Tony Stark (616), cool exec with a heart of steel (tonystark) wrote in thedoorway,
I never really felt any particular way about Thanksgiving growing up. I think people with family they like and never see tend to appreciate it more. But most people just don't really think of it as what it is. That's not an association they have with the holiday. There's an awareness that we did bad things, but I think there's also a sense that it was, over all, "worth it." That the outcome of what we did to the native population was somehow good, was somehow deserved, was somehow warranted. Because we gave them the gift of civilization. Because they would have been dead now anyway. Because they fought us back, so we only responded with appropriate force. When the truth is that it's because winners write the history. And we all like what we have too much to challenge it in a way that makes us feel uncomfortable.