Çhina's great cultural revolution comes to America

[Hodad]

Borrowing from the playbook of yet another successful dictator, Trump is attempting to purge history, art and science of ideas he doesn't like. 

We've seen it at NIH, we've seen it at the Kennedy center, and now it's coming for the Smithsonian. 

Politico (and everywhere else)

Vice President JD Vance has a new job: erasing what the White House considers “improper ideology” from the Smithsonian, a task that allows him to cast aside the progressive ideas he has decried since long before he was elected to public office.

The vice president, who sits on the museum network’s board, has been tasked with slashing funding for exhibits or programs that promote “ideologies inconsistent with Federal law and policy,” including those that recognize trans people, “degrade shared American values,” or “divide Americans based on race,” according to an executive order President Donald Trump signed behind closed doors on Thursday.

 

 

I have no doubt that this aggressive, ham-handed attempt to use political office to dictate culture will be celebrated by so-called conservatives (who clearly aren't), but it should be recognized for the sinister, cynical scheme that it is. 

[Michael Hardner]

20 minutes ago, Hodad said:

Borrowing from the playbook of yet another successful dictator, Trump is attempting to purge history, art and science of ideas he doesn't like. 

We've seen it at NIH, we've seen it at the Kennedy center, and now it's coming for the Smithsonian. 

Politico (and everywhere else)

Vice President JD Vance has a new job: erasing what the White House considers “improper ideology” from the Smithsonian, a task that allows him to cast aside the progressive ideas he has decried since long before he was elected to public office.

The vice president, who sits on the museum network’s board, has been tasked with slashing funding for exhibits or programs that promote “ideologies inconsistent with Federal law and policy,” including those that recognize trans people, “degrade shared American values,” or “divide Americans based on race,” according to an executive order President Donald Trump signed behind closed doors on Thursday.

 

 

I have no doubt that this aggressive, ham-handed attempt to use political office to dictate culture will be celebrated by so-called conservatives (who clearly aren't), but it should be recognized for the sinister, cynical scheme that it is. 

Trumps have discovered social engineering.  

Openness and acceptance of LGBTQ is regarded by them as social engineering, not a common value.  Did liberals make a mistake on that one ?  

Objectively, how much does the government get to decide what is a 'common value' ?  Or, furthermore, to interpret recognized value-words like 'Freedom' ?  

Freedom seems to mean you can buy a message and broadcast it whether or not it is true.   Nobody would argue that. 

But it doesn't mean freedom of equal access to education or health.

Postmodern Republicanism truly is a wonder to behold.  It will lead back to a kind of 19th century pastoralism, I suspect.  Maybe with a monarchy though.

[User]

50 minutes ago, Hodad said:

Borrowing from the playbook of yet another successful dictator, Trump is attempting to purge history, art and science of ideas he doesn't like. 

We've seen it at NIH, we've seen it at the Kennedy center, and now it's coming for the Smithsonian. 

It is amazing how you guys conflate what government does with what everyone else is doing. 

No one is stopping you from building a big gay history shrine in your living room or partnering up with all your left wing progressive buddies to build the biggest left wing I love trans museum in your home town to spread all the rainbow cheer your hear desires. 

No history, art, or science is being purged here. 

What is being done is that for all the years you leftists have been pushing your absurd nonsense into these government institutions, Trump is removing it. 

 

[User]

31 minutes ago, Michael Hardner said:

Trumps have discovered social engineering.  

No... like always, we did not discover this... Trump did not discover this... this is a reaction to what the left has been pushing. 

 

[Nationalist]

1 hour ago, Hodad said:

Borrowing from the playbook of yet another successful dictator, Trump is attempting to purge history, art and science of ideas he doesn't like. 

We've seen it at NIH, we've seen it at the Kennedy center, and now it's coming for the Smithsonian. 

Politico (and everywhere else)

Vice President JD Vance has a new job: erasing what the White House considers “improper ideology” from the Smithsonian, a task that allows him to cast aside the progressive ideas he has decried since long before he was elected to public office.

The vice president, who sits on the museum network’s board, has been tasked with slashing funding for exhibits or programs that promote “ideologies inconsistent with Federal law and policy,” including those that recognize trans people, “degrade shared American values,” or “divide Americans based on race,” according to an executive order President Donald Trump signed behind closed doors on Thursday.

