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).
Babe, wake up, a new Isekai anime plot just dropped.
I mean we would just give it back you when dumpy dies or is ousted.
Tbf, England doesn’t have a good track record when it comes to returning culturally significant items …
Trump against precedence keeps the gifts given to him rather than them going to a museum. As such I would appreciate it if you guys gifted him a clue.
Unfortunately we don’t have a lot of those ourselves these days
Have you been to the British Museum?
We’re not great at giving stuff back
Stop fucking resigning ffs!
Make them drag you out!
You can’t collect unemployment if you quit.
So why are they quitting?
The nation’s treasures are not Trump’s to give.
In a dictatorship he can do as he pleases, so unfortunately they are his to give.
Presidential libraries are private, aren’t they?
It says “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”. So no, not private.
Well, technically, I think they are. Yet another example of how poor a system the founders set up.
I mean, the North American continent is also not white Europeans’ to inhabit. So - I don’t see any problem with this, times change. And other countries are not US’ to make choices for.
But some humiliation after all that “checks and balances” pride will be refreshing eventually. It’s an obvious and thus little seen truth that “checks and balances” can be used to build any kind of mechanism. Your country has achieved private surveillance and private censorship and private racial segregation. You’ll deliver.
It actually amazes me how resilient its be. The major check on this is the senate and the supreme court but while the founders realized there would be all sorts of parties and philosophies vying for control it did not seem to occur to them that such a massive number of self respecting people would go against freedom, democracy, individual rights and essentially everything the country was built on. They ultimately assumed they would be americans.
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.
No you are nativist. It is a joke to call Advocating for the genocide of the descendants of colonists “humanist”.
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.
Please go on about blood and soil.
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.
Honestly, why do they all just cave? Is there no one with a spine in that godforsaken country?
Historians aren’t really known for wanting to be in the center of political battles.
But he put himself in the center when he refused to give up the sword.
He refused, then resigned.
methinks government is where the spineless go
