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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is a Moral Sickness Infecting Our Military
American Thinker ^ | 12 Dec, 2023 | Patrick Bobko

Posted on 12/12/2023 5:44:19 AM PST by MtnClimber

The political vigilantism taking place under the banner of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) must be immediately and completely excised from our military. DEI corrodes the moral foundations upon which our armed services were built and provides both the kindling and spark for igniting tribalism among our service members. Officers of all ranks who promulgate these destructive ideas must be immediately relieved of command because they actively endanger our nation’s security.

The war in Gaza has been instructive because the response to it in the streets of Western cities and on college campuses has pulled back the rhetorical stage curtain and laid bare the moral rot at DEI’s core. It is impossible to turn on the TV or scroll through social media without seeing throngs of people waiving green, red, and white Palestinian flags and chanting about the horrors of Israeli “colonial occupation” and advocating for eradication of the Jewish state. We’ve recently seen that Presidents of once prestigious American universities cannot publicly denounce their students who applaud medieval barbarity against innocent civilians for fear of offending the barbarians. To the benighted looking down from their moral high ground, the savagery Israelis have endured is merely the historical bill coming due for their oppression of Palestinians. Beheading people, killing children in their beds, and incinerating infants in ovens might be distasteful, but when members of an “oppressed” group do it to their “oppressors” it is justifiable given the history of the oppression they have endured. At a minimum, they say, the spasm of violence is a response that must be “contextualized.”

Although quantitatively different, the moral reasoning used to rationalize the slaughter and rape of innocent Israelis is qualitatively the same as the moral calculus inherent to DEI. Morality is no longer measured against objective and immutable ideas

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TOPICS: Military/Veterans; Society
KEYWORDS: die; wokeism
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1 posted on 12/12/2023 5:44:19 AM PST by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 12/12/2023 5:44:39 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is a Moral Sickness Infecting Our World. Fixed it for them.


3 posted on 12/12/2023 5:51:23 AM PST by pas
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A society rotten on the inside will crumble. We are at such a point.


4 posted on 12/12/2023 5:53:06 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat
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To: MtnClimber

I, and a number of vets that I know, actively discourage any young talent from considering the military. Sad, but I don’t want to see them be ruined by the loathsome (and I believe treasonous) leadership currently infecting our military.


5 posted on 12/12/2023 5:56:12 AM PST by Da Coyote
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That’s not The America I grew up in. Stolen elections have catastrophic consequences.


6 posted on 12/12/2023 5:59:05 AM PST by gathersnomoss (End This Attack On Justice.)
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...immediately relieved of command because they actively endanger our nation’s security.

For China this is not a bug , this is a feature. That is why they worked closely with Democrats to steal our elections. If what Biden is doing seems like sabotage , it is because it IS sabotage.

7 posted on 12/12/2023 5:59:22 AM PST by Nateman (If the Pedo Profit Mad Moe (pig pee upon him!) was not the Antichrist then he comes in second.)
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“Sloth is more than the laziness of mind and body. It's the total poisoning of the will until we acquiesce to evil and error in the name of ‘tolerance’. It's a 20th century malady.”

From Dorothy Sayer's notation on Dante's 'Inferno' and in relation to the sin of 'sloth'. She wrote this in the last century...I think after WWI.

8 posted on 12/12/2023 6:04:18 AM PST by SMARTY ("A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies." Tennyson)
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....spot on......take some time to read about the fall of the Roman empire....we are indeed just about at that point...Rome had to hire mercenaries to fight its wars; I read the other day that our own Dept. of Defense is looking to recruit illegal aliens to serve in our own armed forces...all services apparently are nowhere close to meeting their recruitment goals....yes, we are at that very point in our nation’s history....


9 posted on 12/12/2023 6:08:13 AM PST by TokarevM57
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“Build Back Better” means, destroying first, and then rebuilding in their own image.

Biden is good at the destroying part.


10 posted on 12/12/2023 6:09:06 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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I read somewhere that 80% of the people in this land formerly known as a “country” (look up it’s definition)...80% are followers. Look at that photo. Be a leader, The American 20%.


11 posted on 12/12/2023 6:12:25 AM PST by gathersnomoss (End This Attack On Justice.)
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That is the Obama/Biden Regime’s military.


12 posted on 12/12/2023 6:14:19 AM PST by gathersnomoss (End This Attack On Justice.)
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The political vigilantism taking place under the banner of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) must be immediately and completely excised from our military. DEI corrodes the moral foundations upon which our armed services were built and provides both the kindling and spark for igniting tribalism among our service members. Officers of all ranks who promulgate these destructive ideas must be immediately relieved of command because they actively endanger our nation’s security.

 

DIE has infected our military, our schools, our corporate world and our society.

We are so screwed.

13 posted on 12/12/2023 6:21:57 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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“Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is a Moral Sickness Infecting Our Military”

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is a Moral Sickness Infecting Our Republic

There, fixed it


14 posted on 12/12/2023 6:39:12 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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Have read about the new CJCS and the Service Chiefs?

Not.gonna.happen.


15 posted on 12/12/2023 6:42:54 AM PST by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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Obama’s Army.


16 posted on 12/12/2023 6:44:59 AM PST by who knows what evil? (Hospitals are the most dangerous place on Earth! Dr. David Williams)
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Diversity amplifies inequality and results in segregation


17 posted on 12/12/2023 6:45:11 AM PST by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Hamascide is required in total)
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Divisiveness, Elitism and Indoctrination.


18 posted on 12/12/2023 6:45:47 AM PST by Spok (It takes a lot of learning to understand how little we know. (Paraphrasing Thomas Sowell.))
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19 posted on 12/12/2023 6:45:49 AM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Vet, John Adams Descendant , deal with it.)
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www.flagofficers4america.com


20 posted on 12/12/2023 6:46:39 AM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Vet, John Adams Descendant , deal with it.)
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