Kinda tired of celebrating genocide every year, so let’s imagine a world where you can replace the yearly genocide party with something else. What would you replace it with? What would you call it?
Halloween 2. And soon, comrades, we will march into December and claim Halloween 3.
Thanksgiving.
No seriously, the who BS thing with the Indians and pilgrims was tacked on later. It was just a regular Christian festival time that was observed in New England before that. It’s just a day to have a big fancy feast with your family.
Make wicker-men in effigy of the white man, and set them alight at dusk as a reminder of what colonizers deserve. Call it the Day of Sovereignty.
This is pretty good. Everyone likes a good excuse to burn stuff. We can roast marshmallows over it.
A holiday that normalizes playing board games with friends instead of eating dinner with families would be great. I feel like people eat meals with their families all the time, sometimes multiple times a day, but no one has time to play board games with their old pal Wertheimer anymore.
I’d sign up for this. Thanksgiving used to be this until all of my friends and family started having kids, now nobody has time for games anymore
I blame the “mobilization” of the internet for stealing attention away from everyone. Those who are young enough (thinking my kids here) won’t know what it is to be with friends and or family talking and playing board games for a few hours without micro interruptions. It was good while it lasted…
I haven’t been to my family’s for Thanksgiving since becoming an adult. Christmas is for my family, Thanksgiving is for friends. It’s genuinely weird to me that most people I know do see their parents on Thanksgiving.
Can it be basically the same thing but without the genocide? Tbh I love a holiday that’s all about coming together with loved ones to share a delicious meal together with no expectations of gifts. Like Christmas without the obsession of buying shit.
I mean that’s kinda where it was co opted from…it’s basically just “generic harvest festival with a dollop of genocide”. So yeah I’d love to just go back to “celebrate your harvest however suits you with your loved ones.”
Maybe I’ll find a pagan ritual to read this year. It’s not too late
