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National Park Service database flags hundreds of items that might 'disparage' America
An internal government database reviewed by The Washington Post demonstrates the vast scope of the Trump administrations ongoing effort to revise or remove information on African American history, climate change and other topics at hundreds of national park sites.At the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument in Mississippi, staff members asked the Trump administration to review an entire exhibit on the Black teens brutal 1955 killing by White men and his mothers decision to publicize it though the parks staff warned that its removal would leave the site completely devoid of interpretation.
At Arches National Park in Utah, park managers wondered whether a sign about the damage that graffiti and invasive species leave on the iconic red rock landscape violates a Trump directive to focus solely on Americas natural beauty.
And at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park in West Virginia, staff members have asked federal officials to decide whether a document that describes an abolitionists murder by a mob might denigrate the murderers.
These displays and materials are among several hundred that managers have flagged at hundreds of national park locations since last summer in response to administration orders to scrub sites of partisan ideology, descriptions that disparage Americans, or materials that stray from a focus on the nations beauty, abundance, or grandeur. The submissions were compiled in an internal government database and reviewed by The Washington Post, which confirmed its authenticity with current federal employees.
https://wapo.st/4aVrK2g
REPUBLICANS ARE REWRITING OUR NATION'S SHARED HISTORY FOR PARTISAN POLITICAL PURPOSES.
They cannot abide dissent in any shape or form.
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National Park Service database flags hundreds of items that might 'disparage' America (Original Post)
Zorro
20 hrs ago
OP
This maladministration is certainly going all out for Cancel Culture ! They want to cancel EVERYTHING non-white !
eppur_se_muova
20 hrs ago
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All part of Putin's plan of installing Trump and then burning America to the ground.
Botany
20 hrs ago
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eppur_se_muova
(41,608 posts)1. This maladministration is certainly going all out for Cancel Culture ! They want to cancel EVERYTHING non-white !
(And non-male, of course.)
Botany
(77,008 posts)2. All part of Putin's plan of installing Trump and then burning America to the ground.
I smell Stephen Miller/Bannon all over this crap.