Diversity Training at U.S. Air Force Academy Leads to Major Controversy
The new frontline on the war on woke has not shifted to the U.S. Air Force Academy:
Academy officials say such diversity training is long overdue and will build better leaders, while critics worry about what appears to be a changing culture and focus in the military and its institutions that will be to the detriment of the nation’s defenses.
One slide presented as part of the training program bore language that encouraged cadets to “recognize diverse family formation” by using broad terminology that avoided gendered references. The academy said the slide was taken out of context; cadets aren’t prohibited from using the terms “mom” and “dad,” as some news reports claimed, and the information presented as part of the training was “not intended to stand alone.”
But the academy’s response has only served to fuel ongoing controversy about so-called wokeism in the military, a debate that was re-stirred after images of the AFA training slides were shared beyond the campus north of Colorado Springs last month, reported on by Fox News Digital and then a slew of other outlets.
The slides , visual aids used in a moderated presentation at the academy — and the only elements of the presentation subsequently leaked to the media — made their points in a series of bullet points. One slide encouraged cadets to use “person-centered” and “inclusive language” that doesn’t imply presumptions about others’ situations, preferred pronouns or family life.
So, “parents/caregivers/guardians” instead of “mom and dad.”
And “ya’ll/team/squaddies/everyone/folks,” instead of “you guys.”
It also discouraged cadets from using terms such as “colorblind.”
A second slide explained that diversity and inclusion are key to developing warfighters who are prepared to lead the Air Force and Space Force “with character.”
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You can read more at the link, but the Academy is pretty much just producing the standard diversity training that is going on in most colleges in the U.S.
bunch of idiots
Leadership at the Zoo is beyond awful now. Has been for a while.
You bigots are just not aware of how diversity is a force multiplier.
Diversity hires and quota fillers and trannies and screwballs with two mommies have an important mission in today’s armed forces.
Minefields don’t clear themselves.
No sense putting an expensive and useful robot at risk.
Bonus: If you can convince a future “leader” to go along with all this insanity, it will be super easy to get them on the program when you need them to war crime somebody.
Aftertthought: I suspected civilization was done when adults were hassling kids over chewing pop tarts into an L shape and calling it a gun… even though it clearly was not a gun… at least to me… but apparently not to every grown adult.
Now the blurry line between pop tarts and guns has shifted to men and women, patriots and Nazis, and if Disney should encourage children to be made into trannies.
I know where I stand on all this but it seems people claiming to be smarter than me feel very much the opposite on these issues.