The US president\u2019s attack on the Smithsonian isn\u2019t about truth. It\u2019s about erasure, and \u2018erasure is violence\u2019<\/p>\n
Last week, Donald Trump<\/a> issued another executive order, this one aimed directly at the Smithsonian Institution, and called for \u201cRestoring Truth and Sanity to American History\u201d. He contended that the Smithsonian had \u201ccome under the influence of a divisive, race-centered ideology\u201d and that it advocates \u201cnarratives that portray American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive\u201d. Specifically, the order targeted American history and art that focused on stories of race and racism.<\/p>\n Being responsible for the distillation of the nation\u2019s narrative is no small thing. The Smithsonian oversees 21 museums, libraries, research centers and the National zoo. Every year millions of people visit various sites that are free to the public. The collection of museums represents the pinnacle of public history and the story America tells the world about itself.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The US president\u2019s attack on the Smithsonian isn\u2019t about truth. It\u2019s about erasure, and \u2018erasure is violence\u2019 Last week, Donald Trump issued another executive order, this one aimed directly at the Smithsonian Institution, and called for \u201cRestoring Truth and Sanity to American History\u201d. He contended that the Smithsonian had \u201ccome under the influence of a … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}