National Museum of American History Director Questioned by Rep Nancy Mace on Children Sexual Imagery Exhibit
Rep Nancy Mace: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Dr. Hartig, how many children visited the National Museum of American History last year?
Director Hartig: Hi, good morning, ma’am. Answer the question, how many kids? Good morning, ma’am. Since we don’t charge, we’re…
Rep Nancy Mace: Are you the director of the National Museum of American History?
Director Hartig: I am, ma’am.
Rep Nancy Mace: Okay, and you don’t know how many people visited the museum last year?
Director Hartig: Two million.
Rep Nancy Mace: How many of those were children?
Director Hartig: Ma’am, I don’t even know.
Education Should be About American History not Sexual Fetishes
Rep Nancy Mace: Okay. Do you agree that educating children about American history is a core duty of the National Museum of American History? Yes or no?
Director Hartig: Absolutely.
Rep Nancy Mace: Is a sexual imagery exhibit of fetishes appropriate for children? Yes or no?
Director Hartig: So, ma’am…
Rep Nancy Mace: It’s a simple yes or no, or is a sexual imagery exhibit, provocative sexual imagery, appropriate for kids? Yes or no?
Director Hartig: Ma’am, we strive to represent all Americans.
Museum Director Representing Pedophiles, BDSM, Grooming
Rep Nancy Mace: You strive to represent queer, pedophiles, indoctrination, grooming of kids at the National Museum of American History, and it sounds like you’re proud of it. You won’t answer the questions, probably because you’re ashamed, and as a woman, I really can’t believe you will sit here today, and you can’t even admit that a sexual imagery exhibit, like this behind me, they tell me, my staff tells me, this little trinket around the penis, this is BDSM. In a setting where children are walking through, that’s disgusting. Like, what kind of message are you trying to send to kids with BDSM imagery? What are you trying to tell kids? Are you sexualizing children? Is that what your motive is for the National Museum of American History? Why?
Director Hartig: So, that specific two-piece…
Sexualizing Children to be Vulnerable to Pedophiles, Drag Queens
Rep Nancy Mace: Do you know how many kids get raped by pedophile adults every year in this country? This kind of thing, when you are dressing men up as women, drag queens, you’re putting this kind of crap in front of kids, sexualizes children, and makes them more vulnerable to pedophile people that want to rape them, or abuse them, or when we have men and women’s settings that want to do harm to women.
Director Hartig Girlhood Exhibit
Rep Nancy Mace: You talked about the girlhood exhibit, and you didn’t want to answer the chairman’s questions earlier, but it was a diary featuring a six-year-old. A six-year-old that reads, everybody was talking about getting boobs in their period, I pray to God every night for my penis to grow. Dr. Hartig, can you tell me, look me in the eye, and tell me that sexual imagery belongs in an exhibit for children?
Director Hartig: Ma’am, girlhood, it’s complicated, was not an exhibit designed for children.
Rep Nancy Mace: I know, you had the little disclaimer thing, which is sort of…
Director Hartig: The diary was of a 13-year-old going through puberty.
Rep Nancy Mace: Okay, do you think that’s an appropriate thing to put in the National Museum of American History, where there are children walking through? We’re talking about American history.
Director Hartig: Right, so girlhood, it’s complicated.
Rep Nancy Mace: Okay, I’m moving on, because you just, I don’t know how much money you spent on getting prep for this hearing. They did a good job, because you’re filibustering and not answering a single question from a single Republican.
