Archmage wrote:It's when Americans celebrate how they committed heathen genocide about four-hundred years ago.
No, that's Columbus Day.
Seriously, weren't the Plymouth Pilgrims like the only large group of colonists to actually live alongside the Native Americans rather than try and wipe them out? Granted, a colonization attempt by Europeans a few years prior had wiped out the Native village that was nearby, and relations were bad at first because that previous colonization attempt included attempts at capturing them for slaves, but I thought the Pilgrims themselves got along pretty peacefully with the locals for as long as they existed as an independent colony.
KingOfDoma wrote:Well, hey, back then, not being white WAS an abomination unto the Lord. As was not being rich, not being male, not owning land, and not being from the same place as everyone else. Really, you couldn't blow your nose without being an abomination unto the Lord, so... yeah. Glad I'm alive when a black guy is president.
I thought you were Canadian? I mean, yeah, our president is a fairly major influence on you the same as your PM is on us (even if the level of information on each amongst the public doesn't reflect that fact), but it seems kind of a weird sentiment to express if you're not from the US.