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By: Deconstruction: I Know How to Do It Too « Locust blog

Deconstruction: I Know How to Do It Too « Locust blog — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 07:18:14 +0000

[...] article published by Racism Review where MSU “sociologist”, Matthew Hughey, citing no sources, alleged that the early English puritans enslaved the local Indians. His article was an exercise in [...]

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By: Menaka

Menaka — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:49:41 +0000

This was an excellent post. I think you hit the nail on the head by pointing out that it’s not enough just to bust the myths. Going into education, I’m constantly playing teacher-student scenarios in my mind, and have always found the thought of perpetuating the Thanksgiving Day myth both disturbing and counterproductive. I agree with you that a day of service and/or fasting, rather than shameless indulgence, would be a much better way both to give thanks for what we have learned and respect the injustices that so many of us have suffered.

Thank you!

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By: S.L. Toddard

S.L. Toddard — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:00:53 +0000

Mr. Hughey is right to expose the multiculturalist myth of Thanksgiving as a sham. It would be of great benefit to Americans if he would continue working to expose further the multiculturalist, egalitarian version of American history for the canard it is. Indeed, the first Thanksgivings were not celebrations of egalitarianism and feel-good one-world multiculturalism, they were celebrations by a particular people, of their particular triumphs in the New World over the environment and the foes they vanquished. Much as the Declaration of Independence, despite the rhetoric, was not truly a declaration of universal, abstract rights (and therefore not the founding document of a fictional propositional nation), but rather a political statement of separation of one particular people (Americans, i.e. the Anglo settlers and those who came after that fully assimilated into their culture) from another (the British). Americans (unhyphenated) are a particular ethnic group with collective interests and rights like any other, and that our history should be perverted by multicultists, jacobins and the like – for the express purpose of divorcing us from our history, ancestry and each other – is foul calumny.

Though I cannot say I find his suggestions sensible (why on earth would Americans have a “day of mourning” to celebrate the triumphs of their ancestors?) I do hope he will do more work in this vein, and help us purge multiculturalist distortions from our history and society.

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