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'Woke' Department of Defense equity chief writes anti-White posts: 'Exhausted with these white folx'

Hannah Grossman
Fox News
Wed, 14 Sep 2022 17:04 UTC

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The chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer at the Department of Defense's education wing, who describes herself as a "woke administrator," wrote a series of disparaging posts about White people on Twitter, Fox News Digital found.

Kelisa Wing is the DEI chief at Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA), which provides K-12 education to the DoD community in the U.S. and all over the world. After Fox News Digital reached out for comment, Wing's Twitter was put on private, but she did not immediately respond.

She wrote in June 2020, "I'm exhausted with these white folx in these [professional development] sessions."

"[T]his lady actually had the CAUdacity to say that black people can be racist too... I had to stop the session and give Karen the BUSINESS... [W]e are not the majority, we don't have power," she continued.

"Caudacity" is a slang term that is used to describe audacity demonstrated by White people.

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"[B]eing antiracist means being active against racism... you will NEVER arrive... stop centering this on whiteness," Wing said.

The DoDEA didn't respond to a request for comment.

On another occasion, Wing responded to a user who said, "I am exhausted by 99% of the white men in education and 95% of the white women. Where can I get a break from white nonsense for a while?"

Wing responded, "If another Karen tells me about her feelings... I might lose it..."

In another post, Wing responded to a user who criticized the DoD diversity chief's article demanding all teachers take part in "dismantling racial oppression" and claimed that "racism is ingrained in the very fabric of our country."

"Bye Karen," Wing responded to the user.

Wing has also referred to former President Trump as the "whole boy version of a Karen" and former secretary of education Betsy DeVos as "the queen of Karens."

Fox News Digital reached out to the Department of Defense, asking if Wing's statements about White people were appropriate for a DoD employee involved in diversity, equity and inclusion, but did not immediately receive a response.

DoDEA "directs... education programs for school-age children of Department of Defense personnel" and "provides support and resources to Local Educational Agencies throughout the United States that serve children of military families." DoDEA schools are located in the United States, Europe, Pacific, western Asia, Middle East, Cuba, Guam and Puerto Rico.

Wing — who oversees curriculum at DoDEA, according to a press release — has also co-created children's books that said that White people must confess their privilege and were de facto hurting Black people by being benefactors of unearned advantages.

"White privilege hurts a lot of people. If you are White you might feel bad about hurting others or you might feel afraid to lose this privilege," the book, "What is White Privilege?" said.

It said that, "Overcoming White privilege is a job that must start with the White community."

"[W]ill you really feel good at the end of the race when you look back and see others fighting obstacles that you didn't even have?" the book added.

The book was reportedly taken down for review along with other radical-left titles by a Florida district, according to a nonprofit that monitors books taken down from the shelves.

"Honored to be involved with work that causes good trouble," Wing said on Twitter about the report.

"What is White Privilege?" also encourages White kids to "unpack" their "backpack" of privilege and referenced an article by Peggy McIntosh that said that White women are "justly seen as oppressive" and "enjoy unearned skin privilege."

McIntosh's article also lamented that White students are not taught in schools to see themselves as "an oppressor," a "participant in a damaged culture" and "unfairly advantaged."

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"This is a popular phrase that means to think about all the advantages you have every day because you are White," the children's book said about privilege.

The book provides children with an assignment to create an "identity map" and question "What parts of my identity have provided me with privilege?"

The book also stated that White people must "spend" their privilege by becoming social justice activists. "Address how your identity can help you achieve racial justice."

"There is hope! By learning more about White privilege we can work to spend it," the book said. "Privilege is like extra money in your pocket that you didn't earn."

Wing said that her responsibilities at DoDEA included taking "a holistic view of the agency in terms of recruitment and retention, development and promotion, teaching and learning, and then as well as climate," according to a video posted to the education wing's YouTube channel.

Some of Wing's children books she co-created contain misleading information or glaring omissions.

For example, "What is Black Lives Matter?" said "almost all" the protests after George Floyd's murder were "peaceful." However, according to Axios, the pro-BLM riots that erupted in 2020 amounted to more than $1 billion in damages, "the most expensive in insurance history."

Wing's children's book "What is Anti-Racism?" contains misleading statements if not outright misinformation.

In one instance, the book said that some people say the word "race" comes from Italian or Hebrew. However, there is no word in Biblical Hebrew for race — that was later invented in modern Hebrew, according to Aish, a nonprofit organization with expertise on Judaism.

