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Mere minutes after the swearing in of the 45th president of the United States of America, there were noticeable changes made to WhiteHouse.gov.
As many noticed and subsequently reported on, the site removed pages dedicated to the following issues: civil rights, LGBT rights, health care, and climate change. In their places have come calls for the removal of “eliminating harmful and unnecessary policies such as the Climate Action Plan and the Waters of the U.S. rule,” foreign policy stances that invoke ISIL but not Russia, and a bunch of generalities with respect to domestic policy. In essence, the president has replicated his hate-filled, specifics-deficient campaign rallies and proceeded to copy and paste the greatest hits from them onto the official White House Web site.
With that in mind, this sudden shift is understandably terrifying -- particularly when it comes to civil rights. What has replaced the civil rights section of WhiteHouse.gov is “Standing Up For Our Law Enforcement Community,” which reads as one long subtweet to marginalized people who dare partake in the resistance to the new administration. Naturally, the section begins with dubious statistics to help advance a heinous agenda.
http://www.essence.com/news/politics...ebsite-changes
As many noticed and subsequently reported on, the site removed pages dedicated to the following issues: civil rights, LGBT rights, health care, and climate change. In their places have come calls for the removal of “eliminating harmful and unnecessary policies such as the Climate Action Plan and the Waters of the U.S. rule,” foreign policy stances that invoke ISIL but not Russia, and a bunch of generalities with respect to domestic policy. In essence, the president has replicated his hate-filled, specifics-deficient campaign rallies and proceeded to copy and paste the greatest hits from them onto the official White House Web site.
With that in mind, this sudden shift is understandably terrifying -- particularly when it comes to civil rights. What has replaced the civil rights section of WhiteHouse.gov is “Standing Up For Our Law Enforcement Community,” which reads as one long subtweet to marginalized people who dare partake in the resistance to the new administration. Naturally, the section begins with dubious statistics to help advance a heinous agenda.
http://www.essence.com/news/politics...ebsite-changes