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AverageJoe

(2,382 posts) Fri Mar 28, 2025, 10:35 AM Friday

We have always been at war with Eastasia

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2025/3/28/trump-orders-removal-of-improper-ideology-from-top-us-museums

In one of his latest executive orders signed on Thursday, titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History”, Trump placed Vice President JD Vance in charge of overseeing the changes to “restore the Smithsonian Institution to its rightful place as a symbol of inspiration and American greatness”.

“The Smithsonian Institution has, in recent years, come under the influence of a divisive, race-centered ideology,” Trump’s executive order states.

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We have always been at war with Eastasia (Original Post) AverageJoe Friday OP

Civil War thinking back in plain view. Disgusting. NewHendoLib Friday #1

Only white christian males will have a place in history. Irish_Dem Friday #2

That Manifest Destiny crap will become the sole focus of our historical museums. Ocelot II Friday #3

NewHendoLib

(61,053 posts)

1. Civil War thinking back in plain view. Disgusting.

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Fri Mar 28, 2025, 10:37 AM

Friday

Irish_Dem

(66,928 posts)

2. Only white christian males will have a place in history.

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Fri Mar 28, 2025, 10:37 AM

Friday

Ocelot II

(123,878 posts)

3. That Manifest Destiny crap will become the sole focus of our historical museums.

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Fri Mar 28, 2025, 10:47 AM

Friday

Slavery, the relocation and genocide of Natives, Jim Crow, lynchings, the murder of Emmett Till - all that history will be whitewashed away - literally whitewashed.

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