The book also said "the modern idea of 'race' was introduced by the National Party in Germany." The exclusion of the "socialist" part of the Nazi party name notwithstanding, the claim is misinformed. The idea of race was utilized in a pseudoscience called eugenics before the Nazis in Germany rose to power, and the Nazis included those debunked eugenic views within their ideology.

In a seemingly contradictory claim, the book also said that "race" was born on American soil.

Fox News Digital asked for clarification about how the idea of race was both created by the Nazis in the 20th century and also born on U.S. soil hundreds of years beforehand, as the children's book appears to claim, but did not receive a response.

"What is Anti-Racism?" also said that 15 to 20 million people died in the Holocaust. The Holocaust refers to the genocide against European Jews by the Nazis as part of the "Final Solution." In fact, 6 million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust.

Wing has also co-written a children's book about defunding the police, in which she explains to a young audience the differences between abolishing, defunding, disbanding and reforming police with anti-racist policies.

When Wing was promoted to chief in December 2021, the DoD said Wing "has been involved with diversity, equity and inclusion efforts for students and schools over many years, authoring several books on the topic."

The director of DoDEA, Thomas Brady, said, "Kelisa Wing is exactly the right person to lead our efforts in building on the foundational work done to support meaningful change in our organization."

"This new position will take a holistic approach to identifying and improving how we integrate the practice of diversity, equity and inclusion in every aspect of DoDEA, from curriculum and assessment to hiring and professional development," he continued.

Hannah Grossman is an associate editor at Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent on Twitter: @GrossmanHannah.

Comment: China and Russia and anyone else the U.S. deems and 'existential threat; are laughing their heads off.

BTW, Wing's insufferable posturing, not to mention the whole racist "white privilege" schtick, is based on ONE source:

The origin of 'white privilege': US aristocrat Peggy McIntosh's catastrophically flawed thesis

Reader Comments

Rife · 2022-09-14T17:38:15Z

Diversity is divisive and it sucks.

Imagine what it would be like to live in a country that treasures it's culture and history.....

codis · 2022-09-14T17:55:13Z

Rife Any species of individual that ignores reality or refuses adaption has died out, or will do so sooner or later.

The same applies to cultures and civilisations.

sbc · 2022-09-14T22:48:55Z

Rife diversity brings adversity, yet the people who want total diversity suck at handling any adversity.

they should just watch some original Star Trek episodes, sing koombaya, and get the fuck over themselves.

codis · 2022-09-14T17:39:05Z

"Department of defense equity" - the Chinese and Russians will shit their pants - with laughter.

sbc · 2022-09-14T18:30:07Z

We are THE human race.

Therefore no one can be racist unless they hate every human.

Dogs have breeds. Cats have breeds. Horses have breeds. ANIMALS have breeds. This means humans have breeds too.

People can be prejudicial. People can be biased. People can be assholes.

It is just about damn impossible for people to be racist though.

I wish people would use their fucking brains a little more. Especially the ones who pretend to be authoritative on issues they can't even properly define.

I'm so tired of how "racist" gets thrown around as a dumbfuck's go to insult.

gonexploring ·

sbc

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balboa schwartz · 2022-09-14T19:25:35Z

sbc Oh good, another in a looooong series of idiot anti-Caucasian black women.

sbc · 2022-09-14T22:47:49Z

balboa schwartz amen.

azigzagidiot · 2022-09-15T15:05:26Z

From the linked article on Peggy McIntosh:

Very few of the people reading this article - whatever the color of their skin - will have even the vaguest idea of the comfort and privilege in which Peggy McIntosh grew up and to which she has since become accustomed. Nor will we have access to the world of opportunities that she has been fortunate enough to enjoy. But even though the lifetime of privilege McIntosh has experienced is almost certainly due to her wealth and not the colour of her skin, she nevertheless found a way to share this irksome burden with the illiterate children of Kentucky coal miners, the hopeless peasants of the Appalachians, poor single mothers struggling to make ends meet on welfare, and the vast majority of whites in the United States and throughout the world who never had the chance to attend Radcliffe or Harvard. She simply reclassified her manifest economic advantage as racial privilege and then dumped this newly discovered original sin onto every person who happens to share her skin color. Without, of course, actually redistributing any of the wealth that, by her own account, she had done nothing to deserve.

