Posted on 09/29/2020 10:42:01 AM PDT by Kaslin
To reinforce the principles that strengthen our military, the Trump administration should vigorously enforce prohibitions on critical race theory programs.
Imagine this: Army base streets or Navy ship decks are painted with tributes to Black Lives Matter, a movement whose lead organization self-identifies as Marxist. At the Army-Navy game, players take a knee instead of saluting the flag. Military officers are denied promotions if they do not fit percentage-based sex and race quotas. And, to meet “New Woke World” expectations, some promotable officers organize book clubs for subordinates to study best-sellers like “White Fragility.”
Oh, wait — Navy Captain Hallock Mohler, Jr., has already announced a book club for Second Fleet sailors, naming Robin DiAngelo’s “White Fragility” as its first selection. Also, A U.S. Military Academy Behavioral Science and Leadership Course titled “Politics-Race, Gender, Sexuality,” (SS392) offered to sociology majors, has a required textbook list with titles such as “Critical Race Theory: An Introduction,” Susan Ferguson’s “Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Social Class: Dimensions of Inequality and Identity,” and “A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory,” by Nikki Sullivan.
West Point did not respond to multiple requests for information about whether this course balances its presentation of this racially charged material with “critical race theory” dissenters such as Shelby Steele, Thomas Sowell, or Walter Williams. So, is “White Fragility” part of a fair discussion featuring numerous competing views, or is it the flagship book of an indoctrination session for an insidious new leftist ideology? So far, West Point is mum on the issue, which doesn’t suggest the answer supports the nation its cadets are supposed to defend and which funds their careers.
As commentator Ben Shapiro has explained, critical race theory indoctrination claims that all institutions are racist. Non-white participants must confess their “white privilege,” and if a person denies he is racist, that denial is taken as proof that he is in fact a racist.
Toxic “anti-racist” ideology nurtures division and resentment by politicizing immutable, skin-deep characteristics. It is difficult to imagine a more demoralizing course of instruction for officers who will soon lead soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines into combat. Unresolved accusations and suspicions of racism eviscerate mutual trust and team cohesion, two things essential for survival and mission accomplishment.
Fortunately, the Trump administration is confronting this ideology. Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, recently issued a memorandum directing all executive departments and agencies to eliminate critical race theory programs that promote “divisive, anti-American propaganda.”
President Trump followed suit with an executive order denying federal funds for critical race theory training contractors. Nowhere are these changes needed more than in the Department of Defense, where patriotism and mutual respect in the ranks are essential in maintaining its all-volunteer force.
“Diversity” used to be a positive word describing the positive result of non-discrimination and recognition of individual merit. While the primary purpose of President Harry Truman’s 1948 executive order ending racial segregation was not equal opportunity per se but a military necessity in the Korean War era, the armed forces have since aspired to uphold these values.
In 2011, however, the Department of Defense began shifting away from principles of non-discrimination and recognition of individual merit. The Pentagon’s 2011 Military Leadership Diversity Commission, largely composed of diversity “experts” and academics, issued a voluminous report that re-defined “diversity” to mean racial and sexual quotas and group rights, not individual rights and meritocracy.
The MLDC report admitted the concept would be difficult for advocates of color and sex “blindness” to grasp: “Successful implementation of diversity initiatives requires a deliberate strategy that ties the new diversity vision to desired outcomes via policies and metrics … This is not about treating everyone the same.”
The House version of the pending National Defense Authorization Act for 2021 would codify this MLDC agenda. Among other things, the legislation would establish high-level “Chief Diversity Officers” empowered to approve promotions only for officer candidates who embrace critical race theory indoctrination and fit the desired race, sex, and sexual characteristics.
The House defense bill also would establish a Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Council of the Department of Defense. This panel, or a similar Pentagon committee that Defense Secretary Mark Esper plans to establish in December, likely would push for the critical race theory agenda, demonstrations and indoctrination at military bases, and swift removal of “racist” monuments and symbols.
The Defense Department does not need a permanent in-house pressure group for extreme racial agendas. Once a Diversity and Inclusion power base is planted in the Pentagon, like the voracious man-eating plant in “Little Shop of Horrors,” who can resist? Even the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, charged to deal with the real virus, was ordered to cancel a 13-week online critical race theory course it scheduled in defiance of the OMB’s memo.
The New York Times’s “1619 Project,” a prime example of “woke” indoctrination, is taking hold in schools nationwide. The curriculum claims that the birth of America occurred not in 1776, with the Declaration of Independence, but in 1619, when the first ships bearing slaves arrived on the shores of the New World.
Historically questionable anti-racist programs and books relentlessly criticize white privilege, insisting that all American institutions, laws, and history are inherently racist and therefore must be destroyed. Consider a display at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., which included and later removed a graphic describing “white dominant culture.” Fourteen categories of “whiteness” included history, religion, family structure, and justice, hard work, self-reliance, respect for authority, and the nuclear family.
At the Redstone Arsenal in Alabama, troops received an Army “Operation Inclusion” handout displaying a pyramid-shaped graph listing examples of socially unacceptable “Covert White Supremacy.” That category included color blindness, denial of racism, and support for “efficiency” and “meritocracy.” These “unacceptable” qualities, which have nothing to do with race, are important in Western Civilization and especially so in the military, which depends on patriotism and a willingness to defend America.
On June 29, a group of recent U.S. military academy alumni signed a 40-page manifesto demanding that West Point make critical race theory-style “anti-racism” the central feature of the curriculum. Action items included statements from all-white academy leaders “acknowledging how their white privilege sustains systems of racism,” and “an independent anti-racism advisory committee composed of subject matter experts on racism.”
