‘Big Bang Theory’ star: Thanksgiving ‘one of the grossest examples of genocide’

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times


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Actress Mayim Bialik says she loathes Thanksgiving because it’s “one of the grossest examples of genocide in recent history.”

The “Big Bang Theory” star — who has an expansive social media presence across her website Grok Nation, another 2.3 million Instagram fans, and 304,000 subscribers on YouTube — offered up “4 Reasons I Don’t Like Thanksgiving,” a video which included a retelling of America’s past, echoing Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States.”

“The truth is, European invaders came to this land, took it from the indigenous people, raped, pillaged, gave them all sorts of diseases, called it their own, and desecrated a culture,” the actress said, the Daily Wire reported Tuesday. “It is one of the grossest examples of genocide in recent history and much as I don’t want to think about that, it’s really hard for me not to think about that when I think about Thanksgiving.”

Ms. Bialik, a vegan, also lamented the “killing an animal and laying its carcass and eating the skin and the flesh of it.”

Her other reasons for disliking Thanksgiving include the idea that some Americans celebrate “excessive” eating, along with its timing in relation to Jewish holidays.

Fans did not hesitate to voice their displeasure in YouTube’s comments section.

“Wow, you must be fun at parties. Don’t wanna turkey? Don’t eat one!” wrote one viewer. “Don’t wanna be thankful for abundance of the harvest season? Don’t celebrate … anything!”

“I think Hitler killing and torturing millions of Jews is not only more recent but far more gross as they piled up dead bodies in huge piles before buying them in mass graves,” added another.

The Daily Wire, which is run by Ben Shapiro, blasted Ms. Bialik for disseminating “common parlance among leftists and the brainwashed public.”

The website the linked to a counter-point video by Prager U titled “What’s The Truth About The First Thanksgiving?”


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[Muddy]

Of course she has a point, but whats being celebrated is surviving in the new land. Everything has a context. The holiday has been turned into "giving thanks".. Just like Christmas has been turned into the "Holiday Season".. Lighten up Malik, everyone knows the Indians got fucked.

[deebakes]

:hand: native americans muddy :nono:

[DemonGeminiX]

Maybe she should go to a reservation and offer herself up as a sacrificial apology. She could take Jennifer Lawrence with her and have a gang bang.

[Muddy]

Right.. Except they were only native after they migrated here..

[deebakes]

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[Muddy]

They migrated across the Bering Strait.. What do you mean? They didn't pop out of the ground in North America.. They just found it first..

[deebakes]

:hand: god put them here, that migration talk is bs

[deebakes]

except their god is called like nuck-chit-chuck or something :shrug:

[Muddy]

Got it. :lol:

[Hal-9000]

This chick is smart. Like high IQ, doctorate of something smart.

And yet she doesn't understand that we all moved somewhere? Every civilization with the exception of the first homo-stupidos, who stayed on the northern African highlands, have migrated for varying reasons.

It was only in later centuries when man learned to farm and reuse the land that we stayed in locations and built empires.


I believe Dr Muddy is correct. The first natives crossed the land bridge over the Bering Strait and originated from northern Asia.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

This chick is smart. Like high IQ, doctorate of something smart.

And yet she doesn't understand that we all moved somewhere? Every civilization with the exception of the first homo-stupidos, who stayed on the northern African highlands, have migrated for varying reasons.

It was only in later centuries when man learned to farm and reuse the land that we stayed in locations and built empires.


I believe Dr Muddy is correct. The first natives crossed the land bridge over the Bering Strait and originated from northern Asia.

:triggered:

[Griffin]

On August 1, 1620, the Mayflower set sail. It carried a total of 102 passengers, including forty Pilgrims led by William Bradford. On the journey, Bradford set up an agreement, a contract, that established just and equal laws for all members of the new community, irrespective of their religious beliefs.

Where did the revolutionary ideas expressed in the Mayflower Compact come from? From the Bible. The Pilgrims were a people completely steeped in the lessons of the Old and New Testaments. They looked to the ancient Israelites for their example. And, because of the biblical precedents set forth in Scripture, they never doubted that their experiment would work.

"But this was no pleasure cruise, friends. The journey to the New World was a long and arduous one. And when the Pilgrims landed in New England in November, they found, according to Bradford's detailed journal, a cold, barren, desolate wilderness," destined to become the home of the Kennedy family. "There were no friends to greet them, he wrote. There were no houses to shelter them. There were no inns where they could refresh themselves. And the sacrifice they had made for freedom was just beginning.

During the first winter, half the Pilgrims – including Bradford's own wife – died of either starvation, sickness or exposure.

"When spring finally came, Indians taught the settlers how to plant corn, fish for cod and skin beavers for coats." Yes, it was Indians that taught the white man how to skin beasts. "Life improved for the Pilgrims, but they did not yet prosper! This is important to understand because this is where modern American history lessons often end. "Thanksgiving is actually explained in some textbooks as a holiday for which the Pilgrims gave thanks to the Indians for saving their lives, rather than as a devout expression of gratitude grounded in the tradition of both the Old and New Testaments.

Here is the part [of Thanksgiving] that has been omitted: The original contract the Pilgrims had entered into with their merchant-sponsors in London called for everything they produced to go into a common store, and each member of the community was entitled to one common share.

"All of the land they cleared and the houses they built belong to the community as well. They were going to distribute it equally. All of the land they cleared and the houses they built belonged to the community as well. Nobody owned anything. They just had a share in it. It was a commune, folks. It was the forerunner to the communes we saw in the '60s and '70s out in California – and it was complete with organic vegetables, by the way.

