What could possibly go wrong with any country teaching its army hatred and shame for its own history and heritage? Under the woke blokes of the American Left, that’s exactly what’s happening, with no recognition of the evolution of the country from black slavery to voting in a black president.
What West Point cadets are now being taught is cringeworthy. It is guaranteed that Western enemies including China, Russia and Iran are teaching national pride, despite the human rights abuse of each regime governing those countries.
America is being slowly destroyed from within as Critical Race Theory, extreme Green lunacy and gender madness indoctrinate a whole generation, with too few willing to resist.
“US Army teaching Critical Race Theory to West Point cadets: report,” by David Propper, New York Post, June 20, 2022:
The US Army has introduced Critical Race Theory to West Point cadets, new documents show, according to Fox News Digital.
The “woke” lessons ask cadets about whiteness while encouraging them to apply Critical Race Theory to their answers, according to documents obtained by Judicial Watch and given to Fox News.
The more than 600 documents were only handed over to Judicial Watch after the conservative organization sued the Department of Defense….
According to Fox News, a slide that delved into “Whiteness” states: “In order to understand racial inequality and slavery, it is first necessary to address whiteness” and the “Take-for-grantedness of whiteness.”
The slide also claims whiteness “is a location of structural advantage, of race privilege,” is “a standpoint or place from which white people look at themselves and the rest of society” and “refers to a set of cultural practices that are usually unmarked and unnamed.”
Another slide addresses affirmative action and asks “Do you think Affirmative Action creates an environment for ‘reverse discrimination? Use CRT to support your answer.”
A slide also poses the question “how would you apply a tenant [sic] of CRT to this idea,” referring to the difference between desegregation and integration.
In another slide, under Critical Race Theory, it states, “racism is ordinary” and “White Americans have primarily benefited from civil rights legislation.”…
Wellington says
If the military can be infected with this garbage any area of American life can be. The descent continues. The greatness of America is being destroyed from within.
PRCS says
The United States Military Academy West Point now derisively referred to as Woke Point.
mortimer says
West Point should be emphasizing CONSTANTLY that 300,000 white Americans died for the sake of liberating the slaves from involuntary servitude.
It was predominantly VOLUNTEER WHITE AMERICANS who ended slavery during the War between the States.
It was mainly WHITE AMERICANS who helped Martin Luther King in his campaign to end legal discrimination.
Is that celebrated by the wokist fools promoting reverse discrimination? Why not?
The Left is ignoring those parts of American history because they contradict their neo-Marxist narrative.
Wellington says
Agreed, mortimer.
All civilizations and societies have erred. But no civilization has done more to put mankind on the right path than has Western Civilization.
Here in America, the wrong of slavery was already realized as an egregious and immoral error as far back as the 1680’s by a group of Quakers in the very new town (eventually a city) of Philadelphia. Thereafter, more and more in American colonies, then states, realized slavery had to go and abolished it. The slave trade itself was banned no later than 1808 (found right in the Constitution) and, as you noted, America fought a brutal civil war not only to preserve the Union but eventually to also end slavery in America once and for all (many other polities did not end slavery until later, sometimes much later, for instance Brazil in 1888, Saudi Arabia in 1962 and Mauritania in 1985—and still it continues unofficially in the world today, especially in the Islamic sphere). Moreover, as Dennis Prager has noted, no race has done more for another race than has the white race for the black race here in America over the past 60-70 years to make up for the terrible wrongs of the past. I challenge anyone to demonstrate a “finer example” here.
The politics of grievance is the politics of stupidity once major reform has occurred. Right now in America, the Left, aided by many wishy-washy moderates and RINOs, are continuing to stoke the flames of racial resentment when there is no longer any need for such foolishness. What a waste. But I fear that a malevolent Pandora’s Box once opened is deuce difficult to close. Sure looks that way so far.
gravenimage says
Good exchange, Mortimer and Wellington.
john smith says
Seconded
Infidel says
If one are a patriotic parent thinking of sending his kids to West Point or other military academies, trends like this will cause one to stop. Within a short time, the US military will be like the Russian one – an army of thugs
I wonder how many troops will be infected w/ this toxic ideology before this practice is reversed?
somehistory says
and the navy is going with the they/them/it thingy so no one feels unwanted or threatened by words of he, she, you, ..
If I was a parent of one of these cadets and hadn’t been persuasive before they entered, I’d be washing their brains daily by phone, text, email and snail mail to keep them from believing this hogwash.
Whites don’t ‘name’ the ‘culture’ nor try to hold onto things and not allow others to make use of them…phones, hairstyles, clothing, words….it’s all out there for anyone who wishes.
Blacks, those from Spanish speaking lands, Asians, etc. may have their own cultures and expect the rest of us to ‘respect’ those, but in the current day, they don’t want the rest of us to make use of any of what they feel they created or had first.
So, because we don’t name our ‘culture’ or try to hold onto it, we are ***racist*** and no one else can be racist because they name their culture and put a hold on it as proprietary.
Whites are ‘racist’ if they recognize a person’s color, and racist if they are ‘colorblind.’ Whites don’t have to call others racist names to be declared racist, but others can call Whites any old derogatory word and that is not racist because the person saying the words, with malice or hate or disdain or even just dislike, is of a darker skin tone.
this entire thing is from the devil.
gravenimage says
All sadly true.
James Lincoln says
So, according to the feature article West Point is teaching its cadets “hatred and shame for its own history and heritage.”
And to the very people who – in the near future – are supposed to defend it!
Am I missing something?
somehistory says
And a majority of those to be defended…until the demographics biden wants are all in play.
gravenimage says
Exactly, James. This must be especially painful for you as a veteran.
James Lincoln says
Very painful, gravenimage.
Keith O says
There is a simple generic term used to describe any actions which deliberately undermine the security and safety of a nation.
Those actions can be the result of greed or of an ideological difference of opinion.
That term is treason.
Who ever is bringing down the military capabilities of the former United States is guilty of treason and should be charged as such.
gravenimage says
West Point cadets being taught Critical Race Theory and anti-whiteness
……………………………….
Why would these cadets want to protect a nation they are being told is evil?
Just sickening.
Andrew Blackadder says
Imagine being a young Cadet and being taught this garbage while your fellow Cadets sits beside you and looking over and noticing that he is of a different Race whereas yesterday he was just your buddy, your fellow Cadet.
This nonsense divides these young people, but perhaps that is the point of the NWO, to destroy what is and cause division where previously there was none.
OLD GUY says
Hey let’s just bend over and give America to who ever wants to take it over. We stand for nothing anymore. Law and Order are now dependent on your families skin color and history. Seems like slavery is seen as only an American institution rather than the truth that it was a world wide practice for thousands of years and still is practiced in many countries outside of America. Being a violent criminal is now someone else’s fault not the individual committing the crimes.