National Archives Slaps ‘Harmful Content’ Warning On Constitution, All Other Founding Documents

[PurpnGold]

@Rodeo

The more the lunatic left gets away with portraying our founders and the basis of our founding as some kind of illegitimate product of racism the more the lunatic left seems to thinking has the right to change that founding, erase our history, and implement stupid lunatic left wing ideas.

But they were… why do you want to hide that fact?

[PurpnGold]

@WuWei

@PurpnGold

You mean like calling Native Americans “Savages”? Like that language

They were.

The native Americans can now “duck meme” the founders

“THEY are savages… not us” (While standing over their dead bodies”

[FreeAndClear]

@PAmoderate37

@Jezcoe

I have great admiration for the men who founded the nation. They were imperfect men who did imperfect things. The sanitized version of their story does nothing but encourage hero worship without any real thought as to the actual history of the country.

Unfortunately, there is a growing number of people who believe the founders deserve nothing but scorn for their sins and it nullifies anything good they did.

This is a post from 1968? Or 1980s or 1990s?

When was “a people’s history of the United States” published?

[PurpnGold]

@Rodeo

You say “tell the whole story” while at the same time applauding the removal of monuments to our historical figures all of whom contributed to that history.

Do You REALLY want monuments that were stood up to celebrate white supremacy? In 2021?

[Supreme_War_Pig]

Meh. Tempest in a tea pot.

[PurpnGold]

You know what is super hilarious about the conservative outrage over content warnings?

Content warnings ARE THE RESULT OF CONSERVATIVE OUTRAGE

Yes folks… we only have MPAA rating due to conservative outrage over language and imagery in our media. One of the few conservative ideas that I like.

NWA smiles

[Mountain_Soldier]

@Jezcoe

For anyone who cares… here is the actual warning.

NARA’s Statement on Potentially Harmful Content | National Archives

It isn’t on the Constitution or the Bill of Rights but on records include the terrible views on race and sex of some of those who came before us aka pretty much anything from the 1700’s, 1800’s and most of the 20th Century.

It may be silly, but not really worth clutching one’s pearls.

“I’m gonna stop studying history because I don’t want to be offended by it.”

What a weak ■■■■■■■ person that has to be.

People are ■■■■■■■ morons now.

[biggestal99]

@WuWei

“Mostly True”

From the link.

“The warning was not specific to the Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights or the Constitution. Rather, it was placed as a banner across various records included in the website’s catalog.”

Much ado over nothing.

Allan

[Mountain_Soldier]

@Jezcoe

@Rodeo

The whole damn story has been available for a couple of centuries now without the editorial ideas of a bunch of woke kooks.

It has been… but hasn’t really been taught or understood. It has been seen through a lens of exceptionalism which obscures a lot of ■■■■■■ up ■■■■ that happened.

@Rodeo

We’ve all known if we were even semi conscious that the founders lived different lifestyles in the late 1600’s and 1700’s than we do now. Yes we had slavery…a sin which was eliminated …our American story is one of evolution.

I don’t think that as whole we really understand that evolution. And I will say why… because it relates to the next thing.

@Rodeo

You say “tell the whole story” while at the same time applauding the removal of monuments to our historical figures all of whom contributed to that history.

There are quite a few monuments that never should have been put up in the first place. Monuments to White Supremacy in New Orleans, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Jefferson Davis, Robert E Lee et al should never had existed in first place. Removing those from a place of honor is something that should have happened long ago.

@Rodeo

The lunatic left in this country who’s line you so frequently spout could care less about telling “the whole story”, it certainly appears they would prefer to bastardize the story into a sermon about the horrible racists who founded this nation and how could any country based on the ideas of those horrible people be legitimate…

I have great admiration for the men who founded the nation. They were imperfect men who did imperfect things. The sanitized version of their story does nothing but encourage hero worship without any real thought as to the actual history of the country.

@Rodeo

This whole Trigger Warnings at the archives wouldn’t be a big deal except it’s just another slice of the thousand cuts the WokeARista’s keep slicing away at our greatness and freedom.

Saying that there are some things in the archives catalog of primary sources that may be considered offensive is just that and nothing more.

Yep. Can’t have people being offended at all. Feewings are everything nowadays.

[Mountain_Soldier]

@Zander

When trigger warnings need their own trigger warnings, we’ve got minor problems.

Very minor.

Guess there won’t be any more liberal historians. They’ll be too offended to read anything anymore.

[SixFoot]

@zantax

@WuWei

@zantax

I am fairly convinced I have slipped into some sort of alternate reality at this point.

Woke World

Well, the physics many worlds theory does say there is an infinite number and therefore any possible configuration of reality exists. I don’t know which choices I made to land me in this unlikely. one.

Perhaps the Mandela Effect brought you to this particular slice in the Bulk. Those times you almost died? Maybe you really did.

[SixFoot]

Clicked “View in National Archives Catalog” on each of the three:

Links take you to catalog.archives.gov

“Harmful Language Alert” at the top:

Same with the Bill of Rights:

Same with the Declaration of Independence:

Not surprised though. The Constitution has always offended leftists.

[Mountain_Soldier]

@biggestal99

@WuWei

“Mostly True”

From the link.

“The warning was not specific to the Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights or the Constitution. Rather, it was placed as a banner across various records included in the website’s catalog.”

Much ado over nothing.

Allan

Why do historical documents need trigger warnings?

[SixFoot]

@Mountain_Soldier

Why do historical documents need trigger warnings?

Look no further than the 2nd Amendment.

[biggestal99]

@Mountain_Soldier

Why do historical documents need trigger warnings?

Because they were written by the non enlightened.

It’s like reading Twain.

He’d be a different writer if he was writing now than writing then.

Can you imagine an audio Huckleberry Finn narrated by James Earl Jones.

Allan

[Jezcoe]

@Mountain_Soldier

@Jezcoe

For anyone who cares… here is the actual warning.

NARA’s Statement on Potentially Harmful Content | National Archives

It isn’t on the Constitution or the Bill of Rights but on records include the terrible views on race and sex of some of those who came before us aka pretty much anything from the 1700’s, 1800’s and most of the 20th Century.

It may be silly, but not really worth clutching one’s pearls.

“I’m gonna stop studying history because I don’t want to be offended by it.”

It isn’t saying that at all.

[UnoURright]

What a crappy statement from them.

They are saying that it isn’t specific to those documents.

They say it applies to various documents, implying not all.

Yet on their website it’s specifically above those documents mentioned.

[Jezcoe]

@UnoURright

What a crappy statement from them.

They are saying that it isn’t specific to those documents.

They say it applies to various documents, implying not all.

Yet on their website it’s specifically above those documents mentioned.

That link appears on every page of the catalog.

[TheRedComet]

The constitution of the United States was written by the non-enlightened?

There’s a first time hearing everything I guess.

[PurpnGold]

@SixFoot

Not surprised though. The Constitution has always offended leftists.

Thank conservatives for trigger warnings…MPAA, RIAA etc