A Weak Attempt to Defend Holidays (Happy Thanksgiving!)

Critical thinkers and theorists that you all are, it's likely many of you scoff at holidays. "Oh, Thanksgiving? Don't you mean Native Genocide day?" or, "Oh, wow, an excuse to be even more of a gluttonous American than usual!? Amazing." Then of course there are those of you who think having a good time with your family while bad stuff is happening in the world makes you a fascist or whatever (please remove yourself from this list by replying "Remove").
Joking aside, I get it. I used to say things like, "Why do we limit our gratitude or gift giving to isolated and arbitrary days in the year?" In the last few years I have become much more of a realist on matters such as tradition or ritual....

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