The Interior Department’s request for the public to help it identify and remove historical signs that negatively depict the nation’s history was met with hostility or indifference by dozens of visitors to Bureau of Land Management sites, according to a compilation of responses obtained by the Sierra Club.
Some of the 68 comments BLM received over the summer questioned the agency for asking the public to identify signs or other information that may disparage America and its history. The Sierra Club obtained the comments through a public records request.
“Is the truth offensive to you people?” one anonymous visitor to a California site wrote in a June 27 comment to BLM.
A visitor at a Wisconsin site, in a comment sent to the bureau the same day, was blunt: “Fuck you Republican whitewashing hypocrites! History should be told accurately whether it hurts your snowflake feelings or not.”
