4 Reasons I Don't Like Thanksgiving || Mayim Bialik

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With Thanksgiving coming up, I bet you're wondering how this scrooge feels about it. Hint: it involves a brief history lesson, a digression about genetically modified turkey breasts, and our cultural love for eating so much we make ourselves sick LOL. check it out and happy Thanksgiving

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[Catherine]

"One of the most grosses examples of genocide in recent history" ?
Do you know nothing of what has been happened in Africa? The middle east? Germany (for fuck sakes) the Titsis? Stalin? Lenin? China? Darfur? Cambodia? Armenia? Rwanda? South Sudan? The Kurds?

[selinaz]

Thanksgiving should be everyday since we should always be grateful for everything we have:)

[Infinite.Worldz]

Thanks, Mark, for highlighting this for us on such a wonderful American holiday!

Happy Thanksgiving all!! 🦃🦃

[jessicapopplestone]

Ironic that you say you don't like Thanksgiving because it is "excessive" but you get REALLY excited about Macey's announcing it is time to shop for Christmas.

And your historical ignorance is embarrassing.

[cheshirecatgrin]

The beautiful part of Thanksgiving is the choice to celebrate it how it works for you.

My Canadian Thanksgiving isn't a celebration of the genocide of half of my family, nor is it religious; it's just an occasion to be grateful for the love of friends/family/chosen family. We make a nice meal, everyone contributes something and we enjoy the togetherness. It's not gluttony or excessive drinking, some of us don't/can't drink...heck, some of us can't eat sugar either!

Don't be so judgmental just because diets, ethics and morals vary, just make your Thanksgiving meaningful to you and yours.

[Bayan]

One, I am part Native American (Mohawk) and I really, really, wish pasty white liberals would stop telling me how racist Thanksgiving is. I love Thanksgiving, it's one of my favorite holidays, if not my favorite every year. It was the one holiday where my family would get together every year, and I would not take that away from my son. Also, I don't drink on Thanksgiving, because I end up driving either somewhere or another early the next day. Another thing, I prefer a smaller turkey, usually a 14-15 pound bird, most large birds are 25-27 or so, my birds tend to be more healthy, next year I hope to maybe raise my own. If it were up to me, I would do a venison roast but not everyone in the family likes venison, so what can I do? So, just because you don't like Thanksgiving, that's fine. I don't try to push my beliefs of hunting, fishing, and trapping on you (and again being Native American, that's part of my culture, history as well as that of my relatives, which nothing goes to waste anyway) please don't push your Vegan, non-meat eating beliefs onto me or mine, or tell me how much you think Thanksgiving was mean to "indigenous" peoples. Again, a lot of us who actually are "indigenous" are getting tired of being misrepresented by people who don't have a clue what we believe.

[psychoticrabit]

If you do not like something don't take part. Simple.

[jennfredd]

Wow you must be fun at parties? Don't wanna turkey? Don't eat one! Don't wanna be thankful for abundance of the harvest season? Don't celebrate...anything! But don't gripe about all the people who want to celebrate with their families and stuff their faces with turkey and cornbread stuffing....now pass the pie and Happy Thanksgiving!

[requim_hdtv]

Ok 1)The pilgrims didn't even pillage any villages from the natives. They found an *ABANDONED* Village and made their home there.
2) Natives had committed atrocious acts against each other for thousands of years.
3) They died from diseases because they hadn't had an interconnected relationship to other civilizations like the Eurasian Steppe had.
4)Yes, We killed natives but, they killed our ancestors too. That's just how war works.
5) If you don't like the fact that we "stole" land from natives then you can leave the country. No one is forcing you to live here.

[Wes_Jones]

Pumpkin pie. The best part of Thanksgiving.

[torrey]

I love Thanksgiving because it is the one day of the year that I get to truly spend a whole day making food for my family and friends, and I get the chance to handpick my foods and make it delicious. When making food for people is your love language, Thanksgiving becomes a holiday filled with a lot of joy.

[katym.]

In my culture, Thanksgiving is all about being with family, thinking about God's provisions, and definitely eating amazingly delicious food straight from Grandma's cookbook. It is really one of my favorite holidays. No shopping. Just family, food, and thankfulness.

