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   House Republicans are weak and stupid.   voted to end diversity, equity   
   and inclusion programs and ended up with a gaggle of stupid white men who   
   don't know how to take a shit.   
      
      
      
   The provision was one of a number of anti-woke measures in the House-   
   passed National Defense Authorization Act — including reversing the   
   Pentagon’s new abortion-enabling paid travel and leave policies — that   
   have occasioned sputtering outrage.   
      
   According to National Security Council spokesman John Kirby, there’s no   
   way President Joe Biden would ever sign such legislation “that would put   
   our troops at greater risk or put our readiness at risk.”   
      
   America’s leaders used to worry that we wouldn’t have enough stopping   
   power to defend against Soviet tanks potentially pouring through the Fulda   
   Gap or a survivable nuclear force in the event of a nuclear first strike;   
   now they worry service members might not be learning enough about   
   microaggressions.   
      
   Last year, Bishop Garrison, then serving as the defense secretary’s senior   
   adviser for human capital and diversity, equity and inclusion, said that   
   DEI needs to be part of every decision the military makes — it’s a “force   
   multiplier” and will make the military more lethal.   
      
   It’s not clear how this could possibly be true.   
      
   Is the Marine operating a howitzer going to be more proficient if he’s   
   familiar with the work of Ibram X. Kendi?   
      
   Will our fighter pilots be better at aerial warfare if they think America   
   is defined by systemic racism?   
      
   Are our submariners lacking so long as they don’t know that it’s   
   supposedly offensive to ask someone with an accent where he or she is   
   from?   
      
   If diversity training is so crucial to a fighting force, maybe we should   
   stop sending so many munitions to Ukraine and ship the embattled country   
   PowerPoint presentations on equity instead?   
      
   The US military has for decades been a model of how to build a racially   
   diverse institution that is united by a common purpose and standards.   
      
   That doesn’t mean it is perfect — nothing is — but it was notably diverse   
   long before anyone thought it needed DEI training.   
      
   Thankfully, by its standards, the Pentagon doesn’t spend much on DEI.   
      
   It requested just $115 million in 2023, although that was an increase of   
   nearly $30 million.   
      
   This suggests the personnel and programming around DEI can be easily axed,   
   and they should be.   
      
   DEI is a scammy fad that has ballooned into a more than $3 billion   
   industry even though there’s no solid evidence it works, and it may well   
   make things worse.   
      
   As the left-of-center author and podcaster Jesse Singal writes, DEI   
   programs often “seem geared more toward sparking a revolutionary   
   reunderstanding of race relations than solving organizations’ specific   
   problems.   
      
   And they often blame white people — or their culture — for harming people   
   of color.”   
      
   Why does the military, of all institutions, need that?   
      
   At the very least, DEI is another administrative burden.   
      
   A recent report on the fighting culture of the US Navy prepared at the   
   direction of Sen. Tom Cotton and several Republican congressmen noted that   
   “non-combat curricula consume Navy resources, clog inboxes, create   
   administrative quagmires and monopolize precious training time.”   
      
   At worst, it is injecting a poisonous ideology into a fighting force that   
   needs to look past racial and other divisions and must believe in this   
   country’s worth.   
      
   Those who want DEI in the armed forces either can’t distinguish between   
   the military and an elite liberal-arts college or want it to be corrupted   
   by the same rotten ideas.   
      
   House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said the NDAA shows “that extreme   
   MAGA Republicans are willing to even detonate the ability of our military   
   to do what it needs to do to keep us safe.”   
      
   To the contrary, it is progressives who want the military to bend to their   
   ideological imperatives.   
      
   We aren’t going to deter or — if it comes to that — defeat an adversary   
   like China with DEI trainers or self-flagellating nonsense about our   
   society’s supposed irredeemable flaws.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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