Inside Trumps Racist Crusade To Erase American Heroes From US History

[skews13]

President Donald Trump’s administration has made it a top priority to remove anything associated with diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives from federal websites, regardless of the context. But in doing so, it’s erasing history—and making a compelling case for why we shouldn’t be dismantling the Department of Education.

One glaring example of this is Pete Hegseth’s Department of Defense, which, in early March, erroneously removed a historic image of the B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, from the Pentagon’s website. (The plane dropped the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II.) Why? Because the aircraft’s name contains the word “gay.”

This absurdity is a powerful illustration of how far Trump and his cronies will go in their quest to eliminate anything that might be construed as “inclusive.” But this particular flub reveals the administration’s true intentions: to distort historical facts for the sake of ideological purity.

More recently, on Tuesday, it was reported that the Defense Department removed articles about the Navajo Code Talkers from its website, supposedly following a directive from Trump and Hegseth to eliminate all DEI-related content from Pentagon and military sites.

As we’ve highlighted before, though, under Trump, DEI has been reduced to little more than a smokescreen. The term now serves as a tool for denying opportunities to people of color, women, and minorities—if not erasing them entirely from the history books.

Inside Trump’s racist crusade to erase American heroes from US history

President Donald Trump’s administration has made it a top priority to remove anything associated with diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives from federal websites, regardless of the context. ...

www.dailykos.com

Watching all of this get reversed, and brought back on steroids, will be entertaining. Almost as much as watching maga heads explode when it happens.

 

[Correll]

President Donald Trump’s administration has made it a top priority to remove anything associated with diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives from federal websites, regardless of the context. But in doing so, it’s erasing history—and making a compelling case for why we shouldn’t be dismantling the Department of Education.

One glaring example of this is Pete Hegseth’s Department of Defense, which, in early March, erroneously removed a historic image of the B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, from the Pentagon’s website. (The plane dropped the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II.) Why? Because the aircraft’s name contains the word “gay.”

This absurdity is a powerful illustration of how far Trump and his cronies will go in their quest to eliminate anything that might be construed as “inclusive.” But this particular flub reveals the administration’s true intentions: to distort historical facts for the sake of ideological purity.

More recently, on Tuesday, it was reported that the Defense Department removed articles about the Navajo Code Talkers from its website, supposedly following a directive from Trump and Hegseth to eliminate all DEI-related content from Pentagon and military sites.

As we’ve highlighted before, though, under Trump, DEI has been reduced to little more than a smokescreen. The term now serves as a tool for denying opportunities to people of color, women, and minorities—if not erasing them entirely from the history books.

Inside Trump’s racist crusade to erase American heroes from US history

President Donald Trump’s administration has made it a top priority to remove anything associated with diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives from federal websites, regardless of the context. ...

www.dailykos.com

Watching all of this get reversed, and brought back on steroids, will be entertaining. Almost as much as watching maga heads explode when it happens.

When you have an issue like this baked into a massive organization, there will be some "baby with the bathwater".

It's fine. Any real history, can be put back in later. It is not going anywhere, after all.

Just celebrate the service of the people involved instead of using it to bash America, or white people.

NO problem.

 

[Mac1958]

Watching all of this get reversed, and brought back on steroids, will be entertaining.

This is the part that drives me nuts. Back and forth, all or nothing, back and forth.

This is the way it goes when we insist that only one tribe has skin in the game.

We just don't learn.

 

[White 6]

When you have an issue like this baked into a massive organization, there will be some "baby with the bathwater".

It's fine. Any real history, can be put back in later. It is not going anywhere, after all.

Just celebrate the service of the people involved instead of using it to bash America, or white people.

NO problem.

"baby with the bathwater" is right. They are a paranoid lot.
Do you get much of this "bashing white people" thing, actually, where you are. I am in the Mid-South. It doesn't come up much and I have never personally experienced it.

 

[Lisa558]

This is the part that drives me nuts. Back and forth, all or nothing, back and forth.

This is the way it goes when we insist that only one tribe has skin in the game.

We just don't learn.

