Historical documents are now deemed to consist of “potentially harmful content” according to the National Archives.
Vsitors looking for the US founding documents on the National Archives website will now be greeted with labels warning them of ‘harmful language’.
The “Harmful Language Alert” labels can be found on pages displaying the scanned versions of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, as well as the first 10 amendments, known as the Bill of Rights.
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While it is not clear when the tags were added, it has made some Republicans very angry.
RT reports: The addition caught the eye of Congresswoman Lauren Boebert (R-Colorado), who pointed it out on Tuesday.
She wasn’t the only one. Ken Cuccinelli, former deputy Homeland Security secretary in the Trump administration, caught the labeling of the Constitution on Monday – a public holiday in the US.
“What are we becoming?” Cuccinelli asked in a tweet. “Are you kidding me?”
It was no joke, however. The link on the label leads to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) statement on “potentially harmful content,” defined as reflecting “racist, sexist, ableist, misogynistic/misogynoir, and xenophobic opinions and attitudes” or being “discriminatory towards or exclude diverse views on sexuality, gender, religion, and more,” among other criteria.
The archivists are told to inform the users about the presence and origin of such “harmful content,” update descriptions with “more respectful terms” and make “an institutional commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility.”
It was unclear when the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights were labeled as potentially harmful. Back in July, during its traditional reading of the Declaration on the anniversary of its adoption – July 4, 1776 – National Public Radio added a disclaimer for the very first time, saying that “the words in the document land differently” after “last summer’s protests and our national reckoning on race.”
This was a reference to Black Lives Matter protests that began in May 2020, after the death of George Floyd in Minnesota, quickly attributed by activist groups to institutional racism in policing and the entire US social and political system. Democrats Joe Biden and Kamala Harris backed the protesters; in April, after a Minneapolis police officer was convicted of murdering Floyd, now President Biden and Vice President Harris hailed the verdict and demanded reforms in the name of racial justice.
In a series of tweets in July, NPR said the Declaration of Independence contained “flaws and deeply ingrained hypocrisies,” pointing in particular to “a racist slur against indigenous Americans” – presumably referring to the line about “merciless Indian savages” the colonists complained about to the British crown.
The first outlet to call attention to the National Archive labels appears to be the National Pulse. In an article on Monday, the outlet pointed out that the tags were not included on items that contained outright racist insults aimed at African-Americans and Jews – such as a 2008 article from the Archives magazine Prologue, dealing with Jim Crow laws, or Appendix 16 of the 1964 Warren Commission Report on the assassination of President Kennedy.
Niamh Harris
I’d say I’m surprised, but I ain’t.
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Another step towards the Communist States of America . . .
And there’s one of and it is just one of many, masses, of frauds from the beginning that have deceived the world
The constitution. Its was signed by the same parties for both sides. It was along with the war
of independence a set up to make Ametica look like the bully of the world :dropping atomic bombs and being the bad guy now after being the hero when they wanted all of Europe to migrate there. Always wanting to weaken EUROPE foremost as their motive To bomb Europe kill Europe bash Europe at every opportunity. And the world is deceived They do believe completely incorrectly that everything is what it seems. No Always the same, always the opposite is the reality And in the end times the innocent shall be guilty and the guilty innocent.
“America is our barracks” Sir Winston Churchill “and always has been except over the dispute about the Suez Canal, and they got rid of him real quick for that.
Well beyond phucking ridiculous.
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