Summary
The National Park Service removed Harriet Tubman’s image and quote from its “Underground Railroad” webpage, along with references to slavery and the Fugitive Slave Act.
The revision now emphasizes “American ideals of liberty” and downplays historical realities.
Historians and scholars condemned the move as a distortion of history and erasure of Tubman’s legacy.
The change aligns with broader Trump administration efforts to eliminate DEI content across federal sites, which critics say suppresses discussions of race, identity, and historical truth.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
might be a bit pretentious to quote 1984 but boy, try telling me the right wing reality distortion field doesn’t exist.
That’s legitimately why the republicans want to rename the Gulf of Mexico
What do you mean “rename”? It’s always been the Gulf of America.
Ouch, this physically hurt haha
we have always been allied with eurasia. we have always been at war with east asia
“That’s what Jesus called it. That’s what my daddy called it. And it’s worked out just fine, since…”
Not pretentious at all. This is the exact thing Orwell was warning about. Never a better time to quote it.
