How Dare Anyone Question Wokeness at the Smithsonian Museums?

The Daily Signal ^ | 16 Aug, 2025 | Tim Graham

[MtnClimber]

The central strategy of media bias is defining your terms. The most obnoxious strategy of liberal journalists is defining the Republicans as ideological extremists engaging in culture wars and weaponizing partisan narratives for political victory.

They pretend Democrats are nothing like this. The epic political battles of our time are between the ultraconservatives and the nonpartisans.

The same exercise happens with federally funded messaging, from public broadcasting to national museums. When President Donald Trump demands a review of these taxpayer-subsidized narratives, it’s considered some kind of authoritarian crusade against nonpartisan truth-telling. It doesn’t matter how much left-wing propaganda Trump voters have been forced to support. It’s automatically defined as the gold standard of information—because Trump questions it.

One hot topic this week was Trump’s crusade to impose the notion of “American exceptionalism” in taxpayer-funded museums before the nation’s 250th anniversary, and to root out divisive and partisan narratives.

On CNN, Anderson Cooper proclaimed this was “insulting to the memory of people who fought and died for this country. And I’m not just talking about those who fought in wars overseas. I’m talking about, you know, Americans, enslaved people who died in this country, who were lynched, who were chased by mobs.” Cooper struck a dramatic pose, or danced a partisan pirouette, as a spokesman for all dead Americans.

Cooper brought on former NAACP boss Cornell Brooks to share in the outrage. In a similar exchange on Cooper’s show in March, Brooks exemplified the liberal argument: “When I think about an American president charging the vice president with rooting out improper ideology at the Smithsonian, I think about a couple things. It is not the job of an American president to charge the crown jewel of American art and history and culture with having a proper ideology, right?”

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TOPICS: History; Society
KEYWORDS: leftism

[MtnClimber]

You knew the left was going to lose their minds over this.

[silent majority rising]

Time to take all the DEI crap and Woke BS, and throw it in the toilet.

[PeterPrinciple]

. I’m talking about, you know, Americans, enslaved people who died in this country, who were lynched, who were chased by mobs.”

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but they don’t want to talk about those that were given freedom. They don’t want to talk about slavery in africa.

[shelterguy]

I have been watching some msnbc lately. This is one of the many ORANGE MAN BAD stories that infuriates them.. It is entertaining to watch the melt downs.

[cuz1961]

I want to know

Where did all the GIANT bones found, documented in American newspapers, that the Smith showed up and hoovered up , go ?

They couldn’t brooke refutation of the Darwin cult , so they disappeared them then denied they ever had them.

Did they destroy them ?, or are they stuffed in burn bags in some hidden room ?

Spit.

I hope the Trump admin finds them if they weren’t destroyed.

[cuz1961]

I want to know

Where did all the GIANT bones found,

.i.e. Nephiliam bones

documented in American newspapers, that the Smith showed up and hoovered up , go ?

They couldn’t brooke refutation of the Darwin cult , so they disappeared them then denied they ever had them.

[HombreSecreto]

Hear Hear

[Bookshelf]

NAACP boss Cornell Brooks: moron personified.

[Liz]

Changes at Smithsonian?

As Obama said, “elections have consequences.”

[noiseman]

but they don’t want to talk about those that were given freedom. They don’t want to talk about slavery in africa.

They also don’t want to talk about the more than 4,000 free black Americans who were slave OWNERS, nor the 300,000 WHITES (primarily Irish) who were enslaved by Britain in the Americas, nor American Indian tribes “stealing” land from each other and enslaving members of rival tribes, nor African tribes doing the same to their rivals, nor the present-day epidemic of Muslims enslaving sub-Saharan Africans, complete with chains and slave auctions, in the Sudan, nor Muslims enslaving white Europeans centuries ago, etc., etc., etc…..

America has NOTHING to apologize for, and black Americans need to get over their phony victim mentality, period. There is no culture on Earth that has not at some point in its history practiced slavery, including “the black community” themselves, as well as their African ancestors. I’d just like to know how much those 4,000 colonial-era black slave owners are going to have to pay if “reparations”‘catch on.

[LouAvul]

enslaved people who died in this country, who were lynched, who were chased by mobs

I'm tired of that ancient, self-pitying, entitlement crap. I never lynched anybody and know no one who did. My first book report in high school was "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin. I even took heat for having black friends.

But, enough is enough. The only reason they keep pushing this stale, tired, woke agenda is because in their mercenary minds it translates to "reparations" which translates to cash.

[Blurb2350]

Hold yer horses! The giants’ bones will be unearthed just as soon as they’re done inventorying Fort Knox.

[No Party Affiliation]

Yes, that and “I won”.

[j.havenfarm]

I was there in May. It had been a number of years and the new pavilion for displaying the original Star Soangled Banner. But that’s just for the rubes like me. The rest was the usual tells us your stories, all about this group, all about that group overcoming the oppressiveness of America. It’s 3 stories and we were out in 45 minutes

[libertylover]

liberal journalists is defining the Republicans as ideological extremists engaging in culture wars and weaponizing partisan narratives for political victory.

The Democrats are 10X times as skilled in this vs. the Republicans.

[Bernard]

Cooper struck a dramatic pose, or danced a partisan pirouette, as a spokesman for all dead Americans.

Dead Americans is a major voting bloc for democrats, so it's important to protect that group.

[GOPJ]

On CNN, Anderson Cooper proclaimed this was “insulting to the memory of people... you know, Americans, enslaved people who died in this country, who were lynched, who were chased by mobs.”

White Liberal 'elite' Anderson Cooper - DO YOU know what group voted for President Trump in the highest percentage? No Anderson, it wasn't white men ... It was Native American Indian men. And Hispanics are joining with us too... Think about it Anderson - maybe guilt ridden white liberal 'elites' only represent themselves...

[Salman]

There needs to be a complete purge of Democrats from all institutions. Then we can rebuild.

[Delta 21]

I recommended that on Friday eve. Weld all the door shut until it is made right. Its owned by the U.S. Government so this guy really has no say as to how it is displayed or stories told.