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Valentine's Day has dark origins
- hanhug69 4y agoAfter having had 2 girlfriends who didn't care about Valentine's Day and now having one who cares about it way too much, I can safely say this is the most unwinnable day of the year.
- nateb2022 4y agoDark? Or perhaps, a lot of things happened on this day at different times? Arguably, if you go back far enough in time, you can find that almost anything whatsoever will have a bad connotation. You can find bad things/people in every country's history, bad things that happened on every day of the year, bad things that happened on any holiday, etc. Equivocating our Valentine's Day with Lupercalia is a bit of a stretch. As a tax payer and a US Citizen, I would appreciate it if our state sponsored media tried to present a varied look at history rather than assuming that our modern Valentine's Day's origins is of primarily Western civilization. A much better story would consider what modern Valentine's Day has turned into, approaching it from multicultural perspectives in order to be true to what it actually _is_, rather than trying to paint a facade of what it is not.