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Offline rangerrebew

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The Military Was Combating Racism. Then, Congress Stepped In.
 
Published June 19, 2024 at 7:38am ET

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The U.S. military will continue to dwindle in size and diminish in quality if it does not fix its racism problem.
 
My husband has served nearly 20 years in the Marine Corps, and our family would gladly dedicate another decade of service if not for the racism I, his Asian-American wife, and his mixed-race children experience in the current military and political climate.

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The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address

Offline Kamaji

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Re: The Military Was Combating Racism. Then, Congress Stepped In.
« Reply #1 on: June 20, 2024, 12:53:50 pm »
Sounds like a real bullshit article.  Nothing more than self-serving, unprovable, claims of "I was discriminated against".  If she thinks she's so hard-put-upon, she can leave.

Offline PeteS in CA

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Re: The Military Was Combating Racism. Then, Congress Stepped In.
« Reply #2 on: June 20, 2024, 01:03:13 pm »
Sounds like a real bullshit article.  Nothing more than self-serving, unprovable, claims of "I was discriminated against".  If she thinks she's so hard-put-upon, she can leave.

It's at least partly a partisan hit-piece:

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Policymakers have come to use increasingly politicized antics to enforce an anti-pluralism agenda. For example, Republican senators continue to hold Air Force Col. Ben Jonsson's promotion hostage -- mirroring Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville's months-long military promotion blockade. Col. Jonsson simply encouraged his fellow officers to learn about modern-day racism -- knowledge that would strengthen leadership skills, and U.S. senators targeted him.

Partisan BS and I-Am-Victim fakery harm real victims and perversely provide smokescreen for real racists.

Speaking of partisan BS, Air Force Col. Ben Jonsson is white, and Alabama GRRRrrrrrrr!!! Sen. Tommy Tuberville's hold on his promotion had zero to do with race or ethnicity. When the demand for racism exceeds the supply, Progs supply counterfeits.
« Last Edit: June 20, 2024, 01:10:09 pm by PeteS in CA »
I am not and never have been a leftist.

If, as anti-Covid-vaxxers claim, https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/robert-f-kennedy-jr-said-the-covid-19-vaccine-is-the-deadliest-vaccine-ever-made-thats-not-true/ , https://gospelnewsnetwork.org/2021/11/23/covid-shots-are-the-deadliest-vaccines-in-medical-history/ , The Vaccine is deadly, where in the US have Pfizer and Moderna hidden the millions of bodies of those who died of "vaccine injury"?

Millions now living should have died. Anti-Covid-Vaxxer ghouls hardest hit.