Posted on 06/09/2023 8:57:44 AM PDT by karpov
From late 2017 to 2018, three scholars wrote and submitted to academic journals 20 fake papers focused on gender and sexual identity—what the authors call “grievance studies.” Seven journals published their submissions. The scholars’ stated objective for this experiment was to expose the farcical nature of these “disciplines” and their replacement of scholarly rigor with an overt political agenda devoid of academic seriousness.
The hoax not only damaged the reputations of the publishing journals, but it also challenged the academic integrity of identity-based “grievance studies.” Such fields may well be part of universities’ overall mission to expand areas of inquiry, study, and research. Reality, however, suggests that they are more about increasing staff and faculty diversity hires and enhancing political power than about perpetuating knowledge.
Most external observers who are numbed by the absurdities of contemporary academia likely believe that the political damage emanating from identity studies is contained to the civilian Ivory Tower. In the five years since the hoax, however, the grievance chorus has breached the walls and escaped traditional academia. Corporations, government, and even the military and military academies are now true believers, a fact embodied by ubiquitous Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs and offices.
If “grievance studies” lack academic rigor, and if some of their practitioners have been unmasked as charlatans rather than serious scholars, why have the nation’s military academies so enthusiastically embraced their arguments and conclusions? The overall politicization of the military, an historically conservative and apolitical institution, is one potential explanation. As a recent Heritage Foundation report on military readiness asserts, civilian and military leaders are advancing “divisive progressive social justice ideologies” across the individual services, largely by viewing “all matters through the lens of DEI.”
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I can’t grasp this great contradiction within the US Deep State
The neocon/MIC wing of the Uniparty needs Americans to sign up to fight its endless wars. They need social unity and national identity to keep up morale and support for their coming wars
Yet the woke/LGBTQ/Critical-race wing of the Uniparty is doing its damnedest to divide and antagonize Americans against themselves and the government, to the point NO ONE will support anything beyond their immediate “identity”
This contradiction will expose itself very soon, and it will be ugly
You think they are building a military to fight China? They aren’t. They are repurposing the military to come after YOU.
I just read yesterday in the 2023 US GAO report that Social Security can no longer pay 100% in 2031, yet no one (Congress, President, Media, etc.) is talking about it. No cuts in government spending are planned. All know about the report. We can only conclude that they are all acting as instructed while the Great Reset is being implemented. Open borders will give us enough warfighters…
That's what I mean. That means the MIC and neocons lose to the woke neo-marxists. You can't fight wars abroad, while you are battling your citizens at home.
I weep for this generation of military members. I’ve stopped recommending it as a career without significant caveats and warnings.
Colonel, USAF JAGC (Ret)
The Naval Academy, on Feb 16 2022, published an instruction from the Commandant of Midshipmen, establishing its so-called “Diversity Peer Educator Program,” five pages of absolute woke drek imposing this rot on every single student and officer. Look for it to generate trans nonsense and anti-Christian and anti-religious efforts, such as outlawing mandatory church attendance and pre-meal grace. It ain’t your daddy’s academy no more. As a first step, the new superintendent is a female.
The Naval Academy, on Feb 16 2022, published an instruction from the Commandant of Midshipmen, establishing its so-called “Diversity Peer Educator Program,” five pages of absolute woke drek imposing this rot on every single student and officer. Look for it to generate trans nonsense and anti-Christian and anti-religious efforts, such as outlawing mandatory church attendance and pre-meal grace. It ain’t your daddy’s academy no more. As a first step, the new superintendent is a female.
Without significant caveats and warnings? I don’t recommend it at all. The only practical reason for it might be to receive free flight training and professional experience to become an airline pilot.
Or to receive deep and wide legal experience for the same reason - chops ahead of peers when they get out.
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