The word “diversity” itself, and “fairness” are too dangerous to survive, painted over to avoid offending the new administration. (“Leadership”, “compassion” and “integrity” are also no longer welcome at the FBI).
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It's not just his miniscule worldview, it is direct abuse and revenge for the groups that didn't vote for him or actively protested against him. It is abuse of the citizenry, and it's incomprehensible that dem leadership isn't raising hell about it.
Virtue signaling by painting words on a wall is just as stupid as spending the time and resources to paint over those same words. Idiocy knows no bounds.
Some of the purges have nothing to do with DEI, but are Stalinist removals of disfavored officials. At DOD, Mark Esper and Mark Milley had their portraits removed.
It has been standard practice for ages for federal buildings to post president and agency head portraits in a main lobby area. It was sad to see Obama come down and be replaced with the orange one, but it got hilarious pretty quickly with all the firings and resignations.
And this reply is mostly for onlookers who don't have a lot of federal building experience to try to judge what any of the news means. As you can tell, agencies vary a lot, so even those of us with multiagency experience don't have that wide a view of how these practices were previously implemented.
Interesting. I admit my NIH experience is old (2009), but other agencies I've contracted at since, it's sometimes been after security in leased space, but usually the visitor entrance for the whole building when they have one. That said, I haven't worked on secure campuses. Practice sounds variable.
Looks like they left two women up—and one walks with a cane & the other might have an olive complexion. Should we feel grateful for that? Or did they just run out of paint?
The DOD was once so proud of Medgar Evers, the veteran who became a civil rights activist until his murder by a white supremacist, that it named a Navy vessel after him. But that info has been scrubbed. https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whitewashing-american-history
As a side note: Alan Turing, the pioneering British computer scientist credited with cracking the Enigma code and shortening WW II, was later prosecuted for homosexual acts and may have died by suicide in 1954. Queen Elizabeth II "pardoned" him (for shortening the war?) in 2013.
This Administration is being led by “book burners”! They are on a mission to eradicate “woke”, “DEI”, and will likely try to remove any benevolent teachings from our society.
Nazi shit! Like... for fucks sake y'all know history right? Y'all know it started with book burning / eradication of knowledge?
It's so pathetic! You see in Germany at least when it happened it was the first time something of that scale happened... But this is by the book!!! Are you all blind?
I painted this recently because I loved the film, the story and the history. When we went to Boston first day we walked to The Common and took a photo of the memorial. I suppose it will be pulled down and scrapped soon?
It has to be said you can deny history but it still happened no matter what.
This is the ultimate irony since the Navajo -- like all Native Americans -- are manifestly NOT immigrants. It is we of European descent, obviously, who as illegal immigrants deserve to be scrubbed from history.
Perhaps we need a nonprofit to host a website that preserves all of the historical material being censored by this administration. Call it “What the state does not want you to read.” I guess the Internet Archive serves this purpose?
These dickheads, these fascist simpletons think that they can take something off a website, like the Anola Gay and everything that has the word, gay, in it, and it no longer exists. Robinson’s bravery and exemplary character exists beyond a govt website. And, always will!!
An attempt to erase black ppl from the history of the U.S as if they were never a part of America. Hiring racist who said black ppl should step back and defer to whites.
It’s despicable that they are doing this but at this same time it’s just so childish and ridiculous. Do they think they’re accomplishing something here? Other than showing us who they are?
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Sure, it may refer to states, but I prefer to think of it as peoples.
Not that these morons are discriminating. (Except when they literally are.)
A mural featuring Anthony Fauci has been removed from NIH.
(I'll keep updating w examples)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/15/mural-tony-fauci-was-meant-inspire-staff-then-nih-it-down/
Loudly do I wonder…
JFC 🤬
Definitely reminiscent of Stalin and Hitler.
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whitewashing-american-history
You did so much for us and now you‘re obliterating yourself.
https://www.axios.com/local/salt-lake-city/2025/03/17/navajo-code-talkers-trump-dei-military-websites-wwii
(Explanation in programmer language) The difference between formal and informal language
(Explanation in linguist language) the difference between prescritivism and descriptivism
It's so pathetic! You see in Germany at least when it happened it was the first time something of that scale happened... But this is by the book!!! Are you all blind?
It has to be said you can deny history but it still happened no matter what.
Also: see https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/03/17/lawmakers-drop-rule-that-high-schoolers-pass-algebra-english-exams-to-get-diplomas/
On Sergeant Pascal Cleatus Poolaw:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9hESgAbw0ug&pp=ygUfUGJzIHZpZXRuYW0gd2FyIG5hdGl2ZSBhbmVyaWNhbg%3D%3D
From @joshkovensky.bsky.social:
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/pentagon-removes-webpages-celebrating-racial-integration-of-the-armed-forces:
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whitewashing-american-history
Vile excuses for humanity that should be sent to Gitmo themselves for nearly every day of terrible un-American actions they do
How to stop this craziness??