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Demovictory9

(35,871 posts)
Sat May 24, 2025, 06:18 AM Saturday

BREAKING: parks must post signs that encourage guests to report any information that is critical of American history

The order requires signs throughout the parks to have the following message:

(Name of property) belongs to the American people, and (name of land management bureau) wants your feedback. Please let us know if you have identified (1) any areas of the (park/area, etc. as appropriate) that need repair; (2) any services that need improvement; or (3) any signs or other information that are negative about either past or living Americans or that fail to emphasize the beauty, grandeur, and abundance of landscapes and other natural features.


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The Trump administration is enlisting national park visitors into the Republican president’s fight to rewrite American history, with a new directive that forces all park units to display signs that encourage guests to report any information that is critical of American history.

On May 20, U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum directed all park units to display the signs to comply with President Donald Trump’s earlier executive order, which claims that U.S. history has been distorted by ideology and seeks to counter what it describes as revisionist narratives that portray the country’s past in a negative light.

Burgum’s order directs federal agencies and cultural institutions to remove content that “inappropriately disparage[s] Americans past or living,” and to instead highlight the nation’s progress and achievements. It also calls for the removal of what it terms “improper ideology” from museums, monuments and public exhibits under federal control.

In a statement released in March, the American Historical Association, or AHA, condemned the order, defending the importance of historical integrity in public institutions and places. Thirty-six other organizations also signed on to the AHA statement.

“The stories that have shaped our past include not only elements that make us proud but also aspects that make us acutely aware of tragedies in our nation’s history,” they wrote. “No person, no nation, is perfect, and we should all — as individuals and as nations — learn from our imperfections.”

https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/national-parks-negative-history-trump-20343308.php


Burgum's order implements President Donald Trump's executive order called "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History," which aims to remove any stories or information that "inappropriately disparage Americans past or living (including persons living in colonial times)" from national parks and monuments.

The parks in question include many historic locations central to slavery, Civil War battles, the imprisonment of Japanese Americans, and other ugly chapters of American history.

Denver7 reached out to the National Parks Conservation Association, the 100-year-old nonprofit created to protect America's national park system. President and CEO Theresa Pierno called Secretary Burgum's order "outrageous" and "frightening."

"A lot of our history is difficult to hear, but these are the places where people are educated about many issues in our past, and it's so important," said Pierno. "How do you tell that story accurately, but you can't describe anything that might negatively impact the history? History is full of good and bad, and mistakes were made. And we try to understand that history so we don't repeat those mistakes."

