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It’s one factor to say that Variety, Fairness, and Inclusion initiatives give an unfair benefit to folks of shade inside organizations; it’s a gross overstep to make use of DEI as an excuse to purge the existence of notable Black, Hispanic, and veteran ladies from Arlington Nationwide Cemetery — which is strictly what the Trump administration has executed.
In accordance with MSNBC, the ultimate resting place for some 400,000 troopers has scrubbed its web site of the gravesites of notable “outstanding minority veterans, in addition to instructional pages on the Civil Battle, African American historical past and ladies’s historical past.”
They’ve additionally eliminated all language about variety and inclusion and positioned some pertinent details about extraordinary folks of shade beneath totally different classes that don’t point out race or gender as a result of the Trump administration hates historical past that makes white folks look dangerous.
Critically, why else would they need to cease teachings on African American historical past or the Civil Rights motion, all info that was as soon as on the Arlington cemetery’s net pages till the Trump administration conflict on DEI? There was once a bit on Black conflict heroes, and that web page is not there as a result of god forbid some Black baby sees these highly effective pictures and thinks that perhaps he could possibly be a pilot or a Marine at some point.
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The cemetery is just not completely at fault. A spokesperson for the Arlington Nationwide advised The Washington Submit that they’re simply making an attempt to stick to Donald Trump’s insurance policies after confirming that the webpages of “Notable Graves” of Black, Hispanic, and feminine veterans had been taken down.
As a result of Donald Trump and his brood of white cis-gendered males hate variety., they hate anybody who doesn’t appear to be them, and they’re working diligently to erase years of progress beneath the guise of “Making America Nice Once more,” which is de facto only a synonym for white.
Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth has claimed that he’s eliminating “wokeness” within the navy however showcasing the work of individuals of shade within the Armed Forces isn’t “woke,” until “wokeness” means folks of shade (I admit that I don’t know what wokeness means now that it’s been bastardized by MAGA).
MSNBC notes that certainly one of Donald Trump’s first firings when taking workplace was to do away with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Employees, Air Drive Gen. C.Q. Brown, a Black man, and probably the most extremely adorned officers and changed him with a white cis-gendered man.
He additionally pushed out “Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the pinnacle of the U.S. Navy and the primary lady to steer any department of the armed forces.” Her firing left the armed forces with none 4-star feminine commanders.
Since being confirmed as protection secretary, Hegseth famous that he believes the dumbest phrase within the navy is “Our power is in our variety.” So clearly he was for a ban on all cultural heritage celebrations, “together with Black Historical past Month, Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Nationwide American Indian Heritage Month, LGBTQ Pleasure Month, Girls’s Historical past Month, Juneteenth, Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Holocaust Remembrance Day,” MSNBC studies.
Oh and in case you wished to clear up any doubt, sure, they want to ban trans folks from serving within the navy.
And get this: After scrubbing the Pentagon of some 26,000 pictures that confirmed veterans of various races and identities, additionally they took down a picture of a World Battle II B-29 plane that dropped the world’s first and solely atomic bomb on Hiroshima as a result of it was named ‘Enola Homosexual.’
I hate all the things.
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