DCPS Chancellor encouraging parents to talk about genocide for Thanksgiving

[Anonymous]

The problem isn’t Thanksgiving itself. It’s the myths surrounding Thanksgiving and the roles the Indians played in these myths.

Lincoln made Thanksgiving a national holiday after the Union won at Gettysburg. It didn’t really have anything to do with Pilgrims and the like but the mythology — reinforced in schools, natch — took on a life of its own.

[Anonymous]

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/thanksgiving-is-awesome

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry to disappoint, but I’m not offended by this email! Send it to Tucker Carlson, and I’m sure he can do a great segment on it.

Tucker Carlson is a garbage American and shitstain of a human being. Hard pass.

I think you missed the point.

Really, I did not. People like Tucker Carlson are why we need to force these conversations.

What was the point then?

[Anonymous]

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

Devoting one day a year to being thankful for our families, friends, and lives is "objectively stupid"...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

Devoting one day a year to being thankful for our families, friends, and lives is "objectively stupid"...

+1

Especially since the vast majority of DCPS students are part of an oppressed group themselves. Let people be joyful and have holidays together a few days out of the year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

Devoting one day a year to being thankful for our families, friends, and lives is "objectively stupid"...

I'm thankful for my family every day of the year. Aren't you? I celebrate Thanksgiving, but if you're not thankful for your family on Wednesday the holiday isn't going to change that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Devoting one day a year to being thankful for our families, friends, and lives is "objectively stupid"...

I'm thankful for my family every day of the year. Aren't you? I celebrate Thanksgiving, but if you're not thankful for your family on Wednesday the holiday isn't going to change that.

Please stop. You know PP wasn’t claiming they are only thankful for their family one day a year. Stop with this childish nonsense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

Devoting one day a year to being thankful for our families, friends, and lives is "objectively stupid"...

That’s DCPS’s point. Make it about being thankful. Don’t make it about Native American mythology because the reality of that is pretty ugly.

[Anonymous]

I hated the line “if you celebrate.” WTH? Who doesn’t celebrate Thanksgiving?

Totally inappropriate comments in his note.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hated the line “if you celebrate.” WTH? Who doesn’t celebrate Thanksgiving?

Totally inappropriate comments in his note.

I’d like to know how many DCPS students identify as Native American.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hated the line “if you celebrate.” WTH? Who doesn’t celebrate Thanksgiving?

Totally inappropriate comments in his note.

My immigrant family doesn’t do anything for Thanksgiving.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://taibbi.substack.com/p/thanksgiving-is-awesome

This is great

[Anonymous]

Jehovah’s Witnesses do not do Thanksgiving. I’m sure there are others. This entire thread feels like right wing trolling. It’s ignoring the common knowledge that while Thanksgiving is a great time for family, it’s built on a mythology whose reality is centuries of loss for many American tribes. That’s not articulately earth shattering.

Telling your family that American Indians have had a bad time of it at the hands of settlers instead of the iconic cartoon potluck and handshakes in Plymouth or whatever is telling your kids something they should know.

There are many reasons to love this country, we don’t have to live with the ones that are harmful lies. Thank God for what we have, be nice to your neighbors, be humble and admit where you need forgiveness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hated the line “if you celebrate.” WTH? Who doesn’t celebrate Thanksgiving?

Totally inappropriate comments in his note.

My immigrant family doesn’t do anything for Thanksgiving.

We don't really celebrate it either. We got Asian food for dinner. Thankful for the owners who are always amazing and so responsible in how they handle covid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The problem isn’t Thanksgiving itself. It’s the myths surrounding Thanksgiving and the roles the Indians played in these myths.

Lincoln made Thanksgiving a national holiday after the Union won at Gettysburg. It didn’t really have anything to do with Pilgrims and the like but the mythology — reinforced in schools, natch — took on a life of its own.

This.