Racial Grievance Theater Is About Humiliation, Not History– thefederalist.com

Racial Grievance Theater Is About Humiliation, Not History– thefederalist.com
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The White House on March 27 issued an executive order on “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” which prohibits public expenditure on any Smithsonian Institution exhibits or programs that attack core American values or “divide Americans based on race.” The interior secretary will also investigate whether any public monuments, memorials, or properties have been removed or altered to advance racialist ideology.

Cue media and liberal historians’ outrage, with one Georgetown professor telling The Washington Post that it amounted to an “ideological purity test,” while others argued it would result in removing or downplaying narratives of underrepresented communities. Yet as racialist ideologues keep demonstrating, it is their own hypocritical ideology that seeks to demonize and silence American traditions in service of a radical new political agenda.

Indeed, the very day before the executive order, NPR CEO Katherine Maher was confronted in a House subcommittee hearing with the uncomfortable fact that in January 2020 she had claimed America suffered from “our original collective sin and unpaid debt,” and affirmed the need for racial reparations. (She also called the current president a “deranged racist sociopath.”) Maher declared her regret over these tweets and claimed her opinions had changed. But Americans should rightly be wary of all historical and political narratives that leverage racial grievance and victimhood, even when presented as benign attempts to simply “tell everyone’s story.”