"Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL"
"Americans (had) witnessed a concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our Nation's history, replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth."
"In the authoritarian playbook, rewriting collective memory is just this critical strategy for controlling the masses,"
Local school board conflicts over inclusion of Black and Latino history and books have escalated into national campaigns targeting museums and historians over patriotism and national pride. The administration intends to expand reviews of museums for alleged "woke" ideology and directed attorneys to conduct comprehensive reviews of museum systems. The Department of Education threatens to withdraw federal funding from public schools that retain DEI programs and Black history books under an executive order alleging a coordinated rewriting of history. Critics warn these measures could gut historical scholarship and force institutions to ignore research and revert to sanitized narratives.
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