US Naval Academy library removed books such as "Memorializing the Holocaust." Still on the shelves: copies of "Mein Kampf"
US Naval Academy library removed books such as "Memorializing the Holocaust." Still on the shelves: copies of "Mein Kampf"
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.
Gone is “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” Maya Angelou’s transformative best-selling 1970 memoir chronicling her struggles with racism and trauma.
Gone is “Memorializing the Holocaust,” Janet Jacobs’s 2010 examination of how female victims of the Holocaust have been portrayed and remembered.
Two copies of “Mein Kampf” by Adolf Hitler are still on the shelves.
“The Bell Curve,” which argues that Black men and women are genetically less intelligent than white people, is still there. But a critique of the book was pulled.
I mean, makes sense, Hitler is one of Trump's favorite authors.
No, I am not being hyperbolic.
Trump kept a collection of Hitler's speechs from the 1930s in his nighstand table, and would read from it before going to bed in the 80s and 90s.
When asked about this,
" 'Trump hesitated' and then said, 'Who told you that?' "
In the Vanity Fair article, Ivana Trump told a friend that her husband's cousin, John Walter "clicks his heels and says, 'Heil Hitler," when visiting Trump's office.
This was an article written in 2015.
Yep.
It is mostly just revisiting older news from decades before that... as would be reasonable when a newcomer to politics now seems to stand a reasonable chance of becoming President, might want to do a more thorough journalistic background check on the guy.
Leftists critical of Trump, back then, before even his first term, were ... you know, kind of worried about Trump having Hitler in his nightstand table, very, very obviously seeing him as a role model and source of inspiration...
And then they said things like ... is Trump a Nazi? Is Trump a fascist? This stuff is ... quite concerning, along with his bombastic rhetoric and extremely nebulous and fluid 'policies', that all seem to converge on a return to past greatness, hypermasculinity, racism, sexism... all very much in line with ... a populist, which historically very often leads to fascism...
And then almost every one else in the country dismissed that as hyperbolic nonsense, and 'everything/one you don't like is fascist' was born.
... And now here we are, evidently in the bizzaro clownworld timeline, where Trump is 'the joker, baby' all the Republicans are his brainwashed cult of goons, the Democrats almost all as well sane-washed the shit out of Trump untill way after it was too late... and, as is also predictable broadly by history, the leftists, with few exceptions, fought each other over idpol, purity tests and tone policing, effectively negating any coherent opposition.
I guess wherever there is support of the Israeli state, there is a Nazi behind that.
Already had most of these marked to donate to their eventual primary challenger; welcome to the list, Henry Cuellar.
I had wondered if Trumps hatred of jews would affect his response to Israel. I guess thats coming up next. Smart pick, zionists.
Doubtful. Even the Nazis back then wouldn't have had a problem with Israel-- ethnostates are kind of their thing.
The religious right needs a Jewish state of Israel to exist, too, so they're not going to let Trump fuck that up
Exactly. The religious nutjobs love Israel to fulfill their doomsday prophecies. The white supremacists love Israel so they can have somewhere to deport all the US Jews to.
Note how they deliberately conflate Judaism with Zionism? To a white supremacist, a Jew can never really be a true American. They'll always have some intrinsic loyalty to the state of Israel. To a white supremacist, deporting a US-born Jew to Israel isn't a crime at all; it's just sending them home.
There is nothing Israel loves more than antisemites.
Can you imagine how happy Israel would be if Trump deported 8 million Jewish people to Israel to colonize Palestine?
Israel thrives off the illusion that Jews need to create an ethnostate because they would not be safe elsewhere. Which is very much motivated by you guessed it, Israel. Which is a prime sponsor of antisemitic right wing parties world wide.
I wonder what would happen if someone pulled out Mein Kampf and others alike and set them all on fire.
Believe it or not, El Salvador gulag.
As if those clowns would read
Navy are actually one of the higher educated branches IIRC. Lots of doctors and nuclear engineers
My grandfather was one of those nukes and is spinning so hard in his grave he could power a carrier by himself
Given this is the branch is charge of all the moving nuclear reactors..this is troubling news indeed.
We are clearly occupied by tech bro oligarch Nazi’s right now
Seamen sabotaging semitism's suffering seems strange. Sometimes semen shouldn't spread specifically so some scum stop showing selfishness.
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IDF don't care.