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blah blah conservative book bans, meanwhile I can no longer take my kids to see anything about Native Americans at the Smithsonian because having exhibits about them at all is problematic: Image
No group of people should have a veto over how or if they are portrayed in museums, and that includes Native Americans.
It's depressing how museum curators, as a profession, have decided that their job is to destroy museums permanently by dispersing their collections.
"Just go to the Museum of the American Indian instead" is a good response to the specific complaint in OP (well taken, we will probably do that on our next trip) but not very good as a justification for the policy.

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Jul 26, 2021
There is an awful lot to digest in the preface in this link:
"The vigilantism of widespread gun ownership puts Black Americans in an especially vulnerable position given the brutality and human cost of discriminatory policing."

But... if policing is discriminatory and brutal, then isn't vigilantism comparatively better than otherwise?
Maybe vigilantism isn't particularly good but it seems very odd to assert that it is *worse* in light of a bad policing system.
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Jun 23, 2021
re: "wokeness is [like] a religion"

There's one common interpretation of this which is supposed to go "wokeness is a religion, we all agree religion is wrong, so so wokeness is wrong". For various reasons this is an unproductive line of argument so I won't address it further.
The other interpretation, which I think is worth at least mulling, is that most of society's institutions broadly incorporate a detente over "religious" claims, even though religions frequently make fairly strong demands on our notions of right action, justice, equity, etc.
"Wokeness is [like] a religion" suggests that maybe many of the demands wokeness makes on our institutions should be treated the same way and subject to the same detente, *even though* that's means setting aside strongly-held opinions about justice.
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