Brain-dead compliance
We talked before about people over-enthusiastically complying with government directives – as if they were government employees who want to make their orders look ridiculous by stretching them to cover every conceivable thing. One currently enjoying being abused is the order banning diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training. How low can you go? Well…
In compliance with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s order to remove apparent DEI content by Wednesday, March 5, U.S. military branches are working overtime to flag and erase any Pentagon media that might seem to promote diversity, regardless of their historical significance.
The Associated Press has compiled an archive of the images flagged for removal, and several of the links already lead to dead pages.
One of the ‘banned’ topics vanishing from service archives? Pics of the “Enola Gay”.
For those who need reminding, the Enola Gay was the B-29 which dropped ‘the bomb’ on Hiroshima. Far from some odd gender-affirming nonsense, she was named for Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of her pilot, Paul Tibbets. But, since the word “Gay” is visible on her nose…out she goes.
Some of the historic content flagged for removal could have been predicted, fitting into the Trump administration’s increasingly broad definition of DEI. Those included images of the legendary Tuskegee airmen, female Marines and events honoring Asian and Pacific Islander contributions to the military.
Additional “gay” imagery flagged included service members who have the last name Gay, with the name visible on their uniform. People
Me, I can see getting rid of the newer brand of “blame Whitey for everything”, trying to get kids to become sexually confused sorts of nonsense. But the services are taking such broad steps as to call into question the judgement of the folks carrying out the excisions. Are they trying to make the whole effort look ridiculous? Possibly embarrassing a POTUS with whom they disagree? They even deleted a photo of fish biologists classifying fish, apparently because the caption said the workers were recording data on the fish including ‘gender’.
I saw where Trump told managers that when letting people go, they should us ‘a scalpel instead of a hatchet’ Fox News. Hegseth should do the same… we don’t eliminate the history of the Tuskegee Airmen or Buffalo Soldiers because it’s DEI, we celebrate them for doing a double-tough job in spite of the establishment. No need to, as the saying goes, throw out the baby with the bathwater. Use some sense, folks.
On the opposite side, though, this does remind me of a time in the ’70s when the Lawrence, KS police department were forbidden to strike over pay, and were warned not to attempt an adhoc strike by calling in sick (a practice known at the time as “blue flu”.) They had a novel solution: they started enforcing the law. All of them. 2 mph over? Ticket. Parked too close to a curb or more than 18″ away? Ticket. They literally wrote thousands of tickets in a couple of days. I believe they won their pay negotiations, too.
Category: 2024 Election, DEI