All of which means that pretty much anything you read about 'white privilege' is traceable to an 'experiential' essay written by a woman who benefitted from massive wealth, a panoply of aristocratic connections, and absolutely no self-awareness whatsoever. This alone calls into question the seriousness and scholarly validity of the derivative works, since they are all the fruit of a poisonous tree. But McIntosh's hypothesis was eagerly embraced nonetheless, because it served a particular purpose - it helped to mainstream a bitter zero-sum politics of guilt and identity. This dark epistemology has quietly percolated through the universities and the wider culture for two decades now. It has had the effect of draining attention from a massive and growing wealth gap and it has pitted the poor against one another in public spectacles of acrimony and even violence. Even so, it was readily embraced by progressively-minded professors who might otherwise have had trouble squaring their thirst for social justice with their high six figure salaries. In the last decade, this dogma has come screaming out of the nation's august halls of learning and into mainstream civil discourse (although to call most of what passes for discourse today 'civil' somewhat labours the definition). And, still, we are endlessly and forcefully reminded that to question this concept in any way is, in and of itself, racist.

The apostles of this ludicrous doctrine cherry-pick narrow snippets of history and count on the decline of classical education and the meretricious imprimatur of obscurantist pseudo-scientific jargon to ensure the doctrine is never carefully examined.

[...]

This Kelisa (black version of Karen) has signed on for modern blaxploitation and probably doesn't recognize it. The idea that, "...black people can [not] be racist... [W]e are not the majority, we don't have power," is just how these ideologues slip out of personal responsibility and cognitive dissonance: it's not a personal choice and there's no need to assess each individual as a person, it's systemic, so we get to be racist about it. So you're lauded to be a superhero by these people just for being blax with no actual merit or qualifications necessary, and any whitey is a devil. Talk about black and white thinking.

Diversity Equity Inclusion, DEI

Improvised Exploitation Dialogues, IED

Driving Inidividuals' Exegesis, DIE

BluLiteDancing · 2022-09-15T16:08:59Z

azigzagidiot Well said Zig Zag. It seems Peggy certainly did have privilege, financial privilege beyond measure. However rather than humbly examine her life she supplants her silver spoon upbringing with the critical theory of wuhite privilege projecting it on to humanity writ large. I’m convinced the potent mix of entitlement, feminist doctrine & liberalism is cancer.

azigzagidiot · 2022-09-16T14:31:35Z

BluLiteDancing I don't know much about McIntosh's background, but I would say that yes her theory gets wrapped up into a package deal and is used to try to foment 99% vs. 99% in-fighting. That a reason the packaged social problem(-reaction-solution) gets such big support is because it's known it doesn't actually address the systemic problem-- in my view, the wealth gap. So those theorized orchestrators of approved culture promote it.

I think to an extent entitlement was won by what our ancestors have done. I think feminism has some valid ideas, but, like mentioned on SoTT here some time ago was something I hadn't thought of before which is how TQ+ gets appended to LGB and some would like it separate. Women having choices generally speaking is good, but then so much gets rolled into the deal, like animosity towards men and I think that's misplaced or doesn't belong. To keep at it, liberalism has been distorted to include so much that imo shouldn't be there, but it has created good historically.

I think Kelisa should recognize that she is entitled by virtue of past efforts, that other people (and in my opinion, mainly men) have created a civic and infrastructure system that makes her life and work possible, and that she and the woke mob have been duped into taking up a cause that is very much akin to the anti-black racism of old. Like how formerly whites would ascribe to blacks inborn deficiencies, which was critical race theory then, outside of context of their difficulties and diminishing their good characteristics, now white culture is taken to be a monolithic structure of oppression, which if you examine the context does not always or only rarely applies, in tandem with refusing to recognize what good has been done. It's lost that the majority of normal people have been in a struggle for a long time, and yes some friction or animosity comes from us rubbing elbows together and not actually liking each other, but in-group vs. out-group biases seem to be the norm so just recognizing that should help to get along, one could hope.

It's difficult for me to account for the idea that there may be concerted effort against normal people. Thanks, BLD, I like a post of yours where you were railing on something not long after I tried to give you some grief and meant to say something in reply but missed it. So thanks again.

As a side note, the Ukraine is now forced to "import" electrical energy from neighboring countries : [Link] I hope those countries - EU countries,...

codis

I wonder if one can outflank it. Sticking black tape over the lense, or a print-out of the "everything OK" image it is supposed t see ? I would...

codis

Poking the bear and kicking the dragon. I wonder if this is the recipe for success ...

codis

Maybe the militaries will shut down their sonar in the Subs before they kill all sea life.

Patrick2017

Trump card is the court joker...aka clown world. period... case closed: diagnosis "unfit to lead" the U.S. is the laughing stock of the world....

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