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Boats 03-21-2023 02:02 PM

‘Woke-ism’ Not an Issue, Top Military Leaders Say
 
1. ‘Woke-ism’ Not an Issue, Top Military Leaders Say
By: Audrey Decker - Defence One News - 03-21-23
Re: https://www.defenseone.com/policy/20...rs-say/384238/
Inclusion is actually a critical part of unit cohesion, Air Force chief and Marine commandant said. [On site read more].

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2. War on wokeness: the year the right rallied around a made-up menace
A modern-day blend of McCarthyism and white grievance became the focus of a rightwing crusade in 2022
By: Michael Harriot - 03-21-22
Re: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...merica-history
War on wokeness: The year the right rallied around a made-up menace.

Top military leaders say there is no evidence that diversity policies have harmed recruiting or readiness, and that troops and recruits actually value inclusion—despite repeated criticism of so-called “woke” policies by right-wing politicians.

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. C.Q. Brown and Marine Commandant Gen. David Berger both commented on the issue in exclusive interviews with Defense One as part of the annual State of Defense series.

Brown said the Air Force is building a team for every service member—“no matter their background.”

Conservative lawmakers have argued that “woke-ism” is causing the military’s recent recruiting woes. The House Armed Services Committee is holding a hearing Thursday to question military officials on the impact of diversity, equity, and inclusion policies on the “readiness, lethality, and cohesion of the military forces.”

But airmen need to feel comfortable that they’re part of an organization that cares about them, Brown told Defense One.

DeSantis was summoning the resentment that produced the racial terrorism of Reconstruction, the pro-lynching Red Summer of 1919, and the pro-segregation states’ rights movement. This time, it was called anti-woke: a modern-day mixture of McCarthyism and white grievance.

Conservative lawmakers have argued that “woke-ism” is causing the military’s recent recruiting woes. The House Armed Services Committee is holding a hearing Thursday to question military officials on the impact of diversity, equity, and inclusion policies on the “readiness, lethality, and cohesion of the military forces.”

But airmen need to feel comfortable that they’re part of an organization that cares about them, Brown told Defense One.

Woke-ism ‘Not a Factor’ in the Marine Corps, Commandant Says

Then there’s Steve Bannon, a mercenary for hire who sympathized with the Russian president in February because “Putin ain’t woke, he is anti-woke”. They have ground support from infantrymen like Vivek Ramaswamy, a Fox News contributor and biotech founder who believes conscious investing is going to destroy America (the New Yorker described him as “the CEO of Anti-Woke Inc”).

A Historical precedent:

When more than 90% of Black men in the post-civil war south registered to vote, the racial resentment resulted in poll disenfranchisement, Jim Crow, and the Black codes that fed the exploding prison labor industry. After the first world war, more than 380,000 Black veterans returned to the south and began asserting their rights, producing a nationwide lynching epidemic. The integration of the US armed forces created the Dixiecrat movement. Civil rights legislation created a mass migration of southern conservatives from the Democratic Party to the GOP.

Our nation has always used misinformation as kindling for a bonfire that draws “patriotic” moths to an undemocratic flame. Ultimately, the rise of the anti-woke movement is the latest iteration of the effort to maintain the existing social and political order. It is just another “label without meaning”: a cloak for racism, homophobia, transphobia and all manner of inequality. At its core is the desire to form a less perfect union, establish injustice and dismantle domestic tranquility. It is unpatriotic. To be anti-woke is to be anti-American.

So was King wrong?

Maybe the moral arc of the universe is just part of a circle that bends towards whiteness. Perhaps the lesson of 2022 is those who refuse to teach America’s true history have doomed us to repeat it. Or maybe it is a lesson in physics – for every positive action there is an equal and opposite backlash. Emancipation, then mass incarceration. Reconstruction, then segregation. The civil rights movement begat the states’ rights movement. The 1619 Project spawned the 1776 Project. LGBTQ+ pride produced “don’t say gay”. The response to critical race theory was the “great replacement theory”. Black Lives Matter spawned White Lives Matter. And when the murder of George Floyd opened the eyes of people who say they “don’t see color”, the racial reckoning resulted in an equal and opposite white backlash that morphed into the anti-woke movement.
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Personal note(s):
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1. These issues are very old ones. Yet the message is still being
delivered within our Nation and Government. Relations spin out of control
when chaos occurs. We look who was to blame or trigger these events
once more. Government has their heads in the sand piles because they
can't fix it - whereas the situation rises and falls more and more.
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2. What's the fix? - TRUTH is needed to lesson the backlash by those
who feel contrary to the issues that triggered them! Until resolved
I feel WOKE will rise off and on until resolved and becomes a thing
of the past - if at all possible!
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3. What happens when people lose trust in the government?
Declining trust in government in turn leads to less positive evaluations of Congress and reduced support for government action to address a range of domestic policy concerns.
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