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The push to #whitewash recent history carries a disconcerting echo of countless autocratic regimes,
from the Chinese Communist Party’s memory-holing of the Tiananmen Square massacre
to the Argentine military junta’s “disappearing” of dissidents in the 1970s.

It comes at the same time as the administration is also seeking to whitewash the teaching of American history, more generally:

Trump issued an executive order on Jan. 29 titled “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling”
that threatens to withhold federal funds from schools that teach that the country is “fundamentally racist, sexist or otherwise discriminatory”
and instructs the government to
“prioritize federal resources, consistent with applicable law, to promote patriotic education.”

One wonders:
Would teaching the 1921 Tulsa massacre be allowed?

Further, the removal of a Department of Justice database is troubling for another reason, too:

It undermines our ability to consider the events of Jan. 6 in all their complexity and particularity.
propublica.org/article/january

ProPublicaMemory-Holing Jan. 6: What Happens When You Try to Make History Vanish?
More from ProPublica

#RecommendedReading for #Decolonial #Education. #Free #OpenAccess report.

About Murder by Decree

Murder by Decree is an #uncensored #record of the planned #extermination of #IndigenousChildren in #Canada’s murderous Indian #ResidentialSchools. It is issued as a corrective #CounterReport to the miscarriage of #justice by Church and State known as the “Truth and Reconciliation Commission” #TRC. Based on eyewitness #testimonies and #archival #documentation deliberately suppressed or ignored by the TRC, Murder by Decree proves that the #genocide of #IndigenousPeople began as a religion-led campaign and continues to be a deliberate governmental policy in Canada. This Counter Report reveals these startling facts: – Over half of Indian residential school children began dying the very first year these church-run facilities were opened – This huge mortality rate continued unabated for over a half century because of deliberate practices of germ warfare according to a prescribed monthly “death quota” – Evidence of these crimes and their intentional nature has been continually destroyed by the RCMP and the #Catholic, #Anglican and #UnitedChurch since at least 1960 – The same genocide continues today, is aimed at indigenous women and children, and is driven by foreign corporate interests hungry for #NativeLands and resources Murder by Decree is issued by The International Tribunal for the Disappeared of Canada (ITDC), an international #coalition of #jurists and #HumanRights groups. The ITDC was formed in December, 2015 to investigate the disappearance of people in Canada, prosecute those responsible and prevent a further #whitewash by Canada of its #CrimesAgainstHumanity. This report is an answer to these #crimes and an urgent summons to the world and to all #Canadians to live no longer under #genocidal #regimes.

Published by the #ITDC Central Offices in #Brussels and #Toronto. For more information write to angelfire101@protonmail.com .

murderbydecree.com/

murderbydecree.comMurder by Decree – By Kevin Annett

#Labor up to the same old tricks as #Liberals? Who’d a thunk?

“On Tuesday the environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, declared a “huge win” for Australia after Unesco said it would not recommend the world heritage committee put the reef on its list of sites “in danger” when it meets at the end of July in India.”

The reef is very clearly “in danger” and has been for years. Why do Labor persist in this fallacy? As always, follow the money, right?

#AusPol #GreatBarrierReef #Reef #GreenWash #Bleach #WhiteWash #Morons

‘Most of it was dead’: scientists discover one of Great Barrier Reef’s worst coral bleaching events theguardian.com/environment/ar

The Guardian · ‘Most of it was dead’: scientists discover one of Great Barrier Reef’s worst coral bleaching eventsBy Graham Readfearn

#Racists in #Canada are flipping out at #ParksCanada decision to tell ugly truth about #JohnAMacDonald & not #whitewash factual #history to appease white folks who think that cruel man was a hero. He was a #genocider of Indigenous & a huge #sexist jerk. People like that don't deserve respect after death. People who put evil people like that up on heroic pedestals suffer from #racism.

Just search Parks Canada & John A MacDonald & you'll see what I'm talking about. I'm not giving racists traffic.

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Here's the other thing: Colonial governments love exploiting #IdentityPolitics. They benefit from #BIPOC folks who suffer from #InternalizedRacism. It's part of the #DivideAndConquer colonialism playbooks. They provide extra rewards to #POC people who are willing to #whitewash & defend almost anything, to non-white folks willing to sell their souls & willing to enact harms on their own peoples. They depend on both #greed & #desperation to exploit BIPOC with internalized racism issues.

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The author [#KateWagner] criticized the general state of #FormulaOne, arguing that it has grown boring amid the dominance of Red Bull Racing star Max Verstappen. Wagner also mocked her hosts at #INEOS, describing its invitation to her as a bid to gain positive #publicity & #whitewash the company’s image.
“The #petrochemical companies, deeply #powerful institutions, need #journalists to write about all the things they attach themselves to that are not being a petrochemical company,”she wrote.
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