[branwhitcomb]

I'm a Cherokee, of British ancestry, who is married to a Jew, raising a Christian family, who just listened to another celebrity describe Thanksgiving as a decimation of indigenous culture. Here are a few fun facts to ponder, Mayim:

1. There were no "indigenous" hominids in the Americas, so even the First Americans were immigrants.

2. The greatest contributor to the destruction of any culture is when people can't tell an audience anything about that culture other than "they were treated badly" and "let's feel sorry for them." If all you know about the Cherokee is that we walked the Trail of Tears, and there's a Jeep named after us, then you're part of the problem!

3. Thanksgiving, like culture, is what you make of it. While it's true The First Thanksgiving wasn't exactly what your grade school teacher told you it was, it also wasn't about invaders exploiting native peoples. This Thanksgiving, perhaps you can encounter a true history lesson. I suggest you start by looking up a guy named Squanto.

Happy Thanksgiving! :-)

[beverlydavidson]

It is my favorite holiday ever ! My whole family gathers and we celebrate the fall .

[dominusdevacore]

Do you feel the same way about Israel? Just curious

[tommybdutton]

Mayim Bialik If you moved to Canada I would be thankful

[manueladarazsdi]

4 reasons I don't like mayim balik...

[TheNinjaPicker]

Didn't the US help save millions of Jews during WW2? It might be time to start being proud of our culture. Stupid hurts.

[jamescoffey]

Thanksgiving is what you make of it.

Don't like the idea of a turkey carcass for dinner? Don't have one. Too much food? Make less. Too many holidays? Don't celebrate it. It's not a law that you have to celebrate anything. It's your own personal decision. Historical problems? The whole pilgrim thing is a bit absurd anyway. Thanksgiving was first a national call for thankfulness by Lincoln in the middle of the Civil War. It was to try and unite the Union in the middle of the bloodiest conflict in history.

It's not my favorite holiday. I do like the traditional foods, and fix them for my partner and myself. We eat off of trays watching "Home for the Holidays", my favorite holiday film. This year I'm fixing a turkey breast, boxed instant dressing, gravy, salad, green bean casserole, and a pumpkin pie. Next year we'll probably have to do a vegan version, since my partner has kidney problems and if it gets any worse he can't have animal protein. All if it is geared to 2 people, with very few leftovers that usually wind up as the dog's dinner. Enough food for 2 people and one small dog, some suitable entertainment (we put on the puppy bowl for a while for the dog). No real religious meaning, since we have different faiths. Occasionally we get calls from family over 2000 miles away. That's OK, but there is a reason we're 2000 miles away.

So don't sweat liking or disliking the day. It's just another day. Hug your kids, watch some video, sing a few songs. Things we should do every day, anyway.

[bbjd]

Some random thoughts on your Thanksgiving post: 1) While I agree the Pilgrim aspect is right, I tend to think of the Lincoln Aspect--that is Lincoln declared the third Thursday in November as a national day of Thanksgiving during the Civil War. 2) Overindulgence and Veganism taken into consideration, my family and many others have limited our intake of food and yes, I and others have eaten no turkey for the holiday meal. 3)Turkey: I am sure you have been to Israel and what is the number one meat eaten there? Turkey! Why? It's cheap, lower in fat than beef, it aligns very well with Kosher dietary laws and easy to produce....what is second? Tuna. Have a nice broiled tuna with still can be thankful.

But like the the family meeting to be thankful and

In short, Thanksgiving is what YOU and your family make of one other perhaps you and your family shouldn't volunteer at a homeless shelter to serve holiday meals....it's full of things you wouldn't then when we have volunteered at the shelters here in Tucson, the people there seemed to be grateful just to have a the children. So, Make that a holiday tradition!!!!

As for the guy who wants Trump to be president again in rather see a dead genetically altered bird be president than a man from New York City, born and raised on the 50th floor, who eats pastrami on white bread with extra man has yet to eat a bagel with lox....but then he is our first gay best friend was Roy Cohn who taught "Donnie Boy" everything he knows.