Army investigates handout suggesting
Trump campaign slogan
constitutes ‘covert white supremacy'
Military Times,
by
Howard Altman
Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter,
7/10/2020 3:17:01 PM
The Army Wednesday night announced it has launched an investigation into how a presentation on racism and discrimination included a handout suggesting President Donald Trump’s campaign slogan “Make America Great Again” is considered “covert white supremacy.” The investigation was launched after a complaint from an Alabama congressman.
Mo Brooks, a Republican who represents the district where the handout was distributed at the Redstone Arsenal, called the handout a “violation of the Hatch Act” designed to keep the military out of partisan politics. Brooks sent a letter to Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy, copied to Trump, Attorney General William Barr and others.
He “demanded an investigation into Army personnel illegally using federal government resources
Reply 1 - Posted by:
PESSIMIST 7/10/2020 3:21:19 PM (No. 473745)
Prediction: No culprit will be found. In the alternative, an unnamed individual will be discovered and the whole mess quietly resolved as "an error in judgment" or an innocent mistake.
In fact, we'll never hear anything from the Army again. They're too busy renaming forts and financing transgender surgery.
I used to be hesitant about criticizing the generals. I never served, and some of them showed actual battlefield courage. Who was I to criticize? Then I realized: Physical courage (or absence of rational fear) and moral courage are not the same thing. A whole lot of them lack the latter.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
cor-vet 7/10/2020 3:50:54 PM (No. 473784)
I would suggest that specifying the only 'bLACK lives matter' is racist and has no place in the military.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 7/10/2020 3:52:28 PM (No. 473790)
So, now we find that ANYTHING that disagrees with Marxist haters will become "stealthy white supremacy".
The enemy haters have found a tool, which is the nearly imaginary "white supremacy", and now they will us this tool to beat us up about ANYTHING and EVERYTHING.
I don't buy it .
But if they work long enough at it, I may decide to just become a white supremacist....why not? If I'm going to be accused of it, and can't defend myself against it, might as well join up.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
marbles 7/10/2020 3:56:49 PM (No. 473798)
Please someone, splain me, what is " spiritual bypassing", " weaponized whiteness" ? " Cultural appropriation " ? Really ? Beyonce has blonde hair. If White people are so bad why do non white women copy their hair texture, styles and colors? What's up with that. I will never get their beef with Columbus and the holiday we have to honor his courage and exceptional seamanship.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
learner 7/10/2020 3:59:14 PM (No. 473802)
Who ever handed this out and approved this should be prosecuted under the USCMJ to the fullest extent allowed
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Namma 7/10/2020 4:01:56 PM (No. 473806)
Anything to stop Trump from being really elected.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
jimincalif 7/10/2020 4:07:09 PM (No. 473815)
It would seem that the coup architects have the backing of a significant share of military brass. Will the rank and file obey orders to move against the president? Will they wait until after the election (assuming it won't be necessary if they successfully steal the election)? What can citizens do? No personally-owned weapons can take out a tank. I hope I'm wrong, but revolutions can be spontaneous and surprising.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
BarryNo 7/10/2020 4:22:07 PM (No. 473839)
This article topped our Cow Chips Meter.
Anyone above the level of Captain, who got there during Democrat Administrations, got there by at least pretending they agreed with Democrat values.
Had the same thing back in my college: head of the religion department was a hard-core flaming Marxist. If a seminary student didnt enthusiastically parrot his Marxism, he/she never git a recommendation to Seminary.
I know six people from my graduating class who essentially lied to graduate, and several more who transferred elsewhere, because they were blocked and wouldn't lie.
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The slogan was a stark contrast to the Obama-Biden economy, and illustrated that not even Hillary Clinton could counter that the economy back then was good.
In fact, the slogan was so strong and presented a positive outlook for America, they needed to use alternative names in hope they could fool people into thinking America didn't need to be great again.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
red1066 7/10/2020 5:02:26 PM (No. 473873)
I'm almost 67 years old. When do I start to benefit from this so called, "White Supremacy"? I've worked for everything I have. Nothing was ever given to me. Even my college education was paid for by me. I worked to pay for it, and at no time after high school, did I ever live in mommy and daddy's basement.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
volksford 7/10/2020 5:08:00 PM (No. 473878)
Kick ass from the top down that's the only thing they understand.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Newtsche 7/10/2020 5:19:59 PM (No. 473901)
This all started when Obama filled the military brass with a bunch of clowns in mom jeans.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Faithfully 7/10/2020 5:50:27 PM (No. 473935)
Just say ok, yes. White supremacy is why millions want to leave stone age THERE to live HERE.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
southerngal 7/10/2020 5:56:09 PM (No. 473940)
Redstone Arsenal is in Mo Brooks district and he is hot over this topic. We'll see if Republicans have any bite to enforce the law. I know Jeff Sessions sure was a disappointment when he finally had the chance to clean the swamp.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
JL80863 7/10/2020 6:15:34 PM (No. 473950)
Who wrote it? Who approved it? What funding cite was used to distribute it? When is the firing squad being formed?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
TXknitter 7/10/2020 6:47:05 PM (No. 473982)
Can I ask a question? Where are the Joint Chiefs of Staff? We see them all decked out with their medals at the SOTU events. We never see or hear what they even DO past that. There is a head of Army operations, right? He should be identified and held accountable.
I blame Esper for this.
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