Some horrifying details on the white supremacist book purge at the Naval Academy library: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u... - ThreadSky

paulwaldman.bsky.social • 1 day ago

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

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/us/politics/naval-academy-banned-books.html

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nananancy.bsky.social•1 day ago

Shame on you, US Naval Academy.

enziandom.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’s kkkHegseth’s order, not the Naval Academy’s.

nananancy.bsky.social•1 day ago

They obeyed.

referencewench.bsky.social•1 day ago

No, the "Department of the Navy leadership determined which books required removal at the Naval Academy library." Not the Academy staff.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/military-academies-criticized-removing-dei-related-books-libraries/story?id=120688074

follicular.bsky.social•1 day ago

#MagaNazis #GOPNazis

justandro.bsky.social•1 day ago

Who precisely is making these decisions. Names should be named and careers should be ruined over this.

2snails1shell.bsky.social•1 day ago

When the moronics of this current "administration" are shown to be 'short-lived;' these buffoons must return under the rocks from which they've crawled; & their mal-productive attempts at affecting "substantially-frightening" changes have been reversed ... 👏🥳🎉🖕

🗽⚖️🤘🤨🤘⚖️✌️🤓✌️⚖️🇺🇲
#RESISTandPERSIST (AF!) ✊

artemis46.bsky.social•1 day ago

My father was a WWII Navy veteran. This would have broken his heart.

n5iln.bsky.social•1 day ago

Those who fail to remember the past are doomed to repeat it.

Those who work to keep the past from being remembered fully intend to repeat it.

liberalbskysocial.bsky.social•1 day ago

thucidydes.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'm not overly concerned with Mein Kampf's presence, as that book is universally regarded in America as "the bad guy book". Even Republicans sincerely believe they hate it, which is why the MAGA pastor at the church I went to as a kid claimed Hitler was motivated by Darwin.

thucidydes.bsky.social•1 day ago

But Camp of the Saints being there is disturbing. That book is the equivalent to Main Kampf, but is actually embraced openly by public figures. The fact that it even has a section where they embrace their token Indian friend (the target of the book is Indian Hindus, ironic) makes it worse.

magdadefiant.bsky.social•1 day ago

📌

pj1304.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Let's not pretend Trump has read any of these books. Hegseth et. al. are giving orders so they can tell the president and document their work against "the woke."
A concept they can neither grasp define or identify. It is horrifying.

aceandjasper.bsky.social•1 day ago

I urge everyone to send a FOIA request in to get all the documentation of how the books were selected, where the volumes are now. Let's name names here. WHO AUTHORIZED THIS?

han-shot-first.bsky.social•1 day ago

Jesus

pbcf.bsky.social•1 day ago

I live near a coast guard training center. I used to seethe cadets out with groups of races mixed.Today I saw a group of black guys and a separate group of white guys. It was odd.

kmosser.bsky.social•1 day ago

Did they keep The Turner Diaries?

ajbruner.com•1 day ago

Gee, be a real shame if a fire broke out...I mean now that those other books have been safely removed.
🤔

markg.bsky.social•1 day ago

It is ironic that the folks who complained that tearing down statutes and renaming military bases constituted the destruction of history are either silent about actual book purges, or are silently cheering them on.

randymiller.bsky.social•1 day ago

They weren’t angry that we were destroying history, they were angry that we weren’t honoring confederates

citizenkryptik.bsky.social•1 day ago

Because it was always projection, all the way down.

mstraat.bsky.social•1 day ago

📌

printersflower.bsky.social•1 day ago

I know it's just conjecture, but if conservatives hadn't been distracted by their "war on terror" they may have landed here years before this, as a front in a domestic culture war. Generations of young Americans may be altered by this. At my age, I see how intolerance & exclusion always come back.

experimental22.bsky.social•1 day ago

Above all, MAGA is a white nationalist hate movement.

patrickjk.bsky.social•1 day ago

coribald.com•1 day ago

i fucking guarantee Imperium is still on the shelf

iantifa.bsky.social•1 day ago

Here in Brazil, we are not content with the books already written by racists. The Army's publishing house publishes its own racist books. For example, this one that claims the Yanomami are an invention of NGOs.
#stoptrump
#antifascistaction

dangandblast.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oh goodness that's horrible

iantifa.bsky.social•22 hours ago

This is a problem. In Brazil, the colonizers were racist and then came waves of confederates, Nazis and fascists. This is not an ordinary citizens. These are the people who moved because they lost the wars they started. And generations later, they still haven't been able to realize what they did

zagblackice.bsky.social•1 day ago

Y'all finally realizing?

shatterlo.bsky.social•1 day ago

JFC

concerned2.bsky.social•1 day ago

Horrible

derek.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is so dark. Hegseth and Miller are stains on humanity.

margaretgodman.bsky.social•1 day ago

If this is true, it makes me sick to my stomach.

sabinameir.bsky.social•1 day ago

So all technological progress in communication has led to the fact that people now can faster communicate about fascisme with censorship and possibly bookburnings,but they are not capable to prevent it...it seems rather the opposite is the case.
High Tech lifestyle avertissement leads to fascisme?

lincam.bsky.social•1 day ago

Indeed horrifying.

jena33.bsky.social•1 day ago

And that’s not antisemitic? Yet they are going after college students and universities for so called antisemitism 🤔 I guess what ever fits their narrative at the moment 😡

fluxxinger.bsky.social•1 day ago

How about "The Art of the Deal"?

rebeccavankay.bsky.social•1 day ago

Fashist do fashists things.
Why are you surprised?

