Syracuse Student Columnist Calls Thanksgiving ‘Celebration of Genocide’
“Without genocide, the foundation of our traditional American identity falls apart”
This is what young people are taught today. It’s all so tiresome and stupid.
FOX News reports:
Syracuse student calls Thanksgiving ‘celebration of genocide’ in campus newspaper column
A Syracuse University student wrote in The Daily Orange, the university’s campus newspaper, that Thanksgiving is a “celebration of genocide.”
“Thanksgiving is, in essence, a celebration of genocide. The mass rationalization of this fact sustains the contemporary structures that inform American culture itself. Without genocide, the foundation of our traditional American identity falls apart,” Mateo Lopez-Castro wrote in a column last week.
Citing the John Sullivan campaign, he said the country at the outset of the American Revolution opted for “mass erasure” instead of peace and diplomacy toward Indigenous people in the country, “creating adequate conditions for the expansion of settler colonialism” and its development as an “independent entity,” Lopez-Castro wrote.
Lopez-Castro noted slavery and “white supremacy” as being celebrated throughout literature and film, including the film “Gone With the Wind,” although the U.S. “used the enslavement of African people as the primary tool in their respective genocide.”
U.S. society rationalizes genocide, Lopez-Castro claims, and the collective denial of genocide’s effects allows it to survive.
“Our entire society was built on genocide and continues to be,” Lopez-Castro wrote.
“We have internalized, accepted and standardized it throughout our efforts of cancerous growth. Recent American media, like the 2018 show ‘Yellowstone’ and the 2018 film ‘The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,’ have hesitated from or ignored the accuracy necessary to properly contextualize the role of Indigenous people in their stories,” the student added.
Lopez-Castro, a senior studying sociology, television, radio and film, pivoted to the Trump administration’s handling of the dissemination of information about the conflict in Gaza.
“Donald Trump’s administration has taken great efforts to silence the truths about the genocide against the Palestinians. It seeks to weaponize our struggles so that we may turn on one another, mold false narratives in the media and whitewash our true history and current reality. It pedestals genocidal campaigns and looks to hand out awards for its accomplices,” Lopez-Castro wrote.
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The 2025 pandemic is anhedonia.
The cure is deportation.
Plenty of productive hopefuls are dying to take your place, “sociology/film major.”
Someone needs to get this young man striving for relevancy a dictionary.
The definition of genocide is:
“the deliberate and systematic killing or persecution of a large number of people from a particular national or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group:
It seems to me that there are plenty of indians around (look at all the casinos) and too many arabs (over 500 million with 22 arab countries). If genocide was committed it failed.
“[Mateo Lopez-Castro] said the country at the outset of the American Revolution opted for “mass erasure” instead of peace and diplomacy toward Indigenous people in the country, “creating adequate conditions for the expansion of settler colonialism” and its development as an “independent entity,” Perhaps this “student” should read about the conflicts in the 1700s between the Iroquois and the Shawnees, Miamis, Wyandots, Delaware and other tribes in the Ohio valley. Perhaps this “student” should study the 1710 conflict involving the Catawbas that drove the Tuscaroras out of the Carolina’s and into the Iroquois confederacy. Perhaps this “student” should bone up on the bloody Wyoming and Cherry valley massacres during the American revolution prompting Washington to order the offending tribal villages to be destroyed. Perhaps this “student” should understand the political mistakes of the Cherokees when they sided with the French in the Seven Years war and were defeated by the British, and then sided with the British in the American Revolution and were defeated by the Americans, and then sided with the Confederacy in the Civil war and were defeated by the Americans all over again. This is not to say that any side was fully ethical but rather that this extended conflict was complex.
But this “student” misses the real historical lesson of Thanksgiving which was that the commune economic system with joint ownership of all the means of production was not working. After private property was allocated to individual families, then production dramatically increased, More fundamentally, Thanksgiving is a reflection of the gratefulness our forebears felt for their maker in their otherwise isolated situation. Today we can profit from both aspects of historical reality.
No, Chuckles, it’s a celebration of survival and of relationships based on mutual concern.
All of the “genocide” (primarily practiced by the extant natives) was apart from the things for which we give thanks and the occurrence of the ‘first’ Thanksgiving.
Not higher education, but higher indoctrination.
A demonstration of ideological blinkers andor complete historical ignorance. Thanksgiving is fundamentally about thanking God for His provision, and in the historical context, is focused on the settlement of the early colonies.
But if you repeat a lie often enough, especially to those committed to rejecting the truth, they will believe it in their pursuit of jihad.