How can you neuter or divide a unified fighting force if you aren’t willing — as our post-racial, post-partisan President and his various ideological fellow travelers larded throughout the bureaucracies and enjoying appointments to positions from which they can do the most institutional damage — to go ahead and just do it?
A controversial 600-plus page manual used by the military to train its Equal Opportunity officers teaches that “healthy, white, heterosexual, Christian” men hold an unfair advantage over other races, and warns in great detail about a so-called “White Male Club.”
“Simply put, a healthy, white, heterosexual, Christian male receives many unearned advantages of social privilege, whereas a black, homosexual, atheist female in poor health receives many unearned disadvantages of social privilege,” reads a statement in the manual created by the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute (DEOMI).
The manual, which was obtained by Fox News, also instructs troops to “support the leadership of people of color. Do this consistently, but not uncritically,” the manual states.
The Equal Opportunity Advisor Student Guide is the textbook used during a three month DEOMI course taught at Patrick Air Force Base in Florida. Individuals who attend the training lead Equal Opportunity briefings on military installations around the nation.
The 637-page manual covers a wide range of issues from racism and religious diversity to cultural awareness, extremism and white privilege.
I obtained a copy of the manual from an Equal Opportunity officer who was disturbed by the course content and furious over the DEOMI’s reliance on the Southern Poverty Law Center for information on “extremist” groups.
“I’m participating in teaching things that are not true,” the instructor told me. He asked not to be identified because he feared reprisals.
“I should not be in a position to do that,” he said. “It violates Constitutional principles, but it also violates my conscience. And I’m not going to do it – not going to do it.”
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DEOMI opened in 1971 in response to the civil rights movement. It’s responsible for Equal Opportunity/Equal Employment Opportunity education and training for military active duty and reservists, according to its website.
The subject of white privilege emerged in a 20-page section titled, “Power and Privilege.”
“Whites are the empowered group,” the manual declares. “White males represent the haves as compared to the have-nots.”
The military document advises personnel to “assume racism is everywhere, every day” and “notice code words for race.” They are also instructed to “understand and learn from the history of whiteness and racism.”
“Assume racism is everywhere, everyday,” read a statement in a section titled, ‘How to be a strong ‘white ally.'”
“One of the privileges of being white is not having to see or deal with racism all the time,” the manual states. “We have to learn to see the effect that racism has.”
On page 181 of the manual, the military points out that status and wealth are typically passed from generation to generation and “represent classic examples of the unearned advantages of social privilege.”
“As such, the unfair economic advantages and disadvantages created long ago by institutions for whites, males, Christians, etc. still affect socioeconomic privilege today,” the manual states.
The guide also points out that whites are over-represented and blacks are underrepresented in positive news stories, that middle class blacks live in poorer neighborhoods than middle class whites and that even though there are more white criminals than any other race, the news coverage of black criminals is about equal to the news coverage of white criminals.
The military manual goes into great detail about a so-called “White Male Club.”
“In spite of slave insurrections, civil war, the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, the women’s suffrage movement leading to the 19th amendment, the civil rights movement, urban rebellions and the contemporary feminist movement, the club persists,” the document states.
DEOMI states that “full access to the resources of the club still escape the vision of equitable distribution.”
The military also implies that white Americans may be in denial about racism.
In a section titled, “Rationalizations for Retaining Privilege and Avoiding Responsibilities,” the military lays out excuses white people use.
“Today some white people may use the tactic of denial when they say, ‘It’s a level playing field; this is a land of equal opportunity,’” the manual reads. “Some white people may be counterattacking today by saying political correctness rules the universities or they want special status.”
DEOMI points out that if “white people are unable to maintain that the atrocities are all in the past, they may switch to tactics to make a current situation seem isolated.”
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called former Congressman and Lt. Col. Allen West (ret.) to get his take on the manual. In a nutshell – he wants a congressional investigation.
“This is the Obama administration’s outreach of social justice into the United States military,” he told me. “Equal Opportunity in the Army that I grew up in did not have anything to do with white privilege.”
West said he is very concerned about the training guide.
“When the president talked about fundamentally transforming the United States of America, I believe he also had a dedicated agenda of going after the United States military,” he said. “The priorities of this administration are totally whacked.”
West said the DEOMI manual reminded him of a similar program inflicted on the military by President Clinton.
“They came down with a new training requirement called, ‘Consideration of Others Training,’” he said. “The soldiers were supposed to sit around and go through vignettes and talk about their feelings.”
