”white supremacist book purge” is exactly right. it goes along with the segregationist purge of the service academies. - ThreadSky

jamellebouie.net • 9 days ago

”white supremacist book purge” is exactly right. it goes along with the segregationist purge of the service academies.

Some horrifying details on the white supremacist book purge at the Naval Academy library:

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

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beatmodnrocker.bsky.social•9 days ago

Finally got around to reading that popular novel “The Bible”… imagine it’ll be banned soon. Current this guy David and his crew are chopping heads hands and feet all over Judah. After hours he’s knocking this chick Bathsheba’s boots even though she’s Uriah’s wife. Seriously… they let kids read this?

nobodyreally.bsky.social•9 days ago

I am more worried that the US military is reading books like Camp of the Saints and The Bell Curve than they don't read Maya Angelou.
I think the former had more influence than the latter.

jenniekstone.bsky.social•9 days ago

Welcome to the Apartheid coup.

hughman3.bsky.social•9 days ago

We need to take our country back

Insane

rosiestiorraandmom.bsky.social•9 days ago

SMH 🤦🏼‍♀️ Just bought myself a copy of Ms Angelou’s great work.

sethwjames.bsky.social•9 days ago

There are several reasons why the traitor/cowards are doing this, but it's important to point out that highly diverse units are better units b/c their esprit de corps derives from their unit identity, rather than an external identity (such as being fascist traitors) and this leads to greater focus.

jpure.bsky.social•9 days ago

Hitler’s Mein Kampf from convicted felon criminal asswipe Trump’s night table will now be at the White House welcome desk.

the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social•9 days ago

Artist @devthepineapple.bsky.social

the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social•9 days ago

Yep. I guess they want birds both caged and silent. And we’ll all be worse off for it.

celestelabedz.bsky.social•9 days ago

I haven't clicked the through the link on "a critique", but I'd bet money it's Gould's Mismeasure of Man. Highly recommend for anyone who hasn't read it!

steveeboy.bsky.social•9 days ago

How do you write a paper on the literature of the civil rights movement if they removed those books from the library?

angold.bsky.social•9 days ago

We've gone from 'these white snowflakes are not responsible for the sins of their forefathers' to 'these white snowflakes need to be proud of their forefathers'

tishado.bsky.social•8 days ago

A mandate for everyone to be exposed to abhorrent stuff is not the same thing as free speech, as many people have been arguing for some time and yet so many people feel hook, line, and sinker for the fake free speech grift.

climbingivy72.bsky.social•9 days ago

🤬🤬

toffph.bsky.social•9 days ago

FWIW their copy of The Camp of the Saints appears to be in the original French which I doubt most students there would be able to read. Giving it the subject "Race Relations" and no other is odd though.

elimgarak240b.bsky.social•9 days ago

Oh yeah Charles Murray definitely more deserving than Maya Angelou…

What the fuck

georgewright.site•9 days ago

As an alumnus from 1966, I find this embarrassing (as well as disgusting).

nathansmith.bsky.social•9 days ago

Hegseth reading about the early 20th century KKK movement and saying “What’s not to love???” 🤮

daisyjingles.bsky.social•9 days ago

Absolutely disgusting! I hope everyone notices that the masks have been removed. Open your eyes and SEE them.

unknown-smoke.bsky.social•9 days ago

they’ll have copies of the turner diaries in every nightstand for the incoming freshmen this fall

patdem.bsky.social•9 days ago

Day 85.

jessica1603.bsky.social•9 days ago

I've got one hard copy. I'm going to get more. We all need to get paper copies of critically impoprtant historical texts. Because, digitally, they will be gone.

flein.bsky.social•9 days ago

dagnypaul.bsky.social•9 days ago

kimphilbywasbad.bsky.social•9 days ago

“Bell Curve” remains but a critique has been pulled.

annleftwapo.bsky.social•9 days ago

The “Bell Curve” was debunked decades ago. Why is even on the shelf to begin with?

marthawt.bsky.social•9 days ago

The trash they leave on the shelves is just as telling as what they purge. 😡

antisocialworker77.bsky.social•9 days ago

Drunkey Pete and the rapist gameshow host are both racist sex abusers.

They are doing exactly what they and MAGAt ‘Muricans have been fantasizing about for years

pbonito.bsky.social•9 days ago

If the SecDef had a brain, he's take it out and shoot it.

hammhawk.bsky.social•9 days ago

I never knew the military was made up of a bunch of scared wimps who can't handle a little truth in their reading...

cheeski74.bsky.social•9 days ago

This one actually made me feel queasy.

jacjdma.bsky.social•9 days ago

I look forward to the linguistic pretzels Leavitt will contort to justify pulling the “Color Purple” and keeping “Mein Kamph.”

akeithclarke.bsky.social•9 days ago

KKK all day!!

moye.bsky.social•9 days ago

For me, the anecdote that explains the whole story is the white ragers banning Carol Anderson’s White Rage.

andymightbeme.bsky.social•9 days ago

Is this the academies themselves deciding this or is it coming from SecDef?

lthornton61arj.bsky.social•9 days ago

My thoughts also. Who decided which titles to pull from the shelves. This person(s) needs to be named because he or she needs to be shamed.

astrojrich.bsky.social•9 days ago

While impounding federal funding for other Universities because of “anti-semitism”

bertfoxson.bsky.social•9 days ago

This is the literal WHITE washing of America and will be looked back as one of our most shameful periods.

lmh82.bsky.social•9 days ago

Same shit, different day.

wethepatriots.bsky.social•9 days ago

🫣🤮It’s truly hard to fathom this kind of ignorance but it’s obviously taken hold of much of America’s sanity and humanity and is doing its usual best to take US back.😬😵‍💫🐍
💔🤍💙

dangrously.bsky.social•9 days ago

Pulling "memorialising the holocaust" is massively antisemitic.

carlynclark.bsky.social•2 days ago

Just think how many book sales there are going to be once these fools are out of power

justjack01.bsky.social•8 days ago

remember how much trump loves kim jon ung's military when they all stand and salute to their dear leader? that's what he wants.

traitor45.bsky.social•9 days ago

Mein kampf is the gop's playbook

sgoyal.bsky.social•9 days ago

This is the same as Nazis burning books

reevesjw.bsky.social•9 days ago

No surprise that Edward A. Pollard's book "The Lost Cause" is still available in the library. That work glorified the Confederacy and coined the term "Lost Cause."

dagnypaul.bsky.social•9 days ago

Eventually, they'll have entire shelves dedicated exclusively to The Turner Diaries and The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

seitzbg.salty.house•9 days ago

Wonder when we will say enough…

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