"I had a better understanding of how it must have felt to be a Jew in Hitler's Germany" – Rockefeller delegate Jackie Robinson watching the hard-right psychos take over the party at the 1964 RNC.
Murphy the Trickster God is notoriously *not* a subtle scripter, but the thing is: Lauding Jackie Robinson, ‘one of the good ones’, has been a snark subject for as far back as I can remember, growing up in a less-than-genteel very white working class Bronx neighborhood back in the 1960s. Approving one of America’s greatest sports icons and civil rights leaders: Low Bar achieved, have a cookie, Truth Speaker! Archie Bunker gradually coming to appreciate Robinson’s talents was part of the ongoing evolution of one of the 1970’s most popular TV shows, back in the days when ‘popular television’ had an actual sociological impact. I honestly think this had to be a ‘dumb bot in the hands of idiots’ issue — even Elon’s script kiddies can’t have been this deliberately clueless…
Per ABC News, “DOD says it ‘mistakenly removed’ Jackie Robinson, other content from website amid DEI purge”:
The Pentagon said Wednesday that in “rare cases” it may have deliberately or mistakenly removed some webpages in efforts to remove diversity, equity and inclusion content after a tribute to Jackie Robinson’s Army service was suddenly scrubbed from a Department of Defense’s website.
A DOD official told ABC News that the Robinson webpage, among other content recently removed from Pentagon websites, was “mistakenly removed” due to the search terms used to scrub DEI terms from platforms.
The official said Robinson’s page and others that were unpublished, including content honoring the Tuskegee Airmen, the Enola Gay, the Navajo Code Talkers, history-making female fighter pilots and the Marines at Iwo Jima, would be republished.
As of Wednesday afternoon, the webpage for Robinson, which was headlined “Sports Heroes Who Served: Baseball Great Jackie Robinson Was WWII Soldier,” had been restored and seemed to be identical to its original version, which included language noting the “racial abuse” he faced and that he was “the first Black person to serve as a vice president of a major U.S. corporation.”…
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