Another example of Do Not Obey In Advance

[Dennis Donovan]

MothersAgainstGregAbbott
‪@democracymoms.bsky.social‬

Another example of Do Not Obey In Advance

‪Marc Elias‬ ‪
@marcelias.bsky.social‬
4h
Shameful behavior from a bunch of cowards.

November 30, 2024 at 9:47 AM

Another example of Do Not Obey In Advance

— MothersAgainstGregAbbott (@democracymoms.bsky.social) 2024-11-30T14:47:58.927Z

[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. They're not complying. They're reverting to their norm.

[BoRaGard]

2. Brown Nosers, Inc. (R)

[onecaliberal]

3. The enemies within.

[cbabe]

4. National Archives clears out exhibits

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219638323

'Obeying Fascism in Advance,' National Archivist Sanitized US Museum

https://www.commondreams.org/news/the-national-archives-museum

'Obeying Fascism in Advance,' National Archivist Sanitized US Museum

"At first glance laughable, this is a very ominous preview of what will be far vaster self-censorship and reality distortion that... entities will engage in if Trump wins," warned one journalist.

JESSICA CORBETT
Oct 31, 2024

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As the Journal reported:

Shogan's senior aides ordered that a proposed image of Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. be cut from a planned "Step Into History" photo booth in the Discovery Center. The booth will give visitors a chance to take photos of themselves superimposed alongside historic figures. The aides also ordered the removal of labor union pioneer Dolores Huerta and Minnie Spotted-Wolf, the first Native American woman to join the Marine Corps, from the photo booth, according to current and former employees and agency documents.

The aides proposed using instead images of former President Richard Nixon greeting Elvis Presley and former President Ronald Reagan with baseball player Cal Ripken Jr.

After reviewing plans for an exhibit about the nation's Westward expansion, Shogan asked one staffer, Why is it so much about Indians? according to current and former employees. Among the records Shogan ordered cut from the exhibit were several treaties signed by Native American tribes ceding their lands to the U.S. government, according to the employees and documents.

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[Hekate]

5. How dare they do that?! That's absolutely sick!

[Cirsium]

6. more

In October 2024, the Wall Street Journal reported that Shogan and her top advisers had censored numerous displays at the National Archives' museum in an effort to de-emphasize negative parts of U.S. history, according to documents, and current and former employees. According to the article, Shogan and her top aides, like Ellis Brachman, ordered the removal of images of Martin Luther King, Jr., Dolores Huerta, and Minnie Spotted-Wolf from the Discovery Center wing of the National Archives Museum, images by Dorothea Lange of Japanese-American concentration camps, cut information about the negative environmental effects of coal mining and the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese-Americans from various exhibits, and directed employees to find "success stories about white people". Shogan was alleged to ask why a museum exhibit on Western expansion was centered on Indigenous people, ordered records showing treaties in which Indigenous tribes ceded "their lands to the U.S. government", and directed that a patent for the contraceptive pill be replaced by a patent for the bump stock, and reportedly said that exhibits should not be pushing a "partisan agenda". It was also asserted that some senior officials that had resigned had blamed Shogan's leadership, with one long-time employee for the archives filing a whistleblower complaint, claiming that "Shogan abused her authority and engaged in censorship", and that she had done too much to "appease Republicans".

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The president of Win Without War, Stephen Miles, argued that Shogan's reported action was, "preemptively self-censoring and hiding essential parts of any honest telling of American history", and called it a dereliction of the agency's mission. Author David Neiwert said that Shogan and her advisors need to be replaced, and that she is, "making a travesty of American history." Historian Harvey G. Cohen echoed the same sentiment, stating that the National Archives should be focused on "preserving and presenting the truth" and Timothy D. Snyder called Shogan's reported conduct, "anticipatory obedience". Former Obama administration official Brandon Friedman and Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Will Brunch accused Shogan and her advisors of, "obeying fascism in advance". In an article in Current Affairs, Nathan J. Robinson argued that the National Archives Museum was backsliding into "a sanitized mythological retelling of American history", asserted that Shogan is "intensely worried about being accused of partisanship" and argued that the Archivist of the United States should be "committed to telling a truthful story that reflects what actually happened." On November 1st, the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, Congressional Hispanic Caucus, and Congressional Black Caucus chairs Judy Chu, Nanette Barragán, and Steven Horsford issued a statement which criticized NARA's reported actions, saying that that the agency was "preemptively appeas[ing]...conservative interests" and aligning with far-right "book ban movements nationwide", and urged Shogan to restore these references and exhibits to ensure that "NARA and the National Archives Museum tell the full and most accurate story of our nation."

[cbabe]

7. Sure adds more wondering on how boxes and boxes of documents walked out and never came back.

[cbabe]

8. Thanks.

[DBoon]

9. "a patent for the contraceptive pill be replaced by a patent for the bump stock"????

That is truly sick.

[MadLinguist]

10. Pro Life Pimping in Action

Jesus Wept.

[SWBTATTReg]

11. Well, at least the scumbags are openly exposing themselves, no longer afraid to remain in the shadows. Thing is,

KARMA does have a way of getting back at these thugs. We'll remember the most thuggish actions that they take. We have memories like elephants.

[ShazzieB]

12. Disgraceful.