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Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0<p>Reading this reminds me of stories I read in my childhood (a long time ago). Why is the President using language so evocative of language from the communist dictatorships of the 1960s and 70s? Eg “improper ideology” “inappropriately disparage[s] Americans past or living,” </p><p>Why does the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> Congress tolerate these efforts to censor history? Are they proud of slavery? Of EO 9066 (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_9066" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executiv</span><span class="invisible">e_Order_9066</span></a>) and the internment camps? Of the Chinese Excusion Act and similar legislation? Of restrictive covenants on real estate? Of Jum Crow and literacy tests? Of the brutal efforts to suppress unions? Of the way the US treated Indigenous Peoples? Of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study? (This list is too long to complete) (And the most recent item of the list is the way the GOP is rubberstamping the abuse of the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/47Administration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>47Administration</span></a>)</p><p>If we don't learn from these abuses, we will repeat them, and we won't learn about the heroes who fought to address these wrongs</p><p><a href="https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/national-parks-negative-history-trump-20343308.php" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sfgate.com/california-parks/ar</span><span class="invisible">ticle/national-parks-negative-history-trump-20343308.php</span></a></p>
Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@GottaLaff" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>GottaLaff</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Efficiency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Efficiency</span></a> on full display.</p><p>Brought to you by the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/47Administration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>47Administration</span></a></p>