Funny how "erasing history" only applies to tearing down Confederate monuments, emphasizing the role of enslavement in the development of the U.S., & renaming military bases named after Confederates, but not to acknowledging historical Black, Brown, queer, and trans folks - ThreadSky

austinmccoy.bsky.social • 10 days ago

Funny how "erasing history" only applies to tearing down Confederate monuments, emphasizing the role of enslavement in the development of the U.S., & renaming military bases named after Confederates, but not to acknowledging historical Black, Brown, queer, and trans folks

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wendyatlanticcan.bsky.social•10 days ago

Statues of horrible people, flags representing racism, etc. never told stories about history. Books do, and they’re banning those if they mention any of the folks you have mentioned. They’re erasing women too.

austinmccoy.bsky.social•10 days ago

We obviously knew this would be the outcome

austinmccoy.bsky.social•10 days ago

And they're obviously trying to erase Indigenous folks too

austinmccoy.bsky.social•10 days ago

Remember W.E.B. Du Bois's essay, "The Propaganda of History"

https://drive.google.com/file/d/110cIEraD1gkuVxXGsx9FDbrE1kKdOBAN/view?usp=sharing

iwantyoustudio.bsky.social•10 days ago

rlab53.bsky.social•10 days ago

j3od.bsky.social•10 days ago

lmkona.bsky.social•10 days ago

its-ya-boi-a-aron.bsky.social•10 days ago

Idc, we’re shoving it in their face next time. Make them have to exhaust themselves just to get back to how things were.

doge-bag.bsky.social•9 days ago

Yup. The abolitionists had an extreme radical “woke” DEI agenda apparently 🤷‍♂️

islandofreil.bsky.social•1 day ago

Women too. Not just the Republicans but also orgs like Wikipedia, as documented by the wonderful @merryrobin.bsky.social

katmelcher.bsky.social•10 days ago

And women

zinnedproject.bsky.social•10 days ago

Yes. Key strategy for authoritarian regimes.

They accuse us of erasing history for making it more accurate and engaging students in critical thinking.

Yet "Erasing History is How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future." See Jason Stanley's book ⬇️ https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/erasing-history/

austinmccoy.bsky.social•10 days ago

Very true 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

kennethwnoe.bsky.social•10 days ago

I see that MAGA faithful are starting to blame "deep state libs" for removing pages like Robinson's to embarrass the White House.

austinmccoy.bsky.social•10 days ago

Of course smh they are the eternal victims of a conspiracy

ehhauck.bsky.social•10 days ago

Fer feck's sake.

randimoo.bsky.social•10 days ago

The WH doesn’t need help embarrassing themselves. They do a great job of it on their own.

kevin8258.bsky.social•8 days ago

Don't ever forget the Tuskegee Airmen. These guys sand their amazing flying abilities were sought after by many B-17 pilots.
P.S. I'm as white as a snowflake.

lasta2.bsky.social•10 days ago

So true

harpielady93.bsky.social•9 days ago

This whole country has done a 360...

harpielady93.bsky.social•10 days ago

It all erasing history.. any progress we have made is being undone before we know it we will be back to a remake of the Jim Crow era...and that genuinely scares me..

tvhilton.bsky.social•9 days ago

No see acknowledging the existence of Black people, women, LGBTQ people, etc. is *also* erasing history, because reasons

thekrakensays.bsky.social•10 days ago

Wait until they find out that Harriet Tubman is one of the two American world leaders in the new Civ 7 game.

annemuntean.bsky.social•7 days ago

And women.

nahumc.bsky.social•10 days ago

For them, bad history=good. Good history= bad. So maddening.

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