Thanksgiving is a holiday that cancel culture has been targeting even before the pandemic. It became very apparent at this time last year that all culture, even down to the family level was being attacked when they targeted Halloween and Christmas. The news is telling us not to even celebrate this Autumn harvest festival and feast with our family...just stay at home as a paranoid, antisocial losers eating takeout and watching movies.
I like to keep the parts of tradition that make sense, such as celebrating feast, harvest, thanks and abundance, while discarding the unnecessary parts like feasting on a factory-farmed bird when we're already over-fed on factory-farmed mammals. This sunny and colourful Thanksgiving, I was thankful to walk to the Farmers Market (where most people take off their masks and smile) with my family, and pay cash for a locally grown piece of produce and roast it for dinner.