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submitted 9 months ago by forcefemjdwon@hexbear.net to c/news@hexbear.net

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. For example, the Smithsonian American Art Museum today features “The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture,” an exhibit representing that “[s]ocieties including the United States have used race to establish and maintain systems of power, privilege, and disenfranchisement.” The exhibit further claims that “sculpture has been a powerful tool in promoting scientific racism” and promotes the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct, stating “Race is a human invention.”

Three months after the sex realism EO they are now doing race realism

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[-] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 3 points 9 months ago
[-] Shaleesh@hexbear.net 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Section 4, part a, subsection i:

[D]etermine whether, since January 1, 2020, public monuments, memorials, statues, markers, or similar properties within the Department of the Interior’s jurisdiction have been 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;

This is specifically attempting to restore the effigies of slaveowners and their defenders that were taken down during and after the George Floyd protests. Hopefully most of those weren't on federal property and those that were got properly disposed of. Its a fairly small thing in the grand scheme of things, and certainly not the worst thing in the EO. However it would be nice to have fewer monuments that push the myth of the lost cause of the confederacy.

[-] PKMKII@hexbear.net 1 points 9 months ago

(iii) take action, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, to ensure that all public monuments, memorials, statues, markers, or similar properties within the Department of the Interior’s jurisdiction do not contain descriptions, depictions, or other content that inappropriately disparage Americans past or living (including persons living in colonial times), and instead focus on the greatness of the achievements and progress of the American people or, with respect to natural features, the beauty, abundance, and grandeur of the American landscape.

Malicious compliance: Say horrible things on plaques related to Confederate figures under the argument that as rebels and secessionists, they weren’t actually Americans.

[-] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 2 points 9 months ago

looking forward to the new Smithsonian exhibit: "Slavery didn't happen, and if it did it benefitted the slaves and hurt whites." Curated by Dr. Blert Vander Honk, PhD in Philosophy of Christian History from the Coeur d'Alene Bible & Tire College's Conservatory of Eugenics.

[-] Krem@hexbear.net 2 points 9 months ago

"slavery was invented by muslims. the kindly whites, out of the goodness of their hearts, took mercy on african slaves, already enslaved by muslims and other africans mind you, and treated them to a free intercontinental voyage, and then free food and free lodging at the whites' expense, then immediately, barely two centuries later, abolished slavery"

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 2 points 9 months ago

Chuds actually believe this

[-] Xenomorph@hexbear.net 1 points 9 months ago

What's Stefan Molyneux been up to these days? We could hire him to curate it.

[-] lib1@hexbear.net 1 points 9 months ago

Last I knew he was praising Icelandic social norms and crediting their success with the fact that they’re ethnically homogenous

[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 1 points 9 months ago
[-] propter_hog@hexbear.net 1 points 9 months ago

Republicans are fucking weird

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