How To Tolerate The People Who Birthed You While Enduring The Problematic Gratitude Ritual Known As Thanksgiving

Is this thing on?

As we here in the upper Americas prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving, social media is doused with preparatory meme’s, op-eds, and commentary that read like a Barnes & Noble self-help section.

“How to Broach the Topic of Politics at Thanksgiving”, “It’s Ok to Start a Fight at Dinner By Calling Out Patriarchal Systems of Oppression”, “How to Host Thanksgiving with Unvaccinated Friends and Family”, “How to Handle a Vegan Coming to Dinner”, “How to Cope When You’re Alone on Thanksgiving”, “How to Tell Your Parents You Don’t Want Children”, and my personal favorite “Deprogram Your Relatives this Thanksgiving”, a piece that details the ways in which your friends and relatives could be criminally negligent in their worldview and why you should take this opportunity, while everyone’s together, to obliterate their worth as a human being based solely on their opinions. I mean, that is what’s behind the need to lecture everyone, right? Let’s get real. Moral grandstanding is the weaponry of the character assassin.