Posts Tagged ‘thanksgiving’

Being Thankful for Clarity and Focused Rage

November 24, 2010, filed under Essay Archive; No Comments.
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Thanksgiving has always been among my least favorite holidays. Not merely because of the mendacity of the traditional narrative regarding its origins — you know, the whole “Indians and Pilgrims living in harmony” nonsense that conveniently ignores the genocide being planned even then by the latter — but because confining gratitude to one day of […]

Holocaust Denial, American Style

November 26, 2008, filed under Essay Archive; 1 Comment.
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Recently, after a presentation to teachers about racial bias in high school curricula, I got into a tiny spat with an instructor who objected to my using the word “holocaust” to describe the process by which nearly 99% of indigenous Americans perished from the 1400s to the present day. He also objected to the use […]