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| 30-Year Naval Academy Teacher Details Depth Of DEI Rot In America's Military Institutions |
| 2024-04-09 |
| [Federalist] It’s no secret the Biden administration has "reimagined" the U.S. military into a left-wing social experiment. From employing enlisted drag queens to boost recruitment to using taxpayer funds to host LGBT "pride" events on military installations, America’s supreme fighting force has prioritized promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) racism over addressing the biggest challenges hampering U.S. military readiness. A recently released book unveils how this leftist ideology is also infecting the military’s service academies. In Saving Our Service Academies: My Battle with, and for, the US Naval Academy to Make Thinking Officers, author and professor Bruce Fleming documents the pervasiveness of DEI throughout the U.S. Naval Academy (USNA) and shows how the institution’s cookie-cutter bureaucracy is crippling individuality among the school’s midshipmen. During his over 30-year teaching career at the institution, Fleming served (for a time) on the USNA Admissions Board, which evaluates applicants and decides which are ultimately admitted into the school. While on the board, he allegedly discovered that — like many civilian colleges — the academy considers applicants’ race throughout the admissions process and accepts nonwhite applicants who don’t meet the school’s academic requirements. Fleming claims that "[a]pplicants who self-identified as a member of a race the Academy wished to privilege ... were briefed separately to the committee not by a white member but by a minority Navy lieutenant." "The choices are simple. If you want students who look a certain way but tend to score lower than others, you accept the lower scores and stop talking about your standards. Or you go with the class that can meet these standards and stop talking about the way they look," Fleming writes. "The Naval Academy tries to square the circle by both bragging about its standards and letting in half the class to lower standards." Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision that the use of race-based admissions, or "affirmative action," by institutions of higher education is unconstitutional. That decision did not, however, address the use of such policies by U.S. military academies. Students for Fair Admissions — the plaintiff in the aforementioned SCOTUS decision — filed lawsuits against West Point and the Naval Academy over their race-based admissions policies in September and October, respectively. Throughout his book, Fleming further notes that the USNA’s obsession with race is creating "resentment within the ranks," and that students who speak out against the school’s DEI-focused promotion system are punished. "What I saw at Annapolis was that nonracist white midshipmen became resentful at realizing that leadership positions were awarded to less competent midshipmen on the basis of skin color, and that they themselves, if they noted this out loud, were punished for not being with the program — which increased their resentment," Fleming writes. "All promotions or preferences are individual ones, and ’broadly reflective diversity’ is bought at the individual level by preferring a less competent individual with the desired skin color. If they are equally competent or more competent, the problem disappears." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #6 They lost me when they came after the midshipman who expressed a back the blue view in social media. His parents are police officers. He couldn’t be tolerated. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2024-04-09 15:58 |
| #5 ^No reason to suggest they don't correlate. Filmmaker releases ‘Killing America’ after YouTube pulled trailer amid cease and desist |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-04-09 13:26 |
| #4 Opps - mixed my reply up with the DEI Article about the contract and propeller. |
| Posted by: mossomo 2024-04-09 12:45 |
| #3 If there was any doubt. She was a contractor for Sumaria Systems, and from their About Page: To be a responsible member of our community by supporting our nations military personnel and... promoting diversity and inclusion. DEI spells DIE. |
| Posted by: mossomo 2024-04-09 12:42 |
| #2 /\ Only those in power. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2024-04-09 06:55 |
| #1 Who needs external enemies? |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-04-09 05:59 |