https://www.denver7.com/news/national-politics/interior-secretary-orders-signs-to-flag-negative-depictions-of-u-s-history-at-national-parks
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BREAKING: parks must post signs that encourage guests to report any information that is critical of American history (Original Post) Demovictory9 Saturday OP
Re-writing history to make white males look good. Irish_Dem Saturday #1
Exactly. (nt) Paladin Saturday #22
In certain circles JustAnotherGen Saturday #56
Women have had to kowtow to males for thousands of years. Irish_Dem Saturday #57
I would argue re-writing real history IS being critical of American history. Attilatheblond Saturday #65
Teaching Americans to rat each other out. Like in Russia and China. Irish_Dem Saturday #2
or Nazi Germany MLWR Saturday #40
I know. "Hey kids, get your "Jr Stasi" membership card now. Act now. brush Saturday #60
In China if you rat out someone you get a better job or better apartment. Irish_Dem Saturday #62
With the trump cabal in power, that may happen here. brush Saturday #63
This should be an interesting lawsuit NJCher Saturday #3
I can see people NJCher Saturday #4
What does "Historic Williamsburg" plan to do in displaying no_hypocrisy Saturday #5
Trump admin doesnt care about that type of history. I'd guess they're focus is slavery, Native American events, Demovictory9 Saturday #6
Wrong word. The Madcap Saturday #26
I wonder what MAGATs will re-write about Diamond_Dog Saturday #42
I believe Williamsburg is not a national park. mahatmakanejeeves Saturday #10
GM. Here we go: no_hypocrisy Saturday #13
You can only talk about John Wilker Booth breaking his leg on stage. Liberal In Texas Saturday #7
Step back, people... Hugin Saturday #8
Oh FFS. Now you can't even take a hike in a park in peace. Vinca Saturday #9
I'm just glad he's not inserting his name in every national park. JohnnyRingo Saturday #39
I hope this doesn't give traction Diamond_Dog Saturday #44
Grand Canyon (accompanied by pic of Trump's ass), Petrified Forest Gump (accompanied by a pic of a thin-skinned Doodley Saturday #45
Crumb The 1st wants people to be told that moniss Saturday #11
Let me guess: the Mystic massacre was tourists, right? Scrivener7 Saturday #12
The war of Northern Aggression had nothing to do with slavery. A new sign at Gettysburg. dem4decades Saturday #14
"inappropriately disparage[s] Americans past or living" J_William_Ryan Saturday #15
We have done some horrible things in our past. OldBaldy1701E Saturday #17
American Stazi wants you to snitch. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Saturday #16
Just when you thought these morons couldn't get more bizarre mdbl Saturday #18
Sounds like North Korean mind control--making us afraid to speak our minds and paranoid someone will sell us out. Timeflyer Saturday #19
Good comparison, unfortunately. Paladin Saturday #23
Whose version of the history malaise Saturday #20
Is it the reporting mechanism a centralized phone number or email address? waterwatcher123 Saturday #21
This is what I was thinking Mossfern Saturday #51
A QR code for a web page muriel_volestrangler Saturday #55
The very words, "Truth and Sanity"... GiqueCee Saturday #24
It's "1984" all over again (n/t) PJMcK Saturday #25
NOBODY disparages Americans better than our MAGA President!!!! 70sEraVet Saturday #27
So how do I report someone who posted a completely fake historical marker on his golf course? tanyev Saturday #28
Whoa - Major G.O.P Violation of God BoRaGard Saturday #43
Remember though, they don't participate in reality so they don't believe it's false witness. CrispyQ Saturday #58
Define negative: and be very specific Raven123 Saturday #29
Anything that hurts our G.O.P. Felon's fee fees BoRaGard Saturday #30
The Confederacy were just tourists johnnyfins Saturday #31
Okay, I've done my part. Just turned in Montana's Little Bighorn site for telling visitors allegorical oracle Saturday #32
They should not comply LS0999 Saturday #33
You mean you don't want to join the "Make an Ass Out of Yourself for Trump" club?? nt allegorical oracle Saturday #37
The Black Hills weren't sacred to anyone johnnyfins Saturday #34
Just another part of the American Nazi playbook. ananda Saturday #35
We can't wait to reclaim all the lettuce picking jobs stolen from us... rubbersole Saturday #50
Republicans see '1984' as a how-to manual Mysterian Saturday #36
Sure puts Smokey the Bear in a new light. Buns_of_Fire Saturday #38
Maybe he is "re-writing history." MLWR Saturday #41
It will be fine with 6 of them. Boomerproud Saturday #48
fuck that fascist bullshit! LymphocyteLover Saturday #46
How can a man with the mental age of a five year old rewrite history? He doesn't know any history. Doodley Saturday #47
What's next? Mandatory chocolate chip cookies at all historic sites? Seinan Sensei Saturday #49
Slow down there SS... rubbersole Saturday #53
Talk about an invitation to vandalism! Dyedinthewoolliberal Saturday #52
I couldn't believe this wasn't the Onion after I saw the headline Wiz Imp Saturday #54
This message was self-deleted by its author brush Saturday #59
How about reporting the signs as a disturbing example of the CivicGrief Saturday #61
Parks and Wreck Blue Owl Saturday #64
Another example of Faux pas Saturday #66

JustAnotherGen

(35,114 posts)
56. In certain circles
Sat May 24, 2025, 10:08 AM
Saturday

On the left of the political spectrum . . . this is precisely what they want.

White male centered messaging and narratives to bring young white men into the tent.

For those Leftists that believe in that? This is what it looks like. Just go along to get along and don't question it.

Meanwhile? This elderly (52 years old) out of touch Black Woman is sitting over here smirking.

Irish_Dem

(69,973 posts)
57. Women have had to kowtow to males for thousands of years.
Sat May 24, 2025, 10:11 AM
Saturday

And let men run wild while the women pick up the pieces.

Some things never change.

