Arlington Cemetery website is now "Male Whites Only"
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He's not even black, he has a white mother. We are so racist as a country, that having a half-black very articulate president pissed everyone off.
Many white supremacists believe in the One-drop rule. Basically, to them, if you have even a single black ancestor within the last three or four generations, you're black even if you don't think you are, and should be treated as such.
Obama didn't even have the good grace to look white* so his ancestry doesn't even matter. To them he was black.
* I am, of course, being sarcastic here.
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Their answer would be, "I'm just doing my job". And I get it, but you gotta draw the line somewhere, right? Like before the ovens start up?
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This wasn't something people voted for. Assholes took advantage of an election to cause as much chaos as possible in a nation that was apparently involved in every country imaginable and vital to many. It's hard to constantly be told America is a shit bag when most of us are unable to make any changes and voted for completely opposite people.
That's fair, except I didn't say Americans were scum buckets. I said America was.
Since Reagan it has rolled downhill slow enough that many didn't notice they were on a trip to hell. Now the world knows.
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The Arlington National Cemetery website has scrubbed dozens of pages on gravesites and educational materials that include histories of prominent Native American, Black, Hispanic, and female service members buried in the cemetery. Only White males remain.
Good job, magats. This is what they wanted and they’re probably dancing about it behind closed doors
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Who are the actual employees doing this and why are they going along so fervently? Like, I know an order has come down from on high but what middle manager told which low level employee to actually do this and didn't just delay or interpret it as narrowly as possible? What the fuck is going on?
I can speak a little bit from an education perspective, like why a lot of universities are acquiescing to federal orders.
Right now, the philosophy at a lot of large universities is that it’s better to survive in some capacity to be able to educate young people (academic freedom is still allowed in classrooms, my university keeps insistently reminding faculty), than be shut down and shot and be unable to educate anyone at all. Also, they have thousands of employees relying on them for a paycheck to feed their families.
I’m still pissed at the loss of minority support systems. Students feel betrayed at the loss of gender neutral housing. There is righteous anger brewing. I’m part of the LGBT community, and seeing my community silenced as an organizational body and deleted from ongoing research boils my blood and makes me want to burn everything down.
But deep down, I get it. We have to keep educating youth about the true history of the USA, keep teaching them about how science works, keep exposing small town 18-year olds to other races and cultures to open their minds to empathy. If we don’t, we’ll have an entire generation that only has right-wing propaganda to teach them about the world.
Higher ed administration has a lot of weight on their shoulders. They of course side with minorities morally, ethically, and as human beings. It’s a really hard place to be in.
I’m wondering if this perspective is driving anyone in federal departments, as well.
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The Arlington National Cemetery website has scrubbed dozens of pages on gravesites and educational materials that include histories of prominent Native American, Black, Hispanic, and female service members buried in the cemetery. Only White males remain.
“Donald Trump hates veterans”
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Many white supremacists believe in the One-drop rule. Basically, to them, if you have even a single black ancestor within the last three or four generations, you're black even if you don't think you are, and should be treated as such.
Obama didn't even have the good grace to look white* so his ancestry doesn't even matter. To them he was black.
* I am, of course, being sarcastic here.
I was gonna say that every human being has Black ancestors...of course, misunderstanding of that fact probably enables some racists
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The Arlington National Cemetery website has scrubbed dozens of pages on gravesites and educational materials that include histories of prominent Native American, Black, Hispanic, and female service members buried in the cemetery. Only White males remain.
They should really just remove everyone's page. Bring 'em all back when the voting population smartens up.
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Jfc. America has literally become the scum bucket of the world.
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He's not even black, he has a white mother. We are so racist as a country, that having a half-black very articulate president pissed everyone off.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule
The south was so unimaginably racist that Hitler actually looked at Jim crow and thought it went too far.
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This wasn't something people voted for. Assholes took advantage of an election to cause as much chaos as possible in a nation that was apparently involved in every country imaginable and vital to many. It's hard to constantly be told America is a shit bag when most of us are unable to make any changes and voted for completely opposite people.
90 million people didn't vote.
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I think what truly did it in was having a black president. The casual racists got so mad that a black man was president they became hellbent on destroying the country.
It's quite sad.
Firstly, many of them aren't casual racists, they take it very seriously and train constantly, you need to respect their dedication.
Secondly, yes it broke them.
From their point of view we did it just to hurt and insult them, it was a declaration of total war and that's basically how we ended up here.
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I was gonna say that every human being has Black ancestors...of course, misunderstanding of that fact probably enables some racists
Yeah, and then the sensible, up-standing, God-fearing citizens turned themselves white through sheer determination. Anyone who's still black is lazy and lacking in moral character.
-- Some racist, probably
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Firstly, many of them aren't casual racists, they take it very seriously and train constantly, you need to respect their dedication.
Secondly, yes it broke them.
From their point of view we did it just to hurt and insult them, it was a declaration of total war and that's basically how we ended up here.
Truly the majority don't even realize they're racist. They truly belive they're not. They focus their hate on "illegals", "thugs", "welfare queens", etc. When confronted by the fact that these are racist dog whistles they tend to get mad that you'd dare bring race into this and you're truly the racist. They seem to actually believe that their beliefs transcend race.
It's up to you to decide if you believe they are generally ignorant or wearing a mask. I tend to believe these people are ignorant based on my personal experiences. These people will have non-white "friends" (usually just acquaintances) or even have non-white family members that they truly care for. But at the same time they'll celebrate the death of a minority because they are "thugs" that deserve it. The cognitive disodence is amazing.
Truthfully we'll see if these ignorant people are the majority or not shortly. The current administration is emboldening the racists so it's only a matter of time before more go "mask off"
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This wasn't something people voted for. Assholes took advantage of an election to cause as much chaos as possible in a nation that was apparently involved in every country imaginable and vital to many. It's hard to constantly be told America is a shit bag when most of us are unable to make any changes and voted for completely opposite people.
If they didn't know this was what they were voting for (protest non voters included) then they are blind deaf and dumb.
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The Arlington National Cemetery website has scrubbed dozens of pages on gravesites and educational materials that include histories of prominent Native American, Black, Hispanic, and female service members buried in the cemetery. Only White males remain.
Man i just watched the 6888 movie recently and this makes me really sad. They had to fight that shit in WW2, got afterwards finally their recognition and now they get disrespected again. Some of them were burried there. Feel sorry for the still living members to see this happen and to see that this time the nazis are at home.
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That's fair, except I didn't say Americans were scum buckets. I said America was.
Since Reagan it has rolled downhill slow enough that many didn't notice they were on a trip to hell. Now the world knows.
To be fair, the supporters of this regime 100% voted for this bullshit and it's more than tiresome some people aren't willing to get over the cognitive dissonance. It's extremely dangerous.
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I think what truly did it in was having a black president. The casual racists got so mad that a black man was president they became hellbent on destroying the country.
It's quite sad.
"Obama broke them" someone wrote. I thought it was hyperbole or so, but it makes sense. The process of turning the GOP into dumbfuck MAGAQOP started when he first became potus.
OTOH it's also when the age of social media kicked off.
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90 million people didn't vote.
Yes they did. If you don't vote you voted for this.
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This wasn't something people voted for. Assholes took advantage of an election to cause as much chaos as possible in a nation that was apparently involved in every country imaginable and vital to many. It's hard to constantly be told America is a shit bag when most of us are unable to make any changes and voted for completely opposite people.
Are you saying that people living in democratic countries are not responsible for the actions of their elected officials?
