Reply #21: Is that what I said?

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What I said is that the date clearly shows that that was NOT the first Thanksgiving. That there actually was a harvest festival where Native Americans and Pilgrims sat down and ate together. Unfortunately that peace did not last. I generally prefer peace to war. It's not cool to wipe out a village or a tribe, but some white-haters seem to think it was perfectly fine for Metacomet to wipe out 13 settlements in Connecticut in King Phillip's war. Why, that's just self-defense, they say. Yet the Pilgrims also struck in a combination of self-defense and revenge. It starts with hate and fear, and there is no need to celebrate hate, especially hatred for the Pilgrims on Thanksgiving.