Trump's Culture War Targets America's Museums

[Laodicean60]

Nathan Bedford Forrest Month is right around the corner!

He was a good calvary general. Jeb Stewart was messing around Lee didn't have critical intel of the Union army at Gettysburg.

 

[Aryeh Jay]

He was a good calvary general. Jeb Stewart was messing around Lee didn't have critical intel of the Union army at Gettysburg.

Good businesses man too, made a fortune selling humans.

 

[Bradskii]

The people who constructed the exhibit were driving an ideological narrative...

Then explain what that was. Tell us what narrative. And then explain why you think it's wrong.

 

[Bradskii]

so we aren't arguing on principle here

We most certainly are. If I think someone is wrong then I will tell you. All you you have to do is ask. You may not agree with me but I will tell you. But what someone else else has done at some point in regard to something that you think is relevant has NOTHING to do with what we are discussing.

Please concern yourself with the questions that have been asked.

 

[Laodicean60]

Good businesses man too, made a fortune selling humans.

Yes that was a hot business in the usa and around the world during that time.

 

[Aryeh Jay]

Yes that was a hot business in the usa and around the world during that time.

Around the world in 1860 world be the US, Brazil, Cuba, Porto Rico, and a handful of Dutch colonies. Most of the world abolished slavery decades earlier.

At least they were happy learning a trade.

 

[Pommer]

Around the world in 1860 world be the US, Brazil, Cuba, Porto Rico, and a handful of Dutch colonies. Most of the world abolished slavery decades earlier.

At least they were happy learning a trade.

AND getting to know the “correct” religion.

 

[Aryeh Jay]

AND getting to know the “correct” religion.

Can't be jumping around banging on drums and waving a chicken over your head now.

 

[FreeinChrist]

ADVISOR HAT

This thread had a small clean up.

PLEASE keep it civil. People are going to disagree with you. ​

 

[Aryeh Jay]

Can't be jumping around banging on drums and waving a chicken over your head now.

Oh, wait, never mind.

 

[Laodicean60]

Around the world in 1860 world be the US, Brazil, Cuba, Porto Rico, and a handful of Dutch colonies. Most of the world abolished slavery decades earlier.

At least they were happy learning a trade.

Yep around the world and you forgot Africa.

 

[Aryeh Jay]

Yep around the world and you forgot Africa.

Yes, Africa, other than Abyssinia (Ethiopia) what other countries were indipendent and not European colonies?

 

[Laodicean60]

Yes, Africa, other than Abyssinia (Ethiopia) what other countries were indipendent and not European colonies?

Why are you asking what's the point?

 

[JSRG]

The order includes additional provisions seeking to reinstate public monuments, memorials and statues that were "removed or changed to perpetuate a false reconstruction of American history, inappropriately minimize the value of certain historical events or figures, or include any other improper partisan ideology"

Welcome back, Confederate generals. Your value to this great nation (or at least the CSA) has been restored.

I don't see anything about Confederate generals in the article.

 

[SavedByGrace3]

The Administration is targeting the Smithsonian museums.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday directing Vice President JD Vance to eliminate "divisive race-centered ideology" from Smithsonian museums, educational and research centers, and the National Zoo.

"Once widely respected as a symbol of American excellence and a global icon of cultural achievement, the Smithsonian Institution has, in recent years, come under the influence of a divisive, race-centered ideology. This shift has promoted narratives that portray American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive." It goes on to say: "Museums in our Nation's capital should be places where individuals go to learn -- not to be subjected to ideological indoctrination or divisive narratives that distort our shared history."

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/27/nx-s1-5342914/smithsonian-president-trump-executive-order

When I saw the title, I thought he was throwing soup on priceless paintings or maybe gluing his hands to ancient statues—that kind of war on museums.

 

[FireDragon76]

Oh, wait, never mind.View attachment 362839

I know people have different ways to pray... but the chicken doesn't look so happy about it.

 

[Aryeh Jay]

I know people have different ways to pray... but the chicken doesn't look so happy about it.

They aren't.

 

[FireDragon76]

This is part of a broader attack on education. Fascist regimes attempt to enforce a uniform, nationalist ideology on everybody. That's what they do.

 

[Maori Aussie]

Fascist regimes attempt to enforce a uniform, nationalist ideology on everybody. That's what they do.

The Federal Department of Education is currently being disassembled, with authority flowing back to the States.

 

[FireDragon76]

The Federal Department of Education is currently being disassembled, with authority flowing back to the States.

The executive orders against teaching Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Critical Race Theory still stand, despite the fact they are in violation of our constitutional rights and the freedoms of intellectually inquiry.