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.

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      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.

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    Disgraceful.

    Had the campaign to put Tubman on the $20 succeeded, they’d be removing her from it.

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    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.

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    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!

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    21 hours ago

    “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!”

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    Oh, ok, so now Civilization VII is more historically accurate than the National Park Service. That’s… ugh

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    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.