I BANNED THANKSGIVING AND YOU CAN TOO!

Why?!  What do you mean, "why"?  It's 2014, and all that information is available for free on the internet.  Everybody knows it's a bogus holiday, so why are we still "going along" with it, thus supporting the rewritten history lesson that supposedly justifies it?

pros-
time off work/school
family gathering
big meal
football games
holiday shopping

 cons-
time off work/school
family gathering
too many carbs
football games
holiday shopping
inaccurate stories perpetuated, lies still taught in some schools

Some people follow tradition because it's tradition, and no other reason.  Wow, look at you blindly following tradition without really understanding how and why this came to be a tradition!

I tend to question everything, and do research until I can make my own decisions, based on the facts.  That way, I never have to feel insecure.  (If you struggle with insecurity, start doing this- it works!)

Here's a little known fact: we can have dinner, family gatherings and football anytime!  We don't need thanksgiving and all the misinformation surrounding it.  We don't need to follow "tradition for the sake of tradition"- that mentality is holding us back.  We could be creating new and meaningful traditions that don't celebrate genocide.

In conclusion, I will enjoy this day as a regular day off, deciding for myself how this day will be spent.  And to those of you busting ass cleaning and cooking in "tradition prison", well.....

HAPPY THANKSGIVING, I GUESS?