DCPS Chancellor encouraging parents to talk about genocide for Thanksgiving

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What does this even mean?

"Thanksgiving is a day that can be difficult for many to celebrate as we reflect on the history of the holiday and the horrors inflicted on our indigenous populations. If you celebrate, our Equity team has shared resources for how you can consider decolonizing your Thanksgiving. "

Many of our families were not in the US at the time nor had anything to do with any of this.

And, the pictures they choose are interesting and show a huge lack of diversity and inclusion.

What do you mean? You don’t know that the holiday has tragic origins?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What does this even mean?

"Thanksgiving is a day that can be difficult for many to celebrate as we reflect on the history of the holiday and the horrors inflicted on our indigenous populations. If you celebrate, our Equity team has shared resources for how you can consider decolonizing your Thanksgiving. "

Many of our families were not in the US at the time nor had anything to do with any of this.

And, the pictures they choose are interesting and show a huge lack of diversity and inclusion.

What do you mean? You don’t know that the holiday has tragic origins?

Tragic origins? Please do enlighten all of us un-woke rubes with your wisdom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What does this even mean?

"Thanksgiving is a day that can be difficult for many to celebrate as we reflect on the history of the holiday and the horrors inflicted on our indigenous populations. If you celebrate, our Equity team has shared resources for how you can consider decolonizing your Thanksgiving. "

Many of our families were not in the US at the time nor had anything to do with any of this.

And, the pictures they choose are interesting and show a huge lack of diversity and inclusion.

What do you mean? You don’t know that the holiday has tragic origins?

Tragic origins? Please do enlighten all of us un-woke rubes with your wisdom.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/11/04/thanksgiving-anniversary-wampanoag-indians-pilgrims/?fbclid=IwAR1Xf_dVbEUmlWb9AV7-G5z-oO_MK-Bj68CRoi-tBy5b_7JIRymeLeCMKBM

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What does this even mean?

"Thanksgiving is a day that can be difficult for many to celebrate as we reflect on the history of the holiday and the horrors inflicted on our indigenous populations. If you celebrate, our Equity team has shared resources for how you can consider decolonizing your Thanksgiving. "

Many of our families were not in the US at the time nor had anything to do with any of this.

And, the pictures they choose are interesting and show a huge lack of diversity and inclusion.

What do you mean? You don’t know that the holiday has tragic origins?

Tragic origins? Please do enlighten all of us un-woke rubes with your wisdom.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/11/04/thanksgiving-anniversary-wampanoag-indians-pilgrims/?fbclid=IwAR1Xf_dVbEUmlWb9AV7-G5z-oO_MK-Bj68CRoi-tBy5b_7JIRymeLeCMKBM

Such an unbiased and scholarly source. LOL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What does this even mean?

"Thanksgiving is a day that can be difficult for many to celebrate as we reflect on the history of the holiday and the horrors inflicted on our indigenous populations. If you celebrate, our Equity team has shared resources for how you can consider decolonizing your Thanksgiving. "

Many of our families were not in the US at the time nor had anything to do with any of this.

And, the pictures they choose are interesting and show a huge lack of diversity and inclusion.

What do you mean? You don’t know that the holiday has tragic origins?

Tragic origins? Please do enlighten all of us un-woke rubes with your wisdom.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/11/04/thanksgiving-anniversary-wampanoag-indians-pilgrims/?fbclid=IwAR1Xf_dVbEUmlWb9AV7-G5z-oO_MK-Bj68CRoi-tBy5b_7JIRymeLeCMKBM

Different PP. The above link is to an article about how it started. Here’s how it’s going:
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2021/08/28/1031398120/native-boarding-schools-repatriation-remains-carlisle

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What does this even mean?

"Thanksgiving is a day that can be difficult for many to celebrate as we reflect on the history of the holiday and the horrors inflicted on our indigenous populations. If you celebrate, our Equity team has shared resources for how you can consider decolonizing your Thanksgiving. "

Many of our families were not in the US at the time nor had anything to do with any of this.

And, the pictures they choose are interesting and show a huge lack of diversity and inclusion.

Completely irrelevant. When you adopt a country as your own you take the bad with the good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What does this even mean?

"Thanksgiving is a day that can be difficult for many to celebrate as we reflect on the history of the holiday and the horrors inflicted on our indigenous populations. If you celebrate, our Equity team has shared resources for how you can consider decolonizing your Thanksgiving. "

Many of our families were not in the US at the time nor had anything to do with any of this.

And, the pictures they choose are interesting and show a huge lack of diversity and inclusion.

What do you mean? You don’t know that the holiday has tragic origins?

Tragic origins? Please do enlighten all of us un-woke rubes with your wisdom.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/11/04/thanksgiving-anniversary-wampanoag-indians-pilgrims/?fbclid=IwAR1Xf_dVbEUmlWb9AV7-G5z-oO_MK-Bj68CRoi-tBy5b_7JIRymeLeCMKBM

Such an unbiased and scholarly source. LOL

Ohhh, it took me this comment to realize you’re a troll!! Silly me. Good night!

