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Hi Kid: Is Thanksgiving Immoral?
Featuring: Thanksgiving Genocide, Hostility Brought to You by DEI, & the Feminist Roots of Thanksgiving
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LET’S TALK ABOUT IT…
Did Thanksgiving Usher in Genocide?
Is Thanksgiving a day on which Americans should celebrate the blessings in our lives or is Thanksgiving better commemorated by mourning and thoughts of betrayal, destruction, and oppression?
What should our local kids be taught about Thanksgiving? What should we all know about this uniquely American holiday?
Is Thanksgiving Evil?
Poudre School District recommends a variety of resources for teachers to incorporate in their Thanksgiving lessons through the district’s DEI Inclusive Calendar and Events and we were interested to realize many of the PSD recommended links focus on negative messages and highlight Thanksgiving as a day of genocidal evil.
One of PSD’s recommended teaching resources for teachers to include in local classrooms is an interview on the far-left-leaning daily media outlet Democracy Now! with self-described indigenous historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. In the exciting interview (click on the image below to watch), Ortiz provides her extremely negative belief that, “Thanksgiving has never been about honoring Native Americans…it’s…the origin story of the United States, the beginning of genocide…”
PSD’s recommended video goes on to teach: