Thanksgiving and black Friday are not religious so they’d stay I imagine.
jeffw@lemmy.world 11 months ago
So, they’d keep Mother’s Day? The one invented by consumerism? But abandon the other ones that drive even more sales? Does that include Thanksgiving/Black Friday?
Seigest@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
adespoton@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Thanksgiving is very much religious — who do you think they were thanking?
Black Friday though is very much corporations thanking their marketing departments.
Valentine’s day celebrates St. Valentine, St. Patrick’s day is obvious, Halloween or All Hallows Evening is all about the next day being All Saints Day. Easter is also obvious.
Hanukkah is religious, Diwali is religious, Ramadan is religious.
Pretty much every holiday that lines up with a celestial event has multiple religious holidays clustering around it.
Even Chinese New Year could be considered religious, although Western and Orthodox New Years are arguably not.
Seigest@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
It pretty subjective I don’t know much about Thanksgiving as a Canadian we have we have a differnt one then the US. I never understood what ours was even about other then turkey. So if it’s religious then I honestly had no clue.
As many others have pointed out. If we strip all meaning of these events and just make the entirely commercial then it doesn’t much matter if they where intended as religious events or not.
With that in mind I wonder if separating the events from capitalism might actually empower them…
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Thanksgiving is about the only holiday I give a rats ass about. Ignore the fucked up history, ignore the bullshit stories about the Pilgrims.
I do two things on Thanksgiving. Find simple things to be thankful for in my life, and eat good food.
Crikeste@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Yeah, just ignore and forget the genocide that happened for you to ‘celebrate’ by indulging.
Nothing more American than that.
BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social 11 months ago
You're right; we must spend all hours of all days contemplating historical injustice. No happiness allowed!