Posted on 07/21/2022 5:49:59 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
"Just imagine how all these right-wingers would have reacted with horror if they had been around when Harry Truman desegregated the military," Washington Post columnist Max Bootwrote on Twitter. "Now that was woke!"
Boot's racially charged comment came in response to a New York Post op-ed written by Jason Church, a retired U.S. Army captain. Church argued that our military should focus more on preparing for armed conflict with bad actors around the world and less on embracing the "diversity, equity, and inclusion" ethos of government bureaucrats.
"The Navy is producing instructional videos on gender pronouns while its poorly maintained ships crash at sea," wrote Church, citing a Washington Free Beacon report. He also suggested—quite reasonably—that lowering the military's physical fitness standards in the name of "inclusivity" was not a good thing. Other changes designed to make the military more "woke," Church argued, have "weakened training, lowered morale," and "diminish[ed] the fighting spirit, cohesiveness, and reputation of America's Armed Forces."
"With respect to MaxBoot, this is beneath you and the Post," Church wrote. "We are right to be worried about politicizing the military and VeteransOnDuty will voice these concerns. Smugly dismissing this as bigotry is cheap and wrong."
Church, who joined the Army in 2011 and received a Purple Heart in Afghanistan, is the chairman of Veterans on Duty, a national membership organization dedicated to "exposing how the woke revolution in the services works" and compelling the military to "get back to basics" by electing like-minded policymakers.
Jeremy C. Hunt, a black Army veteran and member of the Veterans on Duty board, also blasted Boot. "We care about a military that wins," he wrote in response to Boot's tweet. "If you want an example of modern segregation in the military, look no further than the Biden administration's racist [diversity, equity, and inclusion] protocols that you defend."
On Sunday, Boot defended Biden's meeting with bone-saw dictator Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, whom the president once pledged to make a "pariah" until flip-flopping as soon as rising gas prices threatened Democratic prospects in the midterm elections.
These “woke” activists and writers that jump all over a veteran for his opinion on this matter doesn’t do the gays and gender confused individuals any favors. They make all the LGBTQxyz’s look like tyrants and overly emotional idiots that I wouldn’t want to be in a trench next to me. Is the LGBTQ’s all like this or are they more moderate and just want to live their life in peace? I’m sorry but I am so over this virtue signaling stuff from the left.
It was Democrats Woodrow Wilson that segregated the Military and FDR that kept it that way. Boot is such a tool.
Maybe so
It looks like it says Hunt bashes Boot
What do you read ut as saying?
Maybe if you’d Furst made the point you wanted to make you wouldn’t have gotten 2 of us questioning
OMFG, you people are ridiculous. Never need corrections or modifications or anything when ever posting yeah? Shu fly. Find something else better to nitpick kkthx?
“Apparently, you seriously fail at reading?
Look at my post 4 for clarification or guidance since again, you stopped at what I said and made comment without reading further?!”
LOL! Multiple people question your post and you have to issue a clarification and you blame their reading skills!
Apparently YOU seriously fail at writing skills!
The only perfection found on this planet ever was Jesus Christ.....”He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone...”
Shu fly.
It’s insulting and racist to compare blacks with mentally-ill transgenders.
The Russians reject transgender madness. He certainly wouldn’t be welcome to return to Russia.
The military was segregated under W Wilson, a Southern Dem and an outright racist.
Wilson enshrined Jim Crow laws at a Federal level.
The least of his many crimes against America.
“The only perfection found on this planet ever was Jesus Christ.....”He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone...””
You were the one that cast the first stones ...
Boot is not Canadian. He’s a Russian Jewish immigrant to the US.
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