ProPublica's Alec MacGillis writes about what happens when you try to make history vanish: This push to whitewash recent history carries a disconcerting echo of countless autocratic regimes, from the Chinese Communist Party's memory-holing of the Tiananmen Square massacre to the Argentine military junta's "disappearing" of dissidents in the 1970s.
The erasure of the Jan. 6 records comes while the administration is also seeking to whitewash the teaching of U.S. history, threatening to withhold funds from schools that teach about America's troubled history of racial and gender discrimination. By @alecmac.bsky.social
-- ProPublica (@propublica.org) February 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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