https://archive.ph/TTshc https:// www. politico. com/news/2021/06/23/top-general-fires-back-criticism-military-woke-495703
Top general fires back at 'offensive' criticism of military being 'woke'
Milley's comments are some of the most pointed in defense of the military, which has come under heavy criticism from Republican lawmakers and right-wing personalities for what they argue is leadership aiming political bias against conservatives.
By CONNOR O’BRIEN 06/23/2021 02:54 PM EDT
The military's top officer on Wednesday pushed back against GOP lawmakers who said the Pentagon's efforts to combat racism and promote diversity have made the armed forces too "woke."
Joint Chiefs Chair Gen. Mark Milley gave a fiery defense of open-mindedness in the ranks during a House Armed Services hearing, saying he's offended at the accusation that those efforts have undercut the military's mission and cohesiveness.
"I personally find it offensive that we are accusing the United States military ... of being 'woke' or something else because we're studying some theories that are out there," Milley said.
The four-star general told lawmakers that service members should be "open-minded and be widely read" because service members "come from the American people" and said he wanted to better understand racism as well as the climate that led to the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.
"I want to understand white rage — and I'm white," Milley told lawmakers "What is it that caused thousands of people to assault this building and try to overturn the Constitution of the United States of America?
"I've read Mao Tse Tung. I've read Karl Marx. I've read Lenin. That doesn't make me a communist," Milley continued. "So what is wrong with understanding, having some situational understanding about the country for which we are here to defend?"
Milley's comments are some of the most pointed in defense of the military, which has come under heavy criticism from Republican lawmakers and right-wing personalities for what they argue is leadership being "woke" and aiming political bias against conservatives at the expense of defending the U.S.
Gaetz claimed opposition to the stand down is "the No. 1 issue" raised in his conversations with troops.
"Thanks for your anecdotal input," Austin shot back. "But I would say that I have gotten 10 times that amount of input, 50 times that amount of input, on the other side that has said, 'Hey, we're glad to have had the ability to have a conversation with ourselves and with our leadership.'"
Gaetz also accused Austin's senior adviser on diversity issues, Bishop Garrison, of being a "critical race theorist" and cited past tweets. The defense secretary responded that Gaetz's questioning was the first time he'd heard Garrison described as a subscriber to critical race theory.
"We do not teach critical race theory. We don't embrace critical race theory, and I think that's a spurious conversation" Austin told Gaetz. "We are focused on extremist behaviors and not ideology, not people's thoughts, not people's political orientation."
https://archive.ph/5DHoT https:// theintercept. com/2021/05/17/military-pentagon-extremism-social-media/
PENTAGON PLANS TO MONITOR SOCIAL MEDIA OF MILITARY PERSONNEL FOR EXTREMIST CONTENT
The military has previously balked at surveilling service members for extremist political views due to First Amendment protections.
Ken Klippenstein May 17 2021, 8:25 p.m.
An extremism steering committee led by Bishop Garrison, a senior adviser to the secretary of defense, is currently designing the social media screening pilot program, which will “continuously” monitor military personnel for “concerning behaviors,” according to a Pentagon briefing in late March. Although in the past the military has balked at surveilling service members for extremist political views due to First Amendment protections, the pilot program will rely on a private surveillance firm in order to circumvent First Amendment restrictions on government monitoring, according to a senior Pentagon official. Though the firm has not yet been selected, the current front runner is Babel Street, a company that sells powerful surveillance tools including social media monitoring software.
https://archive.ph/mfsf6 https://web.archive.org/web/20210506040841/https://www.revolver.news/2021/05/bishop-garrison-pentagon-hatchet-man/ https://www.revolver.news/2021/05/bishop-garrison-pentagon-hatchet-man/
Meet Bishop Garrison: The Pentagon’s Hatchet Man in Charge of Purging MAGA Patriots and Installing Race Theory in The Military
May 5, 2021 (25m ago)
If you’re in the military, it appears that Bishop Garrison’s CEWG will scour your Internet history, making sure to target “gray areas, such as reading, following and liking extremist material and content in social media forums and platforms.”
A leaked 17-page DARPA memo from March 27, 2021 entitled “Extremism and Insider Threat in the DoD” provides a clue as to what new categories of lawful thoughts, associations and reading materials are likely to be scanned and banned by Bishop Garrison’s CEWG. DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency colloquially known as “The Pentagon’s Brain,” recommended a brand new category called “Patriot Extremism,” which occurs when a citizen believes “the US government has become corrupt” or “has overstepped its constitutional boundaries”:
“Patriot Extremism” is completely distinct from “White supremacy,” which DARPA maintains as a wholly separate category.
