WWII

PBS, NPR and the Kennedy Center are more recent additions, but their aims and presence grow naturally from the kind of federal funding for arts and media prevalent during the Progressive Era and following WWII, when presidential administrations, of both parties, agreed with the founding fathers’ belief that democracy requires an informed electorate and Americans are entitled to free expression.

It's not the first time, and I'm not talking about the Palmer raids in WWI or the Japanese Internment in WWII, both of which were shameful episodes in which the president used this obscure wartime power to detain, imprison and deport people based solely on their ancestry or national origin under the suspicion that they might commit sabotage or espionage.

The Pentagon websites recognizing the contributions of racial minorities such as the Tuskegee Airmen, the Navajo Code talkers and baseball legend Jackie Robinson, as well as all the women pilots going all the way back to WWII, were taken down with urls that distinctly said "DEI."

By 1946, as Hollywood and the rest of the country emerged from WWII, there simply weren’t enough qualifying feature documentaries to even run the category.

When Jews were kidnapped for the Holocaust during WWII, it was common for their Christian neighbors to ransack their homes, stealing everything and enriching themselves.