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.
You are always hosting holidays and family gatherings. Must mean the leaves are satisfactorily mowed with stove burners at flame on. Holidays and birthdays sure come fast these days! May it be the best one yet for you all.
https://americanminute.com/search?q=thanksgiving
No, the leaves are a mess– we’ve already had two pickups but the oaks and large maple are slow to shed, the yard now looks like I never touched it, and it’s too wet to get them up, with snow on the horizon. And last pickup is Dec. 1, meaning I may just need to forget it and mulch everythng with a mower at first opportunity. Good thing for me I’m not hosting anybody who would scold me because lawns, like Thanksgiving, are “Rooted in colonialism, racism, and classism…”
I notice Steffie doesn’t have much to say about the “gunwomen.”
Henry partially beat me to it.
How dare Stephanie assume a mass-killer is white and male? I demand she retract her paper and edit it to make it more inclusive of birthing persons and People of Color!
DEI principles require it.