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The Pentagon has removed web pages about Holocaust remembrance and other historical topics to comply with Trump’s order to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) content from federal government sites.

Taken-down pages include stories of Holocaust survivors and religious tolerance, as well as content about 9/11 and veterans' issues.

The Defense Department used automated tools to identify and delete up to 24,000 pages.

Critics argue this erases significant historical narratives, while the Pentagon defends the move as necessary to end "Woke cultural Marxism."

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[–] Monstrosity@lemm.ee 29 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Hey everyone, just a friendly reminder that self propelled compost sludge, Pete Hagseth, who was approved by the Republican Congress to serve as head of the DOJ, has multiple white Supremacists tattoos.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 20 hours ago

What a fucking loser.

[–] metaldream@sopuli.xyz 85 points 1 day ago

"cultural Marxism" oh look, there's the literal Nazi language again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Bolshevism

[–] GuyFawkes@midwest.social 91 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Rewriting history in real time while we all watch and do nothing.

[–] sevenOfKnives@lemmy.blahaj.zone 43 points 1 day ago (1 children)

that's not exactly true. volunteers have archived most of the old government websites and public data.

i mean, it's not overthrowing the nazis, but frustrating historical revisionism is a start.

[–] cortex7979@lemm.ee 1 points 20 hours ago

Watch them Teslas burn

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 55 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Apparently, history is too woke. Just assume white guys did everything going back to Moses (if you believe in that).

Some examples of white men throughout history:

  • Gengis Khan
  • Jesus (but not Confucius or Buddha—they are some woke shit)
  • Cleopatra - little known fact: she was actually three white man in a trenchcoat
  • Shaka Zulu - famous for conquering South Africa for white people who ruled benevolently until Nelson Mandela fucked up a good thing
  • Mahatma Gandhi - famous for inventing Trump-style diplomacy in the original Civilization video game. Probably not an actual historical figure.

i think you mean supply side jesus

jesus is still considered too woke. "give drink to the thirsty"? woke. "love your neighbor"? like canada and mexico? woke

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago

White men did all the good stuff, everyone else did all the bad stuff.

[–] Retropunk64@lemmy.world 9 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

But I thought he was fighting antisemitism?!?!

[–] cortex7979@lemm.ee 2 points 20 hours ago

Like the Ruzzians in Ukraine

[–] capt_wolf@lemmy.world 51 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Anticipating the unveiling of the new American flag any moment now...

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 6 points 23 hours ago

No, looks about right after the other states join Canada.

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 9 points 20 hours ago

I didn’t know the Holocaust was diverse, equitable and inclusive! Quite the opposite actually…

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

as well as content about 9/11

As a Muslim, uh... thanks?

[–] Infynis@midwest.social 11 points 1 day ago

Turns out the War on Terror was DEI all along. George Bush is going to be really upset

[–] Embargo@lemm.ee 31 points 1 day ago

Well... every day is a school day! Today I learned that acknowledging the systematic murder of over 6000000 people is woke.

[–] wwb4itcgas@lemm.ee 30 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Could somebody explain to me precisely how either of those things have anything to do with "DEI"? Or what Nazism and Islamism have to do with Marxism for that matter?

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 37 points 1 day ago

Nothing at all. DEI is just being used like a catch-all media buzzword to justify racism. To Trump, DEI means "Anything at all about anyone who isn't a cis white male that I don't like".

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

All life has to do with DEI. The real heart of DEI was inclusion. The whole USA was living one of the most inclusive lifestyles in the world.

It is exactly what Trump said he would do, America First.

I really wasn't expecting, that he has a very narrow and twisted view of who he sees as American.

Musk, the most dangerous immigrant of all time, gets the keys to the country.

At the same time immigrants, that earned their American citizenship by hard work, part of a community, are being treated like pigs and deported.

With DEI officially disappearing, we will see all the good things we build in the last decades also disappear.

The real heart of DEI was inclusion

Kinda ironic way to exclude diversity and equity 😄

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 20 hours ago

Could somebody explain to me

No

[–] Lon3star@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So much for "Never Forget"

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
[–] Captain_Buddha@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

Tim Allen IS fitting for this malarkey.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

The US will either have a civil war or start a world war. I for one hope they have the former, before it gets to the latter.

[–] jmantothe64@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's more likely he'll start a war with Canada and Mexico and will then spark a civil war. I want off this timeline

The US starting a war with Canada and Mexico would very much result in a world war. There is no way the rest of the world would sit idle if that happened.

[–] Ofiuco@lemmy.cafe 2 points 23 hours ago

He'd start a war with Canada. México? Either our goverment will roll over or be forced to surrender, we don't really stand a chance (nor is my country's goverment doing anything to strengthen itself)

[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I think I’m already seeing signs of pre-war polarization.

USA is pushing certain countries away, and they will naturally form new relationships. Maybe in the future we’ll have USA and Russia as one of the rogue states in the axis of oppression. EU will obviously see themselves as one of the good guys who bring democracy and peace to the world.

However, having a civil war in USA looks highly likely as well. Have you considered pulling off a coup d’état yet?

[–] boreengreen@lemm.ee 10 points 1 day ago

Removing things that the populace can unify behind. Putins orders.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Woke cultural Marxism

Ah we're on that stage of open fascism, huh?

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Cultural Marxism has been a thing for a while. And no, I have no idea what that's supposed to mean.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

Which is exactly my point.

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

It means “something I don’t like”

[–] ItsJannnneee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 20 hours ago

Last time I checked, Auschwitz was the complete opposite of diverse, equitable and inclusive.

[–] venotic@kbin.melroy.org 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I think the reasons behind these are:

9/11 - Muslim-related. Something Trump has targeted before, huh, imagine that. But 9/11 wasn't all about muslims, it was just started by a terrorist group of muslims.

Holocaust - Jewish-related. Something suggests Trump has a conflicted interest on, since he helps Israel commit more genocide, so this one is a confused subject. Is he implying that he secretly hates Jews? Or placating to the haters in his voterbase that are anti-semitic?

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 15 points 1 day ago

Is he implying that he secretly hates Jews? Or placating to the haters in his voterbase that are anti-semitic?

I strongly suspect that it's not because it was a genocide against jews, but rather that it was perpetrated by Nazis, and he doesn't want to paint them in a bad light.

[–] Infynis@midwest.social 2 points 1 day ago

Israel is much more closely aligned with the Nazis than any victims of the Holocaust

[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

They are Nazis now.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

At this point the declaration of Independence is going to be removed from government websites for the woke phase "all men are created equal".

[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Anti-semetic