Thanksgiving Derangement Syndrome
A school fight breaks out over dressing students as Pilgrims and Indians.
Just dress all the kids up as yams and cranberries instead and be done with it.
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This is just another way to destroy the american culture. The founding fathers would be storming washington DC by now.
“Some say having students dress up as pilgrims and Native Americans is ‘demeaning.’”
Have the kids dress up as turkeys, that should do wonders for their self- esteem.
Surprise, surprise…
Culture? Traditions? There’s hardly anything left anymore. The left wing whack job nutbags are still eliminating Christmas every chance they get.
All in the name of “diversity” and political correctness.
When are people going to wake up?
To all those trying to PC-ify Thanksgiving or any other holiday:
LIGHTEN. UP.
No one says you have to participate if you don’t want to. But don’t try to make the rest of us feel guilty.
‘Cause we don’t. And we have no reason to.
Wow. Rawhatever, get over yourself, you PINHEAD.
I agree.
Lighten the heck up.
I also support Christmas carols sung in school, even though I find them personally insipid.
It’s obvious that they all failed Commonsense 101. I feel like telling them “Quit yer whining and serve the turkey.”
The lefty loons want us all to wear white clothes and sneakers and kill ourselves to catch a passing comet so we can meet space aliens…oh wait..that was a different cult.
It’s too bad these crazy parents can’t understand the underlying, positive morals of teaching kids to sit down with those with which they have differences and move forward. Damnit, I forgot, the libs don’t have morals. Man, I am just off today.
I’ll bet none of those Pilgrims were transgendered either.
BIGOTS!
Perhaps I’m just being a fly in the ointment here, but… Raheja’s field wouldn’t even EXIST were it not for those evil pilgrims and their books and their printing presses and their written communication and such.
No way do we want to celebrate two different ethnic groups setting aside their differences and sharing a meal. Jerks.
Sorry, I’m name calling again.
On the other hand, teaching them that their nation is uniquely wicked and evil is a real self-esteem builder.
Funny…. I remember being an Amerikaner boy (Air Force brat) living in a little town in Germany, playing Cowboys and Indians with the local German kids my age.
All the German kids wanted to be Indians. I always had to be a damn Cowboy.
Same as when we played Combat. The German kids always wanted to be the Americans. I was always a Nazi, but I got to wear a cool helmet!
Glad this (fill in your own favorite epithet here) professor isn’t teaching my kids. If Thanksgiving isn’t the embodiment of “the American experience,” what is?
Hey!! Stop trying to bring logic and facts into this!
A friend of mine founded an organization named People Offended by Offended People, or P.O.O.P. There are no membership dues or application forms needed, you only have to speak out when stupidity like this rears its ugly head.
ECS
maybe we should just send them to a same sex wedding?
Let me get this straight the Plymouth colonists (The Pilgrims) and Native Americans (The Wampanoag Indians) had a harvest festival (as we know as Thanksgiving)and the problem is these children are doing a childs reenactment of the events. Then we wonder why our children have no grasp of our History or Culture. Screw the PC police. I don’t remember the Plymouth colonists (The Pilgrims) enslaving the Native Americans (The Wampanoag Indians) either when I was learning my history of the New World in school.
Because the term “Thanksgiving” may be offensive to some people on cultural and religious grounds, the holiday formerly known as Thanksgiving will now be referred to as “Food Day”.
That is all. – The Cultural Police
Why does it always have to be about color?
/sarc
Is there something in the air out in California? How else could so many people be this demented?
I guess they’re teaching the kids that American Indians are sensitive, whiney, victim-hood mongers.
They hate the Pilgrims because they were Christians escaping religious persecution.
They hate the Indians for not being the victim all the time.
They hate teaching US history because they’re liberals.
Let her know how you feel:
http://english.ucr.edu/people/faculty/raheja/index.html
Michelle Raheja, Assistant Professor
(951) 827-1799
michelle.raheja@ucr.edu
Hmmmm. I thought all the demented ones moved to Seattle area.
