Posted on 11/24/2008 10:33:48 PM PST by mondoreb
Political Correctness Claims Another Victim:
40-Year-Old Kindergarten Thanksgiving Celebration Killed by Political Correctness Gone Wild
"Racist" children celebrate Thanksgiving by "dehumanizing" American Indians
In yet another case of political correctness run amok, a forty year history of kindergarteners dressed as pilgrims and native Americans celebrating Thanksgiving at school has been quashed in Claremont, California, due to four people who complained the celebration used "racist stereotypes" which were "dehumanizing".
According to the Los Angeles Times, parents of kindergarteners are "furious" over the Claremont School Board's decision to ban the kiddies wearing costumes after one mom, Michelle Raheja, an English professor at UC Riverside who specializes in Native American literature, and a member of the Seneca tribe, complained, along with three other professors and former instructors from Pitzer College, the University of the Redlands, and Riverside Community College.
Raheja claimed that the children dressing up as Indians was "demeaning" and likened it to having them costumed as "Nazis".
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PC is a "tyranny of the minority"--and it happens without much debate or discussion of the consequences.
PC has no cost-benefit studies before actions are taken.
It would be outsanding if one of these california “dads” would stop drinking lattes and disscussing mens fashion to give this guy a good punch in the throat.
Well I see that to be PC complaint we shall have no history, no heros, and therefore no future.
A nation trying to implode - just like Britain. Unbelievable.
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Santa will get axed soon.
None but The One (piss be upon him).
political correctness was bred from liberal guilt.....
political correctness will kill freedom of speech.
time to rally the troops
Dream on--their husbands wouldn't let them. ;)
I’m offended by the “evil, violent, white christian zealot” stereotype. Can we get rid of that?
and in the story, someone said that Thanksgiving is a myth.
I have a copy of Gov. William Bradford’s “Bradford’s History” published, after many decades of searching for his manuscript, in the late 1800’s. (It continues in reprints as “Of Plymouth Plantation.”
Gov. Bradford gave an account of the first Thanksgiving, and of their 90 Indian guests - and their 3 days of feasting and playing games together.
He was there. I’ll take his word for it.
The ‘myth’ that still irritates me is the black and white dress that they mistakingly still attribute to the Pilgrims. (It was the straight laced Bay Colony, of Boston, Puritans who dressed in black and white. They were a bitchy bunch - the beginning of the liberals in the new world.)
The Pilgrims loved colors and dyed their cloths with reds, greens, blues, oranges, yellows - indeed, their spiritual leader, Elder William Brewster’s favorite pieces were his red velvet cape and his green ‘breeches’.
The original Plymouth Pilgrims made fast friends with the local Indians. They never stole land from them but always paid for it. They had a mutual 50/50 treaty with them that included mutual aid against their common enemies, the Indians to the south = including the Pawtuxets. (Their battles with the latter was nothing to do with ‘racist’ but to do with a warring enemy.)
Good thing I wasn’t at the meeting for I would have suggested that before anyone opined about the whats and what nots of the Pilgrims take a bit of time and read what the Pilgrims wrote = and what their contemporaries wrote about them. Otherwise, go suck a clam.
Native American=Nazi?!?!? WTH?! The Indians/Native Americans were NOT the bad guys in the Thanksgiving story!
She is a native American, but not of the tribe that Pilgrims dealt with in history, probably she is more a part of the Casino Indians.
If damage to a society is the concern then they must also stop celebrating homosexuality.
If she didn’t want her kid to participate, she could have taken her kid out of school on that day. Typical liberals want to ruin every holiday for the rest of the folks.
You mean the "oogedy boogedy Christian" stereotype that Kathleen Parker was retailing in her column a few days ago?
The Houston Chronicle is another journototalitarian scribblers' den that goes ape whenever conservative Christians actually stand up.
Californians get exactly what they deserves. I wonder how those “outraged” parents vote?
Boxer? Feinstein? Obama?
Have fun, you morons.
Funny you should mention that. Robert McNeil (in The English Language) and others who have written about these sociopathic misanthropes and their English antecedents, many of whom are still there in East Anglia (Norfolk, Suffolk) and who continue to exhibit the common characteristics of glum, judgmental, prescriptive, bossy, antisocial nosy parkers and know-it-alls that, unleashed in the New World, have made Massachusetts the living curse of the City on a Hill that the Pilgrims and the Jamestown Colony founded.
>> four people who complained the celebration used “racist stereotypes” which were “dehumanizing”.
It’s things like this that will wash the history of the Native American to the wind. The complaint is disgraceful, and ultimately disrespectful to the interests of the children, and to the heritage of North America.
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