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Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving Everyone

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Post by rnoorda »

I was recently in a meeting with a colleague about some recent craziness that just finished. A lot of hard work, not fun, but ended up just fine. Then a few minutes later, I find out her daughter is in the hospital, so she's been back-and-forth there a lot, and her life is exponentially more crazy than my own. I felt terrible for complaining about my dumb issues. Work's hard sometimes, but it's so small in comparison.

The upside of the conversation is that I've felt extra thankful this year- I have friends/family/coworkers going through sickness, abuse, divorce, coming out of the closet, and more, and it puts my concerns in perspective. My life is far from perfect, but I'm grateful for what I do have.

I know very little about any of you personally, but I hope you continue to share your knowledge, wisdom, dumb anecdotes, and opinions both great and terrible.

Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving Everyone

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Post by toni »

SequoiaHope wrote: post #67
DoreenMichele wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Flags are typically by users, not staff. I hesitated to leave my comment here because I'm part Native and aware that it's complicated. The kind of comment you left is not the best way to broach such subjects. I would like to see more articles about Natives generally without focusing overly much on the victim narrative. I think I'm alive in part because of my Native heritage, for which I am also deeply grateful. My ot…

I appreciate your comment. I guess I am frustrated because I grew up with the colonizer mindset, that the Europeans who came here were nice people that did nice things and everyone had a big party together. I did a school play when I was a kid about making friends with the Natives. It wasn't until after school that I learned what was really going on, and now when I see celebration for this day I really do just think…

Hi Taylor!

Clearly you touched on a very sensitive subject. I was also surprised that my link was flagged by this much people, as it was a very informative blog post about the fact that some First Nation tribes might have a different point of view about what Thanksgiving actually means to them.

I did email dang and asked if he can take a look at down votes in this thread. But either way, keep up the good work and don't get disappointed by the sheer amount of injustices!

Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving Everyone

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Post by senectus1 »

SwiftyBug wrote: post #28
armenarmen wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=what+is+thanksgiving

If @usnectus1 asked this here is because they wanted to initiate a conversation about thanks giving in this very light-hearted post (which, gasp, happened). It's not like they are spamming or cluttering a technical post with an "easily googleable question". This year I'm thankful I don't have to deal with that kind of behaviour outside the internet.

I was actually curious of the personal views on this. Sure I can google and delve into different non-authoritive sources. But HN is a community i value their points of views (mostly).

The only thing that comes to mind about my knowledge of Thanks Giving is from the Addams Family Values film... I'm pretty sure I shouldn't be taking that revision of a historical event too seriously.

Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving Everyone

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Post by senectus1 »

skissane wrote: post #79
pdonis wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> is it a specifically Christian thing or is it secular? As far as the US holiday is concerned, it's secular, by which I mean it is celebrated by pretty much everybody regardless of religious persuasion (or lack thereof).

It is Christian in origin, albeit a minor local Christian tradition (developed in the US) rather than a major near-universal one. Like many Christian traditions, it has been secularised, just as Christmas has been. I think the big difference between Thanksgiving and Christmas, is the Christian origins of the later are much harder to forget. That’s why relatively few Jews (for example) are willing to celebrate Christm…

interesting. So its an American Settler Christian event thats been, as usual typically watered down for the mass marketability.

We dont have it here in Australia (except apparently on a small island off to the side of the mainland). We don't really have any sort of festival or celebration that is comparable.

Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving Everyone

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Post by exikyut »

throwanem wrote: post #65
sbuccini wrote: post #10

Thinking about all the folks on call for the Black Friday/Cyber Monday crush. They were some of my favorite days working in e-commerce but, then again, everything always went smoothly during my tenure. Thanks for holding down the fort for the rest of us!

I've been in that trench too. I'm thankful to be out of it, and able to enjoy the festivities without always having an ear out for that PagerDuty ringtone. (EAS tones, I always used, the SAME FSK chirps followed by the attention tone. Wake the dead, that will. If you never want to miss a page again - and never want anyone in earshot to doubt it's important, besides - give it a try! Bonus side effect: you'll immediate…

853 + 960Hz? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbegB49B1TY

(If you do check, maybe turn it down to be nice to your nerves :D)

Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving Everyone

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Post by dt3ft »

I am very thankful for being alive and for getting to experience this world, no matter how cruel it may be at times. I survived 4 years of war that begun when I was 9 years old in the 90s. There is plenty to be thankful for.

Happy thanksgiving!

Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving Everyone

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Post by implements »

senectus1 wrote: post #3

hows this thankful thing work? is it a specifically Christian thing or is it secular? I'm peripherally aware it has something to do with (North American first nation) Indians and early settlers plus it tends to involve feasting on turkey and pumpkin dishes.

(A British person ponders …) “Why do Americans have two Christmas-type celebrations (travel, food, family drama) a month apart? It seems … odd.”

Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving Everyone

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Post by DonHopkins »

protomyth wrote: post #47
TaylorAlexander wrote: post #24

I really do not understand why someone's comment about how Native Americans view thanksgiving, and my response to it, got flagged. Is it off topic? Is my concern for consumerism over Black Friday not relevant? I understand it's not a cheerful subject but there are many historical aspects of this holiday that are in fact not cheerful. I found it unsettling to see pure positivity when to me this feels like a day of mou…

Users flag and I would assume I mostly associate the holiday with genocide. did it. Then you have the wrong association given the current tribal views on the holiday. This view doesn't help anyone and actively hurts the perception of the tribes. Can we just have one day where we are thankful and get along? I work at a TCU and we gathered canned items as a staff to distribute to the less fortunate. That's the actual s…

4/20 is also traditionally celebrated as Hitler's birthday by white supremacists, but that doesn't mean all the stoners and hippies who celebrate cannabis on that same day are also celebrating Hitler trying to exterminate the Jews.

Decent people have reclaimed the day 4/20 and number 420 for better purposes than celebrating Hitler's birthday, the same way "queers" have reclaimed that term as our own and use it in the acronym LGBTQ+.

So let's please not let the white supremacists who celebrate American's genocide against the original natives maintain their exclusive claim on Thanksgiving, which literally means giving thanks, which is a good thing for everyone to do in general.

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