President Donald Trump revealed his intentions to reshape the Smithsonian Institution with an executive order Thursday ...
how the mainstream media covered the racist trump attack on the smithsonian vs how we covered it @dailykos.com read more here www.dailykos.com/stories/2025 ...
-- Oliver Willis (@owillis.bsky.social) March 28, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Trump annoyed the Smithsonian isn't promoting discredited racial ideas
arstechnica.com
... The executive order, entitled "Restoring Truth And Sanity To American History," is filled with what has become a standard grievance: the accusation that, by recognizing the many cases where the US has not lived up to its founding ideals, institutions are attempting to "rewrite our nation's history."
It specifically calls out discussions of historic racism, sexism, and oppression as undercutting the US's "unparalleled legacy of advancing liberty, individual rights, and human happiness." ...
Another AP News article...
Critics see Trump attacks on the Black Smithsonian' as an effort to sanitize racism in US history
apnews.com
... President Donald Trump's order accusing the Smithsonian Institution of not reflecting American history notes correctly that the country's Founding Fathers declared that "all men are created equal."
But it doesn't mention that the founders enshrined slavery into the U.S. Constitution and declared enslaved persons as three-fifths of a person for the purpose of the Census. ...
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