Disclaimer: Thanksgiving is probably my favorite holiday next to Halloween. I love it as an excuse to get together with my family (which I actually love doing and deeply miss this year) and to eat the fantastic food my mother makes.

I think the idea of a fall harvest festival dedicated to gathering with those important to you is a fine idea if only there were any way we could stop associating it with historical mythology, and stop feeding kids in school bullshit stories about the pilgrims and Natives being dinner buddies because it's so much nicer then the rest of our history. Even my elementary school back in Arizona - which did a surprisingly good job of teaching us about the local native tribes/traditions and even the Indian Schools and the white settlers' attempts to stamp out their culture - made us do a whitewashed Thanksgiving play as if to say "but here's something European Americans can feel good about!" Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck that.

I'm told that Canada's Thanksgiving holiday is pretty chill largely because there's no educational/media association with patriotic founder mythos, but obvs I don't know personally how true that is.