The woke mob came for Thanksgiving this year as food blog Eater issued a trigger warning for its green bean casserole while many on social media warned the holiday hurt Indigenous Americans.
Eater, a recipe website that many turn to for holiday cooking ideas, added trigger warnings to its Thanksgiving recipes, like that of its popular green bean casserole, as a way to acknowledge the holiday's origins.
The editor's note read: 'Thanksgiving traces its origins to an uneasy, temporary alliance between 17th-century English settlers and members of the Wampanoag Confederacy. This year, Eater is choosing to acknowledge that history in our coverage of the holiday.'
Eater's decision to join the woke this year comes as other condemnations against Thanksgiving flooded Twitter, including posts from liberal media outlets, elected officials and even from a weather website.
Eater posted an editors note in their Thanksgiving recipes citing the history of the holiday
MSNBC began the war on Thanksgiving early this year with an interview with Gyasi Ross, a member of the Blackfeet tribe who condemned the holiday celebration
Ross called theThanksgiving holiday the beginning of a genocide that is still on-going
The left-leaning MSNBC began the war on Thanksgiving early this year with an interview with Gyasi Ross, a member of the Blackfeet tribe, last Saturday, who called the holiday a celebration of a harmful myth.
'Instead of bringing stuffing and biscuits, those settlers brought genocide and violence,' Ross said. 'That genocide and violence is still on the menu.'
USA Today put its own spotlight on the violent history of the holiday with its article, 'What is Thanksgiving to Indigenous people? A day of mourning.'
'To most Natives, Thanksgiving is not a celebration,' Dennis Zotigh, a tribal citizen, told USA Today. 'Natives, particularly in the New England area, remember this attempted genocide as a factual part of their history and are reminded each year during the modern Thanksgiving.'
Many are using #NationalDayOfMourning and holding marches with that slogan across the nation to remind America of the holiday's history.
Others criticized the holiday and called today a National Day of Mourning instead
One Twitter, Nick Estes, wrote with that hashtag, 'Thanksgiving epitomizes a make-believe nation's fake
