Whitewashing History, Removing Black War Heroes from Government Pages

[Aeson]

Web archive has the originals. First they redirected the page to one with "dei" in the URL, now deleted completely.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250305165958/https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/Article/2824721/medal-of-honor-monday-army-maj-gen-charles-calvin-rogers/

[Aeson]

Check the URLs:

Non-dei (original link)

https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/Article/2824721/medal-of-honor-monday-army-maj-gen-charles-calvin-rogers/

Redirects to dei URL:

https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/Article/2824721/deimedal-of-honor-monday-army-maj-gen-charles-calvin-rogers/

[The Mad Monk]

One such removal is a mistake; more than one may be suspicious, several forms a pattern, many is damning.

So the question is, how many?

[The Mad Monk]

I've gone back 12 pages, then skipped to 17-18 to see if the original showed up on the main page; it didn't, but I didn't notice any gaps.

[Aeson]

One such removal is a mistake; more than one may be suspicious, several forms a pattern, many is damning.

So the question is, how many?

It was intentional. No idea how much they've removed across all gov websites.

They have been removing mentions of DEI, climate change, global warming, and various other things that hurt their brains. Cheeto Mussolini was quite clear it was intentional in general.

[Aeson]

They started early. Of course defunding research into all those things too.

https://www.theguardian.com/environm...nd%20inclusion.

[Dauphin]

It was intentional. No idea how much they've removed across all gov websites.

They have been removing mentions of DEI, climate change, global warming, and various other things that hurt their brains. Cheeto Mussolini was quite clear it was intentional in general.

In a clumsy way.

They removed sentences with phrases like “inequity in keeping taxpayer moneys” and “inclusion of taxpayer IDs” in the IRS procedure handbook.

No due care and attention

[SlowwHand]

I felt like this about Robert E. Lee"s statue being removed from Lee Park, Land O' Lakes butter and Aunt Jemima syrup.
Not to mention̈ Washington Redskins.

[-Jrabbit]

You are conflating actual government activity with businesses navigating social norms.

[N35t0r]

I felt like this about Robert E. Lee"s statue being removed from Lee Park, Land O' Lakes butter and Aunt Jemima syrup.
Not to mention̈ Washington Redskins.

So you feel the same about actual heroes that died for the USA being erased just for not being white, than for traitors who betrayed their country and fought against it just to be able to continue to own other people?

I'm not surprised.

[giblets]

Exclusive: Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order

Articles about the renowned Native American Code Talkers have disappeared from some military websites, with several broken URLs now labeled "DEI."

https://www.axios.com/local/salt-lake-city/2025/03/17/navajo-code-talkers-trump-dei-military-websites-wwii

Guess the military only hired them because DEI

[Ming]

I guess if you are white and die for your country, you're a hero. If you aren't white and die, you are a loser

[Uncle Sparky]

No. The president said if you are captured by the enemy, you are a fvcking loser. Like John McCain.

[BeBMan]

Just as an unrelated sidenote, I read sometimes US WW2 war stuff, and I'm regularly surprised when I run into cases of African Americans serving in some of the most iconic battles which I wasn't aware of before (that may be well different for folks in the US, it's just fom my POV).

For example last year I checked stuff about Bastogne and found an African American artillery unit was inside the pocket providing fire support, together with various other units that defended the perimeter. The presence of the Airbornes is widely known (y'know, Band of Brothers and all), but I didn't know this particular bit.

[Aeson]

This article on General Rogers has been re-added to the defense.gov website, but with the following text removed.

"As a Black man, he worked for gender and race equality while in the service."

Anyone who still thinks this wasn't an intentional action by racists and misogynists?

https://web.archive.org/web/20250305165958/https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/Article/2824721/medal-of-honor-monday-army-maj-gen-charles-calvin-rogers/

[Geronimo]

When I watch conservative commentators only occasionally do I see backbone to stand against this kind of crap, maybe back when Glenn Beck had his "Founders Friday" series but he spoiled that quite a bit by generally being an insincere sensationalist profiteer rather than any kind of serious, let alone credible commentator. I'm sure as hell not going to go through his pay-walls to check but I'd bet money he hasn't said a peep to oppose this crap now.