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Woke white air force colonel who claimed other white colonels were racists gets nominated to be promoted to brigadier general
American Thinker ^ | 08/19/2023 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 08/19/2023 4:53:55 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

The Pentagon has gone to great ends to hide its wokery whenever it gets caught.

They've shut down drag shows on U.S. military bases. They've kicked openly white-hating wokesters teaching military kids upstairs to other things. They've taken down their Pride Month flags and tweets. They've changed course on hunting for "extremists" in the ranks when news emerged that they missed actual miscreants under their noses. They've investigated dog-sex officer pervert rings that had been going on for a long time in Hawaii. They've also denied, in testimony to Congress at appropriations time, that they are wokesters.

But personnel is policy and a look at who they're promoting tells another story.

Get a load of this charmer, as noted by Kevin Downey at PJMedia:

Enter USAF Col. Benjamin Jonsson. He was nominated by *President Biden to be promoted to brigadier general. Col. Jonsson is white. And “woke.”

Col. Jonsson believes the “problem” with the Air Force is “white colonels” like himself—but not really him, just all the other white colonels.

After the death of Saintly George Floyd, Jonsson penned an article for Air Force Times “calling out” his fellow Caucasian USAF colonels.

“As white colonels, you and I are the biggest barriers to change if we do not personally address racial injustice in our Air Force,” Col. Jonsson began.

The letter reeks of being written by a haughty,  green-haired, virtue-signaling white kid who attends high school in an affluent neighborhood.

“Defensiveness is a predictable response by white people to any discussion of racial injustice,” Col. Justice Warrior continued. “White colonels are no exception. We are largely blind to institutional racism, and we take offense to any suggestion that our system advantaged us at the expense of others.


(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


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KEYWORDS: airforce; colonel; racism; woke
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Which tells us they haven't change their tune at all. They just don't like getting caught doing it.

Jonsson was one of a group of officers the Pentagon tried to hide into the crowd in a group promotion for Congress to sign off on, Downey notes.

To his credit, Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama has demanded that all officers be looked at individually. Maybe someone then could ask Jonsson what he meant by all these "white colonels" he sees who are supposedly perpetuating racism in the military, and ask him to name some names so we can see what might have been going on.

1 posted on 08/19/2023 4:53:55 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Says all the things degenerates want to hear.


2 posted on 08/19/2023 4:59:06 PM PDT by Old Yeller
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To: Old Yeller

This nation appears to be doomed

False narratives are treated as reality


3 posted on 08/19/2023 5:00:51 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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Wokism must be banished from existence


4 posted on 08/19/2023 5:03:28 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: SaveFerris
*appears*?


5 posted on 08/19/2023 5:04:13 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: SeekAndFind

Predictable.


6 posted on 08/19/2023 5:05:27 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Indeed


7 posted on 08/19/2023 5:06:12 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

The current DC Regime is doomed.

But the American Nation can have a free, prosperous and God-Fearing future.

The important thing is that Nation cannot include the Coastal globalists and Blue city Dwellers


8 posted on 08/19/2023 5:06:40 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: SeekAndFind

My late uncle, a colonel (and wing commander) in the Air Force, is spinning in his grave (again). All of the institutions that were solid 40 years ago have been corrupted. We are in uncharted territory.


9 posted on 08/19/2023 5:07:19 PM PDT by cdcdawg (Our empire of sodomy is failing as it should. How else could it go? )
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To: SeekAndFind
It’s a real shame Gilbert and Sullivan aren’t alive. They could write a mocking update to their famous song "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General".
Just make the general nonsensically woke this time.

And on a more serious note, who the hell would want to join the military today?
If you’re not fighting in some foreign hell-hole for no good reason, you’re attending woke diversity classes.

10 posted on 08/19/2023 5:08:42 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real. )
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To: SeekAndFind

we need a purge of everything and we need balls to do it efficiently and quickly, those who resist will be locked up


11 posted on 08/19/2023 5:10:14 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Reverend Wright

We’re so bankrupt financially there’s little time left I think

Witness the idiocy of The Inflation Reduction Act

A $3.7 trillion dollar lie worthy of Manchurian Candidate Barack Hussein Obama


12 posted on 08/19/2023 5:10:58 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

AND these self hating America hating jerks will have a military filled with illegal aliens who will enjoy shooting American citizens when the democrats order it.


13 posted on 08/19/2023 5:15:54 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Organic Panic

Whore


14 posted on 08/19/2023 5:17:11 PM PDT by Colt1851Navy (What was wrong with Nixon?)
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To: All

According to some, part of adopting CRT by whites is to acknowledge one’s own unconscious racism towards non-whites; a white who denies his/her/their/its/etc own unconscious racism proves that he/she/they/it/etc is racist. In much of academia, this seems to be regarded as a scientific fact, proven by sociological research.


15 posted on 08/19/2023 5:22:03 PM PDT by SteveH
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To: SeekAndFind

Well, obviously it’s those OTHER white guys who are racist. Not him, of course.


16 posted on 08/19/2023 5:28:55 PM PDT by CFW (I will not comply!)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Maybe someone then could ask Jonsson what he meant by all these “white colonels” he sees who are supposedly perpetuating racism in the military, and ask him to name some names so we can see what might have been going on.”

Why didn’t he turn them in to Austin’s witch hunt?


17 posted on 08/19/2023 5:29:46 PM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: SeekAndFind
Well of course he did.

Ass kissing works.

18 posted on 08/19/2023 5:35:15 PM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: SaveFerris

If the Lord smiles on Heartland America, in the even of National Divorce, the Heartland gets the gold in Fort Knox, and the Coastlands get the Fed, and get to pay back the National Debt.

(the Gold the Fed holds in Manhattan should be transferred to Fort Knox for “safekeeping).


19 posted on 08/19/2023 5:50:06 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Gene Eric

My thoughts exactly! It belongs in hell!


20 posted on 08/19/2023 5:57:52 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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