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Funny How We Accept White, Straight, Christian Men Are Inherently Qualified [1]
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Date: 2025-04-09
U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield was fired yesterday because she had the temerity to give a speech in 2015 for Women’s Equality Day. As the only woman on the NATO military advisory panel, the Trump administration made her the fourth female casualty in the war to rid the United States of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Before the dismissal of Admiral Chatfield, Adm. Linda Fagan, the commandant of the Coast Guard; Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the Chief of Naval Operations; Lt. Gen. Jennifer Short, Senior Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense; and the second black Joints Chief’s chairman, Gen. C.Q. Brown Jr. These are not the only firings but they are significant because the reasons given were there race, gender and their goals of inclusivity.
Enigma…
This war is not just on women and people of color but also the LGBTQIA+ community. Had Donald Trump been President during World War II, would he have prolonged the war by refusing the aid of a British mathematician? The Germans developed a complex code that baffled Allied intelligence until a gay man [Alan Turing] broke the “Enigma” code. Turing was treated as an enigma instead of a hero for his efforts. He was chemically castrated after being convicted of gross indecency in 1952 for having sex with a man. Mr. Turing committed suicide in 1954. The British, realizing the absurdity and obscenity of their mistake in May 2012, put a private member's bill before the House of Lords in the British parliament to grant Turing a statutory pardon, which gained government support in July of that year. Queen Elizabeth posthumously pardoned Turing.
The Trump administration treats talent as if it is the exclusive innate purview of straight white Christian males. Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense who is spearheading the firings, has been accused of being a drunk by colleagues, an abuser of women by his mother, and an unqualified leader by his former subordinates. The recent efforts to purge historical figures like Jackie Robinson, Harriet Tubman, and The Tuskegee Airmen from the annals of the country’s sorted racist past makes it pretty transparent what Republicans think of black Americans who go against their ideas of a white utopia.
Black Americans since the election of former President Barack Obama have been accused of voting for both him and recently former VP Kamala Harris because they are black. Funny that few, if any, ever say that white people voted twice for the least qualified candidate because he is a white man. It would be hard for anyone to objectively say he was more equipped for the job than Hillary Clinton or more qualified than Kamala Harris. Mr. Obama said it less than a week ago, speaking about the Trump administration suspending security clearances or orders to federal agencies to cancel contracts to firms connected to political rivals. “That kind of behavior is contrary to the basic compact we have as Americans. Imagine if I had done any of this,” Obama said during the sit-down conversation with the college's president Steven Tepper.
As someone who lived through the ‘60s, I submit that the bro culture nostalgia that has taken over politics and common sense under the cloak of anti-woke activism is a recipe for disaster. Driving the car backward is no way to win the race.
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