Posted on 01/14/2025 4:33:34 AM PST by MtnClimber
William Thibeau, the Director of the American Military Project at the Claremont Center for the American Way of Life, speaks with Tom Klingenstein about how "woke" racial quotas and gender ideology are harming military readiness and unit cohesion. He also offers some pieces of advice for Donald Trump, including to stop categorizing members of the military by race.
Klingenstein asked: "The basic claim of the military is that diversity improves readiness. You wrote an article in The American Mind that debunked this claim. One of the claims was that we need Black officers so Black enlisted men have role models. Does that sound reasonable to you?"
"It sounds reasonable under the current DEI regime," Thibeau said. "But there’s nothing more pernicious to unit cohesion in the military than telling a young black enlisted infantryman that the only way he can have a mentor in the military is if that mentor is the same skin color."
Is there any evidence that diversity improves readiness? "No," Thibeau said. "In a September 2023 hearing, the senior-most personnel officers in every branch were asked for any evidence, and none of them could produce a single study or evidence to that end."
"From 2008 to 2014, a number of studies were published by legitimate institutions like the RAND Corporation that said clearly gender-integrated units are less lethal and effective than gender-segregated units. Conveniently, though. we’ve stopped asking the question, so we don’t have much recent evidence about it."
"The military is seen by the left as a tool for their social outcomes. It is not enough to have a military that looks a certain way based on skin color. You must control what people think and say, and that’s a really scary thought."
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It does not seem to work in fire departments.
That depends on what you’re aiming for, of course.
All reasonable people realize that appointing/hiring/electing an individual solely on the basis of race is suicidal. We learned/relearned/affirmed that when O’Bama, the Great Disappointment, was elected.
Good way to defeat your enemy without firing a shot.
Just install these morons in charge of things = suicide by DEI.
We have to go back to the schools as this is where the Cultural Marxist indoctrination begins. Frankfurt School - destroy capitalism by destroying the pillars that support it.
You can’t just “unwoke” the military or fire departments. You have to cut out the cancer at the starting point. That’s education.
The US army became another “social program” back in the ‘90s.
I have made it a policy to dismiss writings that insist on capitalizing black. I know it is AP protocol. They can pound sand
That’s why we need someone like Pete instead of smiley Milley and awful Austin running our military.
It has the opposite effect that was intended. It creates and strengthens racism. Best qualified person for the job should always be priority one.
All the way back in the early 80s.
Ya think?
It has the opposite effect that was intended. It creates and strengthens racism.
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And that is precisely the true underlying INTENTION of all such initiatives.
“The US army became another “social program” back in the ‘90s.”
I retired from the USAF in 1994 - this shit was already gaining momentum in the 1980s.
So glad I am out!
HANG ON-—HELP IS COMING
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