American museums should not be telling stories to our people that we should be ashamed of ourselves. It's become too much, the pendulum is swinging back. Sorry

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rrrrrrrrrrrryan 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

> our people

Do you think Black Americans, or native Americans feel shame when visiting these museums?

Or are they not "our people" to you?

	▲	engineeringwoke 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		We are all Americans. I however don't want to be constantly re-told why our great, if flawed, history makes WASP Americans out to be the bad guys at every turn.

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bigfudge 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Slavery and segregation are as much a blight on US history as the holocaust on Germany’s. It’s important that the US is not proud of its entire history. I’d rather not have obvious political hacks making decisions about what is on display and for that decision to be at least nominally in the hands of those with most knowledge of the historical details.

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engineeringwoke 3 days ago | parent [-]

So it wasn't political hacks that tried to add their left spin to every piece of American history that they could get their hands on? Not trying to be offensive, but the tone of how American history is re-told today is not what I would consider moderate.

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croon 3 days ago | parent [-]

Are you considering how some part of history is told, or whether it is told at all? Because they're currently not reframing history, but erasing it. How do you reconcile this with what you consider being an earlier "left spin"?

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engineeringwoke 3 days ago | parent [-]

What specific way is history being "erased"?

	▲	croon 3 days ago \| parent [-]
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