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Sex-laced bondage and transgender imagery in exhibits at the Smithsonian\u2019s National Museum of American History are sexualizing and traumatizing kids, Republicans charged Tuesday, telling the museum\u2019s director that she\u2019s using her post to elevate \u201cwoke\u201d ideology over American greatness.<\/p>\n

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GOP lawmakers confronted Anthea Hartig, the director, with some of those images during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing, demanding to know why \u201cimages of sexual fetishes\u201d were on display for schoolchildren to see.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou strive to represent queer pedophiles, indoctrination, grooming of kids at an American History Museum, and it sounds like you\u2019re proud of it,\u201d said Rep. Nancy Mace, South Carolina Republican. \u201cYou\u2019re putting this kind of crap in front of kids, sexualizes them and makes them more vulnerable to people that want to rape them or abuse them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rep. Brandon Gill, Texas Republican, challenged Ms. Hartig over her museum\u2019s promotion of a \u201ctoolkit\u201d that labels objectivity as a tool of White supremacy.<\/p>\n

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He also asked her to explain an exhibit that said Micky Mouse was derived from \u201cvestiges of longstanding traditions of blackface minstrelsy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has certain obvious racial overtones that have been well-documented,\u201d Ms. Hartig said. \u201cIt\u2019s not for me to determine what\u2019s problematic, it\u2019s for me to determine what\u2019s accurate.\u201d<\/p>\n

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But she tried to separate herself from the toolkit, saying it wasn\u2019t one they developed but acknowledged it was \u201cused as a reference\u201d by her museum in 2019 and 2020.<\/p>\n

The hearing is part of a broader Republican effort to rein in Ms. Hartig and the Smithsonian\u2019s American history museum after a White House report earlier this year accused it of becoming a tool for liberal indoctrination.<\/p>\n

Ms. Hartig repeatedly ducked and stumbled over questions about her exhibits and offerings.<\/p>\n

She wouldn\u2019t say whether she thought it was appropriate for her gift shop to sell \u201cLatina Power\u201d items, and she declined Ms. Mace\u2019s invitation to say what a woman is.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe strive to represent, and not categorize, all Americans,\u201d Ms. Hartig said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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