Quote (EndlessSky @ Jun 23 2021 05:38pm)
You won't achieve anything by meandering in the keyboard realm. All this white rage needs to be manifested physically so your voice can be heard in the media and hopefully proselytize the self-loathing white youth - less talk, more action. At least the teachers and the general below are valiantly picking a side and sticking to their guns - what are you doing to save the White race?
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Top General Defends Studying Critical Race Theory In The Military
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley responded sharply to questions from Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz on Wednesday about the examination of critical race theory in the U.S. military.
"I've read Mao Zedong. I've read Karl Marx, I've read Lenin. That doesn't make me a communist. So what is wrong with understanding — having some situational understanding about the country for which we are here to defend?" Milley said.
He continued brusquely: "And I personally find it offensive that we are accusing the United States military, our general officers, our commissioned, non-commissioned officers of being, quote, 'woke' or something else, because we're studying some theories that are out there."
C-SPAN captured Gaetz shaking his head while the Joint Chiefs chairman spoke.
Until recently, critical race theory was anything but a household phrase. Rather, it was used to describe an approach to studying institutional racism, as NPR's Barbara Sprunt has reported. But it has become a culture war issue, and the phrase has been stretched well beyond its initial meaning, as conservatives in particular have used the phrase to raise concerns about race in venues including state legislatures and local school boards.
Gaetz originally posed his questions on the theory to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, the nation's first Black Defense secretary. Gaetz cited unnamed military members criticizing the military's recent "stand down" to deal with extremism, and then asked about how the Defense Department should "think about critical race theory."
Austin was less terse than Milley, but also dismissed Gaetz's concerns.
"We do not teach critical race theory. We don't embrace critical race theory, and I think that's a spurious conversation," he said. "We are focused on extremist behaviors and not ideology — not people's thoughts, not people's political orientation. Behaviors is what we're focused on."
In his response to Gaetz, Milley referenced Waltz's concerns as well, saying that such education could be useful in understanding the attempted insurrection on January 6.
"I want to understand white rage, and I'm white, and I want to understand it," he said. "So what is it that caused thousands of people to assault this building and try to overturn the Constitution of the United States of America? What caused that? I want to find that out."