I have, on numerous occasions, referred to the Obama presidency as the “faculty lounge presidency” — meaning it is long on dubious, politically motivated and doctrinal theory, most of it advanced by leftist academics, that they believe needs to be imposed on a society of individuals they truly despise and wish to control through shame, identity politics, and divisive Balkanization.
In short, it is a presidency whose ideological agenda is based in the very things we know Obama, Holder, and many of the liberal / progressive / Marxist academics he surrounds himself with have long studied and have adopted as gospel: that the American Dream is a fantasy used to keep the downtrodden always striving (until they give up and are saved by the benevolent hand of the State); that rugged individualism or individualism itself is a similar misleading mythos peculiar to a country that has engaged in slavery and segregation (and also ended those practices, against the desires of the Party now assuming the high road in this game of historical revisionism); that “critical race theory” advances real arguments in favor of the necessity of equality of outcome over equality of opportunity, claiming that opportunity itself is never equal (despite 60 years of governmental thumbs on the scale of inequality masquerading as a kind of reboot, a leveling of the playing field), etc.
This is nothing you won’t hear in a typical set of often required liberal arts seminars — the difference being, there you can roll your eyes, repeat what you know the professor wants to hear, and escape with your grades in check.
But when it’s pushed on a national scale — when urbane “academic” leftism becomes the stuff of public policy — it’s natural absurdity can only be disguised by ever increasing attempts to police it as legitimate.
Think of it this way: many Marxist college professors get tenure and are therefore untouchable, free to hone their attempts at institutional indoctrination. And in Obama, we have the very apotheosis of that mindset: as an imperial king of sorts, he and his cohort have been given license to fan throughout our institutions, replacing our founding principles, themselves entirely antithetical to this Marxist, materialist, bogus world view — one that history has shown us time and again leads to misery, totalitarianism, and an oppressed citizenry remade as subjects and pawns to the social engineers and various “elite” technocrats — with principles that wear the disguise of “tolerance,” “fairness,” and “freedom” while systematically refiguring those tenets of a free society until they become, in essence, their opposites.
This is more than mere political correctness run amok. This is a calculated move to reinforce Marxist ideology, and to insinuate it into every facet of our lives, with the hope that once it takes root, no amount of weed killer can extirpate it. Save maybe industrial ground clear.
Which, sadly, is the path we are on.
The long march through the institutions cannot be sneered away by leftists who pretend that to take their foundational beliefs seriously is to show ourselves as extremists and kooks. But when the GOP establishment is giving aid to the movement — redefining itself as “conservative” while moving constitutionalists to the fringes, where we are labeled extremists, latent domestic terrorists, racists, and unsophisticated populists bent on tearing apart the social fabric — they are setting up the very situation Bill Ayers once dreamed of, and that many politicl movement before have relied up: the “re-education” or “rehabilitation” of their detractors.
And the ones who refuse such a kindly education in how to subvert their individual will to the collective’s manufactured consent? Well. Godwin’s law prevents me from going there. At least for now.
(h/t Terry H)
It’s not a violation of Godwin’s Laws if it’s true.
nobody pays attention to these stupid trainings
This is one you may want to retweet, if you have that capacity.
C’mon Jeff. How can you destroy the military without going to the root of what holds it together: The “Band of Brothers” ethos which causes one man to throw himself on a grenade to protect his buddies. Better to have a quick melanin check before doing anything so drastic.
The next time somebody mentions cutting funding to the military, I think I have an easy cut to suggest…
On page 181 of the manual, the military points out that status and wealth are typically passed from generation to generation and “represent classic examples of the unearned advantages of social privilege.”
On page 182, Squid points out that people of any color or creed can hand bequeath status and wealth to their children, if they just get off their asses and start building up status and wealth.
This is one you may want to retweet, if you have that capacity.
That will have to be someone besides me, since I have an account but I don’t tweet.
“. . . unearned advantages of social privilege .”
Y’know, like, breathing: which is why there’s a need to monitor CO2 output.
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As someone who is white, but was born with a serious speech impediment and bad lungs, I’d gladly trade my so-called “white privilege” for a decent set of lungs and no speech impediment.
However, my white privilege upbringing required that I get off my ass, go to work and not whine about my afflictions.
However, my white privilege upbringing required that I get off my ass, go to work and not whine about my afflictions.
Same here, Blake. We weren’t allowed to be victims at my house.
By the way — any time somebody making six figures for their bullshit equal-opportunity white-guilt tote-bagger HR gig lectures you about privilege, you should probably ask them what sort of privilege you’d need if you wanted a bullshit equal-opportunity white-guilt tote-bagger HR gig that paid six figures and required nothing more than rote repetition of Marxist class war bromides.
