US national park gift shops ordered to purge merchandise promoting DEI

[Hume]

The Trump administration is expanding its crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion by ordering national parks to purge their gift shops of items it deems objectionable.

The Interior Department said in a memo last month that gift shops, bookstores and concession stands have until Dec. 19 to empty their shelves of retail items that run afoul of President Donald Trump’s agenda.

US national park gift shops ordered to purge merchandise promoting DEI

The Trump administration is expanding its crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion by ordering national parks to remove certain items from gift shops.

apnews.com

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Good! National Park gift shops should be selling items related to national parks not political propaganda like DIE items.

 

[Hume]

Good! National Park gift shops should be selling items related to national parks not political propaganda like DIE items.

So, only Trump can decide what the ideology is? Seems fascist.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

So, only Trump can decide what the ideology is? Seems fascist.

No, national park gift shops shouldn't be pushing anything close to a political agenda in their merchandise, and that goes regardless of who's president. In fact, I'd say a president that approves of politicizing our national parks is the real danger here.

 

[Hume]

No, national park gift shops shouldn't be pushing anything close to a political agenda in their merchandise, and that goes regardless of who's president. In fact, I'd say a president that approves of politicizing our national parks is the real danger here.

What was objectionable about those pamphlets?

 

[Hume]

No, national park gift shops shouldn't be pushing anything close to a political agenda in their merchandise, and that goes regardless of who's president. In fact, I'd say a president that approves of politicizing our national parks is the real danger here.

"On display this week at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia were items featuring Frederick Douglass. At the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park store in Atlanta, there were various books on the Civil Rights Movement and a book for children about important Black women in U.S. history. For sale online was a metal token for the Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Monument."

US national park gift shops ordered to purge merchandise promoting DEI

The Trump administration is expanding its crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion by ordering national parks to remove certain items from gift shops.

apnews.com

 

[T. A. Gardner]

What was objectionable about those pamphlets?

Which pamphlets? I read the article the only clearly objectionable item in a photo were the LGBT pens in a photo near the end of it. Those are a political statement and not related to the MLK national park where they were being sold.

 

[Hume]

"Earlier this year, the Interior Department’s ordered parks to flag signs, exhibits and other materials it said disparaged Americans. That order sparked debate about books related to Native American history and a photograph at a Georgia park that showed the scars of a formerly enslaved man.