Trump moving to 'delete' people he doesn't like from govt data and images

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https://www.rawstory.com/trump-deletion/


Trump moving to 'delete' people he doesn't like from govt data: analysis



President Donald Trump has adopted a peculiar and dangerous pattern in his second term, wrote Amanda Shendruk and Catherine Rampell for The Washington Post in an analysis published on Friday: moving to "delete" entire categories of people he doesn't like or want to acknowledge from federal data whenever possible.

"For example, when the Defense Department was asked to cull all DEI-related content from its websites, it removed approximately 26,000 images," they wrote. "A list of the deleted photos was given to the Associated Press. About 19,000 of them included descriptions, and our analysis found that 4 out of 5 depicted women, people in the LGBTQ+ community and racial minorities."

Almost half of the deleted images included racial minorities, the report found.


"This is part of a broader campaign to delete the statistical and visual evidence of undesirables, or at least those who may not fit into President Donald Trump’s conception of the new American 'golden age,'" they wrote. "Entire demographics are being scrubbed from records of both America’s past and present — including people of color, transgender people, women, immigrants and people with disabilities. They are now among America’s 'missing persons.'"

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1. "Undesirables"

Good Lord, relative to Freedom and Democracy and Liberty and Justice for all, there is no more undesirable group of Americans than those in the trump Administration and those who enable them. Yeah Mike Johnson me and Jesus Christ are pointing at you. And let us not forget our neighbors who showed us for decades they could not possibly care less about the truth liberals were telling them about trump.

[Retrograde]

2. So we're at the non-persons stage now?

Are we heading back to the non-existent time when all Americans were square-jawed Brits bravely marching westwards to conquer the continent while ignoring all the people who were there at the time? Like it or not, MAGAts, the US has always been a vibrant and often messy place with all sorts of people.

Some years ago I read a book on American history (whose name I've forgotten) written by a Latin American historian who pointed out that while the people of largely British ancestry were heading west, people were moving up from Mexico - he suggested that "tapestry", with all the various threads forming a strong fabric, was a better metaphor than "melting pot", with its connotations of destruction and assimilation.