But DARPA’s “Symbols of Extremism” collage on page 6 clearly reveals their intended target: the collage includes 12 “far-right” symbols, versus just two Antifa symbols, and just one for ISIS. “Extremist” “far-right” symbols include Pepe the Frog, the OK hand gesture, “Come and Take It” guns-rights memes, and the “Q” in QAnon:
I personally find it offensive that you can't handle criticism and instead of defending your decisions you are attacking anyone who questions you.
The first and only sign you need that someone is a shill.
The only reason our military should be reading Marx is so that they can better understand the enemy. Anyone entreating you to read Marx because they want you to "keep an open mind" is already a communist.
I read all he listed, and more such as Deleuze and Althusser, which is a large part of the reason I hate this woke shit so much. He is clearly a communist.
Spez: I wonder how the general would react to a soldier reading Mein Kampf or Culture of Critique and saying that doesn't make him a fascist.
I was told it was all low-ranking rear-echelon interns that were woke on Twitter.
Obama appointed compromised officers to positions of prominence during his administration.
They just now feel more comfortable being open about it.
This general is the highest ranking guy in the military after the President.
Glad he's figuring out "white rage" with my man Karl Marx then.
White rage. Good grief. They will be treating January 6th like the British burning down the White House during the war of 1812.
The People: Protest with signs and publicly shout their grievances at the nation's Capitol.
The government: "I sure wish we knew what all these people were raging about."
Reads book from anti-Semite from a hundred years ago “Now I understand how everyone currently thinks and feels!”
Literally almost nothing.
Had anyone been listening to the people at the Capitol, most of them were pissed off about
This man is a traitor and a faggot.
The literal American, patriotic, defiance flag/meme
Molon labe
On this note, I was utterly gobsmacked (...well, not really) when Biden said that the 2nd Amendment never meant you could own cannons. Nevermind the well documented case where a merchantman captain sent a letter to John Adams (?) asking if he could mount cannons on his ship to defend against pirates and Adams responded "What part of 'Shall Not Be Infringed' was not clear to you?" Historically, both the American Revolution AND The Texas Revolution started because the powers that be tried to take citizens cannons and the citizens responded "Hippity Hoppity, get off my property!"
Yeah, cannons were hard to make, so in the Americas, they were repeatedly seen as a strategic supply. While the American Revolutionaries did have standard revolutionary tactics in towns and cities, once the British were formally deployed into the continent, strategic reserves of cannon were their first target because the British has already been forced to evacuate from Boston because the Colonials mounted artillery on Dorchester heights.
This is also what made the loss of Fort Lee and Fort Washington utterly devastating in the early disastrous New York campaign, because the Americans lost the majority of their available cannon and supply and ammunition. They had field guns that they carried with the army, but the loss of even one of these cannon would be a huge problem in open battle against British Line infantry, against equipment-problem-plagued American militiamen.
Effectively, the American states had some cannon in their arsenals and in their forts. But also, Americans had private cannons that could be on ships, on forts, and even blockhouses & homesteads, all varied in their size and capabilities. All of the cannon had to be imported from Europe because there was not enough industry in the Americas to actually build Cannon. In the end, the Continental Army had to scrounge whatever cannon it could from whatever quarter in order to employ it.
That being said, if anything is true, the need for field artillery has DECREASED since the American revolution. Such heavy weapons are not needed for revolutions anymore. Revolutions can come in many varieties, and many require only small arms. Worse, thanks to global trade, no one encounters the problem the Americans did in the revolution. Arms dealers and smugglers will pour in during a conflict and provide you with mortars, RPGs, anti-tank guns, .50 machine guns, etc. And don't discount the danger of a fucking Cold War era anti-aircraft gun mounted to a fucking Toyota pick-up truck. I swear those things are everywhere.
Chad can get anti-aircraft weapons relatively easily. The American revolutionaries had to strip cannon from old Spanish and French forts, and drag them across a continent, just to hope that it might disorganize a formation. That or they had to steal that shit from the British on the battlefield.
Imagine how hard it would be for the Taliban to try and steal an M777 howitzer and carry it away to use it later. That's pretty fucking ballsy.