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When Equal Treatment Feels like Discrimination

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Posted By: 4250Luis, 10/5/2025 5:28:14 AM

Dr. Thomas Sowell famously and rightly remarked when people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination. The counter-programming from secretary of War Pete Hegseth during his September 30 Quantico speech to top military brass doubtless received a frosty reception from at least some of the high-ranking commissioned officers who had grown accustomed to preferential treatment. Consider the psychological mindset of a DIE-privileged general, perhaps someone like Hegseth’s predecessor (the race- and climate-obsessed Gen. Lloyd Austin) or Gen. C.Q. Brown, Jr., formerly of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a vocal supporter of Black Lives Matter.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Venturer 10/5/2025 7:45:15 AM (No. 2012733)
I keep remembering the shout that we all got when I was in basic. "Get with the program". There is a new program now, they can get with it or they can get out.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: felixcat 10/5/2025 8:00:06 AM (No. 2012741)
Not to the authors - it's not just Martha Raddatz whining about the "poor" furloughed federal employees but many on Fox News. I just wish Karoline Levitt would emphasize that if OMB does start issuing RIFs that they are for the employees working in unnecessary and/or redundant programs that have no statutory basis to exist rather than repeating ad nauseum; eliminating fraud, waste and abuse....
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