A political battle is brewing in Washington, D.C., over plans to build a National Museum of the American Latino and the portrayal of American Latino history. Last year, the Smithsonian Institution opened a temporary preview exhibition inside the National Museum of American History that has become th...
As a Latino, I'm kinda upset over the "controversy" over this.
“These conservatives are using fear to essentially push through their agenda,” says Fernández, who warns that the rising wave of censorship throughout the U.S. could be a “repeat of the Red Scare.”
I wasn't aware it ever ended.
In its place, the Smithsonian is now planning an exhibition on salsa and Latin music.
Replace a telling of history that's uncomfortable for libs with palatable cultural exports that serve to entertain? Sounds about right.
They want a narrative that emphasizes Latino military service and business success among Latinos in the United States.
It's amazing that even that (that last part that you pointed out) makes conservatives uncomfortable.
Even so, the idea of a New Red Scare is an apt one and I believe that the Second Red Scare of the 1950s did end or at least ebbed and flowed since the 1950s.
We should take this new salvo against communism seriously, the one in recent years.
Yeah, during the 1990s and 2000s, the anti-communism arguably died down, though the communist movement lost its mojo in almost its entirety (even China grappled with currents that wanted to lessen or abandon Marxism-Leninism during the 1990s, for example). It's only after 2008 and especially 2016 that we came back in a major way.
I wasn't aware it ever ended.
Replace a telling of history that's uncomfortable for libs with palatable cultural exports that serve to entertain? Sounds about right.
It's amazing that even that (that last part that you pointed out) makes conservatives uncomfortable.
Even so, the idea of a New Red Scare is an apt one and I believe that the Second Red Scare of the 1950s did end or at least ebbed and flowed since the 1950s.
We should take this new salvo against communism seriously, the one in recent years.
Very true, it's definitely gotten worse.
Yeah, during the 1990s and 2000s, the anti-communism arguably died down, though the communist movement lost its mojo in almost its entirety (even China grappled with currents that wanted to lessen or abandon Marxism-Leninism during the 1990s, for example). It's only after 2008 and especially 2016 that we came back in a major way.