Here, I think the reason is a mix of Anglo-Saxon racism and fear of being upended by the East and Americans not fully renouncing their Puritan past.
If the Americans want to abolish Thanksgiving, I propose it is not because of mistreatment of Native Americans as it is often-cited reason, but to denounce the cultural restrictions the American Puritans imposed on the culture of American society; ironically they fled to America to escape religious prosecution from the Anglicans, an irony not lost to me.
And this filtered to the other side of the aisle, the so-called socjus left.
Here, I think the reason is a mix of Anglo-Saxon racism and fear of being upended by the East and Americans not fully renouncing their Puritan past.
If the Americans want to abolish Thanksgiving, I propose it is not because of mistreatment of Native Americans as it is often-cited reason, but to denounce the cultural restrictions the American Puritans imposed on the culture of American society; ironically they fled to America to escape religious prosecution from the Anglicans, an irony not lost to me.
And this filtered to the other side of the aisle, the so-called socjus left.
Also worth noting: many of those pushing back against Puritans are themselves American and Anglophone.
This can’t be nearly confined by nationality either.
Correct, the BS we get from these Puritans infuriate everybody.