The superintendent is investigating alleged incidents of discrimination, but toxic critical race theory indoctrination has no place in military training, colleges, or service academies. The Trump administration should vigorously enforce prohibitions on government critical race theory programs and reject ideological power bases in the Pentagon. Such actions would reinforce sound principles that strengthen our military, not weaken it.
Elaine Donnelly is President of the Center for Military Readiness, an independent public policy organization that reports on and analyzes military and social issues.
Thought Trump already nixed CRT at the federal level?
I can just see the Chinese military reading up on how great blacks, women, and homos are...
I think he did.
Is it true that Schumer and Pelosi are working on Legislation that will prevent the USA from going to war with any Country that doesn’t respect LGBTQ Rights??
I think a fair methodology would be to promote servicemen based on ability to do a basketball dunk.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they do.
It will take a while to clear the Obama dreck and rinse the deep staters.
I could have gone places back in my USAF days...
They are busy reading Xi Jinping’s Little Red Book and were not available for comment, having just learned they are headed to the Indio-China boarder balling their eyes out.
That the House, under the leadership of the execrable Nancy Pelosi, would propose such communist oppression is not surprising anymore. That it gets so little coverage in our Fifth Column Press is an outrage.
The military brass is composed of Clinton, Bush, and Obama hold overs who rose in the ranks for their abilities to display contempt for the Constitution and to display servitude to the new socialist world order.
“Yuri Bezmenov, a former KGB spy and state media propagandist who defected to Canada in 1970. Bezmenov cogently explains how “ideological subversion” is an essential method used by communists to undermine and destabilize Western countries. His explanation crystallizes so much of what has happened in America in the last 40 years.
“Basically there are four steps to ideological subversion or “changing the perspective of reality” — in other words a mass brainwashing. The first step is known as demoralization and it takes 15-20 years — the span of time needed to educate one generation by exposing them to the “ideology of the enemy.” In America we have had Marxist-Leninist ideology pumped into the soft heads of at least three generations of American students, without being challenged or counter-balanced by the basic values of Americanism (patriotism).
And it makes not a whit of difference if these students are exposed to true information because “a person who is demoralized is unable to assess true information.” Their minds are cemented. Total denial is in force. Does this not explain why statues are being destroyed and America is continually depicted as a racist country when, in fact, it is not?
In fact, it would take another few generations to change the “tide of ideological perception of reality back to normalcy and patriotism.”
The second step in ideological subversion is destabilization. This step can be accomplished in as little as five years and the focus is on “destabilizing sectors such as the economy, law enforcement, foreign relations, media, and defense systems.”
This destabilization results in “antagonistic clashes” and we see this nightly on the news. Fake news is a constant. Leftist mayors and governors want to tax the people to death, police are to be defunded and the military has become the petri dish for social experimentation. During the Obama years, the military was basically decimated in terms of arms and critical materiel.
The third stage in the mass brainwashing is the crisis stage. In this stage, Bezmenov explains that after society is destabilized, it collapses into chaos, and inevitably the people will call for the government to step in to enforce stability. Either a foreign nation comes in, or the local group of leftists, Marxists et al. take over.
Consider that this is currently being played out in Seattle's autonomous zone known as CHOP. Ultimately, the crisis stage takes two forms: either civil war or invasion. It is not an accident that gun sales have risen ever since the riots and Black Lives Matters have become front and center.
The last step is normalization — an ironic term, indeed as it means that any freedoms that Americans take for granted will be abolished. Thus, the subverting country finally seizes control of the target country with forceful military overthrow; the chaos is stabilized, and the situation “normalized” — meaning now “there will be a promise of all kinds of goodies and paradise on earth to destabilize the economy, to eliminate the principle of free market competition, and to put a big brother government in Washington, D.C. with benevolent dictators who will promise lots of things. Never mind if the promises are fulfilled or not.”
It is the play book of the Democrat Party who is now a radical Leftwing party as they sanctimoniously bow to their masters.
I’m confused now as to whether the military has eliminated the banned items? Of course the military has been nothing if not insubordinate and disrespectful to the Commander in Chief for 4 years. Has that changed? (Retired Army Officer)
I am continually amazed how how top CEO’s and even the top brass in military.. In otherwords.. educated men/women who are the elite of society... and have no common sense.. they run on what they are told and have no idea how to look at a situation and ‘JUST DO THE RIGHT THING’....it’s a lost talent.
There are blacks and there are the white people... to put it bluntly. why in the world, can’t both be treated as they respond to all of life... responsibility for one’s self.
The dems have had the black race forever.. I look at it and do not know why they vote dem.... that party has done NOTHING for them... why do they keep voting for their own race because they are the same color..
obama did nothing for them... those sitting in congress today.. are doing nothing for them... they line their own pockets.. and spend their years in congress talking a talk and doing nothing else!
white privilege... what in the world do the crowds like to use words.. make up names... and go with it... and it means nothing..
I see more blacks in sports making millions than white players.. and I hate using black and white to distinguish.
I know a smart lawyer... way above the average in abilities.... passed over to give the position to a woman... and the woman knows nothing.. she got the position because today it’s a woman’s world out there. This smart male lawyer....the one who could have done the job and kept the office in proper order...he is training the woman.... now tell me what sense that makes for anyone... except the dumb situation all this comes down to.. just plain stupidity.
I’m rambling.... and all it does is vent....
I am continually amazed how how top CEO’s and even the top brass in military.. In otherwords.. educated men/women who are the elite of society... and have no common sense.. they run on what they are told and have no idea how to look at a situation and ‘JUST DO THE RIGHT THING’....it’s a lost talent.
Too many times when people get to that level they become politicians. At that point all that matters is image.
Putting the “party” (Communists) in charge of the military.
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