Posted on 09/08/2021 9:24:19 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The National Archives Records Administration placed a “harmful content” warning on the Constitution, labeling the governing document of the United States as “harmful or difficult to view.” The warning applies to all documents across the Archives’ cataloged website, including the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence.
“NARA’s records span the history of the United States, and it is our charge to preserve and make available these historical records,” the administration said in a statement. “As a result, some of the materials presented here may reflect outdated, biased, offensive, and possibly violent views and opinions. In addition, some of the materials may relate to violent or graphic events and are preserved for their historical significance.”
The NARA, which is responsible for preserving and protecting documentation of American heritage, noted that so-called harmful historical documents could “reflect racist, sexist, ableist, misogynistic/misogynoir, and xenophobic opinions and attitudes; be discriminatory towards or exclude diverse views on sexuality, gender, religion, and more,” and “include graphic content of historical events such as violent death, medical procedures, crime, wars/terrorist acts, natural disasters and more.”
Along with committing to diversity and equity, the NARA said it would “[work] in conjunction with diverse communities, [and] seek to balance the preservation of this history with sensitivity to how these materials are presented to and perceived by users.”
This isn’t the first time the National Archives has catered to a leftist view of history. In June, the National Archives’ racism task force claimed that the Archives’ rotunda, which houses founding documents, is an example of “structural racism.” The task force also pushed to include trigger warnings around displays of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, which are all in the rotunda.
The warning is a blanket statement atop all documents in the archived catalogs that links to a “Statement on Potentially Harmful Content.”
As news of the website’s warning circulated on Twitter, the NARA issued a standard response to those concerned by the “harmful” label on the Constitution.
This alert is not connected to any specific records, but appears at the top of the page while you are using the online Catalog (https://t.co/dwGmbXhjFP).
To learn more about why the alert about harmful language appears in our Catalog, please go to https://t.co/E3uoAKaF5J
— US National Archives (@USNatArchives) September 7, 2021
“This alert is not connected to any specific records, but appears at the top of the page while you are using the online Catalog. To learn more about why the alert about harmful language appears in our Catalog, please go to ‘NARA’s Statement on Potentially Harmful Content,’” the tweet said.
Meh. Some of the Bible is X-rated. Both can be harmful to the ignorant and/or stupid. And thanks to our education system today, there are plenty of both.
This is just a first step in replacing the Constitution with something more to the liking of the left.
Declaration of Independence and Constitution are extremely triggering to tyrants.
Harmful Language Alert from me....
I’d better say nothing right now.
Boiling the frog—until the day they can burn them....
How Stalin of them
Xi would use the Mao Little Red Book or the Communist Manifesto but they are too moderate for him.
No, this is Step #10,842.
Yes, especially the “when any government becomes destructive of these ends it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it” part.
i too thought this was satire. because reading comprehension skills are not taught or honed, what makes america america, is now deemed offensive.
I HOPED this was the Babylon Bee.
......”Boiling the frog—until the day they can burn them”....
Good analogy.
This is not the Bee?
Incredible. Well, not really.
Plus the Constitution was so pre-plandemic, and now, by overthrowing virtually everything enumerated in the Bill of Rights, we’re heading to something so much better.
Plenty of freepers get triggered whenever I state that natural born citizens are naturally citizens because they were born here of citizen parents and could not be anything else and that those born with multiple nationalities are not naturally Americans because they are something else.
It’s simple logic.
How many people remember when the Smithsonian Air and Space went woke over the Enola Gay display?
Our birthright has been stolen and we didn’t even get a bowl of stew.
The woke should be purposefully and continually offended.
If they want a statue down put up another. If they want the name of something changed take back the name of something already changed. Mock them openly and when they tell you they’re offended just smile warmly and say “You’re welcome!”
You can actually do the last even when you can’t do the first two.
Try it, it’s fun.
These documents are dangerous to tyrants, fascists, totalitarians, communists, and anti-Christian regimes. So of course our current government finds them dangerous.
Ho Lee Shyte.
One of the clearest signs yet America is being slowly dismanted.
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