Trump Admin Reverses Harriet Tubman Website Change After Furious Backlash

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-admin-reverses-harriet-tubman-website-change-after-furious-backlash/

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  1. They could save a ton of time and money if they just didn’t waste time/money doing all these stupid ass things that benefit nobody to begin with.

  2. Just softening the targets folks… Softening the targets.

  3. All these shenanigans waste more time and money for literally no reason.

  4. They’re just slowly ratcheting up what they think they can get away with.

  5. I assume they’re doing a lot more than this and seeing what people catch, putting them back to make it look like they’re listening to feedback as long as we don’t notice the other things.

  6. Pardon me, but does “reversing” mean that they reposted her picture but with the negative — so she looks like a white person?

    *lots of /s becasue, you know, some a$$hole took it down in the first place and I figure if they were forced to put it back up they might be spiteful

  8. Isn’t she like double DEI

    Don’t tell they are going woke.

  9. The fact that it occurred is what’s important, not their reversal.

    They showed their true colors, their intent to white wash history. Don’t ever forget that. Do not celebrate them undoing what they did.

  10. Wish I could be exaggerating but pretty much any person that is African American in their eyes needs to be removed. It is honestly insane how they use DEI excuse to wash away from history anyone that is either woman or African American. Disgusting behavior.

    The fact that they went even after those in the military, they have zero shame.

  11. Reporters should ask these questions. Why did you change this? Why did you change it back?

  12. I’m surprised he has t tried to remove any mention of Obama yet. 

  13. Pressure and standing up does work. It takes time and every bit helps. But taking a stand works.

    This is always what fascists fear, the people rising up.

  14. I’m waiting for the “furious backlash” to be an actual furious backlash. How the hell is he still alive???

  15. Thedailybeast is so fucking unreadable on mobile. You can’t even scroll without an ad loads shifting the page all over the place. Hell you can’t even leave it in one single place to actually read it for the same reason. This is some of the worst UX I’ve ever encountered. It’s embarrassing. 

  16. All of this because she gets 5 free War Support when you declare a war against her

  17. The Trump a dope. Keep doing shitty things till everyone is too exhausted to fight back

  18. Backlash works!

    They will never admit it but it works.

    Please show up for the 4/19 protests.

  19. The Trump Admin mirrors the intelligence of their voting base. Do these people really think no one is going to notice this shit? Additionally, they should just be direct with their hatred towards black people and women – it’d save everyone time.

  20. So how does facing backlash cause the administration to reverse their decision but protests across the country won’t help solve anything? Both can’t be true.

  21. I’m going to admit to being somewhat uneducated on the underground railroad. Harriet Tubman is literally THE ONLY name I know in connection to it. So the idea of removing her is pretty wild to me.

    Kind of like if you had a website about the history of Aerosmith but removed all mention of Steven Tyler. (???) Like who else is even in Aerosmith? I have no idea.

  22. Just like Jackie Robinson. Please tell me again how the whole movement isn’t just about racism.

  23. They’re only defending and changing things that make white people look like deities and minorities look like they’ve never been qualified to be leaders in history.

    Every single historical revision they’ve made reflects this.

  24. >However, following an executive order from President Donald Trump to scrub the Smithsonian archive of “divisive narratives” her image was removed from the webpage and replaced with small stamps of five abolitionists which highlighted “Black/White co-operation” within the anti-slavery movement. Tubman’s quote was also removed, and the heavily revised text also downplayed slavery, delaying its mention until the third paragraph and omitting any mention of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

    So this isn’t the usual adding the letters “dei” to the URL and breaking the page.

    This was a conscious change.

  25. She should be on the twenty and he stopped that the last time. 

  26. Caught in 4K. There is no explanation other than blatant racism to remove Harriet Tubman from the history of the Underground Railroad

  28. Another example of how ordinary people using their voices can make a difference. Although a small victory, it is one nonetheless.

  30. To them, no brown, lgbtq, disabled, or woman should work in govt, vote or exist.

    Remember that when revolution begins.

  31. They do this on purpose just to reverse the decision. It’s so that we don’t pay attention to martial law on the 20th.

  32. Why aren’t people FUCKING PISSED this administration is removing all the achievements of anybody but white men and pretending they’re the only ones that built this country when they know damn well if you’re not a white Christian male you have to work ten times as hard to get anywhere. Fuck this administration and I hope we can restore everything they’ve erased and there is no memory of them ever after they’re gone

  33. They’re trying to see what sticks and makes us all revolt, I guarantee it.

  34. I noticed several junior ranger book links are now missing from the NPS sites. Saw a broken link at Stonewall National Monument Junior Ranger guide and a few others.

  35. Trump Admin is extremely inefficient redoing what was already done after the people told the Admin they are a moron.

  37. not enough backlash. keep going. they will make every little underhanded trick they have at their disposal to revise history.

    all the dei erasure is horrifying.

  38. This is a perfect example of them seeing how much they can get away with. Or better said, how much we will allow them to get away with.

    It’s a small victory, but a victory nonetheless

  39. It’s great that these offensive changes were caught and removed. But how many have escaped notice? The ongoing damage done by this criminal president is boundless.

  40. If White History is so great why are they working overtime to alter it?

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