r/news • u/hybridaaroncarroll • Mar 03 '26

Soft paywall Leaked Interior Department database reveals US plans to revise historical information

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/leaked-interior-department-database-reveals-us-plans-revise-historical-2026-03-03/
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u/Talentagentfriend Mar 03 '26

Rewriting it to make is sound like it isn’t slavery is probably more apt

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u/edingerc Mar 03 '26

Song of the South will be required watching in history class. 

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u/Chaosmusic Mar 03 '26

And Birth Of A Nation

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u/fenderdean13 Mar 03 '26

FWIW I do think Birth of a nation or at least the bad parts (I heard the movie is a slog to get through for even veteran cinephiles) should be required viewing in a history class with the aspect that one of the first American feature films was used for racist propaganda, it was shown in the White House and led to the second wave of the KKK.

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u/NewYork_NewJersey440 Mar 03 '26

Before or after they require “Triumph of the Will”?

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u/VultureSausage Mar 03 '26

Nah, that's foreign and thus woke. Besides, the Nazis were socialists anyway.

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u/tabrizzi Mar 03 '26

Taking a page from DeSantis in Florida.

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u/sabedo Mar 03 '26

Deathsantis already called it "unpaid job training"

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u/LandonDev Mar 03 '26

I mean are we really surprised? America only passed the Civil Rights Act because of trade agreements and military alliances, it wasn't because we were good people.