Summary

The Pentagon has removed web pages about Holocaust remembrance and other historical topics to comply with Trump’s order to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) content from federal government sites.

Taken-down pages include stories of Holocaust survivors and religious tolerance, as well as content about 9/11 and veterans’ issues.

The Defense Department used automated tools to identify and delete up to 24,000 pages.

Critics argue this erases significant historical narratives, while the Pentagon defends the move as necessary to end “Woke cultural Marxism.”

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    2 months ago

    Could somebody explain to me precisely how either of those things have anything to do with “DEI”? Or what Nazism and Islamism have to do with Marxism for that matter?

    • kamenLady.@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      All life has to do with DEI. The real heart of DEI was inclusion. The whole USA was living one of the most inclusive lifestyles in the world.

      It is exactly what Trump said he would do, America First.

      I really wasn’t expecting, that he has a very narrow and twisted view of who he sees as American.

      Musk, the most dangerous immigrant of all time, gets the keys to the country.

      At the same time immigrants, that earned their American citizenship by hard work, part of a community, are being treated like pigs and deported.

      With DEI officially disappearing, we will see all the good things we build in the last decades also disappear.

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      2 months ago

      Nothing at all. DEI is just being used like a catch-all media buzzword to justify racism. To Trump, DEI means “Anything at all that I don’t like about anyone who isn’t a cis white male”.

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      2 months ago

      It’s more likely he’ll start a war with Canada and Mexico and will then spark a civil war. I want off this timeline

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        2 months ago

        The US starting a war with Canada and Mexico would very much result in a world war. There is no way the rest of the world would sit idle if that happened.

  • MagicShel@lemmy.zip
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    2 months ago

    Apparently, history is too woke. Just assume white guys did everything going back to Moses (if you believe in that).

    Some examples of white men throughout history:

    • Gengis Khan
    • Jesus (but not Confucius or Buddha—they are some woke shit)
    • Cleopatra - little known fact: she was actually three white man in a trenchcoat
    • Shaka Zulu - famous for conquering South Africa for white people who ruled benevolently until Nelson Mandela fucked up a good thing
    • Mahatma Gandhi - famous for inventing Trump-style diplomacy in the original Civilization video game. Probably not an actual historical figure.
  • venotic@kbin.melroy.org
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    2 months ago

    I think the reasons behind these are:

    9/11 - Muslim-related. Something Trump has targeted before, huh, imagine that. But 9/11 wasn’t all about muslims, it was just started by a terrorist group of muslims.

    Holocaust - Jewish-related. Something suggests Trump has a conflicted interest on, since he helps Israel commit more genocide, so this one is a confused subject. Is he implying that he secretly hates Jews? Or placating to the haters in his voterbase that are anti-semitic?

    • KoboldCoterie@pawb.social
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      2 months ago

      Is he implying that he secretly hates Jews? Or placating to the haters in his voterbase that are anti-semitic?

      I strongly suspect that it’s not because it was a genocide against jews, but rather that it was perpetrated by Nazis, and he doesn’t want to paint them in a bad light.

  • atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    At this point the declaration of Independence is going to be removed from government websites for the woke phase “all men are created equal”.