Macon Reporter

Illinois state Senator Chapin Rose (R-Mahomet) is lashing out over a National Archives campaign to place warning labels on some of the country’s most celebrated founding documents.

“A trigger warning on the Constitution,” Rose recently posted on Twitter, referencing this page of the National Archives. “Who the hell do these idiots think they are? Enough is enough.”

With the move being viewed as part of the National Archives’ much talked about “institutional commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility,” the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights have also been stamped with the labels, The Daily Citizen reported.

This development comes after a National Archives task force concluded that recently historical documents’ portrayal of the founding fathers was “too positive,” according to Reclaim the Net. Archive officials stressed they are only flagging content that is viewed as “potentially harmful,” with staffers defining offensive content as that which is “discriminatory towards or exclude diverse views on sexuality, gender, religion, and more.”

Rose’s view is one that may be gaining traction, though, with Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), recently tweeting, according to The Daily Mail, “the National Archives have now put a disclaimer on their website that our historical documents may include Harmful Content. They even slapped this warning on the Constitution!”

The same treatment is reserved for content deemed to espouse “racist, sexist, ableist, misogynistic/misogynoir, and xenophobic opinions and attitudes.”