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Ever since a U.S. military cemetery in the southern Netherlands removed two displays recognizing Black troops who helped to liberate Europe from the Nazis, visitors have filled the guestbook with objections.

Sometime in the spring, the American Battle Monuments Commission, the U.S. government agency responsible for maintaining memorial sites outside of the United States, removed the panels from the visitors center at the American Cemetery in Margraten, the final resting place for roughly 8,300 U.S. soldiers, set in rolling hills near the border with Belgium and Germany.

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[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 142 points 1 week ago

Of course the locals are pissed. Those soldiers died to help free them from fascists and today's fascists spit on them. A lot of US soldiers are buried on European soil and many of graves are cared for by locals as thanks for their sacrifice. Fucking pathetic from the Trump regime.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 100 points 1 week ago (1 children)

After months of mystery around the disappearance of the panels, two media organizations — the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) and online media Dutch News — this month published emails obtained through a U.S. Freedom of Information Act request showing that Trump’s DEI policies directly prompted the commission to take down the panels

Earlier this year, the US ambassador said the signs were "on rotation". I'm completely unsurprised that was a lie.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 47 points 1 week ago

Technicalities.
The panels are on rotation...it's just they have been rotated to the rubbish dump because tRUMP and anyone, that's ANYONE, who works for or supports him are vile disgusting scum. The end.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 58 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I will never, for the life of me, ever understand why anyone would ever care about the skin color of a person willing to risk their own life for another person's safety.

[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

None of you are black, white, brown, you are all GREEN!

[–] Embargo@lemmy.zip 56 points 1 week ago

Hey, America. Could you like... Fuck off?

[–] Eddbopkins@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago

the trump administration is a disgrace to the constitution and everything it stands for.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 28 points 1 week ago

Those panels must have been the "apologizing for being white" that JD mentioned.

[–] Lembot_0006@programming.dev 23 points 1 week ago (3 children)

And what is the official reasoning behind the removing of those panels?

[–] twinnie@feddit.uk 53 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Serious answer from the article: Trump DEI policies.

[–] asRomeBurns1979@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I work at a FTSE 100 in London. My black colleagues reaction to the pushback on DEI from the right has just been so depressing. They’re not remotely surprised and seemed to have suspected that this ill will was there all along. The west really was just putting makeup on a dog all these years wasn’t it.

[–] foo@feddit.uk 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The racist scum never went away, they just felt less confident to speak their warped minds openly. Trump and his MAGA cultists have emboldened the scum to be more overt with their hate. It's really depressing to see society slide backwards like this. We need to stay strong and weather the storm in the hope that when some kind of normality returns these folk are held to account.

[–] rosco385@lemmy.wtf 2 points 1 week ago

Trump and his ilk are just a symptom, not the disease itself. The rot in American politics started long before Don was a twinkle in Fred's eye.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Some of the worst people never went away, but somehow gained power

It's because we didn't put them down like the rabid dogs they are. We actually gave them security if they worked for us instead, and anger and hatred are seemingly passed down the family.

[–] notabot@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago

It will take several generations of this sort of behaviour being vigerously crushed for it to go away for good. You need to wait for everyone who was alive when it was acceptable, and those who listened to them, to die. Only then is there a chance for a better way to fully take root without being poisoned by what came before.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

We say "lipstick on a pig," but yeah.

[–] _edge@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago

That's speciest.

[–] asRomeBurns1979@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Good shout 😂 Wonder where I got that from.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago

I don't think anyone should be surprised that the all-white party in the two party system was racist to the core, I'm just surprised so many people in the nominal middle have accepted that as just an acceptable political stance to hold openly rather than as lightly concealed dog whistles. This should be a single issue deal breaker that triggers immediate and increasingly vociferous opposition, not just one issue among many that's not important if some college student asks you for your pronouns.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 week ago

The same as any other conservative policy: "fuck you, stop us if you can"

[–] homes@piefed.world 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Cruelty. That is the one and only reason behind anything Republicans do.

To hurt people. They cum to it.

[–] TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 week ago

But he’s not racist

[–] PearOfJudes@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 week ago

People who were discriminated against in their own country and still fought and died for that same country deserve recognition and respect.

How is this not just removing history like taking down the colonising genocidal white nationalist statues are?