President Donald Trump has signed an executive order on the Smithsonian Institution that targets funding to programs that contain what he calls “divisive narratives” and “improper ideology.”
  • Gaywallet (they/it)@beehaw.orgOPM
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    2 months ago

    From another article on the same issue:

    Buried within the list of issues is a reference to a display at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The display, the executive order complains, “claims that ‘sculpture has been a powerful tool in promoting scientific racism’ and promotes the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct.”

    • unexposedhazard
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      2 months ago

      I mean it is a biological reality, just not the way these fuckwits want it to be.

      • Gaywallet (they/it)@beehaw.orgOPM
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        2 months ago

        That’s not even worth addressing or bringing up, because they don’t understand science. It’s better to just call them racist, for being racist, because that’s what is happening here… racism