An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.
Gone is “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” Maya Angelou’s transformative best-selling 1970 memoir chronicling her struggles with racism and trauma.
Gone is “Memorializing the Holocaust,” Janet Jacobs’s 2010 examination of how female victims of the Holocaust have been portrayed and remembered.
Two copies of “Mein Kampf” by Adolf Hitler are still on the shelves.
“The Bell Curve,” which argues that Black men and women are genetically less intelligent than white people, is still there. But a critique of the book was pulled.
Already had most of these marked to donate to their eventual primary challenger; welcome to the list, Henry Cuellar.
Given this is the branch is charge of all the moving nuclear reactors…this is troubling news indeed.
I guess wherever there is support of the Israeli state, there is a Nazi behind that.
I had wondered if Trumps hatred of jews would affect his response to Israel. I guess thats coming up next. Smart pick, zionists.
Doubtful. Even the Nazis back then wouldn’t have had a problem with Israel-- ethnostates are kind of their thing.
The religious right needs a Jewish state of Israel to exist, too, so they’re not going to let Trump fuck that up
Exactly. The religious nutjobs love Israel to fulfill their doomsday prophecies. The white supremacists love Israel so they can have somewhere to deport all the US Jews to.
Note how they deliberately conflate Judaism with Zionism? To a white supremacist, a Jew can never really be a true American. They’ll always have some intrinsic loyalty to the state of Israel. To a white supremacist, deporting a US-born Jew to Israel isn’t a crime at all; it’s just sending them home.
There is nothing Israel loves more than antisemites.
Can you imagine how happy Israel would be if Trump deported 8 million Jewish people to Israel to colonize Palestine?
Israel thrives off the illusion that Jews need to create an ethnostate because they would not be safe elsewhere. Which is very much motivated by you guessed it, Israel. Which is a prime sponsor of antisemitic right wing parties world wide.
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I wonder what would happen if someone pulled out Mein Kampf and others alike and set them all on fire.
Believe it or not, El Salvador gulag.
I mean, makes sense, Hitler is one of Trump’s favorite authors.
No, I am not being hyperbolic.
Trump kept a collection of Hitler’s speechs from the 1930s in his nighstand table, and would read from it before going to bed in the 80s and 90s.
When asked about this,
" ‘Trump hesitated’ and then said, ‘Who told you that?’ "
In the Vanity Fair article, Ivana Trump told a friend that her husband’s cousin, John Walter “clicks his heels and says, 'Heil Hitler,” when visiting Trump’s office.
This was an article written in 2015.
Yep.
It is mostly just revisiting older news from decades before that… as would be reasonable when a newcomer to politics now seems to stand a reasonable chance of becoming President, might want to do a more thorough journalistic background check on the guy.
Leftists critical of Trump, back then, before even his first term, were … you know, kind of worried about Trump having Hitler in his nightstand table, very, very obviously seeing him as a role model and source of inspiration…
And then they said things like … is Trump a Nazi? Is Trump a fascist? This stuff is … quite concerning, along with his bombastic rhetoric and extremely nebulous and fluid ‘policies’, that all seem to converge on a return to past greatness, hypermasculinity, racism, sexism… all very much in line with … a populist, which historically very often leads to fascism…
And then almost every one else in the country dismissed that as hyperbolic nonsense, and ‘everything/one you don’t like is fascist’ was born.
… And now here we are, evidently in the bizzaro clownworld timeline, where Trump is ‘the joker, baby’ all the Republicans are his brainwashed cult of goons, the Democrats almost all as well sane-washed the shit out of Trump untill way after it was too late… and, as is also predictable broadly by history, the leftists, with few exceptions, fought each other over idpol, purity tests and tone policing, effectively negating any coherent opposition.
Impossible challenge: name a scenario in which the socialists’ warnings to the public haven’t come true.
Also about the last part, the neoliberal wing of the Democratic party (basically the entire thing) has been paid off by billionaires, and is therefore incompatible with leftist idiology. When one side says “we want single payer healthcare” and the other says “we believe in the need for the profit motive in the healthcare industry and we will block any and all attempts at diminishing the profits of health insurance corporations,” then those two sides have inherently incompatible idiologies and compromise is impossible.
Also about the tone policing, I believe that was a literal psyop by the neoliberal wing and billionaires in order to push people away from left wing (socialist) idiology. See: the CIA’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual, which perfectly describes this method of sabotaging (in this case) a political movement. There’s also the side effect of people who buy into tone policing doing the work for them and not focusing on economic issues.
I agree with all of that.
Maybe … 5 to 10% of Dems, like Federal Congresspeople, State governors… are willing to meaningfully go against pro corporate policies… at least more than half of the time.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there was some kind of psyop used to induce or intensify infighting among younger leftists, but I also wouldn’t be surprised if … there really wasn’t something specifically aimed at doing exactly that.
I know Russia has been very successfully employing the uh, hyperreality tactic, just fund or assist or influence enough people who are bombastic enough in any political persuasion, publish and spread baseless nonsense all across the spectrum to just sow general chaos…
But I do also think a lot of it really is people just adopting a vocabulary generally shared by leftists and then using it to their own, individual ends.
The thing with the CIA’s Simple Sabotage model is that it describes basically every social circle or work environment I’ve ever been in, or hear about from a friend.
General incompetence and … wasting time over petty stupid bullshit … just sounds like the norm in America generally, for pretty much my whole life… but maybe I have just had particularly bad luck with that.
This is NOT Anti Semetic! What IS Anti Semetic is asking for BABIES to Stop getting BOMBED!
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You hope, anyways. Given how shit’s going, I’d be entirely unsurprised if someone said that and actually meant it.
Seamen sabotaging semitism’s suffering seems strange. Sometimes semen shouldn’t spread specifically so some scum stop showing selfishness.
As if those clowns would read
Navy are actually one of the higher educated branches IIRC. Lots of doctors and nuclear engineers
My grandfather was one of those nukes and is spinning so hard in his grave he could power a carrier by himself
What has been your experience with the Navy and Naval Academy to hold that opinion?
I know a handful of USNA graduates and they are very well-read and intelligent.
It’s ignorance. The Naval Academy is one of the best universities in the nation. Hardly even up for debate.
With the added bonus of being run by Nazi sympathizers!
That’s true of a lot of colleges.
What point are you trying to make? I feel like you’re criticizing the institution itself instead of criticizing the current administration.
I feel like you could say this about the entire federal government, which still has many non-nazis in it (just not at the tippy-top). Shitting on USNA administration’s stupid actions is one thing, but shitting on the midshipmen, absent some obvious reasons for them deserving it, doesn’t seem warranted.
IDF don’t care.
