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21d agoDaily Life

The National Park Service race to rewrite history becomes a slog.

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MissingLinl101
MissingLinl101· 22d ago

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...

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Free-Eagle306
Free-Eagle306· 21d ago

>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...

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kevinmrr79
kevinmrr79· 21d ago

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.

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BoldMoose428
BoldMoose428· 21d ago

Erasing and censoring history is another step toward privatization.

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jmaBbz
jmaBbz· 21d ago

Sure let’s replace the signs with info you dont like rather than the 20 year old waysides with incorrect information. Makes total sense.

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Free-Eagle306
Free-Eagle306· 22d ago

If history doesn't give you a patriotic boner, it ain't worth telling.

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abzeng87
abzeng87· 22d ago

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 ...

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