“Some say having students dress up as pilgrims and Native Americans is ‘demeaning.’”
Some say having leftarded nanny-statist crapweasels in charge of our schools is “idiotic”, “nonsensical”, and “disgraceful”. And they’d be right.
Maybe we could alter it according to Raheja’s view of history. The students dressed as Indians could whine about their feelings and the students dressed as Pilgrims could give them liquor and small pox infected blankets?
Or they could just share some turkey.
“Diversity” only has meaning if it makes straight white CHristians look like schmucks… otherwise, straight white Christians are schmucks.
Can’t win for losing with these dipsticks.
That would be caving in to the demands of the vocal fringe. I say tell Raheja to shove it up her wigwam.
Jarhead
to add what you recounted, the Wampanoags offered their knowledge of farming to the Pilgrims AND taught them how to prepare the food stuffs they provided. What better way to show the positive interrelationships that were had back then. This Raheja is a idiot of the first level and a moron.
An idiot, I mean.
Don’t worry. Someday you’ll graduate to the 7th grade, where they think such things are childish.
Wow, how ironic – she teaches in the English Dept. at UC Riverside….
[rolls eyes...sigh]
Arm an academician with a high level graduate degree and a political agenda, and voila! … and what do you get???
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! – Pilgrims, “Indians”, et al.
I love Thanksgiving. It is better than Christmas in my estimation because we cannot do to the essence of Thanksgiving what we have done to Christmas.
My family came to the United States between 1900 and 1920. Most of my friends growing up were in the same situation. I never met someone who traced their ancestry back to the Mayflower until I met my college roommate.
Yet I loved dressinig up as a Pilgrim or an Indian and putting on a little skit about the First Thanksgiving. Yes it was 99% myth but so what.
My son’s kindergarten is celebrating “Narvest Festival” today. I guess “Thanksgiving” is too controversial.
We are screwed.
Another case of a minority opinion spoiling it for the majority. I hope the mothers who have no problem with this custom just go ahead and hold the gathering. Let the kids have fun and if Raheja wants to boycott it, no-one is holding a gun to her head and making her go along.
uh ok mr. Scrooge
those are some wonderfully inspired songs…see Handel’s Messiah, which is probably the most inspired piece of music ever written….though amazing grace is right up there…
On a tangential note, my wife’s boss, an Air Force Colonel, has prohibited his officers from mentioning “Christmas”.
Excuse me?! Isn’t Christmas a FEDERAL HOLIDAY?!!! I’m not a very happy camper.
I will give thanks this Thanksgiving that I do not know people like this PC bunch. Yet, if I did I would give them a good tongue thrashing of what total idots they are being, who the children really by taking a look in the mirror professor.
My great-grandparents were full-blooded Cherokee Indians (yes, Indians, not Native Americans…sheesh). As a direct descendant of the proud Cherokee nation, I am offended by the desire of ultra-sensitive Indians to banish from the memories of American children how Indians dressed. I was always taught to be very proud of my heritage. What is so offensive about a cute kid wearing a cut-out feather head-dress and beads? I love it.
>Narvest Festival”
I meant HARVEST Festival.
Michelle Raheja’s problem is that she’s part Seneca, and we kicked the snot out of them every time they backed the wrong side. Of course, they slaughtered a bunch of frontier settlers and destroyed their settlements in the process.
Do you think the liberals ever wonder why us “Malkinites” are the way we are? Maybe some of us are rebelling against the whining, nanny, PC crap we were subjected to as kids (and our entire lives). I see a whole generation of conservatives coming down the pike.
No. After this year I’m quitting to work the farm with my pa.
#37 — Thanks for the clarification, Room 237! I was Googling “Narvest Festival” and muttering to myself, “Did I miss something??” HA!
I’m honestly surprised that Thanksgiving is still “celebrated” in this country. Just as you can’t find the name of Jesus anywhere in the Christmas section of most stores, the whole story of Thanksgiving has been lost/hijacked in our culture.