Bradford, who had become the new governor of the colony, recognized that this form of collectivism was as costly and destructive to the Pilgrims as that first harsh winter, which had taken so many lives.

He decided to take bold action. Bradford assigned a plot of land to each family to work and manage, thus turning loose the power of the marketplace.

"That's right. Long before Karl Marx was even born, the Pilgrims had discovered and experimented with what could only be described as socialism. And what happened?

It didn't work! Surprise, surprise, huh?

What Bradford and his community found was that the most creative and industrious people had no incentive to work any harder than anyone else, unless they could utilize the power of personal motivation!

But while most of the rest of the world has been experimenting with socialism for well over a hundred years – trying to refine it, perfect it, and re-invent it – the Pilgrims decided early on to scrap it permanently.

What Bradford wrote about this social experiment should be in every schoolchild's history lesson. If it were, we might prevent much needless suffering in the future.

"'The experience that we had in this common course and condition, tried sundry years...that by taking away property, and bringing community into a common wealth, would make them happy and flourishing – as if they were wiser than God,' Bradford wrote. 'For this community [so far as it was] was found to breed much confusion and discontent, and retard much employment that would have been to their benefit and comfort. For young men that were most able and fit for labor and service did repine that they should spend their time and strength to work for other men's wives and children without any recompense...that was thought injustice.'

Why should you work for other people when you can't work for yourself? What's the point?

"Do you hear what he was saying, ladies and gentlemen? The Pilgrims found that people could not be expected to do their best work without incentive. So what did Bradford's community try next? They unharnessed the power of good old free enterprise by invoking the undergirding capitalistic principle of private property.

Every family was assigned its own plot of land to work and permitted to market its own crops and products. And what was the result?

'This had very good success,' wrote Bradford, 'for it made all hands industrious, so as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been.'

Bradford doesn't sound like much of a... liberal Democrat, "does he? Is it possible that supply-side economics could have existed before the 1980s? Yes.

"Read the story of Joseph and Pharaoh in Genesis 41. Following Joseph's suggestion (Gen 41:34), Pharaoh reduced the tax on Egyptians to 20% during the 'seven years of plenty' and the 'Earth brought forth in heaps.' (Gen. 41:47)

In no time, the Pilgrims found they had more food than they could eat themselves.... So they set up trading posts and exchanged goods with the Indians. The profits allowed them to pay off their debts to the merchants in London.

And the success and prosperity of the Plymouth settlement attracted more Europeans and began what came to be known as the 'Great Puritan Migration.'"

Now, other than on this program every year, have you heard this story before? Is this lesson being taught to your kids today -- and if it isn't, why not? Can you think of a more important lesson one could derive from the pilgrim experience?

So in essence there was, thanks to the Indians, because they taught us how to skin beavers and how to plant corn when we arrived, but the real Thanksgiving was thanking the Lord for guidance and plenty -- and once they reformed their system and got rid of the communal bottle and started what was essentially free market capitalism, they produced more than they could possibly consume, and they invited the Indians to dinner, and voila, we got Thanksgiving, and that's what it was: inviting the Indians to dinner and giving thanks for all the plenty is the true story of Thanksgiving.

The last two-thirds of this story simply are not told.

Now, I was just talking about the plenty of this country and how I'm awed by it. You can go to places where there are famines, and we usually get the story, "Well, look it, there are deserts, well, look it, Africa, I mean there's no water and nothing but sand and so forth."

It's not the answer, folks. Those people don't have a prayer because they have no incentive. They live under tyrannical dictatorships and governments.

Rush Limbaugh

[lost in melb.]

They migrated across the Bering Strait.. What do you mean? They didn't pop out of the ground in North America.. They just found it first..

You know, that argument destroys the entire indigenous 'special clause' claim around the world.

There's also perhaps the argument that there's a special attunement, connection and therefore vulnerability to races that have been close to a particular plot of land for scores of millenia :)

[Godfather]

Well, I'm not American but I'm pretty sure this is exactly how Thanksgiving went down


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[KevinD]

Griff, thanks for the Rush link. I've listened to him off and on since 92 or so. I've researched a lot of things he's said over the years, and almost always, factual he's correct. Of course, like any entertainer, he exaggerates things at times.

All that said, my wife is a card carrying Indian (fuck pc native american, she agrees with my thoughts on that term)
She didn't grow up on a res, but her mother did, until she was forcibly adopted out of the tribe, by (gasp) a democratic government. We've visited my wife's actual family many times through the years, and yes, as a white (mostly irish, and I got the dna to prove it) male, there is some, some, hesitation, resentment, whatever you want to call it, for me being there on the res. My daughters were accepted whole heartedly (especially the youngest as she's interested in all things, and would gladly sit for hours listening to the tales.
My take? Considering how I was raised (literally one gen up from substance farmers) along with what I was taught in school (not very different from Rush's quote above) conquerors have historically almost always mistreated the conquered. Isthat right? He'll no, is it sorely on the wite man? Fuck off. Indians treated each other worse. Had all the tribes joined together to fight the invasion (and it was) things might have been different. Not better per se, but different. It's a time worm story. Think of the Scotts, and Irish vs Saxons, Romans, etc. Think of the Mongols vs just about everybody. The Persians, the Romans. On and on.my mind is boggles that the folks like Mayam, apparently never studied history.

[Hugh_Janus]

how dis I know it was going to be her...