Defense secretary’s latest interposition resulted in all-male, overwhelmingly white picks for promotion to admiralty
The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, stripped nine navy officers including women and Black service members from a promotion list last month, according to a person familiar with the matter, resulting in an all-male, overwhelmingly white slate of 22 advancing as nominees to become one-star admirals.
Hegseth’s unusual intervention violated promotion rules designed to be merit-based and apolitical, the New York Times said on Tuesday, and extended the Trump administration’s push to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the military.
The original promotion list included three women and two Black officers in addition to the two who remained, the newspaper said.
Do they really want meritocracy or do they just want white cis christian loyalists?
DEI for me, not for thee. “Removing DEI” is just code for “shifting DEI to white cishet Christian men”.
They’ll call it a meritocracy to make themselves feel better. But it’s just DEI aimed at white men.
Oh they want the latter. But they want to call it meritocracy so they feel better about it
Kinda makes fascists who are blunt about their desires look better.
Is it better to be shot in the face or the back?
Better to be shot by someone who isn’t going to attempt to gaslight you about how they actually didn’t shoot you, that would be annoying.