Smithsonian target by trump regime

[pauldun170]

Trump executive order on Smithsonian targets funding for ‘improper ideology’

JD Vance to lead plan as Trump says there’s been ‘concerted’ effort to rewrite US history with ‘distorted narrative’

www.theguardian.com

Museums being purged.

 

[Brainonska511]

If I recall the insanity correctly, he also makes reference to race being science-based, like racists of old justifying their racism, instead of something that is only a social construct.

 

[pauldun170]

If I recall the insanity correctly, he also makes reference to race being science-based, like racists of old justifying their racism, instead of something that is only a social construct.

Here is one of the things that set Vance and Miller off

Smithsonian Race Guidelines: Rational Thinking & Hard Work Are White Values

A graphic displayed in the guidelines, entitled "Aspects and Assumptions of Whiteness in the United States," declares that rational thinking and hard work, among others, are white values.

www.newsweek.com

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article244309587.html

 

[zinfamous]

yep! exactly what you expect from a handful of avowed and proud Nazis running things.

 

[brycejones]

I thought republicans were deeply concerned about “erasing history”.

 

[K1052]

I assume they are going to turn the Museum of African American History into a right wing caliper enthusiast podcast dome or something.

Incredible to have an administration that is literally pro-segregation and would put back the Jim Crow laws everywhere if they could. Part of that EO implies putting up more monuments to confederates. Really reactionary stuff by people who hate the last 150 years or so of racial progress.

 

[IronWing]

I thought republicans were deeply concerned about “erasing history”.

Erasing bad; whitewashing good.

 

[thilanliyan]

I don't get Vance...he's married to a not-white person...but supports this stuff

 

[eelw]

Snowflakes? NAH!!!

 

[Fenixgoon]

I don't get Vance...he's married to a not-white person...but supports this stuff

I don't get his wife. Why stay married to this guy.

 

[Jaskalas]

I don't get Vance...he's married to a not-white person...but supports this stuff

Are you certain that you don't "get" him?
I find it easy to explain. Think Taliban where Women are property. In Vance's mind, he owns a nice piece of meat. Full stop.

The distinction is that she's not "human". And without agency, in his view, then there's no danger or threat from her race.
Republicans are happy to have slaves of any color. So long as they "know their place".

Perhaps the confusion is in calling them Nazis. They are not the German Nazis of the 1940s. While the parallels of fascism and racism are vast, they still each have their own flavors and styles. MAGA is happier with enslavement than with pure eradication.

 

[Jaskalas]

I don't get his wife. Why stay married to this guy.

Stockholm says hi.

 

[brycejones]

I don't get his wife. Why stay married to this guy.

She comes from a socially conservative family. Properly “managing’ the lower castes is just fine with her.

 

[ivwshane]

Are you certain that you don't "get" him?
I find it easy to explain. Think Taliban where Women are property. In Vance's mind, he owns a nice piece of meat. Full stop.

The distinction is that she's not "human". And without agency, in his view, then there's no danger or threat from her race.
Republicans are happy to have slaves of any color. So long as they "know their place".

Perhaps the confusion is in calling them Nazis. They are not the German Nazis of the 1940s. While the parallels of fascism and racism are vast, they still each have their own flavors and styles. MAGA is happier with enslavement than with pure eradication.

Our history shows that we had nazi sympathizers mainly because of the race purity thing. Fascism was a byproduct of enabling such purity.

 

[Brainonska511]

I don't get his wife. Why stay married to this guy.

White people don't have a monopoly on being pieces of shit.

 

[K1052]

White people don't have a monopoly on being pieces of shit.

Somehow people are constantly surprised by right wing Indians specifically. Like hello read basically anything at all about their homeland's politics.

 

[eelw]

Somehow people are constantly surprised by right wing Indians specifically. Like hello read basically anything at all about their homeland's politics.

True. Prior to the election on a different political board, whenever I made comment about how can any Palestinian even consider not voting Harris. I always got reply because politically they do lean more right. But the threat by the orange monkey to carpet bomb the Gaza Strip isn’t a red line that can’t be crossed? And even now, when I bring up Maple MAGA. Like these Canadians would be willing to vote for Hitler if he promised to reduce housing costs and cut immigration. And because he’s not a Liberal