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Amid anti-DEI push, National Park Service rewrites history of Underground Railroad
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That was the charge levied against the Africans captured as slaves who took over the slave ship Amistad and tried to sail it back to Africa. They were just off the coast of the US when they got control of the ship, got captured by the US Navy, and were put on trial for having stolen themselves from their masters.
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Parks Service is now encouraging citizens to discuss their hurt feefees.
An example image of a sign leaked to NPR for Wilson's Creek National Battlefield in Missouri, the site of the second major battle of theCivil War War of Northern Aggression, ahead of its potential installation, asks visitors to identify "any signs or other information that are negative about either past or living Americans or that fail to emphasize the beauty, grandeur, and abundance of landscapes and other natural features." (The sign also asks for feedback concerning areas and services that need repair or improvement.)
"It's pretty dangerous when you start rewriting history," said Theresa Pierno, CEO and president of the National Parks Conservation Association, an independent national parks advocacy nonprofit. " It's so important that we learn from our history. To think that that could be erased or changed because visitors might prefer that story not be told — or not be told accurately — is frightening."
National Park signage encourages the public to help erase negative stories at its sites
Trump's original order included a clause ordering Burgum to remove content from sites that "inappropriately disparages Americans past or livingAn example image of a sign leaked to NPR for Wilson's Creek National Battlefield in Missouri, the site of the second major battle of the
"It's pretty dangerous when you start rewriting history," said Theresa Pierno, CEO and president of the National Parks Conservation Association, an independent national parks advocacy nonprofit. " It's so important that we learn from our history. To think that that could be erased or changed because visitors might prefer that story not be told — or not be told accurately — is frightening."
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I had to look it up.
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism is a 2018 book written by Robin DiAngelo about race relations in the United States. An academic with experience in diversity training, DiAngelo coined the term "white fragility" in 2011 to describe what she views as any defensive instincts or reactions that a white person experiences when questioned about race or made to consider their own race. In White Fragility, DiAngelo views racism in the United States as systemic and often perpetuated subconsciously by individuals. She recommends against viewing racism as committed intentionally by "bad people".
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Everybody needs their safe spaces. What better choice for a bunch of fragile whites than a civil war battlefield where the Union sort of lost?
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White denial has been identified as a defensive response by white people, in which realities of inequality are denied or downplayed.
White diversion is a term coined by the academic Max Harris to denote a phenomenon in which white people may obstruct dialogue or acknowledgement of race-based discrimination by redirecting or comparing the subject to other social issues.
White fragility is a range of defensive responses by white people. White people react to "racial stress" with an "outward display of emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and behaviors such as argumentation, silence, and leaving the stress-inducing situation"
Reverse Racism Cameron McCarthy argues that a form of defensiveness can be an insistence on a relativistic view of history in which white people are also the victims of historical oppression and racism.
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Whiteness theory is a field within whiteness studies concerned with what white identity means in terms of social, political, racial, economic, culture, etc. Whiteness theory posits that if some Western societies make whiteness central to their respective national and cultural identities, their white populations may become blind to the privilege associated with White identity. The theory examines how that blindness may exclude, otherize and perhaps harm non-white individuals and segments of the population.
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White diversion is a term coined by the academic Max Harris to denote a phenomenon in which white people may obstruct dialogue or acknowledgement of race-based discrimination by redirecting or comparing the subject to other social issues.
White fragility is a range of defensive responses by white people. White people react to "racial stress" with an "outward display of emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and behaviors such as argumentation, silence, and leaving the stress-inducing situation"
Reverse Racism Cameron McCarthy argues that a form of defensiveness can be an insistence on a relativistic view of history in which white people are also the victims of historical oppression and racism.
White defensiveness - Wikipedia
Whiteness theory is a field within whiteness studies concerned with what white identity means in terms of social, political, racial, economic, culture, etc. Whiteness theory posits that if some Western societies make whiteness central to their respective national and cultural identities, their white populations may become blind to the privilege associated with White identity. The theory examines how that blindness may exclude, otherize and perhaps harm non-white individuals and segments of the population.
Whiteness theory - Wikipedia
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I believe I have at least one of the gold or silver certificate bills. I also have some "Hawaii dollars" , which I inherited from my WWII veteran father, which were issued in Hawaii during WWII. The idea was that, if the Japanese took the islands, the US would invalidate the "Hawaii" dollars so the Japanese couldn't use them to fund their war effort.
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My wife displays all those symptoms. Maybe I should write some theses on Wife Denial, Wife Diversion, and Wife Fragility and call it "Wifemess Theory." There should be a whole field of Wife Studies.White denial has been identified as a defensive response by white people, in which realities of inequality are denied or downplayed.
White diversion is a term coined by the academic Max Harris to denote a phenomenon in which white people may obstruct dialogue or acknowledgement of race-based discrimination by redirecting or comparing the subject to other social issues.
White fragility is a range of defensive responses by white people. White people react to "racial stress" with an "outward display of emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and behaviors such as argumentation, silence, and leaving the stress-inducing situation"
Reverse Racism Cameron McCarthy argues that a form of defensiveness can be an insistence on a relativistic view of history in which white people are also the victims of historical oppression and racism.
White defensiveness - Wikipedia
Whiteness theory is a field within whiteness studies concerned with what white identity means in terms of social, political, racial, economic, culture, etc. Whiteness theory posits that if some Western societies make whiteness central to their respective national and cultural identities, their white populations may become blind to the privilege associated with White identity. The theory examines how that blindness may exclude, otherize and perhaps harm non-white individuals and segments of the population.
Whiteness theory - Wikipedia
Or...if we just get along with each other, maybe there's no need for me to insist that she do a lot of acknowledgement that she's sure to deny. I can say, "I don't like it when you do that" without insisting that she does it because she's a wife.
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Wifemess Theory - with an "m"? Clever. Welcome to New Gilead!
Absolutely, individuals should be treated as individuals! But sociological trends apply to groups and studies of individuals are of a different use than the study of groups and group dynamics.
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National park to remove exhibit of famed photograph showing former slave’s scarred back, says report
The famous photo is among dozens of exhibits on slavery said to be nixed by the Trump administration
In 1863, at the height of the Civil War, two Baton Rouge photographers captured an image of a former slave's horrifically scarred back that shocked white Americans across the Union.Now that photo is among dozens of exhibits about slavery at several national parks, which have reportedly been ordered removed by the Trump administration.
According to The Washington Post, National Park Service officials have taken exception to various signs and displays at the Harpers Ferry National Historic Park in West Virginia and George Washington's old house in Philadelphia, where the first U.S. president kept nine slaves.
All were deemed to violate Trump's executive order on "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History" in March, which ordered the Interior Department to purge national monuments and historic sites of any content that "inappropriately disparage Americans past or living".
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That's unfortunate.
Part of the context around historic events that happened at Harper's Ferry was the brutalization that was part and parcel of chattel slavery in the US, so it does a disservice to cultural memory of historic sites to remove actual historical context around them. But it does fit an authoritarian-friendly campaign of "patriotic education" that glosses over the darker chapters in a nation's history.
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