Current Events > Trump adds insult to injury over slavery.

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Following Trumps order, Interior Department officials issued policies ordering agency employees to report any information, including signage and gift shop items, that might be out of compliance.Trump officials also launched an effort asking park visitors to report offending material, but they mostly received criticisms of the administration and praise for the parks.

The latest orders include removing information at Harpers Ferry National Historic Park in West Virginia, two people familiar with the matter said, where the abolitionist John Brown led a raid seeking to arm slaves for a revolt. Staff have also been told that information at the Presidents House Site in Philadelphia, where George Washington kept slaves, does not comply with the policy, according to a third individual.

...Separately, Park Service officials have ordered the removal of a photograph illustrating violence against slaves, known as The Scourged Back, at one national park. The photograph, taken in 1863, shows scars on the back of a man probably named Peter Gordon from wounds inflicted by his masters before he escaped slavery.

"If I erase all history of slavery it never happened, genius!!!" -Trump probably

I'm gonna be so mad if I live to see history whitewash that idiot fucker.

Strider102 posted...

"If I erase all history of slavery it never happened, genius!!!" -Trump probably

He doesn't want to erase it from history. He wants to bring it back.

Yet another racist move by our not racist at all president. Go fuck yourself Trump.

Somehow, I just don't think Harris would be doing such a thing.

lilORANG posted...

He doesn't want to erase it from history. He wants to bring it back.

By erasing it from history. No one will question it if it never happened.

Which means he can then bring it back.

If people don't know much or anything about slavery history, it's easier to make people think it wasn't that bad or that its not so bad to bring it back

Zikten posted...

If people don't know much or anything about slavery history, it's easier to make people think it wasn't that bad or that its not so bad to bring it back

Hence why there's PragerU propaganda that says.

"Slavery wasn't that bad, think of all the good things that came from it and all the things black people learned as a result!"

Strider102 posted...

Hence why there's PragerU propaganda that says.

"Slavery wasn't that bad, think of all the good things that came from it and all the things black people learned as a result!"

Yea in one, 2 kids go back in time and talk to Christopher Columbus. He tells the kids that slavery is better than being killed so with that in mind, the kids learn that what he did to natives was actually a kindness

Here is a clip of the exact moment I am talking about from the prageru kids episode about Columbus. Its from a show about 2 siblings who go through history and meet famous fascists who always tell them what they did was actually not evil cause reasons

https://youtube.com/shorts/WTpTB8CmTSs?si=pgGvWP5ZNhKDS7EX

Umbreon posted...

Somehow, I just don't think Harris would be doing such a thing.

Harris accepted endorsements from moderate Republicans. If you cant see how this is the same thing I dont know what to tell you.

Strider102 posted...

Hence why there's PragerU propaganda that says.

"Slavery wasn't that bad, think of all the good things that came from it and all the things black people learned as a result!"

Our boy Charlie Kirk loved to point out that enslaved black people committed relatively few crimes.

Being executed for killing a slave owner is much better than being a slave. That's the real lesson history books taught me.

Real history. Not whatever bullshit maga wants to push.

ablegator posted...

Harris accepted endorsements from moderate Republicans. If you cant see how this is the same thing I dont know what to tell you.

Is this sarcasm? There's a huge distance between accepting an endorsement from certain Republicans and literally trying to pretend that slavery was a good thing...Kamala Harris was not a perfect candidate but you're delusional if you really think "whitewash slavery at our national parks and monuments" is something that her administration would have done.

Strider102 posted...

By erasing it from history.

That's the worst part. He's not trying to erase it from history, he's trying to Ministry of Truth it.

He wants to remove criticism of slavery and promote it as a good thing. Like DeSantis' comment about slavery being "professional skills development."

It's why Trump and his ilk champion the 1776 Project and try to memory home the 1619 Project.

Shit is way more sinister than just reading history.

DnDer posted...

That's the worst part. He's not trying to erase it from history, he's trying to Ministry of Truth it.

He wants to remove criticism of slavery and promote it as a good thing. Like DeSantis' comment about slavery being "professional skills development."

It's why Trump and his ilk champion the 1776 Project and try to memory home the 1619 Project.

Shit is way more sinister than just reading history.

And it serves no real political purpose either. It's not like his supporters are going to like him any less if he *doesn't* do this. It does absolutely nothing to benefit him or his party in any way, which means it's not even a calculated political move of any kind - it's just what they really believe and want people to think, and that's disturbing on so many levels.

Remember how America used to be able to talk shit about China because China censors discussion of the Cultural Revolution? Well...not anymore. We're actually worse - the Communists still have to pretend that Mao was great, but even they acknowledge that the Cultural Revolution was a huge mistake (they just have to tiptoe around criticism of Mao, because they still derive much of their political legitimacy from him). We're going *backwards*, and that's some foul shit.