Tribe? What are you talking about? We are all Americans.

 

[Sunni Man]

DEI is totally unAmerican and runs counter to the Constitution.
It artificially segregates people into racial /gender groups.
Claiming that everyone is equal.
But some people are more equal than others.
Marxism 101

 

[Lisa558]

"baby with the bathwater" is right. They are a paranoid lot.
Do you get much of this "bashing white people" thing, actually, where you are. I am in the Mid-South. It doesn't come up much and I have never personally experienced it.

I am in a liberal city, and yes….whites are being discriminated against, particularly white males. Identity politics is off the charts.

OTOH, black females are the new “golden boy.” They are disproportionately hired for management roles. And they KNOW IT. I overheard a black guy tell a black woman to apply for a job she was barely qualified for. She told him she’d never get it, and he said “yes you will. You’re a black female.”

This new phenomenon to elevate black females as the be-all and end all is ridiculous. They even put up a large statue of an overweight, plainly dressed black woman in some liberal European city just…..because, she’s a black woman doncha know.

And we had a poster come up with a lie that black women “are the most educated demographic” in the country - which she picked up from some false, weird interpretation of who has made the most progress.

It’s past time to stop looking at the gender/race combo as the primary factor in who gets hired for jobs, and go strictly by qualifications and competence.

 

[Lisa558]

Mac1958

Instead of just saying “funny,” why don’t you explain what you mean by individual tribes in the U.S.? We are all Americans,

 

[Lesh]

President Donald Trump’s administration has made it a top priority to remove anything associated with diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives from federal websites, regardless of the context. But in doing so, it’s erasing history—and making a compelling case for why we shouldn’t be dismantling the Department of Education.

One glaring example of this is Pete Hegseth’s Department of Defense, which, in early March, erroneously removed a historic image of the B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, from the Pentagon’s website. (The plane dropped the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II.) Why? Because the aircraft’s name contains the word “gay.”

This absurdity is a powerful illustration of how far Trump and his cronies will go in their quest to eliminate anything that might be construed as “inclusive.” But this particular flub reveals the administration’s true intentions: to distort historical facts for the sake of ideological purity.

More recently, on Tuesday, it was reported that the Defense Department removed articles about the Navajo Code Talkers from its website, supposedly following a directive from Trump and Hegseth to eliminate all DEI-related content from Pentagon and military sites.

As we’ve highlighted before, though, under Trump, DEI has been reduced to little more than a smokescreen. The term now serves as a tool for denying opportunities to people of color, women, and minorities—if not erasing them entirely from the history books.

Inside Trump’s racist crusade to erase American heroes from US history

President Donald Trump’s administration has made it a top priority to remove anything associated with diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives from federal websites, regardless of the context. ...

www.dailykos.com

Watching all of this get reversed, and brought back on steroids, will be entertaining. Almost as much as watching maga heads explode when it happens.

And removing Jackie Robinson as well

This is chilling

It’s not accidental

 

[White 6]

I am in a liberal city, and yes….whites are being discriminated against, particularly white males. Identity politics is off the charts.

OTOH, black females are the new “golden boy.” They are disproportionately hired for management roles. And they KNOW IT. I overheard a black guy tell a black woman to apply for a job she was barely qualified for. She told him she’d never get it, and he said “yes you will. You’re a black female.”

This new phenomenon to elevate black females as the be-all and end all is ridiculous. They even put up a large statue of an overweight, plainly dressed black woman in some liberal European city just…..because, she’s a black woman doncha know.

And we had a poster come up with a lie that black women “are the most educated demographic” in the country - which she picked up from some false, weird interpretation of who has made the most progress.

It’s past time to stop looking at the gender/race combo as the primary factor in who gets hired for jobs, and go strictly by qualifications and competence.

You really should move. It sounds like it sucks where you are. I don't hear much of that down here. You folks on the coasts, screwed up. The rest of us, had to make a profit, so we hired on competence, experience, etc, so we didn't get the boot (ourselves) for bringing in people, based on things that would not add value and efficiency to our operations, especially in Mgt positions.

