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!!
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
This, and all the other sites they’ve taken down, are meant to be freely accessible to everyone. This is what your taxes actually pay for. The government runs a massive research operation, and library, for everyone. This is a book burning.
They don’t gotta burn the books, they just remove 'em.
While arms warehouses fill as quick as the cells
Rally 'round the family…
Then let’s find
someonesomething else to burn
“Eliminate DEI content” actually means “government-sponsored open bigotry”.
Yeah, this isn’t DEI, and the media needs to call that out.
If by “this,” you mean the reference towards Tubman, then you’re wrong. Talking about the accomplishments of anyone who isn’t a straight white Christian man IS promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion! DEI is a good thing! Opposing it is explicitly racist!
It’s genuinely challenging trying to perceive what level of sarcasm you’re on, as a non-American and not hearing the tone of your voice.edit my bad I read that poorly, brain fart
Literally none. DEI straight up means treating everyone the same. They’re working on giving it some fucked up negative connotations the same way they have with “woke” and “critical race theory,” but if you look at the history and reality of where those words come from and what they mean, it becomes clear they’re playing with language, trying to avoid looking racist to the general public while still implementing racist policy.
Yeah sorry I read that as a negative on some level.
Like my brain made an “isn’t” an “is” or skipped a “not”.
That’s why I asked. Thought someone was being like “but won’t someone please think of the straight white men” and then I thought well obviously that must be sarcasm but then the general tone didn’t seem as sarcastic…
The large bowl of weed I smoked and listening to 8 out of 10 cats while browsing may have contribute to me making that mistake.
My bad.
Here, let me contribute by actually promoting content relating to history and especially history of black women in the US.
I loved that movie. I don’t know why but empowerment of minorities and the vindication that they get in movies like that gets me really emotional, especially after a few rums.
New quote:
“Immigrants mysteriously disappeared from their jobs in the South and reappeared in the North. No women were involved in this process.”
All of the workers in the south worked really hard for their boss and earned a promotion and moved into luxury in the north. All of these people were hardworking Americans and none of them were black
And provide some hope? Nah, if they are erasing history then they will just say “No slave ever successfully escaped. They were required by law to be returned if found and the North didn’t follow the law. The North, those law breakers, were trying to pick a fight for decades. The Noble South was attacked and lost their righteous cause due to brotherly betrayal.”
The white washing is just pathetic. MAGAts a such snowflakes.
This is about flexing their power. They are showing that they won and they are going to force their values down everyone else’s throat.
Don’t belittle them by calling them pathetic. Call it what it is.
This is fascism.
Fascism is pathetic. It’s extremely dangerous and causes massive suffering, but it’s also pathetic.
the fascists want to be acary and hate being called pathetic because it means we’re not scared of them. the fascists are pathetic
Yeah, well what’s the end game here …that white USAians never did anything bad, or that African Americans never did anything?
Something like that.
“Yeah, about your pamphlet…I’m not seeing anything about German history between 1939 and 1945.”
“Everyone was on vacation.”
“What are you talking about, Germany invaded Poland in 1939.”
“We were invited! Punch was served. Check with Poland!”
“You can’t just ignore those years! Thomas Mann fled to America because of Nazism’s stranglehold on Germany!”
“Nope…He left to manage a Dairy Queen!”
“A Dairy Queen? That’s preposterous!”
“I will hear NO MORE insinuations about the German people. NOTHING BAD HAPPENED!”
Oh, ok, so now Civilization VII is more historically accurate than the National Park Service. That’s… ugh
In other news, Harriet Tubman has been collecting social security for 200 years and her remains have been deported back to her own country of El Salvador.
Makes sense, after all she was a DEI hire.
Jesus fucking Christ
The modern iteration of book burning creates a lot less smoke and noise, so it can fly under the radar.
One of my more fun conspiracies is that we have been going through this cycle for eons. There’s no previous record of this beyond myths of giants and angels because eventually society gets so advanced permeant records of its existence cease. Everything is digital. It can be erased with the bat of an eye. This is why all we can find is carvings from the beginning of our iteration with memories from people as to what existed before the crash and then it gets lost. We look at it as myths but maybe they weren’t. Maybe they were more advanced than us and pushed back to the stone age.
Wow, I’m so glad I live in this stupid fucking country. 🤦♂️
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!
They’re just following orders. Like a good nazi
Holy fucking shit! This is it! I’ve had it! WTF!!!
When is the next protest?!
Holy flying fucking Jesus!
No need to wait. You got this.
There was a really big one on Saturday.
I know, when is the next one? One is not enough. Apparently these guys need us to watch everything they do. Like two year olds but evil and nazi.
The same people that organized Saturday’s protests put together this Lemmy community: https://50501.chat/
It looks like April 19th is the next one.
Thank you!
Dunno man. Shits gettin wild and isnt stopping anytime soon.
They’re reading 1984 and applying the wrong part of it.