Because of its timeliness, here’s something Rush Limbaugh wrote on the subject.
I don’t consider Messiah a “Christmas carol.”
I was talking about the run of the mill “Rudolph” and “Here Comes Santa Claus.”
And in any case I would never begrudge children their songs just because I may pierce my eardrums with an awl if I hear “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus” one more time.
On November 25th, 2008 at 2:16 pm, chapoutier said:
I agree.
Lighten the heck up.
I also support Christmas carols sung in school, even though I find them personally insipid.
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“Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer” (stupid), “The Christmas Shoes” (downer!) . . . . some are beautiful, but some are pretty insipid.
Oh, and lest we forget: “Last Christmas, I gave you my heart . . .”
PLEASE!
The problem with these people is there is no sense of fogiving and forgetting. Raheja’s attitude is EXACTLY the attitude that perpetuates hate and causes endless wars. She’d fit in well in the Balkans.
If you want to adopt her attitude then we are justified in wiping every Native American out for what they did to Custer and countless settlers. While were at it, let’s kill all the Japanese for Peral Harbor and the way they treated our POW’s.
Yes, IN THE DISTANT PAST there were many bad things that happened. But on that one day we call Thanksgiving, people did get together IN PEACE. I think it is a fine example of how people should treat one another. It is worth celebrating. it was one good day that can serve as a model for all our days.
I’m experiencing Derangement Syndrome Derangement Syndrome (DSDS). If I pointed out that Krauthammer was joking when he coined the term, and that accusing people you disagree with of having a mental disorder is nothing more than a childish means of weasling out of rational debate, would that make it stop? No? Didn’t think so.
You really hate that song, don’t you?
Your fellow icelanders (damn fish muchers) are rioting in the streets!!! Methinks they have the right idea and we should be storming capital hill.
oh ok..I think of silent night, gloria in excelsis deo, etc…
as far as the Messiah, the symphony usually performs it at christmas…
On November 25th, 2008 at 2:52 pm, huggybear said:
I’m experiencing Derangement Syndrome Derangement Syndrome (DSDS). If I pointed out that Krauthammer was joking when he coined the term, and that accusing people you disagree with of having a mental disorder is nothing more than a childish means of weasling out of rational debate, would that make it stop? No? Didn’t think so.
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Maybe we say it with our “tongue in cheek”, too. Some of their reactions seem a bit overblown, is what we mean to say.
OUT damn demon named michael, the spirit of christ compelles you!!! the spirt of christ compelles you!!
On November 25th, 2008 at 2:40 pm, MNUSMCDavid said:
Jarhead
to add what you recounted, the Wampanoags offered their knowledge of
You got that straight MNUSMCDavid and what a feast they must of had lobster, oysters,clams, trout, venison, wildberries, wild herbs etc. etc.
Just dress all the kids up as yams and cranberries instead and be done with it.
That’s the equivalent of calling Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony a song.
Yeah…those are a fine and beautiful. I think Little Drummer Boy falls just on the side of acceptable.
I am hoping they go in a deep depression and are forced into cannibalism so that, at last, the Icelandic scourge is wiped from the face of the Earth.
millimeter by millimeter we let these agenda morons deprive us of our liberties. it was inch by inch, but we gave that up 2 decades ago. we used to be able to smoke, drink, and laugh at jokes. then we had cigarette pack warnings, then ban the ads, then ban smoking in public buildings, then ban smoking in all buildings, then ban smoking everywhere. it’s up to us to tell these dizzy busybody b****es to go home, kiss their lesbian partner hi, and tend to their business.
Ditto for my ex-husband. His family was in Germany for 6yrs in the 60’s and I swear he told me the same thing almost word for word several years ago.
Huh.
I’m Chocktaw, and the only thing that insults me is these kooks injecting their personal issues into a simple and well-meaning celebration.
If the kids want to put construction paper hats and feathers on, more power to them.
