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[-] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 26 points 11 months ago

(I might have my facts skewed but that’s what I took away from my history classes 20 years ago)

I don't think the typhoid blankets your referring to (at least that's what I assume you meant by "gifts that would harm them") were specifically given on the "first" thanksgiving, but you're absolutely right that it happened. Even if the first thanksgiving was 100% as advertised (which it probably wasn't) then it was a short-lived and tiny amount of human decency in what was otherwise a straight up genocide. Nevermind that the story was more about the natives helping the settlers than vice-versa, so really we're just celebrating the time our victims were nice to us while we were still getting ramped up on eradicating their people

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