During testimony before the House Armed Services Committee regarding the budget request for the Department of Defense, Milley said that "on the issue of critical race theory" he believes it is "important actually for those of us in uniform to be open-minded and widely read."
"The United States Military Academy is a university and it is important that we train and we understand. I want to understand white rage and I'm white," he added.
"What is it that caused thousands of people to assault this building and try to overturn the constitution of the United States of America," Milley said, seeming to suggest January 6 Capitol riot was related to racial strife.
"I've read Mao Zedong. I've read Karl Marx. I've read Lenin. That doesn't make me a communist. So what is wrong with understanding, having some situational understanding about the country for which we are here to defend? I personally find it offensive that we are accusing the United States military, our general officers, our noncommissioned officers of being 'woke' or something else because we're studying some theories that are out there that was started in Harvard Law School years ago."Milley's comments come after Representative Mike Waltz (R., Fla.) demanded earlier this month that U.S. Military Academy West Point stop teaching cadets critical race theory.
Waltz first contacted West Point Superintendent Lieutenant General Darryl Williams in April to question the school's curriculum around race after he obtained examples of a lecture entitled "Understanding Whiteness and White Rage" and a classroom slide labeled "White Power at West Point."
Waltz called the teachings "divisive," "destructive," and "unacceptable" for the future leaders of the U.S. military.
In a letter to Williams earlier this month, Waltz questioned whether the academy plans to continue its teachings and warned that the country is
"on incredibly perilous ground if any future leaders of our military are taught the civilian institutions and structures with ultimate authority over them... are systemically oppressive and that they therefore have a duty to oppose them."Earlier this year the Pentagon completed a 60-day "stand down" to address extremism after a number of veterans participated in the Capitol riot. A "stand down" occurs when the defense secretary deems an issue important enough to be addressed through discussions across the force, according to the New York Times.
The Pentagon said a group would be assembled to review how to improve its vetting process for recruits and to educate service members who may be targeted by extremist organizations.
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R.C.
BLD & HFL: Exactly!
RC
But the fascism that General Eisenhower warned us about has been slowly slipping into place. You might remember his words “Beware the military industrial complex” - you should, since you are its poster-child. But this 21’st century version of fascism involves the One World Government dream and the Great Reset. So, to prep the US population, the military & the government have turned on the people - especially white people since they are primarily middle class. Your battle plan is to make Americans feel like they no longer recognize their own country. That makes it easier for you and your ilk to beat them into submission.
The military refuses to defend the southern border, and illegals are running wild through the streets of America because of you. On that alone, you should resign. Asshole’s like you and Brennan pretending January 6 was to subvert the constitution, when it was orchestrated by the intelligence services. And then to claim that extremist groups must have brainwashed the participants. When you know the media is paid handsomely by the intelligence services to brainwash the American people.
And the latest stoops low even for you. Telling trans people the military will pay for their sex change will certainly increase the recruiting class, but the white taxpayers are very pissed off about it. How trans soldiers makes for a cohesive military fighting force in tough to understand. The special housing, the lifetime hormone treatments all costs money. Are they going earn their keep by giving out BJs to the enemy on the front lines, or just to the Generals back at base camp? Anyway, since you were in Afghanistan, the US maintained heroin capital of the world, perhaps you can get the CIA to share some of their heroin earnings to fund your woke/trans soldiers, and spare the taxpayers a few bucks.
Finally, veterans were at January 6, precisely because of guys like you. They hate what you have done to their country, and their military. That hate what you stand for - the decline in our military. You do look very out of shape for a soldier. And just so you are clear, putting on all those awards and ribbons doesn’t actually make your dick bigger.
RC
rage against white collar staged
insurrection hoax
I'm not a military person, but if I was a soldier the last person I want in my unit is a wokie who is only looking out for themselves and their feelings.
RC