Just don’t make ‘em sign GLBT pledge cards.
On November 25th, 2008 at 2:53 pm, b-cat said:
On November 25th, 2008 at 2:51 pm, frostrt said:
Oh, and lest we forget: “Last Christmas, I gave you my heart . . .”
PLEASE!
You really hate that song, don’t you?
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It was pretty cheesy. But it’s all in good fun; “hate” is a strong word. I’m more of a traditionalist when it comes to my Christmas music.
If you like it, to each their own.
they should return to their VIKING ROOTS…rape, pillage, pirate!!!
its doing wonders for the economy of somalia!!!
more fun too!!
Yeah, this year my inlaws are foregoing the traditional Thanksgiving and instead we are doing a Lobster, crab, oysters, steamers…with corn and potatoes.
I am very excited by this.
On November 25th, 2008 at 2:55 pm, frostrt said:
Uhhh….
On November 25th, 2008 at 2:57 pm, cheapseat said:
…So are some of yours.
I was in Germany in grade school in the 60s too. We didn’t play with the Germans, though. They’re evil white guys.
Clearly too many VChiefs not enough Braves
When did the public school system turn into the “designer school system” that is what the individuals, inserting themselves into the School’s curiculum are doing (they think it is their right to design a TRADITIONAL school play?” They are trying to make their childs PUBLIC school experience al carte….too funny the Adminstrators need to stop putting up with the “in put” that is nothing more then self centered narcissism “who” gets to decide for everyone else? I betcha the “who” are not in the Majority.
They know they can design their own credit card, they watched the commericial on TV so now they want to design their children’s Thanksgiving Play…Why? Marketers told them they should be able to design and personalize whatever they want…there are some not too bright people out there who get lots of information wrong. Did anyone watch “How Obama Got Elected” I am not sure how these folks, process information but the results show they don’t GET IT!
I think there should be a $10,000 fine per day for stores that put up Christmas “stuff” prior to the day after Thanksgiving.
This would, of course, not apply to Christmas-themed stores that are open year round.
Please, let Bjork be the first one roasted!
On November 25th, 2008 at 2:55 pm, sonofdy said:
Oh, and lest we forget: “Last Christmas, I gave you my heart . . .”
PLEASE!
OUT damn demon named michael, the spirit of christ compelles you!!! the spirt of christ compelles you!!
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Whoa, Snodfy! Now I have an image of his head spinning around and pea soup all over the place! How Christmasy!
Nahhh…too much work plucking all the feathers.
Have the kids learn to recite George Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation of Oct 3, 1789
third paragraph:
… a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed …
Indeed
So you’d have no problem with an aggrieved few dictating how your kindergarten child gets to celebrate Thanksgiving at school?
Careful all you Iceland bashers, there’s Vikings lurking around here…
chap…. WAH!!!
can I visit?…. I miss have oyster dressing and lobster….. it stinks here in MN….lol
Ah, but Minnesotans have the famous Black Fly Pie.
ja, shoor, ja betcha.
On November 25th, 2008 at 3:00 pm, huggybear said:
On November 25th, 2008 at 2:55 pm, frostrt said:
Some of their reactions seem a bit overblown, is what we mean to say.
Uhhh….
On November 25th, 2008 at 2:57 pm, cheapseat said:
millimeter by millimeter we let these agenda morons deprive us of our liberties. it was inch by inch, but we gave that up 2 decades ago. we used to be able to smoke, drink, and laugh at jokes. then we had cigarette pack warnings, then ban the ads, then ban smoking in public buildings, then ban smoking in all buildings, then ban smoking everywhere. it’s up to us to tell these dizzy busybody b****es to go home, kiss their lesbian partner hi, and tend to their business.
…So are some of yours.
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Yes, libs aren’t the only ones who get carried away. I like to think of myself as being able to avoid “Derangement Syndromes”, but conservatives are not immune.
