This is good reporting, lays it out clearly: “The Department of the Navy’s purge of 381 books there picked sides in the racism debate, and those that examine and criticize historical and current racism against Black Americans lost.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u... - ThreadSky

nhannahjones.bsky.social • 71 days ago

This is good reporting, lays it out clearly: “The Department of the Navy’s purge of 381 books there picked sides in the racism debate, and those that examine and criticize historical and current racism against Black Americans lost.” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/us/politics/naval-academy-banned-books.html

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layceepee.bsky.social•71 days ago

One aspect of the reporting that I wish were more robust is thar a Navy spokesperson is quoted as saying that keyword searches generated the list of books reviewed for exclusion, but unless I missed it they don't reveal what the keywords were. That would be really useful information

jerseybuckeyes.bsky.social•71 days ago

How does this not break your soul? It is so incredibly depressing. And it’s not even three months in.

nhannahjones.bsky.social•71 days ago

Even so, I am struck by this comment that clearly — and at least in part accurately — implies that these bans are about protecting white students while ignoring that the Navy is the least white of the Armed Services and the most racially diverse. These bans are about white nationalism. Just say it.

ettinger.bsky.social•71 days ago

Doing the deep dive on things you don’t agree with a big part of the collegiate experience. These people are such frickin’ snowflakes.

nhannahjones.bsky.social•71 days ago

“The Camp of the Saints” by Jean Raspail is still on the shelves. The 1973 novel, which envisions a takeover of the Western world by immigrants from developing countries, has been embraced by white supremacists and promoted by Stephen Miller, a senior White House adviser.”

brianbartky.bsky.social•71 days ago

Steve Bannon and Representative Steve King of Iowa are also fans of "The Camp of the Saints".
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https://www.npr.org/2019/11/19/780552636/stephen-miller-and-the-camp-of-the-saints-a-white-nationalist-reference

brianbartky.bsky.social•71 days ago

Steve Bannon has frequently spoken about how big an influence "The Camp of the Saints" was to him.
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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/steve-bannon-camp-of-the-saints-immigration_n_58b75206e4b0284854b3dc03

nhannahjones.bsky.social•71 days ago

“The Bell Curve,” which argues that Black men and women are genetically less intelligent than white people, is still there. But a critique of the book was pulled.”

jean-roddenberry.bsky.social•71 days ago

The Bell Curve, which in the appendix admits that they modified the statistical tests they used in order to exaggerate the strength of the findings by a factor of a square. Aside from how evil it is, it's a fucking insult to statistics.

noodlenog.bsky.social•70 days ago

Weird—if you’re interested in the history of those ideas, you read Gould’s The Mis-Measure of Man, not the actual Bell Curve.

irishselkie.bsky.social•71 days ago

What a load of racist shit that book is

mbbrownsf.bsky.social•71 days ago

And the fight a coworker & I had with a customer when it came out! Oh, he was mad. Worth it, though.

jparrott80.bsky.social•71 days ago

That book is basically Birth of a Nation for statisticians.

bettybacall.bsky.social•71 days ago

They don’t hide their white supremacy at all anymore and no one is calling it out, which is very chilling.

murph612.bsky.social•71 days ago

Just goddamn blatant, Klan - variety white supremacy.

swannknight61.bsky.social•71 days ago

That fu--in' book is 845 pages too long.

Still in the news after being debunked 30 years ago?!!!

siouxcq60.bsky.social•71 days ago

Heartbreaking 💔 and infuriating

lisadtrice.bsky.social•71 days ago

#OnBrand I wouldn't expect anything different from this crew.

theothermichelle19.bsky.social•71 days ago

We need to get theese books and save them for the next generation

madmacs.bsky.social•71 days ago

If you have any doubts, look at entire list.

planalyst.bsky.social•71 days ago

This is frightening, because this isn’t Trump (he has no idea what these books are) it’s the deep rot of hate within the Republican Party, not as simple as just knocking off the head

emeraldbby.bsky.social•71 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/andil.bsky.social/post/3lmiia5mad22n

briandmc.bsky.social•71 days ago

I understand that the Navy used to be the most racist of the armed services, which is saying a lot. Hate to see this hateful, stupid and countercultural regression.

cmraman.geek.org•71 days ago

I’ve pointed out more than once that when Bill Clinton asked the services to review citations for the Medal of Honor that might have been denied for racist reasons during the World Wars, the Navy didn’t submit any. (I know of one that should have been resubmitted - Doris Miller. I’m sure there were

cmraman.geek.org•71 days ago

others.)

stuffabouthockey.bsky.social•71 days ago

They left Mein Kampf though ...

https://www.rawstory.com/book-censorship/

nhannahjones.bsky.social•71 days ago

That’s in the article.

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