Axios is here to tell us that the Pilgrims were evil but the replies make

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I’m old enough to remember earlier this week when Axios’ CEO said you need fancy credentials to be a journalist, so let’s see what his professional journalists have come up with for Thanksgiving.

Ah, another reminder that our traditions are built on lies and our history is evil.

Thanks, Axios! What would we ever do without you and your credentials??

Look at this ratio:

From the article:

Debates over Thanksgiving’s origins have been reduced to political-cultural battles amid a divided nation, yet a new generation of historians say we need to understand the holiday better to understand ourselves.

The article is as predictable as the thousand that have been written before it. The Pilgrims were invaders who were disrespectful to the peace-loving tribes in the area and Axios writer Russell Contreras makes sure you understand who the savages were 👇

The Wampanoag showed up for the feast out of concern over gunshots rather than from invitation. (This was their land, after all).

Zoom out: Around 50 years later, the colonists and the Wampanoag were at war after the colony expanded, and they enslaved other Indigenous people.

Because I want to go celebrate Thanksgiving instead of rebut the frustrations of bitter, Marx-adjacent journos, I’ll give you this link to Thanksgiving history with actual citations. You can also read this book about the Mayflower from bestselling author Nathaniel Philbrick, and because Axios took aim in their article about the late-great Rush Limbaugh, here is a link to him detailing the history of the holiday.

Even better, you can read the 19th-century reprinting of William Bradford’s firsthand account from the 1600s on setting up the Plymouth colony.

(But I’m sure Axios writer Russell Contreras knows more than him.)