However, my white privilege upbringing required that I get off my ass, go to work and not whine about my afflictions
I believe that is the actual source of any advantage “white people” have. No excuses.
While everyone here is displaying the size and girth of the bootstraps they pulled themselves up by. . .
It’s 2013 and the Pentagon finally learns about white privilege, gasp. They are a huge employer, responsible for the proper training of thousands of civilian and military workers. The military can’t exist in a vacuum where social power differentials don’t exist because “people just aren’t working hard enough.” If anything the training, which by the way is required by a large swath of corporate employers, will hopefuly add some moral complexity to a population that just can’t seem to stop committing sexual assaults and killing themselves.
i just
I don’t think powerpoint presentations work on that level Mr. hunter
they don’t change who you are inside
maybe if you use a LOT of animation
Dalek, as always: STFU.
“. . . add some moral complexity to a population that just can’t seem to stop committing sexual assaults and killing themselves.”
Disregarding the possibility that moral complexity isn’t proven better for human flourishing than moral simplicity, take up the question whether the current time in this society is more, or is less, encumbered by sexual assault and murder than any time in human history? So what’s the measure against which your fantasy makes compare? And where, again, will you find the root of a “morality” you seem incapable of finding anywhere in the past? Just make it up as you go along, do you? Or can you account for your possession of it?
Business models do not overlap into a command structure that is needed to conquer the enemy.
Indeed, such modeling has lead to the pussification of today’s troops and commanders through the relief from duty of commanders who understood this to be true and didn’t cotton to it.
Nine commanders relieved from duty since the Wance took control. But no one fired from the Cabinet.
Go figure.
dalek, how about I toss an “until you’ve been in my shoes, you cannot possibly understand what it’s like. therefore, you’ve no right to even discuss such matters….blah blah blah.”
It’s the favorite refrain of you leftists. So, you have two choices. 1. Shut up and go away. or, 2., admit that it was merely a device to shut down debate.
I would suggest that people on both sides of the so-called social power differentials probably have some self-examination to do.
Self-examination is free. It’s the mandatory self-criticism sessions that kind of suck donkey dong.
I suggest dalekhunter do some serious introspection for his failure to bring it.
…admit that it was merely a device to shut down debate.
– Alas, to the dismay of the Libturds reality happily continues to assert in a sort of “fuck Progressivism” way.
– As far as size and gerth, its a well known fact that the only pussies who worry about size is those that can’t find it with a spy glass.
That’s the thing about power vacuums, dalek: you have to stop sucking.
– If, as it happens, you are a victim of a teenie weenie DKH, best to keep it to yourself don’t cha know.
what leigh said
I grew up with no father, no grandparents, and a disabled mother. Working since I was 13 and studying hard is what got me out of poverty.
What will they learn about in 2014? The exact location of Santa’s workshop?
Racism like many nasty things in the world is real and you do not need a power point presentation to recognize them. White privilege is just something made up to guilt people who are generally nice to their fellow man.
…the training, which by the way is required by a large swath of corporate employers…
“All the other kids are doing it!” is apparently a legitimate argument, according to our Moral Superiors. Bear that in mind the next time they try to convince you just how wise and nuanced they are.
Also, as one who has worked for a couple of Fortune 500 companies, and who has consulted in countless organizations since: the only people who take the HR bullshit seriously are the HR people, and most of them are just pretending to believe in it themselves. The whole exercise is an excuse to employ some otherwise unemployable faculty lounge types, and to justify some bloated HR budgets.
And at the risk of repeating myself: it’s just delicious to have some Angry Studies expert lecture a roomful of people who possess actual, valuable, marketable skills and abilities about how horrible they all are, because they’ve grown up in a society that allows people like them to go for months at a time — years, sometimes! — without being lectured by some Angry Studies expert on how horrible they are.
Also, don’t think that the gratuitous insult against the only functional and respectable part of our government went unnoticed. Our man Dale has as much class as he does intelligence.
Most of which are big Democrat donors these days.
CRONYISM!
White privilege is just something made up to guilt people who are generally nice to their fellow man.
What bugs me is how underhanded the thesis is: “We can’t call these people racist outright, so we’ll just say that they are beneficiaries of a racist society. Then we’ll reinforce that it’s up to them to change their society, thus implying that they’re part of the problem. Now they feel like racists, and look on all their friends and family and colleagues as racists, but we never actually called any of them racists directly. And they’re motivated to vote Progressive in order to ‘change the society’ like we told them to. BRILLIANT!”