Attilatheblond

(5,979 posts)
65. I would argue re-writing real history IS being critical of American history.
Sat May 24, 2025, 06:52 PM
Saturday

Lying is not honorable. Lying about actual history is dishonorable to the 9th degree.

brush

(59,984 posts)
60. I know. "Hey kids, get your "Jr Stasi" membership card now. Act now.
Sat May 24, 2025, 12:13 PM
Saturday

All it takes is to report one anti-DEI POC person and we'll rush your card in the mail.

NJCher

(40,175 posts)
3. This should be an interesting lawsuit
Sat May 24, 2025, 06:32 AM
Saturday

Rewriting history will backfire.

The very idea of “truth” and “sanity” in an “executive order” by the biggest liar in history has me in gales of laughter.


Demovictory9

(35,871 posts)
6. Trump admin doesnt care about that type of history. I'd guess they're focus is slavery, Native American events,
Sat May 24, 2025, 06:44 AM
Saturday

environmental history, loss of animal or plant species as stuff they don't want discussed at parks.


My local parks always have sign about the birds seen in the lake. I'd guess they'd want a report if a sign said "in 1800s there were millions of xxx geese, now only 100,000 visit....". that implies humans did something bad environmentally.

Diamond_Dog

(37,100 posts)
42. I wonder what MAGATs will re-write about
Sat May 24, 2025, 09:04 AM
Saturday

historical plaques on homes that are already identified as part of the Underground Railroad…..

mahatmakanejeeves

(64,727 posts)
10. I believe Williamsburg is not a national park.
Sat May 24, 2025, 07:01 AM
Saturday

I’m on a phone, so checking isn’t easy.

Wasn’t that all set up by the Rockefeller family?

And good morning.

no_hypocrisy

(51,662 posts)
13. GM. Here we go:
Sat May 24, 2025, 07:24 AM
Saturday

Williamsburg Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966. It was designated a National Historic Landmark District on October 9, 1960. (Doesn't mean it's a national park.)
https://www.nps.gov/places/williamsburg-va.htm

Colonial Willsburg (sic) is not a national park. It is maintained by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
https://www.fodors.com/community/united-states/national-parks-pass-and-williamsburg-525180/

Today, like all days, I learn something new and valuable on DU.

Thanks for the heads up!

Liberal In Texas

(15,240 posts)
7. You can only talk about John Wilker Booth breaking his leg on stage.
Sat May 24, 2025, 06:46 AM
Saturday

They can't mention what he did just before that.

Hugin

(36,139 posts)
8. Step back, people...
Sat May 24, 2025, 06:51 AM
Saturday
We have reached PEAK inanity!



Only a few years ago, that would have been labeled woke censorship. But, now, it’s what is for supper.

JohnnyRingo

(19,938 posts)
39. I'm just glad he's not inserting his name in every national park.
Sat May 24, 2025, 08:58 AM
Saturday

"The Grand Canyon by Donald Trump".
"Donald J Trump Petrified Forest"
"Trump Nigra Falls" (of course he would misspell it)

It's ridiculous, but he keeps lowering the bar.

Diamond_Dog

(37,100 posts)
44. I hope this doesn't give traction
Sat May 24, 2025, 09:07 AM
Saturday

to that idiot who wanted to re- name Mosquito Lake “Lake Trump “

Doodley

(10,932 posts)
45. Grand Canyon (accompanied by pic of Trump's ass), Petrified Forest Gump (accompanied by a pic of a thin-skinned
Sat May 24, 2025, 09:10 AM
Saturday

little manchild who is scared somebody might say something bad about him), and Viagra Falls (a pic of a Trump with a tiny mushroom).

J_William_Ryan

(2,754 posts)
15. "inappropriately disparage[s] Americans past or living"
Sat May 24, 2025, 07:30 AM
Saturday

Whitewashing history in an effort to advance nationalist mythology is fundamentally fascist.

And as correctly noted, Trump’s scheme to rewrite history will fail.

OldBaldy1701E

(7,927 posts)
17. We have done some horrible things in our past.
Sat May 24, 2025, 07:39 AM
Saturday

Pointing those out is not 'disparaging' nor is it 'critical'.

It is the truth. They want to hide the truth.

Now, what kind of regime wants to hide reality and truth from the public?

Hmm...

Timeflyer

(3,173 posts)
19. Sounds like North Korean mind control--making us afraid to speak our minds and paranoid someone will sell us out.
Sat May 24, 2025, 07:53 AM
Saturday

Resistance now, truth matters.

