Hope these articles get restored, because pretending the past didn’t exist does no good for anyone
Edit: The Navajo code talkers were important for both World Wars, and Jackie Robinson’s character as an honest man is a large part of why he was able to break baseball’s color barrier to begin with.
I’ll probably send them an email if I can, because whatever people Elon has working for him are overdoing it for stories like this. The entire reason that the Navajo code talkers were effective to begin with is because they’re a minority, and I really shouldn’t have to explain why Jackie Robinson matters.
No arguments from me. I’m a huge baseball fan and somewhat of a historian. I saw the code talkers movie and that is a great story. So maybe it was a case of going overboard. I am careful about sources because some are rabidly anti-Trump and will neglect to mention certain things.
I do wonder why Moses Fleetwood Walker has been forgotten since he technically was the first black baseball player in the late 1800s
Because the color barrier was put up AFTER that, because of Cap Anson and various other baseball players refusing to play against black players, which was a side effect of all the post-Reconstruction laws coming into place
If we take their claim that it was an "automated removal" at face value then it looks like their approach to clearing the trash is to have an automated check for keywords and silo everything it tags into an offline state (hence the DEI URLs and 404ing pages), then go through and review everything there manually and restore the records that actually deserve their place.
It's probably a good approach when you're dealing with malicious compliance and deliberate go-slows. Now they can't stop you removing their propaganda by dragging their feet, they can only slow people's well deserved public honors being returned.
It seems they aren't deleting any of these articles, they're just changing URLs to put them in DEI subcategories and search engines/links elsewhere haven't updated yet.
[Edit] it seems some of them are URL changes and deletions. Maybe they all were initially but some have been reverted already. It's a huge pain in the ass to check since everyone on both sides is constantly just jpg posting and defense.gov's own internal search engine is garbage.
https://archive.is/QvM9i
Hope these articles get restored, because pretending the past didn’t exist does no good for anyone
Edit: The Navajo code talkers were important for both World Wars, and Jackie Robinson’s character as an honest man is a large part of why he was able to break baseball’s color barrier to begin with.
Yea it should be in the history section. I’d have to look at the source reporting this
I originally found this out on r/baseball: https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/s/7mtUgtJL41
I’ll probably send them an email if I can, because whatever people Elon has working for him are overdoing it for stories like this. The entire reason that the Navajo code talkers were effective to begin with is because they’re a minority, and I really shouldn’t have to explain why Jackie Robinson matters.
No arguments from me. I’m a huge baseball fan and somewhat of a historian. I saw the code talkers movie and that is a great story. So maybe it was a case of going overboard. I am careful about sources because some are rabidly anti-Trump and will neglect to mention certain things.
I do wonder why Moses Fleetwood Walker has been forgotten since he technically was the first black baseball player in the late 1800s
Because the color barrier was put up AFTER that, because of Cap Anson and various other baseball players refusing to play against black players, which was a side effect of all the post-Reconstruction laws coming into place
If we take their claim that it was an "automated removal" at face value then it looks like their approach to clearing the trash is to have an automated check for keywords and silo everything it tags into an offline state (hence the DEI URLs and 404ing pages), then go through and review everything there manually and restore the records that actually deserve their place.
It's probably a good approach when you're dealing with malicious compliance and deliberate go-slows. Now they can't stop you removing their propaganda by dragging their feet, they can only slow people's well deserved public honors being returned.
It seems they aren't deleting any of these articles, they're just changing URLs to put them in DEI subcategories and search engines/links elsewhere haven't updated yet.
[Edit] it seems some of them are URL changes and deletions. Maybe they all were initially but some have been reverted already. It's a huge pain in the ass to check since everyone on both sides is constantly just jpg posting and defense.gov's own internal search engine is garbage.