The West Point conundrum: How do you fight for a country you’re taught to hate?

American Thinker ^ | 10/02/2023 | Andrea Widburg

[SeekAndFind]

West Point has a storied place in American history. During the Revolution, Benedict Arnold tried to give the fort to the British. After the Revolution, it became America’s first military academy, graduating such luminaries as Ulysses S. Grant, Dwight Eisenhower, Generals Omar Bradley, Douglas MacArthur, and George S. Patton, and many other men who have shaped our nation. All the alumni were driven by patriotism even if, as with Robert E. Lee, that patriotism was misplaced. Now, though, West Point has a “minor” that is the essence of anti-patriotism. Welcome to West Point’s Diversity and Inclusion Studies Minor.

West Point describes its new minor this way:

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. 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 - providing them with knowledge and insights that can help prepare them to lead in today's Army.

That academic gobbledy-gook hides what DEI really is: The assertion that America is systemically racist—and sexist and homophobic, and all the other “isms,” “ists,” and “phobias” that drive leftism. Under the DEI rubric, these horrors are baked into the American system. The Constitution, the 14th Amendment, the Civil Rights Act…none of them matter.

[Salman]

There's no real contradiction. The US military has not fought for "the country" since (at least) the end of the Cold War.

They fight to keep the world profitable for the bipartisan orgy of mass murder crowd. And will fight against you and yours if ordered. Not your military (except you pay for it).

So the ideological prep they are getting at West Point is definitely on topic.

The old free USA I loved is gone for good.

[paddles]

Let’s shut it down and use it to house the illegals.

[nonliberal]

Because the military isn’t training to fight Russia or China. The military is being repurposed to come after YOU.

[central_va]

Do a search on “Why standing armies are dangerous”.

[wardaddy]

Freepers have no clue how much younger people have been diluted by culture wars…even the good ones

[JoeRender]

How do you fight to serve a government that violates it’s own Constitution.