors of my ways, then I will do that. Otherwise, please just go away.
Your perspective on Halloween and the holidays that follow is thought-provoking. I totally get not being into scary movies because The Witches was what gave me nightmares! The way you connect the lack of horror movies for holidays like Thanksgiving to the real horrors of its history is incredibly insightful.
Your take on Thanksgiving, in particular, is excellent. The way you highlight the need for acknowledgment and reparation instead of celebration resonates deeply. It’s a reminder of the importance of confronting our history honestly.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and for making me reflect on these holidays in a new way 😊
Um, what I know is that no matter how you spin it, us white folks came to the Americas uninvited, proceeded to colonize and practice genocide, all while demonizing Indigenous people for doing what is perfectly natural and reasonable: defending themselves. I have no doubt that in some cases, that self-defense was more violent than necessary. Nevertheless, it was still self defense, and comparing colonial aggression to violence as an act of self defense is a very disingenuous false equivalence.
OK, let's see:
1) You are an unapologetic bigot, and that will not go unchallenged on my substack. Race is a social construct created for the sole purpose of pretending that some are "superior" to others, and it is ridiculous and disingenuous.
2) There is plenty that can be done with history. Most notably, we can learn from it. We can look at past mistakes and learn to do better, if we aren't too afraid of the damage that education will do to our fragile egos.
3) You are endangering the world with your anti-vaxx bullshit. It is conspiracy level misinformation. It is anti-science and dangerous. I will not entertain that for even one second.
4) I'm not going to waste any of my precious time on the fodder you feel entitled to assign to me. I have not consented to follow your lead. You've proven to me that you, like so many other bigots, are just haplessly attempting to find a new way to repackage the same insecure, fragile egoed bullshit that the world is increasingly realizing to be just what it is. I have neither the time nor the inclination to humor you by accepting your assignment.
5) If you want to have a conversation, as equals, based on facts rather than conspiracy theories, and instead of barraging me with your condescending, disingenuous interest in helping me understand the errors of my ways, then I will do that. Otherwise, please just go away.