On Thursday, the Trump administration issued an executive order that took over the target of one of the cultural and scientific institutions in the United States: The Smithsonian. Disturbed by exhibitions that indicate the role of racism and sexual discrimination, and more in the complex past of the nation, the matter concerns the former vice president and insurance lawyer (?) With the guarantee that the Smithsonian Foundation is a “symbol of American inspiration and greatness” – which specifically includes the National Zoo.
But in the process of broadcasting the grievances of the administration, the document in particular calls for a Smithsonian display to accurately describe our current scientific understanding of race. This raises the possibility that the vice president ultimately asks that Smithsonian display scientifically inaccurate information.
Grievance against science
the Executive orderEntitled “Restore truth and mind to American history”, is filled with what has become a standard darkness: the accusation that, through recognition of the numerous cases in which the United States did not rise to its foundational ideals, institutions are trying to “rewrite our nation’s history.” It specifically calls for discussions of historical racism, sexual discrimination and persecution as it undermines “the unparalleled legacy of the United States in the progress of freedom, individual rights and human happiness.”
Even if you exceed the clear tension between the legacy of freedom and the sustainability of slavery in the documents of the United States, there are other paradoxes here. For example, the request saves the role of the Ministry of Interior in implementing the changes that “underestimate the value of some historical events or numbers” at the same time that the administration’s policies have led to Removing signals to sexually transformed individuals and Minorities and women.
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