“Museums in our nation’s capital should be places where individuals go to learn ‒ not to be subjected to ideological indoctrination or divisive narratives that distort our shared history,” Trump said in a recent executive order about parks and museums.
In Trump’s recent order, “Restoring truth and sanity to American history," he complained the Smithsonian has “come under the influence of a divisive, race-centered ideology."
“This shift has promoted narratives that portray American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive," he said.
As opposed to which values? What culture/nation has significantly superior values?
Nations aren’t based on values, but rather a centralization of power and a monopoly on violence. We shouldn’t be looking towards nations for ethical behavior.
Id nice if they were ethical tho. Wouldn’t you rather live in that world?
Yes, I would prefer it, but that’s not the world we live in.
I think they are referring to the society that aristocracy has forcefully prevented from developing for the last few centuries.
That’s communism though not leninism.
What other cultures/nations are doing is irrelevent to this point.
Hard disagree.
I get why people insist on comparing bad things to other things to gauge the level of bad - especially when we’re talking about America. I say this as an American who was also spoon-fed the bullshit that America is “the greatest country in the world”.
But I feel like the sentiment of “America is such a shitshow, we should focus on that and nothing else” is doing us all (regular people) a disservice, and creates something of a red herring.
Instead of having a single spotlight on America, maybe we should be looking at the shit state of an overwhelmingly majority of the world and ask ourselves why the fuck shit is as bad as it is.
How (and why???) does horrible/evil shit continuously prevail? Throughout all of human history, we as a species tend to get caught up in prejudice and useless (read: fucking stupid) hate.
At least to me, this feels like a pattern. Every generation of humans have a majority fall into the same dumbass bullshit (although the execution and severity of it varies).
Fuck America. From its shitty-ass origins all the way to its shitty-ass current state. But also fuck most other countries for a lit of the same shit.
There’s this saying that people that should be in power are typically the ones that really don’t want it, and therefore don’t pursue it and/or reject it. This is the root cause of the problem. The ones that want power badly enough to be in politics (or in some cases resort to violence to seize it) tend to be the worst kinds of people. And they are the ones running the world.