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- cross-posted to:
- usa@lemmy.ml
Summary
The National Park Service removed Harriet Tubman’s image and quote from its “Underground Railroad” webpage, along with references to slavery and the Fugitive Slave Act.
The revision now emphasizes “American ideals of liberty” and downplays historical realities.
Historians and scholars condemned the move as a distortion of history and erasure of Tubman’s legacy.
The change aligns with broader Trump administration efforts to eliminate DEI content across federal sites, which critics say suppresses discussions of race, identity, and historical truth.
what the fuck are they going to ultimately say the underground railroad was? What will they say it was helping who escape? THIS WHOLE THING IS STUPID!
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
might be a bit pretentious to quote 1984 but boy, try telling me the right wing reality distortion field doesn’t exist.
That’s legitimately why the republicans want to rename the Gulf of Mexico
What do you mean “rename”? It’s always been the Gulf of America.
we have always been allied with eurasia. we have always been at war with east asia
Ouch, this physically hurt haha
“That’s what Jesus called it. That’s what my daddy called it. And it’s worked out just fine, since…”
Not pretentious at all. This is the exact thing Orwell was warning about. Never a better time to quote it.
It was a fun place people could pretend to be trains! Choo chooo!!
The Enola Gay dropped one tiny atom on Japan
Hey man, get with the times, that name makes Hesgeth angy
Enola still sounds a bit woman-y. Maybe replace it with something manly like Donald.
The Enola Gay becomes the Elon Straight!
Or, to be the correct amount of condescending and dehumanizing, the “Elon Normal.”
This fucking guy 😹
what did I do?
You know damn well what you did, guy.
No way would they put up anything that suggested someone could be trains.
These are the same folks that say the civil war was fought for “states rights”.
They have no problem with ignoring details.
To be replaced by “Harold Whiteman”, a dapper man of Nordic ancestry, who helped white slaves escape from white slavery with the help of the friendly neighborhood watch organization, the KKK!
Soon you’ll only get “Did you mean 'the subway’?” search results with “underground railroad”.
what are you talking about, the underground railroad has always been the 4/5 subway line in NYC that connects the Trump Building in Wall Street with the Trump Tower in 5th Ave, right?
As if that fuck would ever take the train