Remember when we started removing statues glorifying Confederate icons and Republicans whined about erasing history? Now the same people are actually trying to restrict what history can be told and even rewrite it. Fuck all the way off.

Hambo posted...

Remember when we started removing statues glorifying Confederate icons and Republicans whined about erasing history? Now the same people are actually trying to restrict what history can be told and even rewrite it. Fuck all the way off.

The modern-day GOP takes its roots from southern Dixiecrats, who were, of course, the descendants of slaveholders. Kinda makes sense.

And of course they're trying to re-write history because they were already successful. The right-wing media machine was able to successfully whitewash January 6 as a "protest" or a "riot" when in fact it was a fucking terrorist attack, and the liberals went along with it. One of the worst aspects of Biden's presidency is that he didn't come down hard enough on the terrorists while he could, and now they've been pardoned. It's only a matter of time before one of them runs for Congress or is appointed to Trump's cabinet.

SSj4Wingzero posted...

The modern-day GOP takes its roots from southern Dixiecrats, who were, of course, the descendants of slaveholders. Kinda makes sense.

And of course they're trying to re-write history because they were already successful. The right-wing media machine was able to successfully whitewash January 6 as a "protest" or a "riot" when in fact it was a fucking terrorist attack, and the liberals went along with it. One of the worst aspects of Biden's presidency is that he didn't come down hard enough on the terrorists while he could, and now they've been pardoned. It's only a matter of time before one of them runs for Congress or is appointed to Trump's cabinet.

Hell, the terrorist mastermind of 1/6 is currently "serving" as president.

Hambo posted...

Remember when we started removing statues glorifying Confederate icons and Republicans whined about erasing history? Now the same people are actually trying to restrict what history can be told and even rewrite it. Fuck all the way off.

It was always projection. Even back then.

At least the public knew whats what

Farmers love Trump because in his first term he made it easier to effectively enslave the people working on their farms so they could make more profit while exploiting their workers even more and on top of that they got bailout money, they still love Trump because the ones who manage to survive until 2026 will get more bailouts and the already approved money for them in the BBB and there was that comment Trump made a few months ago about making these farmers effectively new age slave masters and how his ghouls, Lucnik and Miller want Americans to fill those job specifically poor americans and people in prisons.

Of course the non wealthy farmers are gonna be priced out, go under long before that BBB money comes to them but you know who will get it? The corporations who buy those now ruined farmer's land for pennies on the dollar thanks to acer trader an app that JD Vance has stock in and stands to make millions off in the following months if he hasn't already

All of this, this whole thing is a way to transfer wealth to the ultra wealthy, grant them legalized slavery, grant them even more of our tax dollars and further enrich and empower themselves at least until the eventual economic collapse because running the government like a ponzi scheme can't last forever but it doesn't have to last forever just enough for these people to live out their lives in luxury or until they can enrich themselves enough to simply flee to another country while maintaining their lifestyle.

Cruelty, Selfishness and absolute Greed will destroy this country and billions will pay the price for a few hundred people's personal comfort. This is the end stage of capitalism with no restraints and no enforcement of those restraints and it's not just America that will suffer this end, it will spread and has spread across the planet.

I WILL celebrate when that orange diarrhea stain finally kicks the bucket. In a perfect world that day would become a national holiday.

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Because they fully intend to implement it again

yikes

Zikten posted...

Yea in one, 2 kids go back in time and talk to Christopher Columbus. He tells the kids that slavery is better than being killed so with that in mind, the kids learn that what he did to natives was actually a kindness

Here is a clip of the exact moment I am talking about from the prageru kids episode about Columbus. Its from a show about 2 siblings who go through history and meet famous fascists who always tell them what they did was actually not evil cause reasons

https://youtube.com/shorts/WTpTB8CmTSs?si=pgGvWP5ZNhKDS7EX

That video is so absurd, if I didn't know it was PragerU, I would have thought it was a parody skit.

Strider102 posted...

"If I erase all history of slavery it never happened, genius!!!" -Trump probably

Good luck erasing that history from foreign archives, fuckhead.

That legacy of slavery will out you Donald, no matter hard you try to smear your shit all over the history books.

Considering that slavery is really the only thing that billionaires can do to get the rest of the money from everyone else...

Strider102 posted...

Hence why there's PragerU propaganda that says.

"Slavery wasn't that bad, think of all the good things that came from it and all the things black people learned as a result!"

No joke the very first PragerU video I ever saw like maybe ten years ago was about how the civil war was all about slavery and ending slavery.

I was surprised when the next video was about Democrats being racist