I’d rather be a racisss than a chump.
it is like telling someone “you didn’t build that”
Dalekhunter says November 1, 2013 at 2:13 pm
While everyone here is displaying the size and girth of the bootstraps they pulled themselves up by. . .
…Dalek reveals poor quality control on the talking points it was ordered to parrot. At least this one fixed it’s voder.
Did “white privilege” suddenly leap to the top of Journolist? It seems to be popping up all over the place.
If anything the training, which by the way is required by a large swath of corporate employers, will hopefuly add some moral complexity to a population that just can’t seem to stop committing sexual assaults and killing themselves.
Ah, smell the condescension and contempt.
– What a load of steaming horse manure, and to think these nitwits get payed to spew this crap.
. . . the condescension and contempt.
His ignorance either prevents any attempt he might make to conceal those qualities or else liberates his need to assert them. But the same ignorance can’t possibly alert him to the problem.
Since the government shutdown, you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting some media member claiming Republicans are in a lot of trouble heading into next year’s midterm elections.
– Link.
– Damn, Mother Jones could lose their propaganda license from talking truth to Narrative over there.
the deal where the marines and such keep raping japanese schoolgirls is getting a little old
someone should do a powerpoint
The Japanese schoolgirls should stop raping Nanjing with their minds, or so the Nanjingians aim to believe. In reaction, the Japanese schoolboys, yearning after the Japanese schoolgirls, are bent on recovering the arts of war.
I just read an article about Japan and how the kids there are bored to death with sex and are abstaining.
It turns out a bit of sexual tension heats things up after all.
. . . bored to death with sex and are abstaining.
Oof. I’d hardly believe such rot. Sounds too near to the ravings of Maggie Mead to me.
I thought the same sdferr. But in a land of 30+ kids living at home, girls who dress like dolls, Hello Kitty and a few generations of debauchery, I guess anything can get boring.
argh. 30+ year old kids . . .
Japan is the future, after India
Japan is the future, after India
robot sex with dots
I’m guessing boredom induced the interviewees to having one on with the interviewer, is what.
I’m with newrouter on this one. As Mark Steyn is wont to say, “the future belongs to those who show up for it.” And the only people not showing up for at an even greater rate than Europeans are the Japanese.
“White Male Club.”
Let’s begin a 600 page manual with a big fat straw man written by someone with a big fat chip on their shoulder.
That’s illogical! Eeew, that makes me mad.
My blood pressure is jolted by hearing of this unfair act, I must now control my thoughts and to do that I shall briefly allow them freeform. That big fat chip on someone’s shoulder that made a book and pervasive educational program out of a bad attitude reminded me of the name of my Siamese fighting fish, Chip, not named after myself.
On account of a chip in his fin. The one before that was named Doug, on account of his fin being dug.
And the one before that was named Nick. And before that Mark. They don’t live very long.
Gouge only lasted a couple of weeks, and Rip Torn only a a few months. The blue ones are cool but not so hearty Split and Shreds didn’t last long at all.
Carter fucked over the military and intelligence communities sideways too. And he was a former sub commander(albeit during a shakedown). Before that Nixon and Ford both left the military to fester ant rot after what Johnson did to it.
Race is being used as a tool. The entire reason the argument is being framed in this way is because the government wants even more control over your kids, and the way to eliminate the passing of “social privilege” (e.g. pass on your morals of honesty, hard work, etc) is to separate/alienate parents from their children.
Kinda like Obamacare, the elephant in the room is that the government was already hip deep in the issue before anyone decided to “do something”. In the case of these absurd grievances, look who has the kids for more waking hours a week than the parents do. The government. And the proposed solution will be twice as much or more of same.
The Japanese thing is really interesting. I’d read about it before. I’d be very interested in seeing how their urban attitudes about boredom differ from the more rural ones, if they do at all.
When did the Military become a Dr. Seuss cartoon? How bout be all line up for John Boehner pigmentation (hold the tears please) treatments, and shave our heads. I’m sure that will eliminate all of that “unearned social privilege”
One thread is enough to hawk your wares, sir. You have made yourself look like a spambot.
Or spooging spamatozoön in search of a welcoming oöcytic plaything.
i have a siamese fighting fish at work
I got it cause “the partners” were at odds about what style clock to put in the break room so I got a plucky lil fish fish and put it in the break room and took the controversial clock and put it in my office where it goes tick tock and tick and tock but with no relation to the actual time, which one of our programmers unfailingly points out whenever he ducks in
but we don’t label him siamese per se we just call him a betta
his name is enrique boo and he just got a new house and he’s very happy but he gets depressed on the weekends cause nobody feeds him
Le spam est mort.