Summary

The Pentagon has removed web pages about Holocaust remembrance and other historical topics to comply with Trump’s order to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) content from federal government sites.

Taken-down pages include stories of Holocaust survivors and religious tolerance, as well as content about 9/11 and veterans’ issues.

The Defense Department used automated tools to identify and delete up to 24,000 pages.

Critics argue this erases significant historical narratives, while the Pentagon defends the move as necessary to end “Woke cultural Marxism.”

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    Could somebody explain to me precisely how either of those things have anything to do with “DEI”? Or what Nazism and Islamism have to do with Marxism for that matter?

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      All life has to do with DEI. The real heart of DEI was inclusion. The whole USA was living one of the most inclusive lifestyles in the world.

      It is exactly what Trump said he would do, America First.

      I really wasn’t expecting, that he has a very narrow and twisted view of who he sees as American.

      Musk, the most dangerous immigrant of all time, gets the keys to the country.

      At the same time immigrants, that earned their American citizenship by hard work, part of a community, are being treated like pigs and deported.

      With DEI officially disappearing, we will see all the good things we build in the last decades also disappear.

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          I somehow see that implied by being inclusive. You can only be really inclusive, if you value diversity and equity, or?

          But you’re right, that’s just my personal view and not clear in my comment …

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      Nothing at all. DEI is just being used like a catch-all media buzzword to justify racism. To Trump, DEI means “Anything at all about anyone who isn’t a cis white male that I don’t like”.

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    I think the reasons behind these are:

    9/11 - Muslim-related. Something Trump has targeted before, huh, imagine that. But 9/11 wasn’t all about muslims, it was just started by a terrorist group of muslims.

    Holocaust - Jewish-related. Something suggests Trump has a conflicted interest on, since he helps Israel commit more genocide, so this one is a confused subject. Is he implying that he secretly hates Jews? Or placating to the haters in his voterbase that are anti-semitic?

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      The Zionists wanted to ally themselves with Naz Germany against the British. They didn’t care that Hitler was doing the holocaust, they considered the Jews who died there to be weak. It did put a damper on their plans since they wanted Israel to be mainly Ashkenazi Jewish. But the holocaust reduced their numbers and so after destabilizing the Middle East and causing an exodus of Arab Jews they were forced to settle for browner Jews. All of the really important members of government in Israel are European Jews.

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        A very large proportion of holocaust survivors in Israel live in poverty and they are treated worse than stray animals…

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      Is he implying that he secretly hates Jews? Or placating to the haters in his voterbase that are anti-semitic?

      I strongly suspect that it’s not because it was a genocide against jews, but rather that it was perpetrated by Nazis, and he doesn’t want to paint them in a bad light.

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    Well… every day is a school day! Today I learned that acknowledging the systematic murder of over 6000000 people is woke.

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      20 million. There were 6 million Jewish victims and 14 million others. If the Nazis had won the war, generalplan Ost mandated another 50 million people to die.

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    I didn’t know the Holocaust was diverse, equitable and inclusive! Quite the opposite actually…

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    Hey everyone, just a friendly reminder that self propelled compost sludge, Pete Hagseth, who was approved by the Republican Congress to serve as head of the DOJ, has multiple white Supremacists tattoos.