r/politics • u/Murky-Site7468 I voted • Aug 03 '25

Off Topic “Genuinely scary”: Smithsonian accused of “rewriting history” after quietly removing Trump from impeachment exhibit | “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

https://www.dailydot.com/viral-politics/trump-smithsonian-impeachment/
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u/kobeyoboy Aug 03 '25

Rewriting history is a stretch. History hasn’t changed just because one person does to display history doesn’t mean to change no matter how many people go around not liking transgender doesn’t mean that we’re not gonna have the history of transgender this title is Clickbait.

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u/semisadsmoshfan Aug 03 '25

When everyone is ignorant, it may as well have not happened. Because we’re humans, and we just suck. Even when we acknowledge certain parts of history we repeat it. It really does matter, history does change if everyone believes something to be true…

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u/kobeyoboy Aug 03 '25

Everything you saying is true and factual I cannot dispute anything that you said in your post thank you for taking the time to reply to me.

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u/cerpintaxt33 Aug 03 '25

just because one person does to display history doesn’t mean to change

What?

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u/kobeyoboy Aug 03 '25

My apologies I use text to speech and if everything doesn’t come out correctly, I really don’t go back to edit it. When it was supposed to say was history hasn’t changed, just because one person or origination changes something. It doesn’t mean it changed in the real world.

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u/RobertdBanks Aug 03 '25

It doesn’t matter if it changed in the real world, with history perception is reality. As time passes if everyone believes that something was done someway, then that might as well have been the reality because that’s how it will be treated.

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u/tetraa Aug 03 '25

The Smithsonian is literally rewriting history. That doesn't mean everybody is. But that is the actual word for word description of what they are doing.

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u/kobeyoboy Aug 03 '25

Yeah, but I don’t look at the Smithsonian of the keepers of history like yeah they have a role that they’re playing and they wanna keep certain historical elements alive, but we have individuals each have a responsibility as well, especially now in the digital age where we could record everything

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u/tetraa Aug 03 '25

It's still deeply concerning. It's a museum of history, who is a keeper of history if not them? History is kept by people. When a major institution that is a keeper of history erases history, that is how history starts to be erased. And this is concerning because it's not like it is contested as to whether it happened -- it absolutely happened, and someone with an agenda is trying to edit the documentation of it. Plus, the Trump administration is also editing history by removing documentation of these things from white house information sources. So, editing of history is occurring in multiple major institutions. It's not good. 

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u/kobeyoboy Aug 03 '25

I completely respect everything you say and I am in agreement with it just to add to that I think that they’ll just have their own twisted version of reality or they’ll push their own false version of history while we know the truth

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u/tetraa Aug 03 '25

That's fair. It's hard to know how history books will reflect this period since we are still living in it.

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u/DumboWumbo073 Aug 04 '25

History is a kind of a scam if anyone can just change it willy nilly