[Anonymous]

Yea- thanksgiving is a myth we tell ourselves. And I’ll ‘move on’ when we restore the indigenous folks & give them their land back. Then we can ‘move on’ as he relocate to reservations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yea- thanksgiving is a myth we tell ourselves. And I’ll ‘move on’ when we restore the indigenous folks & give them their land back. Then we can ‘move on’ as he relocate to reservations.

I thought the Noble Savage thing was offensive in previous centuries. But this progressive version is somehow worse.

If you want to express support for indigenous peoples, then do something NOW for those who live on reservations. There are plenty of organizations that could benefit from your donations.

Scolding people who celebrate Thanksgiving is just the worst kind of virtue signaling, entitled nonsense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a first generation white immigrant and you bet I don’t want anything to do with “this,” if you mean pretending Thanksgiving is about some mythical peaceful feast.

Wake up. The country as you know it was built on exploiting certain peoples. Does knowing that and yet doing nothing about it help you sleep at night? Do you really want your kids to grow up ignorant? Believing in Santa is one thing but turning a blind eye to untold suffering of generations is quite another.

Then don't celebrate Thanksgiving. But don't tell the vast majority of Americans that they shouldn't be able to spend a day being grateful for this country. And if this country was "built on exploiting certain peoples," then I encourage you to go find a country whose history looks better. I'll wait.

Lol chill out. It was an email from the DCPS chancellor, not a SCOTUS decision. No one is telling the vast majority of Americans anything!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a first generation white immigrant and you bet I don’t want anything to do with “this,” if you mean pretending Thanksgiving is about some mythical peaceful feast.

Wake up. The country as you know it was built on exploiting certain peoples. Does knowing that and yet doing nothing about it help you sleep at night? Do you really want your kids to grow up ignorant? Believing in Santa is one thing but turning a blind eye to untold suffering of generations is quite another.

Then don't celebrate Thanksgiving. But don't tell the vast majority of Americans that they shouldn't be able to spend a day being grateful for this country. And if this country was "built on exploiting certain peoples," then I encourage you to go find a country whose history looks better. I'll wait.

Lol chill out. It was an email from the DCPS chancellor, not a SCOTUS decision. No one is telling the vast majority of Americans anything!

I'll chill out when the person in charge of running my kids' schools starts doing his job instead of pandering to progressive groupthink. He should be grateful more parents didn't abandon the school system after the way they handled the pandemic instead of lecturing parents about national holidays.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yea- thanksgiving is a myth we tell ourselves. And I’ll ‘move on’ when we restore the indigenous folks & give them their land back. Then we can ‘move on’ as he relocate to reservations.

I thought the Noble Savage thing was offensive in previous centuries. But this progressive version is somehow worse.

If you want to express support for indigenous peoples, then do something NOW for those who live on reservations. There are plenty of organizations that could benefit from your donations.

Scolding people who celebrate Thanksgiving is just the worst kind of virtue signaling, entitled nonsense.

NP. This thread was started because DCPS suggested that families might want to think about reading some books written by Natives as part of how they celebrate a holiday we associate with them. That's a way of expressing support for people now. It's not "scolding" or "entitled." It's not mutually exclusive with monetary support for people who live on reservations (which many people do, I am one). It's also not suggesting you not celebrate, just that you think about what you're celebrating more carefully. I think that's reasonable and it's what my own Native friends have asked me to when we've talked about the holiday. I'm not sure why that's promoting enough outrage to sustain this thread.

[Anonymous]

Thanksgiving is objectively stupid and only the most clueless racist would not see that. But DCPS should really be focusing on educating kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a first generation white immigrant and you bet I don’t want anything to do with “this,” if you mean pretending Thanksgiving is about some mythical peaceful feast.

Wake up. The country as you know it was built on exploiting certain peoples. Does knowing that and yet doing nothing about it help you sleep at night? Do you really want your kids to grow up ignorant? Believing in Santa is one thing but turning a blind eye to untold suffering of generations is quite another.

Then don't celebrate Thanksgiving. But don't tell the vast majority of Americans that they shouldn't be able to spend a day being grateful for this country. And if this country was "built on exploiting certain peoples," then I encourage you to go find a country whose history looks better. I'll wait.

All countries exploited others but you entirely missed the point and are ok with people currently being exploited as well.

Actually not all countries exploited others but that’s not a viable conversation in this country because Americans tend to not allow for the sliver of possibility they have been brainwashed.

Also I didn’t anything anything about not being grateful for the country or anything else. I’m very grateful, including for the many opportunities the US has afforded me and my family. But let’s not pretend what the corner stones of today’s American society are.

Get lost, you clown.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What does this even mean?

"Thanksgiving is a day that can be difficult for many to celebrate as we reflect on the history of the holiday and the horrors inflicted on our indigenous populations. If you celebrate, our Equity team has shared resources for how you can consider decolonizing your Thanksgiving. "

Many of our families were not in the US at the time nor had anything to do with any of this.

And, the pictures they choose are interesting and show a huge lack of diversity and inclusion.

What’s wrong with the pictures? Even Bowser made the cut

There was little diversity in the pictures.

There were white children in the ribbon cutting photo. Chill.