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Give Thanks for Western Civilization!


by John Young

"Be thankful €” VERY thankful €” for Western Civilization; because

without its protection, the Indians would be picking your meat out of
their teeth in no time flat.

Every year around this time we are assaulted with all sorts of politically
correct nonsense describing how €śevil Europeans€ť came and displaced the
holy, harmonious and nature-loving existing cultures of North America.

Its at times like this when I deeply regret how sanitized the history
of this continent has become. Youd think the Indians were all just
standing in a circle holding hands singing Koom-ba-ya and communing with
Gitchee Manitou in perfect harmony when €” all of a sudden €” a bunch of
blood-thirsty Europeans thrust the idea of violence upon them for the first
time.

The reality of Indian violence is beyond the comprehension of the average
modern European-American; but I can encapsulate it in a nutshell: it
included slavery, cannibalism, head-hunting and human sacrifice on a
fairly large scale.(1)


Marvin Harris noted of the Iroquois that they: €ś€¦ are well known for
their incessant warfare and their training of males to be immune to pain.
They are also well known for their merciless treatment of prisoners of
war. Captives were forced to run a gauntlet, their fingernails were pulled
out and their limbs hacked off, and they were finally decapitated or
roasted alive at the stake €“ after which their remains were consumed in
cannibalistic feasts.€ť(2)

Even the founder of Boasian anthropology, Franz Boas noted in his book
€śThe Social Organization and Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians€ť
that eye-witnesses saw human sacrifice and cannibalism on a large scale.
According to Boas, the cannibals among the Kwakiutl Indians €śBesides
devouring slaves €¦ also devour corpses.€ť(3)

Im a pretty open-minded fellow; and Im very open to allowing those
who dislike Western cultural norms to live by the norms of other cultures.
Usually, I prefer my mother-in-laws deliciously roasted turkey for
Thanksgiving dinner. Personally, Im going to stick with my own
culture.

But here is what I prescribe for the dingbats who think of
European-Americans as the descendants of an oppressive culture. You need
to celebrate Thanksgiving the way it would have been celebrated if
Europeans had never set foot upon these shores: enslave each other, then
torture each other and finally EAT each other for Thanksgiving. Because
that is PRECISELY what would be happening on this continent had Europeans
never arrived. Unless you are willing to do that, you need to sit down in
a corner, shut your pie-hole and learn something.

If you cannot appreciate European culture, European-Americans and Western
civilization, you need to volunteer to be enslaved, tortured, killed and
eaten €” because thats what the €śsuperior€ť Indians would have done
to you. The only reason you are alive to make a whining nuisance of
yourself is because European-derived people have a unique tolerance for
such misbehavior. Be thankful €” VERY thankful €” for Western
Civilization; because without its protection, the Indians would be picking
your meat out of their teeth in no time flat.

So tomorrow for Thanksgiving, I will be sitting down at a nice table, and
eating a delicious turkey with stuffing. And I will give thanks for
Western Civilization because Id much rather be eating a turkey than my
next door neighbor. He looks pretty tough and stringy.

(1) Feldman, G. F. (2008), Cannibalism, Headhunting and Human Sacrifice in
North America

(2) Harris, M. (1978), Cannibals and Kings, The Origin of Cultures

(3) Boas, Franz (1897), €śThe Social Organization and Secret Societies of
the Kwakiutl Indians€ť p. 441"

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