Special Assistant to the President Lindsey Halligan said the Smithsonian museums had become "laboratories for political experiments."

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/34807594

Lindsey Halligan, the White House official leading a review of the Smithsonian Institution, said you “can’t really talk about slavery honestly unless you talk about hope and progress” during a Newsmax appearance on Wednesday.

  • WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.caEnglish
    73·
    6 hours ago

    Hey, Americans. You’re all complicit as long as these people feel safe leaving their homes every day.

    By all means, though- don’t do anything. Just, you know, post a sad little defensive reply to make yourselves feel better.

    • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      11 hours ago

      That’s not so bad: you have to work to get “texture”. The man’s a back artist and he couldn’t have done it without slavery. And he’s so much better off. Do you think anyone could get that kind of texture back in Affrica?

      • chaosCruiser@futurology.todayEnglish
        3·
        6 hours ago

        Jokes aside, here’s one example of what traditional scar tattoos look like.

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        People all across Africa have been practicing scarification for ages. Source.

  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
    151·
    14 hours ago

    You should see the CNN segment where a white lady argued with the black host that slavery wasn’t a white thing. CNN, not Fox.

    • lowside@lemmy.worldEnglish
      27·
      13 hours ago

      Slavery wasn’t a white thing. Slavery was an everyone thing. At some point in time pretty much every culture and skin color participated in and benefited from slavery. Reducing slavery to only white owners and black slaves is incredibly incorrect, and teaching slavery like that is absolutely going to brainwash our kids.

      But the big caviat here is that the discussion was specifically about slavery in the United States of America. In the US. It was almost exclusively white people that owned slaves.

      It’s not about blaming everything bad on white people. It’s about remembering OUR history, and the history of THIS country, is built on racism and white supremacy and we should teach our kids that.

      She is intentionaly arguing in bad faith to lie and misinformation people.