The National Park Service race to rewrite history becomes a slog.
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While there was a time when the US represented one of the best hopes for a nation’s governance on behalf of its people, we’ve *always* fallen well short of our aspirational goals where marginalized people have been concerned, be that marginalization based on race, gender, eco...
>While some exhibits have been altered or removed — most dramatically when NPS in January abruptly took down an exhibit about former President George Washington’s slaves at a Philadelphia site — **the vast majority of parks have blown past several Interior Department deadli...
I mean also that we lost over a quarter of our staff, so if there is a deadline it’s probably not relayed down, so it doesn’t get done anyways.
Erasing and censoring history is another step toward privatization.
Sure let’s replace the signs with info you dont like rather than the 20 year old waysides with incorrect information. Makes total sense.
If history doesn't give you a patriotic boner, it ain't worth telling.
1) Don’t comply in advance (of repeated memos, inspections and other evidence of actual enforcenent) 2) Be prepared to store & conserve the material, including notes on locations) 3) Come up with replacement sign ideas or memes that subtly signal censorship. (The Chinese ...