 

[Lisa558]

You really should move. It sounds like it sucks where you are. I don't hear much of that down here. You folks on the coasts, screwed up. The rest of us, had to make a profit, so we hired on competence, experience, etc, so we didn't get the boot (ourselves) for bringing in people, based on things that would not add value and efficiency to our operations, especially in Mgt positions.

I help care for my elderly mother, and she can’t be moved at this stage.

“After”, I plan to move further away from liberals.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

As we’ve highlighted before, though, under Trump, DEI has been reduced to little more than a smokescreen. The term now serves as a tool for denying opportunities to people of color, women, and minorities—if not erasing them entirely from the history books.

Exactly.

Trump is a racist, bigot, and misogynist.

 

[Lesh]

I am in a liberal city, and yes….whites are being discriminated against, particularly white males. Identity politics is off the charts.

OTOH, black females are the new “golden boy.” They are disproportionately hired for management roles. And they KNOW IT. I overheard a black guy tell a black woman to apply for a job she was barely qualified for. She told him she’d never get it, and he said “yes you will. You’re a black female.”

This new phenomenon to elevate black females as the be-all and end all is ridiculous. They even put up a large statue of an overweight, plainly dressed black woman in some liberal European city just…..because, she’s a black woman doncha know.

And we had a poster come up with a lie that black women “are the most educated demographic” in the country - which she picked up from some false, weird interpretation of who has made the most progress.

It’s past time to stop looking at the gender/race combo as the primary factor in who gets hired for jobs, and go strictly by qualifications and competence.

Save us your racist made up anecdotes

No one believes them

 

[80zephyr]

Its called "malicious compliance". Some low life government worker who wants to screw Trump pulls pictures of the Enola Gay thinking "I show him".

Its all bullshit.

 

[80zephyr]

And removing Jackie Robinson as well

This is chilling

It’s not accidental

Yep. Its not accidental. Its called "malicious compliance".

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

And removing Jackie Robinson as well

This is chilling

It’s not accidental

Conservatives defending Trump's racism is just as chilling.

 

[Independent thinker]

President Donald Trump’s administration has made it a top priority to remove anything associated with diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives from federal websites, regardless of the context. But in doing so, it’s erasing history—and making a compelling case for why we shouldn’t be dismantling the Department of Education.

One glaring example of this is Pete Hegseth’s Department of Defense, which, in early March, erroneously removed a historic image of the B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, from the Pentagon’s website. (The plane dropped the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II.) Why? Because the aircraft’s name contains the word “gay.”

This absurdity is a powerful illustration of how far Trump and his cronies will go in their quest to eliminate anything that might be construed as “inclusive.” But this particular flub reveals the administration’s true intentions: to distort historical facts for the sake of ideological purity.

More recently, on Tuesday, it was reported that the Defense Department removed articles about the Navajo Code Talkers from its website, supposedly following a directive from Trump and Hegseth to eliminate all DEI-related content from Pentagon and military sites.

As we’ve highlighted before, though, under Trump, DEI has been reduced to little more than a smokescreen. The term now serves as a tool for denying opportunities to people of color, women, and minorities—if not erasing them entirely from the history books.

Inside Trump’s racist crusade to erase American heroes from US history

President Donald Trump’s administration has made it a top priority to remove anything associated with diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives from federal websites, regardless of the context. ...

www.dailykos.com

Watching all of this get reversed, and brought back on steroids, will be entertaining. Almost as much as watching maga heads explode when it happens.

Who was erased? No one.

 

[CDN1]

Save us your racist made up anecdotes

No one believes them

Lol, another woke dupe.

I'm genuinely curious. What do you believe is the overall bent of interracial violence in America today?

 

[Lisa558]

Conservatives defending Trump's racism is just as chilling.

Hiring the most competent is not racist.

 

[M14 Shooter]

President Donald Trump’s administration has made it a top priority to remove anything associated with diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives from federal websites, regardless of the context. But in doing so, it’s erasing history....

Tell us about how you cried over the renaming of Ft. Hood and Ft. Bragg.