National Parks Are Told to Delete Content
That ‘Disparages Americans’
New York Times,
by
Lisa Friedman
Original Article
Posted By: sunset,
6/13/2025 9:59:53 PM
The Interior Department plans to remove or cover up all “inappropriate content” at national parks and sites by Sept. 17 and is asking the park visitors to report any “negative” information about past or living Americans, according to internal documents. It’s a move that historians worry could lead to the erasure of history involving gay and transgender figures, civil rights struggles and other subjects deemed improper. Staff at the National Park Service were instructed to post QR codes and signs at all 433 national parks, monuments and historic sites asking visitors to flag anything they think should be changed, from a plaque to a film at a visitor’s center.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Northcross 6/13/2025 10:07:06 PM (No. 1963967)
How does not disparaging Americans equate to erasing gay and transgender figures?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
itsonlyme 6/13/2025 10:22:12 PM (No. 1963974)
Hopefully there is more scrubbing to take place. It is parks, not a LGBTQ steam room.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
voxpopuli 6/13/2025 10:57:48 PM (No. 1963978)
Brilliant. What the Left has done
have.. anyone.. turn
In a tip on, in this case, a REAL transgression
Like tampon told Minnesotans to turn in non maskers
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
WWIIDaughter 6/13/2025 11:03:40 PM (No. 1963979)
What about the Smithsonian museums? They're awful.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
WI Cynic 6/13/2025 11:41:01 PM (No. 1963988)
How about just reporting the bald, harsh truth? "On this site, General so-and-so panicked and led his men rearward in a rout." Let's face it, the most impressive historical sites are usually where somebody made a bad decision leading to a disaster for one side.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 6/14/2025 12:56:38 AM (No. 1964005)
Is this a Hoorah for Our Side? Good. No need to cover up Daniel Boone's attributes. "Daniel Boone was a man, Yes, a big man!
With an eye like an eagle And as tall as a mountain was he!"
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
jigzsaw 6/14/2025 5:32:39 AM (No. 1964021)
As a gay person, I don’t quite see where the LGBTQ movement fits into the National Park conversation. Not really explained in this very biased article.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Nimby 6/14/2025 6:46:11 AM (No. 1964035)
Historians worry erasure of history?? Where in the heck were those historians when statues of our founding fathers were removed or destroyed during the “so called “ summer of love”?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
volksford 6/14/2025 6:57:34 AM (No. 1964040)
Amen # 8 !
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Red Ghost 6/14/2025 8:14:08 AM (No. 1964055)
Won't read a NY Times article. So only a few words about this. Good, Great and About Time. MAGA!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 6/14/2025 8:26:40 AM (No. 1964063)
Not just our founding fathers' statues taken down but Confederate generals and any other statue that is deemed the "offense of the day". Trying to erase or re-write history is always Orwellian. The military bases that the left wanted re-named in place of Confederate generals were named originally as a means to bring the country together. The streets in Fitzgerald, Georgia are named for that reason, both Union and Confederate generals. The city itself is named for its founder, a northern attorney from Indianapolis and first populated by both Union and Confederate veterans.There was an annual Blue-Gray picnic until the old vets died out. These efforts were designed to bring the country back together and heal old wounds unlike the left who want to tear the country apart today with woke tribalism.
I can't remember who said it but it's appropriate today, "You cannot judge the past through the lens of the present".
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
hershey 6/14/2025 8:49:20 AM (No. 1964073)
Well, the gay and transgender stuff is definitely improper....
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 6/14/2025 9:02:04 AM (No. 1964079)
Oh, noes, how, oh how, will we get along without taxpayer-funded self-flagellation?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
red1066 6/14/2025 9:08:01 AM (No. 1964081)
Eliminate information that doesn't actually apply to the national park.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Goose 6/14/2025 9:38:30 AM (No. 1964099)
Well, some "Americans" deserve to be disparaged--KKK, Nazis, commies, organized crime...
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
felixcat 6/14/2025 10:11:19 AM (No. 1964124)
Re #7 - The site of the first gay riot for their rights at Stonewall, NYC (Stonewall National Monument)
https://www.nps.gov/ston/index.htm
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Strike3 6/14/2025 10:48:23 AM (No. 1964146)
They should have a ball at White Sands, White River and Red Canyon. The Black Hills could go either way depending upon who visits.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Kate318 6/14/2025 11:10:37 AM (No. 1964159)
This drives me crazy. The woke agendas at all these sites and attractions is getting worse. You can’t enjoy anything just for the sake of what it is, as you are continually beaten over the head with some sort of victimhood message. In my city, we have a world-class zoo, but nearly every, single placard on an exhibit bleats about climate change and danger of extinction. If you didn’t know better—and I’m sure most do not—you would be severely depressed after a visit. No wonder our youth are so angry, ignorant and violent. The messages they receive 24/7/365 are nothing but gloom and doom.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
DVC 6/14/2025 12:08:42 PM (No. 1964184)
Leftists running too many parks, pumping their anti-American propaganda in the park info and signs.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
udanja99 6/14/2025 5:50:28 PM (No. 1964326)
I hope that this means the end of all of those NPS exhibits about slavery. It has seemed as if every visitors center I’ve entered in the last 10 years focuses on nothing but slavery, even if the site had nothing to do with slavery.
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