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Army probing how 'MAGA' was listed as 'covert white supremacy' in handout
The Hill ^ | 07 10 2020 | Ellen Mitchell

Posted on 07/10/2020 9:47:26 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

The Army is looking into how a handout distributed at a base in Alabama this week initially described the phrase “Make America Great Again” as a form of “covert white supremacy.”

The document, given out at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville on Monday, included a pyramid graphic that identified President Trump’s 2016 campaign slogan as a form of covert or socially acceptable white supremacy, along with the phrase “All Lives Matter” and the "celebration of Columbus Day."

The handout was part of the Pentagon’s Project Inclusion, a listening tour designed to identify and quell racial disparity within the military. The two pages with the graphic had not been approved by service leadership and “were sent out in error and immediately recalled,” Army spokeswoman Cynthia Smith said in a statement.

“The slides – copied from a non-government website – included a word cloud with phrases that were intended to spark conversation; however, the document was predecisional and inappropriate for the discussion. The unapproved pages were in no way used as part of the ‘Your Voice Matters’ listening tour sessions,” Smith said.

Smith added that the Army “does not condone the use of phrases that indicate political support,” though the statement does not mention the MAGA phrase.

“The Army is and will continue to remain an apolitical organization,” Smith said.

SNIP

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“The slides – copied from a non-government website"

What non-government website would that be?

1 posted on 07/10/2020 9:47:26 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

who protected Hasan?


2 posted on 07/10/2020 9:49:26 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("when a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced")
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To: yesthatjallen

“What non-government website would that be? “

Bolshevik Lies Matter


3 posted on 07/10/2020 9:49:29 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: yesthatjallen

Dougie Jones sits on the armed services committee... outside contractor and all...


4 posted on 07/10/2020 9:50:22 AM PDT by Just mythoughts (Psalm 2. Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?)
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To: yesthatjallen; Drew68; Army Air Corps; Jet Jaguar; MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

For your interest.


5 posted on 07/10/2020 9:50:58 AM PDT by KC_Lion
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“The Army is and will continue to remain an apolitical organization,”

When did they start?................

6 posted on 07/10/2020 9:52:17 AM PDT by Red Badger (To a liberal, 9-11 was 'illegal fireworks activity'..........................)
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To: yesthatjallen

In words come to mind.

Infected infiltrated.


7 posted on 07/10/2020 9:52:29 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: yesthatjallen

The Army is “probing” one thing, Treasury is going to “reexamine” another thing. I won’t hold my breath.


8 posted on 07/10/2020 9:53:20 AM PDT by cdcdawg (Don't care. Still voting for Trump.)
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Probing?

Name and scalp please.


9 posted on 07/10/2020 9:53:41 AM PDT by glorgau
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Rancid fruit from the seeds Obama planted.


10 posted on 07/10/2020 9:54:37 AM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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11 posted on 07/10/2020 9:55:00 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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And who did it? A diversity contractor? Fire them. Civilian staff? Probably unfireable, but strong reprimand in file. Military person? Write them up.


12 posted on 07/10/2020 9:58:11 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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Brooks, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, called for an investigation into whether the document violated the Hatch Act, while requesting that all Army personnel who “drafted, approved or sent this racist and politically partisan email, using government resources” be prosecuted and fired for “blatantly and illegally injecting themselves into partisan political activities on government time using federal taxpayer money.

Not holding my breath.
13 posted on 07/10/2020 10:00:09 AM PDT by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
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I’m sorry but this is too far off the wall to be real..but it must be.. they are that bad ... MAN! this stuff is just childish. If they had spent 4 years wading in cold and mud.. living in a fox hole... not knowing what their family was doing or if they were okay... meeting the enemy every day and not knowing if they’d even see another day.. living with dead bodies all around.. no place to put them and no time...but take their guns for use..they would need it.

Yes, this happened in the second world war.. and today the childishness whine gets old... they are emmpty suits wanting to take over the only nation who has helped the world and staved off enemies.. we fought for other countries... we buried our dead on their land...we built back their country after a war..not taking but giving. we fed the world and we gave Bibles to the world... We are the greatest nation in the world and the best friend of any nation... we do not take... we give..

And those young militants who don’t know a thing about a thing... are being pandered to by men and people who never walked that muddy walk across France and lived in a Fox hole..no..today they are complainers who want more and more power to take us all down. and they hate our great and beloved country!


14 posted on 07/10/2020 10:00:24 AM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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US Army brass not wimpy enough yet


15 posted on 07/10/2020 10:04:23 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: ifinnegan

The military in general has been politicized. Especially the Pentagon.

The entirety of the federal bureaucracy in DC is deeply political. Didn’t used to be that way in bygone years. Mostly people just doing their jobs as administrations came and went.


16 posted on 07/10/2020 10:04:23 AM PDT by Starboard
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People who don’t know sacrifice, effort and pain don’t hold things dear.


17 posted on 07/10/2020 10:06:05 AM PDT by Starboard
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“The Army is looking into how a handout distributed at a base in Alabama this week initially described the phrase “Make America Great Again” as a form of “covert white supremacy.””

This anti white supremacy training is nothing but anti white racism and a promotion of white-hatred. Whites simply living their lives and going about their business are seen as toxic and a threat. Not just a few whites, but ALL whites. Whites as a race are being portrayed as a “systemic” problem that must be addressed. What other race needs “training” to stop being so offensive. If this isn’t racism nothing is.


18 posted on 07/10/2020 10:08:30 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (In America 2.0, blacks are sacred and can do no wrong.)
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It’s real. No one knows who approved or created the slides. They were replaced within a day with the offensive parts removed.

How does that crap get sent out without someone in management seeing it and asking WTF.

In addition why was Redstone Arsenal the first stop on this engagement. Mostly engineers and acquisition types there. I will say that if training like this goes out then management cannot be trusted in EEO type investigations. They are now proven biased and racist. Every EEO action is now reviewable with the lens that the process was tainted. Bad decision and heads will role.


19 posted on 07/10/2020 10:14:44 AM PDT by wgmalabama (Piss on China. They nuked US and Europe with a bio weapon. Payback time)
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Buwahahaha ....someones butthole is puckered up now.....


20 posted on 07/10/2020 10:19:11 AM PDT by Crim (Palin / West '16)
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