• Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 days ago

    Jesus, they’re going through and “purifying” all the different government archives. This is gonna do irreparable harm to our knowledge of history. Utterly vile

  • limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 days ago

    The Enola Gay is still mildly radioactive, so I can’t help but think “Hot gays in your area ready to bang”

  • Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    They’re also removing pictures of a Medal of Honor recipient from World War 2. His crime? Being Hispanic. Because being Hispanic and being awarded the MoH posthumously is obviously DEI. From that infamous time of DEI awards, 1946.

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      7 days ago

      They know exactly what they’re doing, it’s a “purification,” not entirely dissimilar to the same that happened in the 1930s in Germany.

  • EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    If they do this then they should at least be consistent and remove every mention of the words Straight, Bi, Pan and Trans as well

    Taking your Biplane for a transatlantic flight, straight to the Panama canal? That’s a paddlin

  • 1024_Kibibytes@lemm.ee
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    7 days ago

    Also apparently any photo of any Black or woman service member.

    Because they didn’t consider the possibility that women and Black service members did noteworthy things based on their actual merit.

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      6 days ago

      Including a Hispanic Marine who received a Medal of Honor for jumping on a grenade to save his comrades. Medal given in 1946, the infamous period of DEI…

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      7 days ago

      “Images of historically significant military achievements or personnel, such as the Tuskegee Airmen and the first female Marine Corps infantry graduates, have been flagged for removal.”

      Wow. That’s pretty blatant.