Media Check Our Thanksgiving Privilege, Tout ‘Day of Mourning’
25th November 2019
It’s that time of year again, when the cold bitter truth about our wretched Thanksgiving holiday must be brought to the surface. Rather then let today’s Americans celebrate a day of gratitude for our blessed lot in life in this successful, multicultural country, we must fixate on North America’s first bloody instances of identity politics.
What we call ‘Thanksgiving’ is the traditional English harvest festival of Martinmas, although they couldn’t call it that because Protestants don’t have saints, so pop a ham in the oven and let the Scraelings do their Cultural Appropriation somewhere else.
November 25th, 2019 at 20:16
Isn’t Martinmas on November 11?
November 26th, 2019 at 05:18
New style. Remember that Britain changed from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar in the mid-1700s; at the time of the Pilgrims (early 1600s) they were still on the old-style calendar, which was 11 days off from the Gregorian. By 2000 the difference was 13 days, which you can still see in the displacement between Western Christmas and Eastern Orthodox Christmas, which is still calculated using the Julian calendar. Add 13 days to our November 11th and what do you get?