Posted on 09/27/2023 6:53:27 AM PDT by Towed_Jumper
Well, West Point had an good run, didn’t it? Once a beacon of prestige and elite training, this institution produced some of America’s most outstanding leaders. But times have changed. Today, West Point is just another woke joke, churning out young Marxists with contempt for the very nation they’re supposedly preparing to defend.
West Point has reached the point of no return, particularly after the exposure of their latest “woke” agenda. Believe it or not, but they’re now offering degrees in “Equity and Diversity.” And no, unfortunately, this isn’t a joke.
Here’s the information about the woke course from West Point’s own website:
Diversity & Inclusion Studies Minor Diversity and Inclusion Studies (DISM) is an interdisciplinary minor administered by the Department of Behavioral Sciences & Leadership that consists of humanities and social science courses. America is a multicultural polity and demands knowledgeable and pragmatic thinkers who understand the range of human experiences. The Diversity and Inclusion Studies Minor (DISM) exposes cadets to varied perspectives & methodologies for understanding and studying the humanities. By carefully drawing from existing courses in multiple departments, the DISM complements and enhances the core curriculum, academic majors, and several West Point Centers and committees. The DISM helps fulfill the Superintendent’s and Dean’s vision for diversity and inclusion at West Point. Moreover, the DISM at West Point offers cadets a framework for critically and creatively thinking about the broader impact of diversity and inclusion at the individual, organizational, societal, and/or global levels. It also provides our cadets opportunities to pursue diversity and inclusion in intra-, multi- and inter-disciplinary ways.
5-Course Minor
Must take 2 of 3 PL377: Social Inequality EN352: Power and Difference SS392: The Politics of Race, Gender, and Sexuality
Must Take 1 of 4 HI391: World Religions HI461: Sex and Civilizations HI463: Race, Ethnicity, Nation HI398: Society & Culture in American History
What a travesty, and how embarrassing for West Point. The left has successfully transformed many of our nation’s college students into pint-sized Marxists, and now they’re seeking to steer our US military officers down the same ideological path.
Campus Reform:
U.S. Military Academy at West Point also offers a Diversity and Inclusion Studies minor, which requires classes in “Power and Difference” and “Social Inequality.”
In response to Campus Reform’s request for comment, West Point clarified that the program was started in 2018 in part to balance faculty and student interest with the “Superintendent’s Strategic Goal of leveraging diversity and fostering inclusion.”
Sadly, West Point’s so-called “clarification” is even worse. But we’ll give them one bit of credit–the left has a real knack for employing buzzwords, don’t they? Phrases like “leveraging diversity” and “fostering inclusion” might sound harmless enough, but in reality, it’s coded language for promoting Marxism, just like “Black Lives Matter.” So, it probably won’t surprise you when we remind you that West Point is being sued for bragging about discriminating against whites.
Western Journal:
On Tuesday, lawyers representing the Students for Fair Admissions sued West Point for alleged race and ethnicity discrimination in admissions decisions, according to Politico. SFFA is the anti-affirmative action group that tanked race-conscious admissions practices at Harvard in a Supreme Court decision.
But the decision that nixed racial admissions policies at Harvard and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill determined that because no military academy was party to the suit, the opinion did not include admissions issues at these schools “in light of the potentially distinct interests that military academies may present,” according to Politico.
SFFA didn’t agree with the justices’ logic and argued there is “no justification for using race-based admissions” and, since the practice is now illegal at non-military universities, West Point “is not exempt from the Constitution.”
SFFA contends that West Point is violating the Fifth Amendment with its skewed admission practices. The Fifth Amendment contains an equal-protection principle that binds the federal government.
Regrettably, the radical left has penetrated our sacred institutions—from our churches and educational systems to healthcare, the military, and even West Point. The uncomfortable reality is, this infiltration occurred right under our noses, and we didn’t do anything to try and stop them until it was too late.
The engineer will be building bridges, not making policy. The D&I grad will be doing that.
A GOP majority can stop it.
You presume a GOP majority would wish to stop it. Past performance is the best measure to determine future expectations.
Any relation to the soccer player? Isn’t that her last name?
Common slur on Grant - he wasn’t the drunk that newspapers and rivals attempted to portray him as.
I’m acquainted with a fella who left the AF a year early. Bill Clinton’s reductions. Talk about a wasted investment. Another fella (enlisted)put in 19 before getting credit for 20. He thanked Clinton and is now a democrat.
I was in RVNam in 69 average lifespan of an Officer in the field was 60 to 90 days. I did 2 combat tours seen a bunch come and go was the main reason I never cared to go above E4...
This is just part of the two-tier “separate but unequal” economy we’ve created (and the natural outcome of affirmative action); it is a facade of integration and assimilation. Rather than admit that massive majorities of certain people will never fit in a modern society/economy, we’ll just pretend that they’re “making it” - with useless, unearned high school diplomas, degrees, jobs, promotions, etc., while ignoring glaring shortcomings (near-absence in any STEM field, broken families, poor language skills, no work ethic).
Once you pretended tokens belonged in (and could finish) college on their merits, you have no choice but to continue the charade and force employers to pay them to pretend to work/offer value. The fact that they retreated to fake majors with no marketable value in the real world is irrelevant; we are to pretend they are “educated” (even if only in hate and envy).
Vicious cycle, and completely demeaning...
I got it in my head that Rocky Horror Guy played the Political Officer, but he was the ship’s doctor.
I advocate closing the academies. Start with one. The others will get the message.
So which one goes first? West Point is the big fish. Might be too big but a definite bed-wetter.
‘Clearly the army is seeking more unqualified female black flag officers.’
until black females dominate at the top levels of most of our cultural institutions, rampant progressivism will be the coin of the realm going forward...
Even the military needs its political commissars.
Western militaries don’t actually defend the interests of their countries - for example their borders against illegal immigrant invasion.
The only capability Western militaries have now is to be used against their own heritage populations.
They are now an enemy force, and the more incompetent and dysfunctional, the better.
+1000000
Trump’s function is not to reform an unreformable Regime, but to accelerate the collapse of that Regime.
Patrick Henry: “A standing army we shall have, also, to execute the execrable commands of tyranny; and how are you to punish them? Will you order them to be punished? Who shall obey these orders? Will your mace-bearer be a match for a disciplined regiment?”"
This is an invented course to make sure the AA candidates (black officer candidates) have slacker courses to keep their numbers up. So now we will have a corps of incompetent America hating racist officers with an army of illegal aliens with no allegiance to the US and hate the US citizen. What could go wrong?
Diversity and Inclusion=Marxism and Leninism
Case Closed.
IKE and Omar Bradley must be rolling over in their graves.
Agreed. But we both know our standing army is here to stay -at least until our increasingly teetering American Empire finally collapses.
That’s right. It was also back when I could stomach Alec Baldwin.
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