 

 

I have no doubt that this aggressive, ham-handed attempt to use political office to dictate culture will be celebrated by so-called conservatives (who clearly aren't), but it should be recognized for the sinister, cynical scheme that it is. 

Sinister? Who let men into women's bathrooms and sports?

Pfft...Sinister...

[User]

6 minutes ago, Nationalist said:

Sinister? Who let men into women's bathrooms and sports?

Pfft...Sinister...

This crap is so tiresome and dishonest. 

These clowns spent the last 4 years trying to push LGBTQ/DEI madness into anything and everything they could. Now Trump is undoing it and they are crying about Trump being some kind of authoritarian trying to erase history. 

Sigh... 

[Nationalist]

10 minutes ago, User said:

This crap is so tiresome and dishonest. 

These clowns spent the last 4 years trying to push LGBTQ/DEI madness into anything and everything they could. Now Trump is undoing it and they are crying about Trump being some kind of authoritarian trying to erase history. 

Sigh... 

Exactly.

[Deluge]

2 hours ago, Hodad said:

Borrowing from the playbook of yet another successful dictator, Trump is attempting to purge history, art and science of ideas he doesn't like. 

We've seen it at NIH, we've seen it at the Kennedy center, and now it's coming for the Smithsonian. 

Politico (and everywhere else)

Vice President JD Vance has a new job: erasing what the White House considers “improper ideology” from the Smithsonian, a task that allows him to cast aside the progressive ideas he has decried since long before he was elected to public office.

The vice president, who sits on the museum network’s board, has been tasked with slashing funding for exhibits or programs that promote “ideologies inconsistent with Federal law and policy,” including those that recognize trans people, “degrade shared American values,” or “divide Americans based on race,” according to an executive order President Donald Trump signed behind closed doors on Thursday.

 

 

I have no doubt that this aggressive, ham-handed attempt to use political office to dictate culture will be celebrated by so-called conservatives (who clearly aren't), but it should be recognized for the sinister, cynical scheme that it is. 

There's nothing wrong with purging regressivism from the country's institutions. 

Nobody who's worth a damn believes for one second that there's anything progressive about your f*cked up belief system. 

[robosmith]

1 hour ago, Nationalist said:

Exactly.

^MAKE BIGOTRY GREAT AGAIN 🤮

You were born 100 years too late. How do you even survive in the modern world? LMAO

[User]

21 minutes ago, robosmith said:

^MAKE BIGOTRY GREAT AGAIN 🤮

You were born 100 years too late. How do you even survive in the modern world? LMAO

Erasing the LGBTQ/DEI madness you folks have pushed into every crack and crevice of the government is not bigotry. 

 

[Nationalist]

1 hour ago, robosmith said:

^MAKE BIGOTRY GREAT AGAIN 🤮

You were born 100 years too late. How do you even survive in the modern world? LMAO

Well robo...right now I'm having hot boneless goat roti so...I survive just fine.

But thanks for caring.

[robosmith]

1 hour ago, Nationalist said:

Well robo...right now I'm having hot boneless goat roti so...I survive just fine.

But thanks for caring.

And that meat is going to kill you along with your addiction to beer. I'll be dancing on your grave if I ever find out where it is. LMAO

Want to live a couple of years longer? Get out of that cart and WALK the course.

[Radiorum]

Small minds really believe this has something to do with DEI, the enemy created. If institutions in the US are limited by what the government approves of as "proper ideology" it is the Chinese cultural revolution of the 1960s, and more lately Putinism, all over again. The US is no longer the land of the free.

“Who are our enemies? Who are our friends? This is a question of the first importance for the revolution.”
Mao Zedong, 1926

“[The play] Hai Rui Dismissed from Office is not a fragrant flower but a poisonous weed… Its influence is great and its poison widespread. If we do not clean it up, it will be harmful to the affairs of the people.”
Yao Wenyuan, 1965

“I was Chairman Mao’s dog. What he said to bite, I bit.”
Jiang Qing on her role in the Cultural Revolution

 

https://alphahistory.com/chineserevolution/quotations-cultural-revolution/

 

[User]

3 minutes ago, Radiorum said:

Small minds really believe this has something to do with DEI, the enemy created. If institutions in the US are limited by what the government approves of as "proper ideology" it is the Chinese cultural revolution of the 1960s, and more lately Putinism, all over again. The US is no longer the land of the free.

