• crystalmerchant@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Whoaaa what the fuck?!?

    The code talkers story is badass. An obscure, barely-known language is the basis for a virtually unbreakable code that significantly contributes to Allied success in WW2. This is not “woke” at all. If anything it fits perfectly into the right’s fever dream.

    • braxy29@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      except that it suggests bipoc people have value and contribute meaningfully to our country.

      • dantheclamman@lemmy.worldOP
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        3 days ago

        Exactly. The right’s claim that they’re fighting DEI to restore merit is merely a smokescreen. These people believe that low melanin content is a precondition of merit

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    What the fuck.

    I’m sorry; let me start over:

    what the fuck.

    The history of the code talkers is honestly the single most incredible shows of selfless contribution that First Nation people have ever given to a country that has done nothing to earn their loyalty. To remove that (rather incredible, as well as strategically significant) contribution from the history of the Army is a betrayal of the legacies the US Army claims to honor. I hope everyone involved in that decision feels like a complete piece of shit, but I also know a lot of them won’t.

  • deus@lemmy.world
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    Is someone keeping track of everything they’re trying to erase from history? I really hope it’s all been archived somewhere so it can be put back into the records after these nuts are no longer in power.