Paladin

(30,482 posts)
23. Good comparison, unfortunately.
Sat May 24, 2025, 08:08 AM
Saturday

I wish these fascist assholes were half as charitable to Joe Biden as they are our nation's checkered past.

waterwatcher123

(353 posts)
21. Is it the reporting mechanism a centralized phone number or email address?
Sat May 24, 2025, 07:59 AM
Saturday

If so, real and AI generated visitors to sites like the National Mall can flood it with recommendations starting with the removal of a senile, tangerine tinted man who harasses people daily from his perch at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Mossfern

(3,872 posts)
51. This is what I was thinking
Sat May 24, 2025, 09:31 AM
Saturday

Are any of the MAGA supporters going to go up to people they overhear and ask for their name and address so they can be reported?

How is it going to work?
This is just another tactic to terrorize us.

muriel_volestrangler

(103,718 posts)
55. A QR code for a web page
Sat May 24, 2025, 10:03 AM
Saturday

"Each such sign shall include a QR code that links to a website managed by the land management Bureau, allowing the user to provide a written entry. "
https://www.doi.gov/document-library/secretary-order/so-3431-restoring-truth-and-sanity-american-history

GiqueCee

(2,263 posts)
24. The very words, "Truth and Sanity"...
Sat May 24, 2025, 08:14 AM
Saturday

... are soiled and defiled when excreted from the puckered, anus-shaped mouth of the vilest excuse for a human being ever to befoul the Oval Office.
Articles of Impeachment should be handed up every day, with each day's latest stomach-churning outrages added to the seemingly endless list of crimes that the South End of a Northbound Yak has already committed in his frothing-at-the-mouth quest for absolute dominion over the lives of everyone in this country, and, indeed, the entire world.
He is a psychotic monster, and he has to be stopped.

70sEraVet

(4,537 posts)
27. NOBODY disparages Americans better than our MAGA President!!!!
Sat May 24, 2025, 08:24 AM
Saturday

One small step for man; one giant goosestep for mankind.

tanyev

(46,495 posts)
28. So how do I report someone who posted a completely fake historical marker on his golf course?
Sat May 24, 2025, 08:25 AM
Saturday

Donald Trump has Civil War plaque at his golf course commemorating battle that never happened

https://www.golfdigest.com/story/details-details-donald-trump-has-plaque-at-his-golf-course-commemorating-civil-war-battle-that-never-happened

BoRaGard

(5,540 posts)
43. Whoa - Major G.O.P Violation of God
Sat May 24, 2025, 09:05 AM
Saturday

Do all the republicons want to go to Hell? Why do they piss all over the Ten Commandments?

CrispyQ

(39,692 posts)
58. Remember though, they don't participate in reality so they don't believe it's false witness.
Sat May 24, 2025, 11:32 AM
Saturday

This is what really frightens me & I only became aware of just how bad it is, a few weeks before the election when I had an exchange with a maga relative, who I've always been fond of, & realized how completely & totally misinformed & uninformed he is. It was stunning! I knew it was bad but this was off the charts bad! No clue about Project 2025, but the Biden economy was one of the worst ever, people are pouring in over the southern border, & women aren't safe anywhere because of transwomen. Family members I've always admired & respected, & are college educated, are maga. It's hard to reconcile.

Raven123

(6,685 posts)
29. Define negative: and be very specific
Sat May 24, 2025, 08:33 AM
Saturday

Ok, I will post a sign that says xyz plant is is beautiful as Joe Biden. Are we good?

BoRaGard

(5,540 posts)
30. Anything that hurts our G.O.P. Felon's fee fees
Sat May 24, 2025, 08:37 AM
Saturday

He be such a delicate draft-dodging republicon, and all.

johnnyfins

(2,107 posts)
31. The Confederacy were just tourists
Sat May 24, 2025, 08:37 AM
Saturday

at Gettysburg in 1863. The excavated slave quarters in Independence National Park, in Philadelphia, show how lavish the Slave accommodations actually were. Robert E Lee actually donated the land for Arlington National Cemetery. Lumpkin's jail in Richmond, VA was actually a retreat for African Americans before and during the Civil War.

allegorical oracle

(4,984 posts)
32. Okay, I've done my part. Just turned in Montana's Little Bighorn site for telling visitors
Sat May 24, 2025, 08:41 AM
Saturday

that Custer lost the battle, there, to the Native Americans. Also, told them that Custer and every one of his soldiers survived.


