Lindsey Halligan, the civil servant of the White House, the principal president, President Donald Trump, the redesign of the Smithsonian, thinks that his museums highlight themselves in slavery when they should highlight “how far we have come from slavery”.
Halligan appeared on Fox News on Wednesday to discuss his efforts to ensure that the content of the Smithsonian aligns with the version of the president of the story before the American semi-cefinnial.
Until now, it is not clear what specific content will be targeted for withdrawal and replacement, but an executive decree of Mars has affirmed that the Smithsonian is invaded by “an ideology divided and centered on the race”, citing an exhibition which described the race as a social construction (rather than promoting the fringed notion that is “biological reality”). In a social screed of Tuesday truth, Trump deplored that museums focus too carefully on “how slavery was.”
Halligan has expressed similar feelings about Fox, saying that the institution has become a “platform” for “ideological stories”, while it should be a (probably non-ideological) means of representing “our country in a positive way”.
Questioned by the anchor of Fox John Roberts if she believes that the “checkered past” of America should be minimized in museums, Halligan replied that, while slavery was “horrible”, she believes that museums present “an over-acting on slavery, and I think there should be more than one over-sucking on the way we have come since slavery”.
Espousing a wellness version of the story that would appeal to Orwell’s big brother, Halligan continued: “We should be able to take our children, our students through the Smithsonian and we feel proud when we leave.”
American history, she concluded, is “both positive and negative, but we must continue to move forward” and “focus on all the positive as the 250th anniversary of America”. He is a suspect credo for an official responsible for radically transforming the largest museum system in the world.