ellocust.bsky.social•1 day ago

Why do think reporters are surprised when they are reporting on their subjects?

loozcoilz.bsky.social•19 hours ago

White Americans are THE worst. They will never get any better.

calixthe.blue-ocean.social•1 day ago

Genocide

kathyinsonoma.bsky.social•8 hours ago

This cannot stand, it will be decades to repair the destruction.

awesomecosmos.bsky.social•1 day ago

Retaining Mein Kampf and banning a book about the holocaust certainly accurately reflects the Trump administration’s commitment to addressing antisemitism.

cindyw0522.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is not normal! This is not ok!

pamkhamaid.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’s Intro to Ethnic Cleansing” in the Master’s of Dictatorship program at Nazi U.

beldame25.bsky.social•1 day ago

More reasons to support organizations that fight book banning and promote free speech. We may not have the ability to stop this regime from removing books from government libraries, but we have the power to keep the books circulating. Read. Buy. Share.

vanessaglobal.bsky.social•1 day ago

That is precisely why I will never give up the thousands of real books in my personal library or become an e-book convert.

bluestatedon.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is no surprise to anybody who’s been paying attention, but Trump, Hegseth, and Miller are racist swine.

rar24.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Sickening!

chrisneyland.bsky.social•1 day ago

I would expect nothing less from the Republican cult.

weshlovrcm.bsky.social•1 day ago

Only pro-White supremacism, pro-fascism and pro-right wing lunatic books will remain so as to indoctrinate people into the degenerate world of MAGAtdom.

kkeepgoing.bsky.social•1 day ago

For a president and party that loves to criticize China, it’s pretty clear they pretty much want us to be exactly like China in terms of limiting access to knowledge and dissenting POVs. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

misterhill2.bsky.social•1 day ago

…this shit is not only alarming, it’s being done in the open, too. They seem to be flaunting it. Even bragging about it. I hope that one day numerous officials from this admin is prosecuted for human rights abuses. No shit. This is unbelievable

ceolaf.bsky.social•20 hours ago

I’ve gotta say, I think that some of those remaining books are divisive and might make some groups of Americans feel bad about a demographic group that they are a member of.

grobielauren.bsky.social•1 day ago

Diane Ravitch warned us about this a few decades ago. in her book The Language Police.

mlorette.bsky.social•1 day ago

textbook fascism

docgaby.bsky.social•1 day ago

We know

stiffelman.bsky.social•1 day ago

I knew it was awful. But this still hits.

mannysmyname.bsky.social•19 hours ago

📌

sybilltrelawney.bsky.social•1 day ago

Is this going on at the other service academies too, or just the Naval Academy?

eye0n.bsky.social•14 hours ago

This is fucking dangerous and unacceptable. It will not end well for this shaministration

sinkingheadofdeath.bsky.social•15 hours ago

📌

shivax.bsky.social•1 day ago

They're gonna give every one a copy of the Turner Dairies before this is over aren't they?

czoomer.bsky.social•1 day ago

The fascist Drumpf regime and its Project 2025 stormtroopers are erasing and rewriting history to further their agenda: control and subjugate the masses. Worked for Hitler and Putin.
#fuckTrump
#thisishowdemocracydies
#felon47

mkchandler.bsky.social•1 day ago

biterabbit.bsky.social•1 day ago

They're erasing the white supremacy to enact more 🙃

gns1birdsong.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is the complete list of purged books

https://media.defense.gov/2025/Apr/04/2003683009/-1/-1/0/250404-LIST%20OF%20REMOVED%20BOOKS%20FROM%20NIMITZ%20LIBRARY.PDF?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR7tDKNn3ZqpUAZNjnQNOwJGLVmHI-p3FJ_CfB4_F3Lrn26nSotwtpWYo5Qjpg_aem_uYE52RP4ww3DbAScLVHfuw

hiptrigger.bsky.social•1 day ago

Germany 1930’s

ironbound.bsky.social•1 day ago

Miller, Hegseth, and many of the mid level political appointees are actual Nazis. And they are almost certainly empowering some sympathetic people already in the ranks.

jimbw.bsky.social•1 day ago

History IS repeating itself here in America.💔📚🇺🇸

lizlemony.bsky.social•1 day ago

My god

jeffbrown9.bsky.social•1 day ago

Stimmt

middledude.bsky.social•1 day ago

I don’t get it. Mien Kampf was on the shelf on my high school library where I read it to understand how Hitler happened. It was tedious, impenetrable. But it was there to figure that out. It’s good it is there. And it is good it is at the academy. My hope is that we get Maya back with it.

vanessaglobal.bsky.social•1 day ago

I bought and read Mein Kamph too in my 20s, for the same reason I read The Bible: to know what exactly was in it and it related to the history and modern reality of Christianity and Theism. But the books, more truthful books, that were removed also have their importance and ought to be widely read.

jrgiguere.bsky.social•1 day ago

Taught college poli-sci. Had the two tomes on my shelves(few try to read the second one.) Stupefying badly written sludge. I doubt anyone going through whole chapters on the necessity of invading France or Poland would ever become Nazi. But I read and annotated. Things we do for ingrate youths.

christina79.bsky.social•1 day ago

Question is who is advising this? Not like Trump reads or could mastermind a purge like this.

jandrese.bsky.social•1 day ago

Did you not read the project 2025 plan? These guys have been preparing for years to be able to hand out marching orders and have Trump rubber stamp everything they need. It’s great for Trump, he gets a lot of stuff “done” and still has most of the day left to play golf.

edenarachnelatro.bsky.social•1 day ago

They’re retaining all the books Pisssstol Pete has read.

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