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BumRushDaShow

(156,921 posts)
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 09:05 AM Yesterday

US withdraws from UNESCO again, this time due to its support for 'woke' causes

Source: France 24

Issued on: 22/07/2025 - 13:56


The United States withdrew from the United Nations cultural organization UNESCO on Tuesday, saying continued involvement was not in the US national interest. "UNESCO works to advance divisive social and cultural causes and maintains an outsized focus on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, a globalist, ideological agenda for international development at odds with our America First foreign policy," State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce said in a statement.

White House deputy spokesperson, Anna Kelly, earlier told the New York Post daily newspaper that the withdrawal was due to UNESCO's support for " woke, divisive cultural and social causes that are totally out-of-step with the commonsense policies that Americans voted for in November".

The move, which will take place at the end of December 2026, is a blow to the Paris-based agency, founded after World War II to promote peace through international cooperation in education, science, and culture.

Head of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay, on Tuesday said the US announcement had come as no surprise. "I deeply regret President Donald Trump's decision to once again withdraw the United States of America from UNESCO," Azoulay said. "However regrettable, this announcement was expected, and UNESCO has prepared for it".

Read more: https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250722-us-to-withdraw-from-unesco-again-this-time-due-to-its-support-for-woke-causes



More distraction from Epstein - to the point where the head of UNESCO was waiting for it.
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US withdraws from UNESCO again, this time due to its support for 'woke' causes (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Yesterday OP
The majority of... GiqueCee Yesterday #1
It took awhile to get some DUers to understand the term as well BumRushDaShow Yesterday #2
They need to call that isht out Quanto Magnus Yesterday #3

GiqueCee

(2,575 posts)
1. The majority of...
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 10:53 AM
Yesterday

... the simple-minded skidmarks that are stupid enough to believe Trump's lies don't know what WOKE even means. Permit me to enlighten them. From Merriam Webster:

[To be] aware of, and actively attentive to, important societal facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)

Anyone who takes offense at the mere mention of woke issues, is either a simpleminded skidmark, or just as evil as Trump is, although it is possible to be, and often is, both at the same time.

BumRushDaShow

(156,921 posts)
2. It took awhile to get some DUers to understand the term as well
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 11:58 AM
Yesterday

especially when DeSatan started using it as a pejorative as he proceeded to slash and burn through any sanity that was left in FL, and the reflexive recoil here became fierce, comparing the term to "defund the police" and other unrelated stuff.

I am glad it finally got through though.

Quanto Magnus

(1,176 posts)
3. They need to call that isht out
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 01:32 PM
Yesterday

Stop trying to play nice after Trump pulls out....

Call it like it is... The Trump regime's fascist agenda does not align with being decent human beings, so they are morally incapable in participating with UNESCO.

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