… but did you look behind the decision, what it means beyond trying to eradicate us? The rewriting of history is common all around the world.
You all know about this by now...
In their crusade against 'transgender insanity,' the Trump administration is now going so far as to rewrite history. Future tourists who visit Stonewall will see a version that is far from the truth.USA TODAYBy Sara PequeñoFebruary 23, 2025I stood outside the Christopher Street subway entrance in New York City last week and noted my surroundings: a Starbucks, a Chase Bank and a set of bars. A triangular strip of fenced grass lined with park benches was across the street from where I stood. A defaced sign on that entrance now read, “Stonewall National TRANSGENDER Monument.”The graffiti was left over from Valentine’s Day, the day after the National Park Service removed the words “transgender” and “queer” from the Stonewall National Monument website.[...]The website change is the latest in the Trump administration’s full-out attack on the transgender community. It has also included blocking gender-affirming care for people under 19, barring trans women from competing in women’s sports, banning trans people from serving in the military and declaring that the United States would only recognize two genders, male and female.In their crusade against "transgender insanity," the Trump administration is now going so far as to rewrite history. Future tourists who visit Stonewall will see a different version of the monument that I saw last week: a whitewashed version of what really happened, a version that is far from the truth. And while the LGBTQ+ community is responding with protest and resilience, there’s an ever-present dread about what’s to come.
You all heard about this already, but stop and think what does rewriting history symbolize?
Do you remember the book “1984” in it they had a “Ministry of Truth” to rewrite history?
The old Soviet Union was notorious for rewriting of history! The website Communist Crimes writes…
History, as a discipline dedicated to studying the past, was far from objective in the Soviet Union. Rather, it was a heavily politicised instrument of propaganda, the sole purpose of which was to perpetuate the rule of the Soviet regime. The result, historian Anna Cichocka writes, was a web of lies on a mass scale.As soon as the Bolsheviks came to power in Russia in 1917, history, as a science of the past, was destroyed. It became a political tool totally controlled by the communist authorities and an instrument of communist propaganda. History was completely subordinated to Marxist-Leninist ideology, and it was the Communist Party that always decided which interpretation of that ideology was correct. This made it possible to constantly manipulate and rewrite history according to the ever-changing needs and political sensitivities of the Soviet regime at a given point in time. The result was lies and manipulation on a mass scale.
Question: What did Trump do the first thing when he took office?
PBS News wrote,
The Office of Personnel Management directed agency heads to strip “gender ideology” from websites, contracts and emails in a memo sent Wednesday, with changes ordered to be instituted by 5 p.m. Friday. It also directed agencies to disband employee resource groups, terminate grants and contracts related to the issue, and replace the term “gender” with “sex” on government forms.Some parts of government websites appeared with the message: “The page you’re looking for was not found.” Some pages disappeared and came back intermittently.
When Putin consolidated his power what did he do?
The website Persuasion wrote about Putin…
Vladimir Putin is the master of modern historical falsification. In 2007 he launched a sweeping redesign of Russia’s national high school history curriculum. The previous version had drawn Putin’s ire for its openness to Western values and for the questions it raised about sensitive subjects such as Stalin’s crimes, his wartime diplomacy, and Moscow’s domination of postwar Eastern Europe.Putin took an unusual interest in the drafting of the new texts. He chastised teachers for “utter confusion and chaos” in the teaching of history and accused educators of slanting their interpretations to meet the demands of American sources that had given money toward the modernization of Russian education.
China. North Korea. They both rewrite history. Persuasion goes on to write,
In autocracies large and small, brutal and relatively relaxed, historical revisionism has emerged as a regime priority nearly as important as crony capitalism or control of the judiciary. Modern strongmen demand a new national narrative because the old narrative raises uncomfortable questions about the leader’s legitimacy. Today’s autocrats and aspiring autocrats (think Poland) routinely use the highly charged term “traitor” to demonize their adversaries. They attack opposition figures not because they are leftists or archconservatives but because they are not “real” Turks, Hungarians, or Russians. What defines a real Turk, a real Hungarian, a real Russian? The new history is meant, in part, to serve as a point of reference from which to pass judgment on the patriotism of individuals, whether they be opposition politicians, uncooperative business owners, independent-minded schoolteachers or poets, or citizens who’ve come out as gay.
This is also what all this "Woke" stuff is about, rewriting history! Rewriting slavery and Jim Crow out of history. The research paper "Woke culture and the history of America: From colonisation to depersonalisation" writes that woke is about preventing the reexamine history through the lens of oppression and marginalized groups, but many conservatives see it as an attempt to rewrite history by telling the untold stories of the oppressed. The telling of the Pilgrims bring indentured servants to the "New World" is seen by many as teaching "Woke"!
As Trump rewrites history he shows more of his heritage of all his ‘phobias and ‘isms’ and is become more and more dictatorial.
