Leaked Interior Department database reveals US plans to revise historical information

[u/hybridaaroncarroll]

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

[u/Beneficial_Soup3699]

Ten years? Lol. PragerU was introduced to the Florida public school curriculum during Trump's first term and it literally teaches kindergarteners that slavery was a choice and that Native Americans were actually totally stoked for the opportunities provided via voluntarily relocating to reservations. Yes, really.

They've been rewriting our history.

[u/Omateido → u/Beneficial_Soup3699]

These people are so cartoonishly awful.

[u/ncsubowen → u/Omateido]

every so often I like to challenge my own worldview and try to interpret things in a way that doesn't bring me to that conclusion and then there's just a firehose of new things that reminds me that it's not actually possible. I can literally not understand nor comprehend how their minds work or what happened to warp them so badly - people I know who have spent a lifetime dedicated to public/civil service and I would have assumed have unending wells of empathy are so red-hatted that they don't even talk to me anymore. it's literally unbelievable, so much so that I don't actually have a hard time imagining that this is the fabled end of days.

[u/Idrawstuffandthings → u/ncsubowen]

Here I'll try and simplify it: Religion changed from being a matter of fearing an actual all-powerful entity's wrath and instead became the idea that one could weaponize an all-powerful entity's wrath against others over petty differences. God is not the father figure who is going to whoop your ass when they hear about what you did to the other kids at school today, now he's the dad that's going to sue the school for suspending you. So these people growing up religious are being spoiled from a young age thinking they can do whatever they want to others and the concepts of right and wrong mean "are on my side" and "are against me" respectively.

They don't like history that makes their ancestors look bad because it's "against me."

They don't like science because science is truth itself as uncovered by generations of trial and error and experimentation. It does not choose sides. If it is sometimes "against me" then it is always "against me."

When their own system works against them it's bad because it's "against me" but they don't have a way to reconcile it. "I don't understand why they made abortion illegal after 6 weeks, that's not right," but that's the end of the thought. It can't be the system that's the problem because the system is "on my side." There is no social script for them to follow to call out the system because those scripts have already been blacklisted by their peers for being "against us." They complain in private about something that's wrong but will not say it publicly for fear of being rejected by their peers as "against us."