The Thanksgiving holiday is manufactured propaganda that has been used to further “racial exclusion,” leftwing Axios claimed on Thanksgiving Eve.
The outlet insists that Americans need to reject “the myth of Thanksgiving” and understand the holiday better because “the nation is growing more diverse and requiring new voices to tell the country’s history.”
Most of the article focuses on race, condemning not only white Pilgrims but even a white abolitionist and families watching football.
Axios acknowledges, “The first proclamation of an American ‘Thanksgiving’ was November 1, 1777, when the 13 colonies joined together to celebrate the victory of [sic–it was the American victory over the British] the British at Saratoga,” but credits a public relations push by abolitionist Sarah Josepha Hale for the holiday.
Axios says Hale’s PR play to adopt “a…