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From: Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org>
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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:44:59 -0400
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On Fri, 21 Mar 2025 12:32:02 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

>On 3/21/2025 12:28 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>> On 3/21/2025 6:06 AM, John B. wrote:
>>> On Fri, 21 Mar 2025 05:04:16 -0400, zen cycle
>>> <funkmasterxx@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 3/21/2025 12:23 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>>>>> On 3/20/2025 1:45 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In the relatively recent past (1897), the bicycle was 
>>>>>> considered
>>>>>> suitable for military transportation.  While not a 
>>>>>> race, but more an
>>>>>> endurance ride to demonstrate the effectiveness of 
>>>>>> bicycle transport,
>>>>>> the event was basically a military exercise.  Whether 
>>>>>> they prayed
>>>>>> before starting their 1900 mile (3058 km) ride is unknown.
>>>>>> <https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-black- 
>>>>>> buffalo-soldiers-
>>>>>> who-biked-across-the-american-west-180980246/>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hey, let's have none of that DEI stuff here. You're 
>>>>> supposed to pretend
>>>>> black people never existed. Like Jackie Robinson, for 
>>>>> example.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hey, they aren't pretending he never existed, they're 
>>>> pretending he
>>>> wasn't black.
>>>>
>>>> https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/defense-department- 
>>>> jackie-robinson-military-history-article-was-mistakenly- 
>>>> removed/ar-AA1BfyKN
>>>>
>>>> The ethnic cleansing lead to other "mistakes".
>>>>
>>>> "Besides the Robinson information, the official said 
>>>> other content will
>>>> be republished, including the Tuskegee Airmen, the Enola 
>>>> Gay, the Navajo
>>>> Code Talkers, history-making female fighter pilots and 
>>>> the Marines at
>>>> Iwo Jima. Enola Gay was the name of a B-29 Superfortress 
>>>> bomber."
>>>>
>>>> Sure, let's pretend institutionalized rascism never existed.
>>>
>>> It has probably has always existed and probably always 
>>> will -"Them
>>> guys over there, they ain't no good!"
>> 
>> But what we're seeing now is official actions to wipe out 
>> public access to information containing some "trigger words" 
>> using crude algorithms generated by glorified hackers 
>> working for an unelected billionaire. Seriously, we 
>> shouldn't read about the "Enola Gay" bomber? Changing URLs 
>> by automatically prefixing them with "dei" if the subjects 
>> of the web pages are black?
>> 
>> That's ignorant bullshit.
>> 
>> 
>
>
>I had to go research that, but having done so I agree with 
>you.   Ill considered over reaction, and it ought to be 
>reworked.
>
>In the same way that killing white SA farmers because they 
>are white is not a good resolution to the prior racism.

"I had to go research that, but having done so I agree with 
you."

I did research too, and all I see is people claiming that it's being
done.   Much like people making claims about Trumps visit to Russia.

--
C'est bon
Soloman