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…

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