Francesca Hong Backlash

Wisconsin state Assembly member Francesca HongFrancesca HongAmerican politician (born 1988), a Democratic Socialists of AmericaDemocratic Socialists of AmericaUS political organization-endorsed candidate for governor, declined in a CNN interview to answer yes or no when asked whether she still stood by a 2020 post calling to “cancel Thanksgiving.” The deleted post said Thanksgiving celebrates colonialism and compared the COVID-19 pandemic to diseases transmitted from settlers to Indigenous populations. Hong also faced renewed scrutiny over earlier remarks about “proximity to whiteness,” including comments about her biracial son, who is half-white and half-Korean.