The Eisenhower Presidential Library’s director has exited his position after advocating against giving a sword from the collection to King Charles as a gift during Donald Trump’s recent state visit, according to US media reports on Thursday.
Todd Arrington left his post on Monday after being told to “resign or be fired”, he told CBS News, which did not specify who had relayed the message to the historian.
The library and museum – located in former US president Dwight D Eisenhower’s home town in Abilene, Kansas – is part of the National Archives and Records Administration (Nara).
Thats some racist bullshit.
No. Being for colonization is racist bullshit. Being against colonization is anti-racist humanism. It is humanist to call for reduction and limitation of USA and Commonwealth, with no irony.
But I’m not calling for that because it’s useless, just saying that I’ll enjoy the part where their superiority feeling will be finally firmly matched with reality. I won’t enjoy the parts where they’ll try to take revenge for it upon whoever they can.
🙄 we did it lemmy, the annoying pedantic scolds have arrived
No you are nativist. It is a joke to call Advocating for the genocide of the descendants of colonists “humanist”. Please go on about blood and soil.
You as a descendant of the colonists can invent any words you want, but nobody is calling for genocide.
Just for correcting some historical wrongs.
It’s telling that you can’t imagine that happening in any other way than genocide, because that’s what your ancestors did.
USA and the Commonwealth existing as they are are not the natural order of things. Yes, telling population of big cities to pack and leave for Europe is not an option, but there’s plenty of territory their ancestors cleansed from their inhabitants which is still not occupied or occupied for things like farming.
What can’t be returned to rightful owners without genocide, shouldn’t be. But the enormous territory (that culture of suburbs in USA and Australia - it’s hard to imagine for a European despite being shown in movies and such) that can, should be.
It’s very simple - there’s a huge gap between saying that indigenous peoples have a superior claim, which should be respected when that’s possible without mass atrocities, and saying that all colonists should be murdered.
And if you don’t do it, then eventually what happened in Algeria will happen everywhere. USA+Commonwealth+other former empires together are shrinking as a percentage of global power, and nobody forgets anything. It’s really a better option to do the decolonization thing on your own terms.
What about rights of people robbed of their land by your ancestors? On the contrary, any right that you have on it can only be justified by blood spilled for soil. Which is a principle I’m not using.
Or those rights can be discarded, and addressing your identity becomes racist?
Why do you keep saying commonwealth? Is it part of some weird belief structure of yours? (I’m genuinely curious)
It’s part of the weird belief system of the former British Empire English-speaking inhabitants that they are not colonists, but “Canadians”, “Australians”, “New Zealanders” and so on. As if those lands belonged to them.
I get that you’re likely a cryptofascist or a person trying on a bunch of different belief structures like they’re hats or something.
But still, why commonwealth so often? What meaning does that term hold for you?
I haven’t changed anything in this conversation.
Commonwealth because it’s the current form of the genocidal British Empire.
It’s telling how you descendants of the worst ghouls in history start squealing when the declared common values are applied to you in the slightest.
Nah man I know you paint with a broad brush but like…I actually don’t give a shit about being born a colonist or a descendant of a colonist or whatever.
I was just curious as to why you keep saying commonwealth.
You likely are a cryptofascist though. Yes, you’re like a slippery eel with weirdo statements online, but that’s only because you’re some type of nationalist. I honestly don’t find that part the least bit interesting, I’m more interested in how cranks latch onto some choice words or elements of grammar for some reason.