The Department of Defense, which manages 160 schools, has asked that all the works which treat, directly or indirectly, diversity or inclusion be removed.
The list of prohibited books according to Donald Trump’s directives continues to lie down. According to a note from the Secretary of State for Defense Pete Hegseth, unveiled by the Washington Post, schools managed by his ministry must ” immediately “ Remove from their shelving all the works which treat, directly or indirectly, diversity or inclusion. Are particularly concerned “The books likely to promote the ideology of gender or the ideology of equality in the face of discrimination”, Is it specified.
In the around 160 schools managed by the Ministry of Defense around the world, who receive nearly 70,000 students, for the most part children of soldiers, sorting has already started. According to the Anglo-Saxon press, titles dealing with the place of immigration in American history, the biography of a transgender civil war soldier, psychology or sex education have already been withdrawn. But also the story of a little girl who hated her freckles …
“It’s a big shock for me”, testified the American actress Julianne Moore, author of Freckleface Strawberry(which can be translated by Strawberry head). His children’s book, written in 2007, “Was banished by the Trump Administration of Schools led by the Defense Department of the United States”she announced on social networks.
Freckleface Strawberry, Book inspired by her own life, tells the story of a seven -year -old little girl all that is most normal, except that she hates her red hair and her face constelled with freckles. “It is a book that I wrote for my children and other children in order to remind them that we all fight, but that we are united by our humanity and our fraternity”underlines Julianne Moore, devastated.
“It is painful to me to see that children like me […] will not have access to a book written by someone whose life experience is so similar to theirs “
Julianne Moore
The American actress, who was playing with the film by Pedro Almodovar, The next room, is all the more overwhelmed as it knows well military life. His father, Peter Moore Smith, spent his career in the army and is a veteran of the Vietnam War. She herself studied at the Frankfurt American High School, a high school managed by the Ministry of Defense, which once operated in Frankfurt, Germany. “It is painful to me to note that children like me, who grow up with a parent in the army and who frequent a military school, will not have access to a book written by someone whose life experience is life so similar to theirsregrets Julianne Moore. I can’t help but ask myself what is so controversial in this image book so that it is prohibited by the American government. “” I am really saddened and I would never have thought of seeing this in a country where freedom of speech and expression is a constitutional right “then indignant at Julianne Moore on her social networks.
According to the Guardian the Ministry of Defense sent a memorandum to parents whose children are educated in Pentagon schools. This note indicates that access to libraries is suspended for a week to lead a “Compliance exam” books that the administration accuses of“Radical indoctrination”.
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A Maryland Democrat representative also echoed the misunderstanding of parents of children before the appliance without discernment of these directives. Jamie Raskin relates an exchange which took place in one of these schools from which the portraits of the activist had been won for the voting right of women Susan Anthony and Martin Luther King, to the parent who asked why the portrait of Leonard de Vinci had not been withdrawn, the school would have answered “Because it is a real historical figure”.