I served in the USAF during the early 1970's, and to paraphrase a well-known expression, I assure you that Hegseth doesn't know his arse from a foxhole. "Leaders" such as Trump is installing are a clear and present danger to our country, and to democracy itself.
Hegseth disgusts me. I graduated from high school in 1976. One of my classmates was in the first class of women to be able to attend West Point. This assault on DEI is an insult to every American who isn’t a white straight male. And shame on all the divisions kowtowing to this.
They claim that affirmative action is no longer needed. It will be interesting to see if things will be fair going forward or if we go back to prejudiced hiring etc. My understanding of DEI is that it is giving everyone an equal standing on applications for jobs etc. So that there is a wide field to choose from. Those who ‘merit’ the position will be chosen and it is not affirmative action. It is a way to be confident that a non homogeneous society is playing fair. Trump is just spinning DEI as a villain to make all of his white male forces get angrier. Sickening.
And they don't even want this! I guarantee you that when men have to give up the salaries of their wives and girlfriends, they will change their tunes.
Truman integrated the armed forces when "separate but equal" was the law in much of the country and nearly two decades before the passage of the Civil Rights Act. Segregation leads to discrimination and racial distrust. Anyone who says that they don't see color is lying and almost certainly a racist.
Let us recall that women and minorities in the military are in the same boat as the FBI personnel targeted by the Loser administration. Let us remember that they are people, individuals who spent considerable time and or money building their careers, just as any of us might do. They made sacrifices in order to stay in public service. They put their lives on the line.
This isn't just about equal opportunity, it's about ripping away the seniority and success that they have legitimately built, which now may be thrown away in an instant, much as the Loser fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe just before he was to access his pension rights the last time around. It is no different from telling any one of us who paid for college, paid for ongoing training, relocated or stayed in order build a move up in a company or build a business that they can no longer work in that field, just because. Don't tell me they have options. This removes their options.
Worse than the magas being in our bedrooms and bathrooms, they now want to get up in our livelihoods, and these high-profile examples of the military and FBI may only foreshadow the desire to ruin people's lives and financial prospects, just because. Any one of us could be next. But hey, what about the price of eggs.
When racism in the civilian population increases as it will given this administration’s racist actions, racism in the military will become ever more white and ever more agreeable to being used to use force against peaceful demonstrations in favor of equality. But that’s what Hegseth and Trump want. White Christian Nationalism is an evil thing.
I spent 2 years ,68-69 as a Marine in Vietnam . We used to joke that at night while putting together an ambush and putting out a volume of fire once the shit hit the fan that we were all Black at night! I would submit that it does not matter what your biological sex is/was or what pronoun you currently use to identify yourself or what color your skin is. What matters is that you do your job and support others in your unit, during conflict and battle and for the rest of your life. Recently at the VA, prior to the new Administration I was filling out a form and I crossed out pronoun and wrote adjective: I filled it in with Contentious . Next line was Sex: My answer was Occasionally.
I served in the USAF during the early 1970's, and to paraphrase a well-known expression, I assure you that Hegseth doesn't know his arse from a foxhole. "Leaders" such as Trump is installing are a clear and present danger to our country, and to democracy itself.
That he can actually speak about “merit based” hires…SMH…he does know he’s in way over his head, right?
Anyone else having serious cognitive dissonance hearing them speak of meritocracy and then seeing Hegseth as Secretary of Defense?
Hegseth disgusts me. I graduated from high school in 1976. One of my classmates was in the first class of women to be able to attend West Point. This assault on DEI is an insult to every American who isn’t a white straight male. And shame on all the divisions kowtowing to this.
They claim that affirmative action is no longer needed. It will be interesting to see if things will be fair going forward or if we go back to prejudiced hiring etc. My understanding of DEI is that it is giving everyone an equal standing on applications for jobs etc. So that there is a wide field to choose from. Those who ‘merit’ the position will be chosen and it is not affirmative action. It is a way to be confident that a non homogeneous society is playing fair. Trump is just spinning DEI as a villain to make all of his white male forces get angrier. Sickening.
And they don't even want this! I guarantee you that when men have to give up the salaries of their wives and girlfriends, they will change their tunes.
Truman integrated the armed forces when "separate but equal" was the law in much of the country and nearly two decades before the passage of the Civil Rights Act. Segregation leads to discrimination and racial distrust. Anyone who says that they don't see color is lying and almost certainly a racist.
Let us recall that women and minorities in the military are in the same boat as the FBI personnel targeted by the Loser administration. Let us remember that they are people, individuals who spent considerable time and or money building their careers, just as any of us might do. They made sacrifices in order to stay in public service. They put their lives on the line.
This isn't just about equal opportunity, it's about ripping away the seniority and success that they have legitimately built, which now may be thrown away in an instant, much as the Loser fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe just before he was to access his pension rights the last time around. It is no different from telling any one of us who paid for college, paid for ongoing training, relocated or stayed in order build a move up in a company or build a business that they can no longer work in that field, just because. Don't tell me they have options. This removes their options.
Worse than the magas being in our bedrooms and bathrooms, they now want to get up in our livelihoods, and these high-profile examples of the military and FBI may only foreshadow the desire to ruin people's lives and financial prospects, just because. Any one of us could be next. But hey, what about the price of eggs.
When racism in the civilian population increases as it will given this administration’s racist actions, racism in the military will become ever more white and ever more agreeable to being used to use force against peaceful demonstrations in favor of equality. But that’s what Hegseth and Trump want. White Christian Nationalism is an evil thing.
I spent 2 years ,68-69 as a Marine in Vietnam . We used to joke that at night while putting together an ambush and putting out a volume of fire once the shit hit the fan that we were all Black at night! I would submit that it does not matter what your biological sex is/was or what pronoun you currently use to identify yourself or what color your skin is. What matters is that you do your job and support others in your unit, during conflict and battle and for the rest of your life. Recently at the VA, prior to the new Administration I was filling out a form and I crossed out pronoun and wrote adjective: I filled it in with Contentious . Next line was Sex: My answer was Occasionally.