The Naval Academy is busy pulling books about Jackie Robinson from its libraries

Racism

MAGA = KKK.

I wonder if they'll pull books by Roger Staubach? 🤔

My new favorite quote from DataLounge:

"MAGA is Scientology for hillbillies."

The problem with this bullshit is that Jackie was Rookie of the Year, six-season All-Star, NL Most Valuable Player winner, and a World Series winner. Inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame rather quickly.

It's not DEI at all. Unlike Clarence Thomas.

R5, these weak people want to be protected from any fact that calls their racism into question.

Hegseth the white supremacist needs to go. He's really offensive.

Most of the books they banned deal with race and are written by non-white people. They even banned I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Banning books. Where have I heard that before,

By their measure, I’m more American than the individuals doing this.

Bump

My husband and son went to a Navy ship docked somewhere on their trip their trip to New Orleans the other day and in the attached museum there was an intact display of what women did during WWII and 3 empty cases next it. My husband asked about the missing displays and the worker (an old white guy) just threw up his hands and sighed.

Now Trump and co. are trying to erase Harriet Tubman

Horrific.

Here's a list of the books pulled:

The list is pretty random after they pulled the "faves" especially MAGA hates and have tried to ban from public libraries (i.e. Ibram X. Kendi, Maya Angelou's most famous book, etc.). Sarah Orne Jewett isn't going to turn Midshipmen into trans or homos, since nobody reads her any more, and nobody probably ever checked that book out.

It's obvious it's been generated by AI based on titles and Library of Congress summary descriptions.

If they pulled every book about race, gender, and sexuality off the shelves they'd need hundreds of dump trucks to haul them away.

They're banning books by black people but allowing Mein Kampf and The Bell Curve. Yikes.

That's like some Nazi shit. It's scary as hell, too. Pulling books that they consider 'woke" and removing books by MLK, and. Jackie Robinson so scary and disgusting.

R8 That depressed me beyond belief. I would love if there was a campaign to try to make it a number one on NYT and Amazon.

Admiral Chester Nimitz's granddaughter weighs in

Now the Army is banning books, too

So any new books on the chopping block?

I watched HIDDEN FIGURES again recently. At the end, I found myself thinking: "Those fuckers are gonna take Katherine Johnson's name off that building, aren't they?"

You remember Roy Cohn's (presumably) unrequited crush on David Schine, hotel heir? Cohn and Schine traveled around Europe inspecting U.S. libraries for works by Communist authors. So creepy

Roy Cohn is my idol!

Farenheit 451

Raciist Trump strikes again.