dOnald Trump’s criticism of the Smithsonian Institution is because it focuses on “how bad slavery”, which seems like a joke, except like many ignorant, mean and candid racist views and directives issued by the White House over the past six months, isn’t even very interesting.
What makes the President and his slaughter (Vice Chairman JD Vance sits on the Smithsonian’s board) even more ridiculous and disturbing is that in the museum of the 21 Smithsonian’s AEGIS, the Smithsonian’s board is located on the Smithsonian’s board) and replaces the truth about history with “unity and constructive unity.” Among the banned images are a picture of former NIAID director Dr. Anthony Fauci (one of the president’s perceived enemies) and a picture of immigrants watching fireworks through gaps on the border wall.
Obviously, the purpose of removing the “lower American values, divide Americans by race or promote ideology that is inconsistent with federal law” is to use the past of the United States as a positive and perfect landscape that pretends nothing is wrong – not to mention evil – we have done evil on our shores since the founding of the nation.
The key is to establish a national identity to reflect the president’s view of himself as a model of moral purity, an angel-like existence never made a mistake, or even a moment of regret. If whites are never hurt, deprived, deprived of rights, enslaved and massacred our black and indigenous populations, then there is clearly no reason to take these measures (such as establishing a DEI program) to make up for powerful inequality and abuse of power, making the strong cause the weak the constitutive composition of the strong.
Like many “ideas” issued from the Oval Office, there seems to be no clarity or even common sense. Even the most stubborn magazine supporters may agree that slavery is “bad” by definition. Impressing with whipping and shaking ropes, buying and selling our humans is not a delusional fantasy.
Therefore, the only way to avoid making slavery seem “bad” is to not mention it at all, not to admit that it once existed, rather than admitting that this crime of humanity is perfectly legal from the founding of our country until the end of the Civil War.
It is speculated that the history of the civil rights movement – the image of Alabama Gov. George Wallace, which puts his attack dog on black protesters as another “bad” look to the United States – will also be removed from the museum’s walls. Why do we need to know the courage to separate schools and lunch counters when we effectively review the fact that they were once separated?
For whitewashing (pun) history to prevent students and museums from learning the truth is not only a serious insult to black and Native Americans, but also a problem for all of us. Because the fact is that the past explains the present, there is no history, so it is impossible to understand how we reach the present moment.
Teachers hope that students who supplement their education by traveling to the Smithsonian will confuse the museum. Did Donald Trump hope they conclude that most black people headed to our shores on our ships to bring his ancestors here from Bavaria? If there was no slavery, why did the civil war fight? Did Native Americans choose to be stolen, slaughtered and forced to book, see their children taken away and sent to severe and punitive boarding schools?
In my experience, people (especially children) know when they are lying. It is very likely that children will feel that something about the museum exhibition does not add up, which is an important part of the story.
But that’s the point. Attacks on museums, such as those on education, are meant to convince us that the truth is irrelevant, there is no truth, and the wisest process is to blindly accept and repeat everything the authoritarian government chooses to tell.
There are some disagreements about who says first: “Those who don’t remember the past are destined to repeat it.” Some claim it was Winston Churchill, others attribute it to George Santayana. But does anyone doubt its authenticity?
Perhaps the most nightmare explanation is that our current government is actually want to We want to repeat the most annoying events of our shared past – and make sure every cruel act disappears from our collective consciousness. Knowing that our most abominable deeds will be removed from our historical memory, what we do now will have no consequences for the years to come – there is no reality, it is a terrible freedom.
According to the “historically accurate” museum exhibitions and future history books, there will be no slavery, no discrimination, no massacres of our indigenous population. There has never been a time when hard-working, law-abiding immigrant families were separated, when more children were stolen from parents, and according to current estimates, 80,000 people (most of whom are totally innocent) were imprisoned, while thousands were kidnapped on the streets and deported from a hard-working country. None of these will be mentioned, and none of them can be said or written on the wall, lest we allow the ideology of unperson to make America look bad.
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