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Thank you.My answer is that each military branch teaches its history.
Thank you.My answer is that each military branch teaches its history.
Teaching about the Tuskegee airman doesn't require DEI and never has, your statement above is a pointless no sequitur.
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Yes, they are stories. No coincidence that DEI apologists get their panties in the wad over the correct use of words.
What is the point of this statement? Are you saying the Tuskegee Airman story is fiction?![]()
No one owes you any explanations for anything, you have demonstrated, time after time, a reluctance to be educated, enjoy your bliss…….So you have to attend a military college to serve in the military? I don't think so.
Plus, still no one has explained to me why it needs to be taught in the service and not to all Americans in high school.
It is a DEI story.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are organizational frameworks which seek to promote the fair treatment and full participation of all people, particularly groups who have historically been underrepresented or subject to discrimination on the basis of identity or disability.[1]
No need to be rude.No one owes you any explanations for anything, you have demonstrated, time after time, a reluctance to be educated, enjoy your bliss…….
You have no idea what “rude’ is, or “root,” for that matter……No need to be rude.
If you can't answer you can't answer. Its no big deal.
The Air Force is teaching its own history and historical themes as an armed military service of the United States. The AF teaches new members both officer candidates and enlisted. High schools public and private across the country teaching military service history by service would be great as far as I among some others would be concerned. You need to get on it!I understand but why are we wasting time teaching basic history. Again, should this not be taught to all Americans in high school?
The Tuskegee Airmen were a segregated unit who are notable because of their excellent performance, but the formation of the Tuskegee Airmen had nothing to do with DEI.
The Air Force is teaching its own history and historical themes as an armed military service of the United States. The AF teaches new members both officer candidates and enlisted. High schools public and private across the country teaching military service history by service would be great as far as I among some others would be concerned. You need to get on it!
Alas I point you in this direction....I am more of a pointer. You go do it as i point.![]()
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Conservatives find teaching this history extremely objectionable. They straight up want to erase it.How are you defining DEI? I (sort of) understand, though disagree with arguments against DEI, but acknowledging the existence of non-white males, and acknowledging past discrimination against them should not be objectionable to anyone. If you think the discrimination was wrong, it should be taught to remind us to do better, and if you think it was right, there’s no reason to hide it.
You've been told. You pretend not to hear.Yes, if fact it was. But I'll add you to the list of responders who claim "that isn't what DEI is!!" without offering your own argument of what you think DEI actually is...
Before the Tuskegee Airmen, no African American had been a U.S. military pilot. So clearly it was a DEI program.
You've been told. You pretend not to hear.
Not so for the bolded.Indeed I will, becau7se that is where that nonsense belongs. An emotional nutjob Biden fan decided that you can't teach Tuskegee Airman without DEI, and you know that it is a stupid Biden fan that did this because nowhere in the EO or the statement by the new SecDef were anyone ordered to not teach about the Tuskegee Airman, they took it upon themselves to make an announcement that they wouldn't be taught, and the Sec Def immediately shot the moron down, and hopefully the idiot responsible is relieved of duty.
LOL No. It was segregated, it was not equitable, diverse or inclusionary.
What you are doing is like arguing that Montgomery bussing laws were DEI because blacks were allowed in the bus.
No, it doesn't.Nope. J Brown did provide the definition he was going from but it just proved my point.
Also DEI in practice isn't even D, E or I. It is systemic racism couched as a solution for imaginary systemic racism that prioritizes skin color sexuality and self image over actual skill.
Wrong of course.The Tuskegee Airmen were a segregated unit who are notable because of their excellent performance, but the formation of the Tuskegee Airmen had nothing to do with DEI.
You MAGAs love to kick around the term DEI, treating it as a pejorative without really knowing what it is.We have been able to teach about these groups without DEI for a long time.
Get off it! American meritocracy is a myth. If it truly were one Trump would never have become our President Christ! Look at some of the people Trump has nominated/appointed! Many of them are either underqualified or have little to no relative experience or background to perform the jobs or run the departments he wants them to. Hegseth is a prime example.These are stories of merit winning out over racial discrimination. DEI is enforcing Racial discrimination regardless of merit.
Jackie Robinson wasn't drafted. He was signed to a free-agent contract out of the Negro League. Robinson was 28 years old then. 28 is a rather advanced age for a major league player to begin his career. And arguably he wasn't even the best player in the Negro League. But Dodger President/General Manager, Branch Rickey, wasn't just looking for a Black player with great talent. Branch was also aware that this Black player would also have to be imbued with certain other qualities that were perhaps even more important, such as maturity with a strong sense of inner strength and discipline. The kinds of qualities he would need to be able to endure the wide-scale racist and discriminatory defamations and animus he is sure to face without anger or retaliation no matter how harsh. Because the future of his career and the other Black players aspiring to follow the same path to the Major Leagues depended on it. He explained this to Robinson and Robinson reacted initially with disgust. Saying to Rickey - "Are you looking for a Negro player who is afraid to fight back?" Rickey replied he needed a "Negro player with the guts enough not to fight back." Robinson then agreed to the precondition. So it would appear that Robinson was selected specifically to break Major League Baseball's color barrier. Or what you guys now might call a DEI hire. Let's be clear here. Branch Rickey's desire to end racial segregation in the Major League wasn't born solely of an ideological sense of ethics. His keen business sense played a part in it as well because Rickey was aware that the Negro Leagues contained a wealth of baseball talent So there was that too.Jackie Robinson wouldn't be such a great story if he was a mediocre player who was drafted because he was black rather than breaking the color barrier because he was clearly a better baseball player than the majority of players in the league.
You MAGAs love to kick around the term DEI, treating it as a pejorative without really knowing what it is.
Get off it! American meritocracy is a myth. If it truly were one Trump would never have become our President Christ! Look at some of the people Trump has nominated/appointed! Many of them are either underqualified or have little to no relative experience or background to perform the jobs or run the departments he wants them to. Hegseth is a prime example.
Jackie Robinson wasn't drafted. He was signed to a free-agent ... Negro Leagues contained a wealth of baseball talent So there was that too.
Wrong of course.
Tuskegee Airmen diversified the Army Air Corps...
No, it doesn't.
You're doing what all right wingers do: assuming the minority candidates are less qualified.
Since all the pilots were white, the introduction of the Tuskegee airmen deprived other whites of the opportunity to take those spots.
Pure DEI.
No you dont need to attend military college to serve in the military but it is the most common way for those who wish to be officer, which is a requirment to fly jetsSo you have to attend a military college to serve in the military? I don't think so.
Plus, still no one has explained to me why it needs to be taught in the service and not to all Americans in high school.
No, it doesn't.
You're doing what all right wingers do: assuming the minority candidates are less qualified.