Just to be clear: What this directive appears to say is that the administration see libraries that carry books not written by white people or that discuss racism as “diversity initiatives,” so to be colorblind means there is only one recognized “color.” - ThreadSky

nhannahjones.bsky.social • 3 days ago

Just to be clear: What this directive appears to say is that the administration see libraries that carry books not written by white people or that discuss racism as “diversity initiatives,” so to be colorblind means there is only one recognized “color.”

Reposted from John Ismay

Hegseth's office ordered the U.S. Naval Academy to review all 590,000 books in its library for content at odds with an executive order banning “radical indoctrination” in K-12 schools, even though it is a college. MLK, Einstein books already identified for removal www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...

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thinlyveiledtruth.bsky.social•3 days ago

Black trans voices are also likely heavily targeted as well. Only books that teach two biological genders [sic].

nowwhat2024.bsky.social•3 days ago

I just made a protest purchase. (And I also read books written by Black authors, yours being among my favorites!) https://www.thecounternarrative.org/store/p/read-black-books-main-mustard

dlfdew.bsky.social•3 days ago

Sick

jillking.bsky.social•3 days ago

every year the same folks deliberately misuse mlk's quote in that manner.

professorfate.bsky.social•3 days ago

I was a white 10 year-old when the first African-American family moved into our block and about 11 or 12 when the local schools started complying with desegregation — and there'd already been a man on the moon at that point. I can't get my head around the fact I'm seeing this happen in my lifetime.

georgewright.site•3 days ago

In another thread, I offered this prediction: SecDef will push harder and harder until the USNA superintendent pushes back, and then he will relieve her of command.

alttag.bsky.social•3 days ago

I have managed to get a photograph of the entire post-purge book collection at the Naval Academy library.

dot1031.bsky.social•3 days ago

I’m surprised there isn’t an EO ordering Crayola to bring back the old “flesh” color of the 1950s and discontinue all other colors.

nhannahjones.bsky.social•3 days ago

Also, we are now at the protecting college students from library books stage of this.

beafoundart.bsky.social•3 days ago

College students learning to kill people no less.

msdavinci.bsky.social•3 days ago

We have a couple generations who aren’t familiar with why those books needed to be written.

maumagnificat.bsky.social•3 days ago

It's a very slippery slope. As you know, the Renaissance and Enlightenment/Age of Reason are full of classical Greek philosophical and pagan references. That's why if you read Oswald Spengler correctly, he's not a cultural warrior, but anti-culture. It's pure martial-militarism "warrior" caste.

maumagnificat.bsky.social•3 days ago

If you know your Wagner (not the Rus. mercenary group), then you know where DJT is taking us: Götterdämmerung. That's the Golden Age he's talking about. @spiegel.de @davidcayjohnston.bsky.social @investigativ.bsky.social @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social @bloomberg.com @financialtimes.com

jbmonco.bsky.social•3 days ago

WTAF

kentropic.bsky.social•3 days ago

Here’s a good litmus test: is this modern classic from @isabelwilkerson.bsky.social in the collection, or not? Anyone who objects on ideological grounds is a stone cold white supremacist, full stop.

counterpoint4.bsky.social•2 days ago

edonald.bsky.social•3 days ago

We’ve been here, at least in the “don’t say gay” states. Tennessee forbids any “political” or “woke” discussion in college classes like… history. How do you teach, say, art without acknowledging the existence of LGBTQ people? How do you teach literature without considering the civil rights movement?

illegalbussy.bsky.social•3 days ago

Could you please help 😭🙏🏾

tonyaaj.bsky.social•3 days ago

Hegseth is horrible at his real job and only good at racism, so he’ll be looking for ways to racism harder.

erinslick.bsky.social•3 days ago

“But Pete you had access to all those books and still came out racist”

gmhird.bsky.social•3 days ago

Our future military leaders are too fragile to expose to diverse views. Speaks volumes.

maggyw.bsky.social•3 days ago

Also Pete Hegseth is banning books at the military academies

eighthdayarts.bsky.social•3 days ago

Thinkin it’s nor about protection 🤔🤨

eighthdayarts.bsky.social•3 days ago

*not

jessemerle.bsky.social•3 days ago

I mean, it’s simple really - college students are hardened terrorists who deserve the labor camps and also soft babies who must be protected from intellectual diversity

chrisweedon.bsky.social•2 days ago

The top of this Administration are true believers of eugenics, aka racehorse theory. It's the heart of their policies.
'Trump and MAGA want to make eugenics great again'
https://www.pressherald.com/2025/03/15/opinion-trump-and-maga-want-to-make-eugenics-great-again/

richardiporter.bsky.social•3 days ago

Otherwise someone might do a thought crime and read it https://bsky.app/profile/richardiporter.bsky.social/post/3lljhththzk2l

calvinonthebeach.bsky.social•3 days ago

📌

kptnd.bsky.social•3 days ago

jennedesu.bsky.social•3 days ago

Talk about waste! Waste of time and energy. 🥺

jmneel.bsky.social•3 days ago

"Colorblind" in the sense that everything appears white to them.

tchrgrrrl.bsky.social•3 days ago

*nod* Anything not white is wrong because white is the default. As if the history of our species can be split into "lily-white episodes" and "other." 💔

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