The example you cited was a bit over-the-top. As long as no one tries to make it ILLEGAL for me to celebrate (or not) whatever holidays I please in whatever way I please and go to church wherever I choose (or be an atheist), I’m cool.
Followed by the acronym for Open Seas Haranguers In Transit.
I bet the libtards would be delighted if they were dressed up as “all the diseases” brought over here by the EVIL white man! File it under cultural awareness.
Michelle Raheja can only see (or only wants to see) conflict between the Pilgrims and the Natives with whom they lived, and apparently shared not only a meal but the means to eke out a living in what was still wilderness. While there is plenty of shame to bear with the way the Indians were ultimately treated by the European settlers, to dismiss a Thanksgiving reneactment by schoolchildren as a racist act is dispicable. I saw on TV the other night that Hitler, as a soldier in WWI, had a fit when he found out that German soldiers and Allied soldiers in the trenches on the western front had an unofficial cease-fire during Christmas Eve to express Christmas greetings to one another, and even play a little soccer with one another, knowing full well that they’d have to go back to killing each other the next day. It’s a shame that the Thought Police can’t give children a moment to reenact something that expresses one of our better moments, not only as Americans, but as human beings, without the heavy hand of “political correctness” coming down.
Just wait…next up on the CA ballots: cancel Christmas and Thanksgiving…
“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.”
~Marcus Cicero~
106 B.C. – 43 B.C.
Dedicated to truth altering professors everywhere. I’d like to pit Dr. Yeagley against Prof. Raheja in a frank discussion of what is and is not offensive to Indians.
Black Fly Pie? don’t know that one…. is it anything like Shoo Fly Pie( I love that pie….)
That one caught me by surprise! I almost covered my screen in cola!
Excellent passage from the original GW, dancingwithdachshunds.
Dehumanizing? Well that means:
to make somebody less human by taking away his or her individuality, the creative and interesting aspects of his or her personality, or his or her compassion and sensitivity toward others.
Dressing up like pilgrims and native Americans for a Thanksgiving celebration is not dehumanizing by any stretch of the imagination. The alleged “English Professor” should choose her words more carefully and resist gross exaggeration.
Good one. LOL
On November 25th, 2008 at 3:07 pm, chapoutier said:
Please, let Bjork be the first one roasted!
Nahhh…too much work plucking all the feathers.
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Indeed, her fashion sense has always been . . . well . . . err . . . dinstinctive?
I couldn’t agree more! Add Santa Baby to that list.
See Chap – We can agree sometimes.
As an ear of corn I cry BIGOT!
As a grape, I just let out a little wine – bigot.
Nothing inspires the Christmas spirit in my soul as does hearing the “Barking Dogs Jingle Bells”
Does anyone know how old the smallpox blankets charge has been around? How long can the smallpox virus exist once being exposed to the Open Air? Has anyone ever looked into the science of a blanket being able to retain a virus for how just how long a period time? THE CDC transmitting Smallpox by “blankets” not very likely.
http://listlva.lib.va.us/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=va-hist;dp45JA;20060308214949-0600
I always though Minnesota was famous for Lutefisk, MNUSMCDavid.
Sorry if this was mentioned already – too many posts to read in the time I have – BUT:
“Some say having students dress up as pilgrims and Native Americans is ‘demeaning.’”
I wonder what this woman thinks of Native American Pow Wows, where adults and children BOTH are dressed in native attire – is THAT demeaning as well?
This woman is just another example of liberal mentality – I’LL decide what is appropriate for all of you.
On November 25th, 2008 at 3:36 pm, Joy said:
I couldn’t agree more! Add Santa Baby to that list.
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I actually think that one’s kinda cute, but it wouldn’t be at the top of my list. Little too much emphasis on “gimme”, if you pay attention to the words.
People. I have declared MYSELF as the final arbiter of which Christmas songs (carols or not) are acceptable.
Santa Baby is allowed because I think Victoria’s Secret uses it in a Christmas-themed TV ad.
Thus I have spoketh and thus it shall be.