PS: Plan to phone Everglades National Park and tell them to remove the negative signage that warns visitors about alligators. There are no alligators in the Everglades.

LS0999

(187 posts)
33. They should not comply
Sat May 24, 2025, 08:42 AM
Saturday

They should tell Trump to take his order and shove it up his f****** ass.

johnnyfins

(2,107 posts)
34. The Black Hills weren't sacred to anyone
Sat May 24, 2025, 08:42 AM
Saturday

Before white Presidents faces were csrved into a mountain.

ananda

(31,829 posts)
35. Just another part of the American Nazi playbook.
Sat May 24, 2025, 08:48 AM
Saturday

Destroy and rewrite history; play to the
anti-science religionists; and put all
white men in charge of everything.

Buns_of_Fire

(18,433 posts)
38. Sure puts Smokey the Bear in a new light.
Sat May 24, 2025, 08:56 AM
Saturday
"Only YOU can prevent someone from uttering 'Fuck Trump with Elon's Chainsaw" while on National Park Service land!"

MLWR

(344 posts)
41. Maybe he is "re-writing history."
Sat May 24, 2025, 09:03 AM
Saturday

But he's also attacking our First Amendment rights. I wonder if that will be A-OK with this SCOTUS.

Doodley

(10,932 posts)
47. How can a man with the mental age of a five year old rewrite history? He doesn't know any history.
Sat May 24, 2025, 09:13 AM
Saturday

Seinan Sensei

(975 posts)
49. What's next? Mandatory chocolate chip cookies at all historic sites?
Sat May 24, 2025, 09:29 AM
Saturday

Freshly baked, of course.

As an aside, every time I see Doug Burgum, I’m thinking, “that boy ain’t right”

rubbersole

(9,850 posts)
53. Slow down there SS...
Sat May 24, 2025, 09:39 AM
Saturday

Did you say fresh baked chocolate chip cookies 🍪 at all historic sites? I'm heading to St Augustine with a quart of raw milk 🐄 and an appetite. Dougie would increase attendance...then tsf could charge an entrance fee.

Dyedinthewoolliberal

(16,106 posts)
52. Talk about an invitation to vandalism!
Sat May 24, 2025, 09:35 AM
Saturday

or you know, the sign is gone and we don't know what happened.............

Wiz Imp

(5,141 posts)
54. I couldn't believe this wasn't the Onion after I saw the headline
Sat May 24, 2025, 09:41 AM
Saturday

So the orange asshole wants to remove all these markers at Gettysburg just recently added that point out Slavery was the primary reason for the Civil War? Fuck that and Fuck him. I sure hope the people at Gettysburg tell him to go to hell.

https://www.npca.org/articles/3557-a-more-complete-story-at-gettysburg

A More Complete Story at Gettysburg

Today, Gettysburg better reflects the historical context of these Confederate monuments through new interpretative markers placed beside them. Informed by historians, these markers share the history of the monuments’ sponsorship and dedication. They also address that while memorials were installed to recognize courage and bravery, they also ignored the causes of the war, especially slavery.

During the 160th anniversary activities July 1-3, programming that historically focused on decisive moments of the battle and its military leaders expanded to include more diverse perspectives. Dr. Peter S. Carmichael of Gettysburg College’s Civil War Institute partnered with the Park Service to organize “Enslaved at Gettysburg,” a tour for visitors where they heard the experiences of thousands of enslaved men who accompanied Confederates into Pennsylvania. Visitors also were introduced to a range of published letters and diaries related to African American experiences.

According to Carmichael, these programs were designed to “use the battlefield to open up our eyes to its relationship to those who were not soldiers, but present — women, children, African Americans.

“Standing in front of the Virginia Monument to give a talk about enslavement within Robert E. Lee’s army was powerful. Stories must be told on that ground that are not only through the perspective of Confederate military leaders,” he said.

Response to Demovictory9 (Original post)

CivicGrief

(184 posts)
61. How about reporting the signs as a disturbing example of the
Sat May 24, 2025, 12:20 PM
Saturday

creeping (well fast moving, actually) fascism in the good ole US of A?

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