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November 24, 2005
Happy Thanksgiving!
Posted by Dave Blount at November 24, 2005 8:58 AM
Many say Thanksgiving is America's favorite holiday. But moonbats don't care much for holidays, as the point of them is to celebrate a culture they hate — ours. Thanksgiving is certainly no exception.
Proving that there isn't anything leftist screwballs won't inject race into, Robert Jensen at AlterNet calls Thanksgiving a "white-supremacist holiday." With a holier-than-thou piousness that would have had our pilgrim forefathers telling him to lighten up, Jensen intones:
One indication of moral progress in the United States would be the replacement of Thanksgiving Day and its self-indulgent family feasting with a National Day of Atonement accompanied by a self-reflective collective fasting.
The story of America as told by moonbats is simple. The stone-age savages who first immigrated to this hemisphere ran barefoot through the snow in a state of primordial bliss, like something out of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's silliest "noble savage" fantasies. Then the next wave of immigrants came, this one across the Atlantic instead of the Bering Straight, and everything went rotten. Next thing you know we had democracy, women's rights, cold beer, hospitals, all sorts of horrible stuff. Gone were the good old days when you could spend an afternoon watching people get their hearts cut out with obsidian knives. Now we have to settle for baseball in air-conditioned stadiums.
Thanksgiving not only gives us a chance to acknowledge how extremely lucky we are to live in the greatest nation in the history of the world, it also represents the end of the Stone Age in North America. So moonbats have two good reasons to hate it.
When Europeans arrived, they brought the wheel to this hemisphere for the very first time. They introduced the concept of riding on horses instead of hunting them to extinction. There was bound to be some conflict between cultures separated by thousands of years of development, and as usually happens, the advanced culture replaced the backwards one. Absent this process, the human race would not advance, and we would still be running around in loin-clothes with our teeth rotting out of our mouths, wishing we could find something to eat.
Self-loathing kooks like Jensen describe this progress as "genocide." His admitted goals in taking Thanksgiving as an opportunity to propagandize against America are to "humble our proud nation" and to "undermine young people's faith in our country."
But unless Jensen lives in a teepee off what he can catch with a spear, he is not only a fool but a hypocrite.
Hat tip: Museum of Left Wing Lunacy
