WSJ Refuses To Cancel Traditional Thanksgiving Op Ed

As NBC suggested we not enjoy an over-priced turkey this Thanksgiving, the WSJ refused to bow to the left’s demands to cancel its traditional Thanksgiving editorials heralding America’s earliest European settlers. In a Monday op ed, Fox News noted its sister media outlet declared it would not bend to “efforts by progressives to stop the publishing of the ‘racist’ 1620 account of the first Thanksgiving, as well as a mid-20th century ‘contemporary contrast’ of American progress.’”

The editorial board explained: “No doubt it was only a matter of time. The progressives have come for our annual Thanksgiving editorials (run every year since 1961 without complaint). They won’t succeed, but we thought we’d share the tale with readers for an insight into the politicization of everything, even Thanksgiving.

“… But, we live in a new era when the left sees nearly everything through the reductive lens of identity politics. It sees much of American history as a racist project that should be erased,” this time, driven by a petition signed by 50K on a left-wing site Change.org … [it’s] petition makes a historical point, which is fair enough, but wraps it in the grievances of contemporary politics to clam [our] editorials are racist. Somehow the Pilgrims and their chronicler share responsibility for genocide. The point of the statement & petition isn’t to promote debate but to shut it down. We don’t mind giving critics a chance to make their case, but we won’t bend to political demands for censorship.” Amen.

Davd Soul