After seeing the lowrider special exhibit (see Report from the trenches: The post-Trump de-woked Smithsonian (Vol I)), we continued around some other parts of the de-woked and attacked-by-Trump Smithsonian National Museum of American History.
In the Entertainment Nation section, Carl Nassib was highlighted as the most notable football player in U.S. history (“openly gay”):
Hamilton was featured as the most notable Broadway show in U.S. history due to its “performers of color”:
The Phoenix Suns are are most notable basketball team because at one point the multi-millionaire players advocated for open borders (according to Harvard, low-skill immigration makes multi-millionaires richer while impoverishing the native-born working class).
One American fencer is highlighted as important. Her achievement was fencing while wearing hijab as a positive example to counter the horribleness of Donald Trump:
Trump apparently wrongly questioned the value of importing millions of Muslims as U.S. residents/citizens shortly before Omar Mateen, child of immigrants from Afghanistan, killed 49 people at the Pulse nightclub (June 2016). (Note that children of Muslim immigrants are statistically more likely to be interested in waging jihad than their parents were (Harvard report on Danish study).)
A TV actor is highlighted for identifying as 2SLGBTQQIA+:
Anthony Fauci is featured as the most notable physician in our nation’s history (note the modeling of a cloth mask rather than an ineffective N95 mask):
(I am desperate to see a Fauciland theme park on the campus of NIH Bethesda!)
Speaking of coronapanic, a separate part of the museum reminds us to “fight the virus, not the people”:
Science fiction has been important to the extent that it has been about women:
Clips of some of America’s greatest television moments are available. There is a Sesame Street show in which kids are exhorted to wear masks and also one in which kids are told that immigrants, especially Muslims in hijab, always make America a better place for everyone:
In a separate section of the museum, visitors are reminded that today’s immigrants have “much in common with those who came before” (i.e., a no-skill Islamic asylum-seeker immigrant from Somalia has a ton in common with Heinrich Engelhard Steinway, who built pianos in Germany prior to building pianos in New York):
The entertainment section has a “micro-gallery” about racism and comedians of color:
Those who appreciate engineering will be pleased to learn that the museum displays a portrait of Elon Musk:
The World War II exhibit reminds visitors that the U.S. and U.K. defeated Germany without significant assistance from the Soviet Union.
Likely unrelated to Trump and his war on wokeness, the museum falsely states that German-Jewish immigrant Ralph H. Baer invented “the first video game” circa 1966. Baer was perhaps the first to try to make a consumer-priced device that could attach to a TV, but Wokipedia correctedly credits earlier efforts on mainframe computers.
The currency exhibit reminds us that most of the world’s important societies for most of human history have been governed by females:
A $100,000 bill is displayed as well. Although intended for transferring funds from one Federal Reserve Bank to another in 1934, if Congress continues its deficit spending program this could be useful to feed into Coke machines:
The 10-year-old and I found ourselves in the “American Enterprise” exhibit in front of a wall of business pioneers all of whom just happened to be female. I said to the kid “standing here and looking at this wall you can learn that the success of American business was entirely due to women.” This generated some righteous indignation among a couple of 40ish people nearby (presumably furloughed government workers). They proceeded to lecture us to “open your eyes” and look at other walls within the same exhibit. We actually did as they suggested and found Eli Whitney displayed as having equal importance to American enterprise as “Jemmy”, an “enslaved entrepreneur” who made baskets (this pairing makes a certain amount of sense because Whitney’s cotton gin kept slavery going longer than it otherwise might have).
The de-woked attacked-by-Trump gift shop offers this classic American candy, invented by Johannes “Hans” Riegel Sr.:
Some of the apparel in the gift shop celebrates 2SLGBTQQIA+, but most of it celebrates those who identify as “women”. Women are voting, doing science, building WWII weapons, being legends rather than ladies:
Maybe the books would feature some victimhood category other than “female”? Well, a few did:
But mostly the books ignored Blacks and the Latinx in favor of victims whose victimhood was a consequence of female gender ID, just as most of the jobs and government contracts set aside for descendants of American slavery have been scooped up by white women:
Ironically, for a museum that features certain Americans because of their gender or race ID, the gift shop sells a book celebrating the 14th Amendment’s promise of equal protection:
