Trump's Campaign to Defund the Arts--and Rewrite History

[Nevilledog]

https://time.com/7327987/trump-defund-arts-rewrite-history/

October is National Arts n Humanities Month, a time normally reserved for celebrating the creative and intellectual currents that enrich our nation. But this year, the month began not with a celebration, but with a shutdown, the latest and most jarring blow in the Trump Administration’s long-running war against American culture.

In August 2017, I and 15 of my colleagues on the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities made a not so difficult choice. In the wake of President Trump’s shocking refusal to unequivocally condemn the neo-Nazis and white supremacists in Charlottesville, we resigned. We wrote to the president that his support for hate groups and the false equivalencies he pushed could not stand. “Supremacy, discrimination, and vitriol are not American values,” our letter stated. “Your values are not American values.”

We took that step because to remain silent would have made us complicit in his hateful rhetoric. We warned that his pattern of attacking art, the humanities, and the free press was pushing our country “further away from the freedoms we are guaranteed.” We feared what was to come.

We were not wrong. What we witnessed then was a preview. What America is experiencing now is the feature presentation, a systematic, full-frontal assault on our nation’s cultural and intellectual life. This deliberate strategy is outlined in the Heritage Foundation’s “Project 2025,” and is designed to replace our diverse culture with a single, government-approved ideology.

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[Irish_Dem]

1. Trump's goal is to destroy the identity and soul of America.

To turn it into something else.

[sop]

2. The barbarians are at the gate.

[0rganism]

5. Looks to me like the barbarians own the gate now

Not going to be much gate left when they're done with it.

[sop]

6. Correction: The barbarians are the gatekeepers.

[Boomerproud]

3. WaPo has a piece with a similar theme today about museums.

It appears only some people are paying attention.

[Solly Mack]

4. This is not the first time white supremacy has chosen to deny America's actual history. WS has hidden, denied,

lied about, covered up, and rewritten history from the get-go in America.

How many times have people said, "I didn't know that", upon learning just a small part of the history of marginalized groups in America?

Many times. Many, many times.

We have to do what has always been done by groups denied their very humanity by those in power.

We must remember. We must speak the truth.

We must fight against the lies.

Because Trump and his fellow disgruntled white people are, in fact, attacking everything not straight, white, male and Christian by attempting to impose a false narrative and corrupt ideology on the whole of America.