@bski1221 @atrupar Smithsonian Institution: executive-order pressure targeting the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Smithsonian/National Museum of African American History and Culture: reported artifact rotations amid pressure, with causation disputed. 1/
@bski1221 @atrupar Department of Defense website: Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. trailblazing-career page deleted and labeled “DEI/black-history-month.”
Department of Defense integration history: 60th anniversary of U.S. troop integration page removed, then reinstated. 2/
@bski1221 @atrupar Governing federal standard suppresses negative racial history by design.
Slavery at the founding minimized at Independence/President’s House.
Named enslaved people in Washington’s household de-centered. 3/
@bski1221 @atrupar Physical brutality of slavery suppressed through “The Scourged Back” removal or flagging.
Escape-from-slavery narratives targeted at Kingsley Plantation and Cane River.
Abolitionist revolt context targeted @ Harpers Ferry.
Civil Rights Movement interpretation targeted @ Selma. 4/
@bski1221 @atrupar School desegregation interpretation targeted at Brown v. Board because of “equity.”
Lost Cause correction targeted at Manassas.
Colonial slavery in the U.S. Virgin Islands targeted.
Slavery generalized as “disparagement” rather than public history. 5/
@bski1221 @atrupar Black military achievement treated as DEI-coded rather than American history.
Language about racial abuse and segregation caught in deletion.
Black History Month framing treated as suspect.
Smithsonian order specifically attacks race-conscious interpretation. 6/
@bski1221 @atrupar That's the *first* set of actions by the current administration to accomplish their goal of Black erasure from national monuments, Federal policy, etc etc etc., putting the lie to your contention that they are somehow not doing what I just showed you they are doing. 7/
@bski1221 @atrupar Would you like me to find more examples, or shall I start on their ongoing attempts to erase transgender Americans from existence and their overall progress in removing LGBTQ+ Americans from participation in civil society? (Rhetorical question.) 8/8
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@bski1221 @atrupar I know your reading comprehension is in short supply, genius, but let your lips move freely as you read the 6-page single-spaced list of Black erasure I gave you:
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@bski1221 @atrupar •Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park, Kansas: permanent exhibit flagged because it mentions “equity.” A permanent exhibit at the landmark school-desegregation site was reportedly flagged because of the word “equity." 2/
@bski1221 @atrupar National Park Service systemwide exhibit purge: at least 51 exhibits from 37 sites.
President’s House Site, Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia: slavery exhibit removed. 3/
@CreepnCat Good God, are they still going on about pups and pup hoods? Pup Play "officially" began at IML 1986, 3 years before the first ConFurEnce, and they are not in conflict; they draw from and enrich and sustain each other, and each is now practiced by millions around the world. 1/
@CreepnCat Many of us participate in both practices and are fully invested in both communities. This natural unity and harmony is key to our affinity for the activity, and we're puzzled by the recurring hateful discourse, the calls for separation and worse - 2/
@CreepnCat Pup Play and the Furry Fandom are here for our enjoyment, gifts to us really, a small vacation from our daily grind, and as we play and rest and become a new creature for a time, we deepen and enrich our lives in a meaningful way, even profound at times - 3/
@DrNeilStone All these fetid slavering bottom-feeding AIDS Truthers in the replies obscure the lived reality of gay men from 1981-1996. AZT was credited with giving people with HIV a longer life - anecdotally, 6 to 24 months - but it didn't stop them from dying. 1/
@DrNeilStone At the very beginning of AZT, some - again, anecdotally - may have been adversely affected by toxicity caused by megadoses of the only drug we had for years. Quack remedies circulated among us on mimeograph - inject yourself with hydrogen peroxide! Kombucha tea! Echinacea! 2/
@DrNeilStone At some point in the mid-1990s, I recall a story in the SF Examiner about med students whose experiments with a three-drug regimen showed early promise, but we were so busy attending 5 wakes a week and fighting the government's efforts to hasten our deaths, we barely noticed. 3/
@whiplash3456 Ran across your account and was struck by your determination to open your mind and heart. As a lifelong saved Christian I hope that as you go forward the Spirit will deepen and enrich your understanding of God's grace. 1/
@whiplash3456 This fandom is filled with children of God who are deeply frightened - terrified, to be honest - by the actions of our government and the darkness in our culture that has trained its sights on us, has rolled back years of progress for our community in a matter of months - 2/
@whiplash3456 - with the clearly stated intention of driving us out of American civil society. I've been an activist for HIV/AIDS and LGBTQ+ civil rights for 40 years, and I remember how they cheered our desths and legislated against us. We lost so many, but we endured - 3/
@PupBoreas @DartsDomain @SpacePupSilver After 38 years in leather on Folsom Street and across the country, 37 years as the 2nd-earliest Pup in Pup Play, "oldguardleatherdog" atop my socials, trained by legends &c &c, let me offer you this: 1/
@PupBoreas @DartsDomain @SpacePupSilver ANYONE who tells you that you're not good enough, your clothes/gear/look/body/race/gender/attitude isn't up to standard, you're ignorant or stupid, you're not conforming to our dress code, age range, class/wealth status, or any variation of "you're doing it wrong!" - 2/
@PupBoreas @DartsDomain @SpacePupSilver - and uses that to keep you out, throw up a bar to entry, or even hints that you're somehow unworthy of us -
(get ready, I'm gonna get loud)
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@Stopworkplacebu This is what happened to me 14 years ago as a high-level IT engineer freshly hired full time at a defense contractor outside of DC on a massive project for a federal agency that brought in the top people from Microsoft and the US government. Worked in a "war room" where about 1/
@Stopworkplacebu two dozen of us were thrown together in a series of low-slung desks with minimal dividers, like an eighth grade cafeteria. First day I walked in there, the 23-year-old project lead from the government side saw me, first words out of his mouth "get out of here, we don't need 2/
@Stopworkplacebu that s--t." This was when the entire IT field was one giant shark tank, where if you were female, or somebody even got the hint you were gay, God help you. I was stunned, and I walked out, which pissed the guy off even more. At first, the management was behind me, but things 3/