Arlington Cemetery website is now "Male Whites Only"
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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?
Welcome to America.
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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.
if you're a minority or woman who voted for trump, then i have less than zero sympathy
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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.
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.
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Remember their names for when they try to save face, but a business cannot survive without customers after all.
business cannot survive without customers after all
That's a really funny thing to say about a cemetery for the military dead.
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Remember their names for when they try to save face, but a business cannot survive without customers after all.
... the business of Arlington Cemetary?
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People are legit afraid of not only losing their jobs but being sued and/or blacklisted from future jobs. Corporations are scrambling to figure out what new rules actually applies to them and are just doing the safe thing so their company doesn't get sued or shut down. They are hearing that simple word searches are being used to focus on companies doing anything that sounds like DEI. In the military, we are being told not to use the word trans in any sense right now... even in technical terms like trans-sonic and trans-orbital. Because some jackass is just grepping for verboten words to find organizations to focus on. We have stopped celebrating Women's History Month, Black History Month, Hispanic Heritage Month, etc. Those have absolutely nothing to do with DEI, but leadership here is so afraid of having the Eye of Elon pointed at them. They have thousands of people under their command, whose lives are their responsibilities. They don't want to do this, but they are trying to protect their team.
It's much like when a child has an abusive parent and does everything to avoid being noticed. They try to fly as far under the radar as possible so that the attention isn't focused on them.
Famously when the nazis demanded obedience they did so not by making laws outright banning speech. They simply made sure that nobody in any position of power would risk drawing attention and behave accordingly "of his own will"
Its brilliant that a hundred years later people with access to any human in the world just... do the exact same shit Germans did.
From They Thought They Were Free, the Germans 1933 - 1945
[...] "I gave them French and English literature, more so than before, although to do so was one of those vague betrayals of the ‘new spirit’; still, it had not been specifically forbidden. Of course, I always said, to protect myself (but I said it in such a way that I hoped the students would see through it), that the foreign works we read were only a reflection of German literature. So, you see, Herr Professor, a man could show some—some independence, even, so to say, secretly.” “I understand,” I said. “Many of the students—the best of them—understood what was going on in all this. It was a sort of dumb-show game that we were all playing, I with them. The worst effect, I think, was that it made them cynical, the best ones. But, then, it made the teachers cynical, too. I think the classroom in those years was one of the causes of the cynicism you see in the best young men and women in Germany today.”
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"Tell me, Herr Hildebrandt, what about [Shakespeare's]Julius Caesar?”
He smiled very, very wryly. “Julius Caesar? No … no.”
“Was it forbidden?”
“Not that I remember. But that is not the way it was. Everything was not regulated specifically, ever. It was not like that at all. Choices were left to the teacher’s discretion, within the ‘German spirit.’ That was all that was necessary; the teacher had only to be discreet. If he himself wondered at all whether anyone would object to a given book, he would be wise not to use it. This was a much more powerful form of intimidation, you see, than any fixed list of acceptable or unacceptable writings. The way it was done was, from the point of view of the regime, remarkably clever and effective. The teacher had to make the choices and risk the consequences; this made him all the more cautious.”
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Jfc. America has literally become the scum bucket of the world.
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.
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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