Thus, your whole argument falls apart, predicated on a bogus, vague generalization. 

 

[Radiorum]

31 minutes ago, User said:

Thus, your whole argument falls apart, predicated on a bogus, vague generalization. 

 

Not a vague generalization, but the Trump's Administration's words. they are taking over in the name of erasing "improper ideology."

Just now, Radiorum said:

"improper ideology."

If anything is vague, this is it.

[User]

9 minutes ago, Radiorum said:

Not a vague generalization, but the Trump's Administration's words. they are taking over in the name of erasing "improper ideology."

Taking over... what?

The Trump administration is not taking over "institutions in the US"

 

[Radiorum]

5 minutes ago, User said:

The Trump administration is not taking over "institutions in the US"

Have you been living under a rock since January?

[User]

2 minutes ago, Radiorum said:

Have you been living under a rock since January?

Nope. You must be living in a basement with access only to far left fear-mongering. 

I live in reality. I base my positions on facts, logic, and reason. 

You do not. Which is why you ignored my question asking you to specify what institutions and why you are hiding behind such absurd vagueness. 

 

[robosmith]

5 minutes ago, Radiorum said:

Have you been living under a rock since January?

Like most MAGA CULT, he has an Trump denigration filter. Can't penetrate that.

[User]

5 minutes ago, robosmith said:

Like most MAGA CULT, he has an Trump denigration filter. Can't penetrate that.

I mean, how would you know? You post lies, I call you out, then you run away. 

 

[Radiorum]

20 minutes ago, User said:

what institutions

Here are a few, I am sure there are more:

National Institute of Health, US Institute of Peace, The Kennedy Centre, The Smithsonian, The American Women’s History Museum, 45 colleges under investigation by the Trump Admin (not to mention blackmailing Columbia), Foreign Influence Task Force, Task Force KleptoCapture, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Federal Election Commission (FEC), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), The U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) - Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Martí, and Radio Free Asia ….

Oh, wait, I almost forgot about his takeover of the Supreme Court and his insistence that he is above the law and not subject to the decisions of judges!

[Nationalist]

2 hours ago, robosmith said:

And that meat is going to kill you along with your addiction to beer. I'll be dancing on your grave if I ever find out where it is. LMAO

Want to live a couple of years longer? Get out of that cart and WALK the course.

Lol...longevity runs in my family, turkey.

[User]

8 minutes ago, Radiorum said:

Here are a few, I am sure there are more:

National Institute of Health, US Institute of Peace, The Kennedy Centre, The Smithsonian, The American Women’s History Museum, 45 colleges under investigation by the Trump Admin (not to mention blackmailing Columbia), Foreign Influence Task Force, Task Force KleptoCapture, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Federal Election Commission (FEC), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), The U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) - Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Martí, and Radio Free Asia ….

Oh, wait, I almost forgot about his takeover of the Supreme Court and his insistence that he is above the law and not subject to the decisions of judges!

So... Government agencies are controlled by the executive branch. 

Yes, educational institutions are subject to federal law - nothing new with Trump. 

So, back to your point: The US continues to be free, this is no cultural revolution like those of authoritarian dictatorships that actually controlled everything. 

 

[robosmith]

25 minutes ago, Nationalist said:

Lol...longevity runs in my family, turkey.

Doesn't matter if you don't eat right. Runs in my family, too, but if you compare how healthy I am to my father at my age, I look 15 years younger, because my father was a sugar and steak addict.

[Radiorum]

35 minutes ago, User said:

So... Government agencies are controlled by the executive branch. 

Yes, educational institutions are subject to federal law - nothing new with Trump. 

 

So you agree that he is, but he is allowed??

 

36 minutes ago, User said:

So, back to your point: The US continues to be free, this is no cultural revolution like those of authoritarian dictatorships that actually controlled everything. 

No. trump's grabs for power make the US a lot less free.