For anyone not paying attention, the Department of Homeland Security — that part of the government that was established after 9/11 with the name that told us it should not exist in this country — posted this to its official account:
Aside from the offensive use of the John Gast "American Progress" painting that anthropomorphizes Manifest Destiny into a giant white woman, respondents to the person who reposted it on BlueSky pointed out that the accompanying words had the Nazis' favorite number of words (14) and the two capitalized words begin with H, the 8th letter of the alphabet and therefore make 88, another Nazi symbol.
Another person responded to the BlueSky post about the DHS image,
The author of this post is unfortunately correct. Also every time I see the gast painting, I feel compelled to post an image of the ‘Reversing Manifest Destiny’ painting that the Indian Land Tenure Foundation commissioned from Sokaogon Chippewa artist Charles Hilliard:
I know which painting I prefer, but it's staggering to know that a U.S. government agency has communications staff putting out work with coded Nazi messages in it. This is what we have come to, and worse is yet to come.
Really sick. There’s another one — somewhere — with a “pioneer” family in a covered wagon.
ReplyDeleteYes - that was in the first half of July BlueSky round-up... just as bad as an image but without the added Nazi signifiers.
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