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History Won’t Be Coming to Save Us
Thanks to Trump and the internet, fake history is as real as fake news
Thanksgiving was last week and I’ve known for a good long time now that the history of Thanksgiving I was taught as a child — the pilgrims and Indians breaking bread together, Squanto teaching the settlers to plant fish with crops to help them grow faster — was a hilarious fabrication. On an annual basis, the holiday kicks up a now-tiresome bitchfest between people who want to remind you about the cultural genocide undergirding that particular American fairy tale, and HERITAGE NOT HATE types who don’t wanna hear any of it. It will not surprise you to learn that President Trump, who lives for this shit, is on the latter side of that debate, nor will it surprise you to hear that he went ahead and added an extra veneer of lies to it:
Trump is full of shit here, but that’s hardly new. I would tell you that history will take note of his pathological bullshit. That’s the kind of wishful thinking that resistance types love to pepper into their…
