Universities, school districts nationwide call for ‘decolonizing’ Thanksgiving: ‘Day of mourning’ [More]
These are the same sanctimonious useful idiots who either refuse to have anything to do with family that won’t drink their Kool-Aid, or demand to ruin the day for everybody else with indignant preaching.
I’ll be hosting a family/friend gathering tomorrow. I’m thankful there is no one like that in my life.
Related UPDATE
And just in time for stimulating table conversation, this “paper” from 2020:
How Colonization Fostered Public Mass Gun Violence in the US (and what Education and Society can do about it)
By Stephanie Glick, PhD
This paper positions public mass gun violence (PMGV) as an intergenerational consequence of the violence of colonization, coloniality, and slavery in the United States. I map how the shooter’s white privilege, alongside his white/male fragility, combined with a national consciousness built on an ethos of colonization and coloniality, leads him to believe he has unearned “rights” to the social riches of the center. I proffer that most of us who benefit from capitalist, neo-liberal, patriarchal state and social institutions are complicit in co-creating the conditions that produce PMGV’s gunboys and gunmen because in order to benefit from these institutions, we perpetuate a system of insiders and outsiders. As illustrated, some possibilities for allaying violence are grounded in practicing critical self-reflection and capacities for discomfort.
Stephanie sounds like the type who’d tell you turkey is murder.