The Corrupting Influence of DEI on Military Education

James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | August 21, 2024 | J.A. Cauthen

[karpov]

By now, the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) industry’s capture of academia, business, and government is obvious to most Americans. From former Harvard president Claudine Gay’s televised equivocations before Congress to the unhinged, violent student and faculty occupations in support of Hamas at some of America’s most elite universities, many are no doubt wondering if DEI is producing something counter to its placid-sounding words.

That this shameful behavior is occurring at civilian institutions of higher learning is probably no surprise to most observers. Unfortunately, DEI has metastasized beyond the confines of the civilian world and found a willing host in America’s armed forces. Left unchecked, DEI-focused military education and training will lead to the same nihilistic abyss as their civilian counterparts. If current trends are allowed to persist, the military and its service members risk succumbing to the same divisiveness and politicization that are roiling academia, but with arguably far direr and deadlier consequences.

The growing evidence coming from entrenched civilian DEI bureaucracies, in higher learning in particular, demonstrates both a pernicious trend and DEI’s true nature. Reviewing how DEI has corrupted civilian institutions offers a useful proxy to examine how it has and will continue to influence the attitudes and behaviors of our nation’s military personnel, especially the officer corps, to the detriment of national security. Military DEI programs, just as in academia, will likely result in similar outcomes, where identity-based discrimination and forced “equity” are elevated and prioritized over color-blindness and equality of opportunity.

[rdcbn1]

DEI is fundamentally built upon lies and corruption and all of its acolytes are knowing participants in the fraud in order to unfairly advance themselves and their agenda by corrupt means

[tired&retired]

A friend of mine was a professor at West Point. He left to get his PhD and planned to return.

During that time Bill Clinton changed the rules so that people without military experience could teach there.

What actually happened was that people with military experience were pushed aside and people without military experience were given hiring priority.

[Thorium90]

It’s all about marginalization and subjugation of the straight white male, thereby erasing what we know as Western Civilization.

When I learned that the Marines (the MARINES!!) held a “walk a mile in a woman’s shoes” day I knew the days of the WWII generation grit and Rosie the Riveter were over.

[rfreedom4u]

When I (white male) was on active duty I petitioned for a White History Month with my reasoning being that every other race has been recognized for “greatness” but whites. I was called into the Brigade CO for trying to start a “white rally” on base.

[PGalt]

https://hbr.org/2022/11/the-five-stages-of-dei-maturity#:~:text=Academic%20research%20and%20the%20author‘s,tactical%2C%20integrated%2C%20and%20sustainable.

[central_va]

One day perhaps a new Red State Confederate Army will chew the US Army up and spit it out. We can only hope.

[PGalt]

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/06/25/executive-order-on-diversity-equity-inclusion-and-accessibility-in-the-federal-workforce/

[BobL]

DEI in the military does make sense but only if you plan to turn them INWARD, meaning planning to use them domestically. The problem that the Neocons have is that they are also using them against their (perceived) enemies too.

[rlmorel]

The thing is, they have brainwashed the troops in the ranks as well into thinking that females can accomplish the same thing in combat that men can.

They can’t. And we are going to pay for that someday.

[suthener]

I was a career recruiter in the Navy. My last two years (late 90s) I had to work for a 100% DIE female chief who had never been a recruiter and never put one person in the Navy. The Master Chief of the Command walked into a meeting of Recruiters in Charge one time and announced to us that there weren’t enough females in the meeting, as if we were at fault. All the females had to do was become recruiters and pay their dues like we did. Most declined. It was hard.

[ducttape45]

Military academies across the nation have become DEI breeding grounds. Every single teacher/administrator needs to be removed from those institutions if our military is to ever correct itself.

[daniel1212]

List of details: https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4223018/posts?page=34#34

Part of the movement which, in the manifesto of a feminist wordcrafter in wokeducation, focuses on,

"...intersections with race, ethnicity, coloniality, class and ability, the sex/gender system of oppression has long served as a taxonomizing apparatus. And yet, the literary, in league with anticolonial, civil rights and LGBTQ social movements,...animates the liberatory potential of imagining embodied relations otherwise... representations of gender and sexuality can leverage critiques against normativity...Taking our transnational cue from subjugated knowledges and intersectional epistemologies, we’ll constellate the diverging genealogies and methodologies...
Against the traffic of binary opposition, we’ll index the possibilities of intimacy and performativity... As a class collective, our aim is to read and reread as well as write and rewrite texts that interrogate and complicate how gender and sexuality, as contested sites of pleasure and pain, are embodied and experienced."

This counts toward the methods requirement for the major. Prerequisite: ENGL 103 or 104. Open only to first-year and sophomore students.

Author is Brianna Thompson, who teaches courses in American women’s literature, queer theory and utopias/Afrofuturism at Kenyon college (founded by Episcopal Bishop in 1824). Course is Reading and Writing Gender and Sexuality ENGL 214, https://www.kenyon.edu/academics/departments-and-majors/english/academic-program-requirements/courses-in-english/

[MikelTackNailer]

Lewis Carol couldn't have written such nonsense better himself...and no one gave him a PhD for his inventiveness.

[markman46]

my head hurts just from reading this nonsensical crap salad.

[daniel1212]

my head hurts just from reading this nonsensical crap salad.

"Higher" education - from Hell!

[markman46]

why yes it is..

I was watching a street preacher talking to female college students, preaching them the word.. OMG the demons came out of them. one was a muslim student

[daniel1212]

I was watching a street preacher talking to female college students, preaching them the word.. OMG the demons came out of them. one was a muslim student

College today are much that of an indoctrination culture, secular seminaries.

[markman46]

it really not worth the money to send anyone to college, best to go into the trades.