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.
I guess wherever there is support of the Israeli state, there is a Nazi behind that.
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.
As if those clowns would read
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.
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.
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.
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
Already had most of these marked to donate to their eventual primary challenger; welcome to the list, Henry Cuellar.
