I want to see more of this vibe coming from the institutions that are being attacked by Trump/Melon's Incel Heritage Army. Via Tad Stoermer on his blog:
"This executive order is an authoritarian power grab. It is an attack on democracy. It is an attempt to enforce white nationalist propaganda in public schools. It is not about patriotism. It is about control.
And the AHA and OAH, and all of the organizational signers, instead of meeting this attack with strength, have offered another polite letter, another list of professional credentials, another assurance that real historians aren’t radicals, while the people rewriting the past to justify oppression continue marching forward, unchallenged.
That’s not leadership. That’s not resistance."
https://www.tadstoermer.com/tads-blog/aha-oah-and-the-art-of-losing
@DeliaChristina except, no, it's not an authoritarian power grab. Our democratic institutions already granted that power. It's already there.
We can change that, we can use our democratic institutions to reform and cancel that grant of power.
I'd say the response of those societies may sound weak because they know that they're on the wrong side of it. The power was granted, for better or worse, probably for worse, so until there are reforms, this is just how the system works.
This is what we voted for.
We should probably stop re-electing the same people that put us in this position in the first place. But until we do, that's democracy for you.
