Posted on 11/26/2025 6:49:09 AM PST by V_TWIN
As families across the U.S. gather on Thanksgiving to celebrate one of the nation’s most cherished national holidays, some educators and schools are lamenting the day, pushing back on its "colonial" roots, and incorporating diversity, equality and inclusion DEI into the holiday.
At the University of California, Davis, the California History-Social Science Project, which describes itself as "Resources & professional learning for K-12 history-social science," hosted a Zoom event called "Decolonizing Thanksgiving in the Classroom."
"We will discuss reframing classroom practices and rituals about Thanksgiving," the event description explained. "Centering perspectives from Turtle Island (a name for North America used by some indigenous people) will help us decolonize Thanksgiving and spark new conversations about how to authentically make meaning of this holiday with our students."
Earlier this month, Washington University in St. Louis, an institution that has long been criticized over its DEI policies, put out a press release promoting an event that "highlights and honors the way different cultures recognize and understand Thanksgiving, both as part of their history and as a tradition brought into the present day."
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"On Tuesday, Massachusetts Institute of Technology students are invited to the "4th annual Thanksgiving Myth-busting" event that is aimed at "continuing our exploration of the narratives justifying land grabs via colonialism" and includes a viewing of the TV show "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
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"Buffy the Vampire Slayer."......good grief, what a bunch of lunatics. Lol!
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They are being purposefully taught improper history.
The Pilgrims got along with the Natives.
More democratic commie attempt to destroy our nations heritage.
Communism is all about rewriting history
Cut funding 10% per year until the crap stops.
People who deny history are frequently doomed to repeat it. This constant editing of humanity’s back story will not end well.
And this Ken Burns crap certainly won’t help.
And the socialists everywhere rejoice, their planned goals are being achieved against America...
Exactly. The best way to destroy a nation is to destroy its history.
They must have been watching the new Ken Burns “documentary”.
What America needs is a Pinochet.
Correct.
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
George Orwell, 1984
At their core Democrats are America haters. When they control institutions, they use them to corrode American culture.
Well,They did a very efficient job de-christionizing CHRISTmas.
I suppose gratitude is out of the question?
It’s a harvest festival, which is a venerable custom across diverse cultures. Ours happens to be attached to this particular event in Plymouth.
As far as “colonialism” is concerned — I’ll bet that all of these anti-coloniaists are open borders types that welcome any and all who come here but won’t admit that they are just more occupants of “stolen land.” The stolen land has become much more crowded since I was a kid. And I am including those from points south as well. An indio from Bolivia is not the same as an indio from New Mexico or North Dakota. If they want some hair-raising accounts of conflicts between the colonials and the natives, they should read the history of Mexico.
I am ashamed, but not surprised, that my alma mater is on the forefront of this. It was liberal but open-minded when I was there fifty years ago; not the leftist propaganda-mill nut house it appears to be today.
Screw them. They can leave if they don’t like American holidays.
Our schools reinvention of America’s history, the current ascent of Muslim populations beginning to pepper our landscape demanding accommodation for Sharia Law, emasculation of political opposition to the current wave of progressivism which should be the benchmark of a now feckless Republican Party, advocacy for illegals coupled with the assault (vocal and physical) on the Constitutionally proscribed remedy currently being implemented—how long before America succumbs to the war being waged within our very borders?
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