Indoctrination, American Style

You might imagine that the right wing is becoming completely overwrought about diversity, equity and inclusion training. You might imagine that it’s all a bunch of exaggeration foisted on us by overheated conservative brains.

And yet, alas, the Wall Street Journal has gone through some of the material that is being used by agencies of the American government to indoctrinate staff and it turns out to be worse than even I had imagined.

Let’s try a few examples:

The Department of Veterans Affairs has a gender gingerbread person. NASA says beware of micro-inequities. And if U.S. Army servicewomen express “discomfort showering with a female who has male genitalia,” what’s the brass’s reply? Talk to your commanding officer, but toughen up.

The U. S. Army, having long since abandoned the notion that it should fight and win wars, now has a transgender policy:

Asked for its diversity training, the U.S. Army offered three modules on transgender policy, one for “Commanders at all levels,” another for “Special Staff,” and a third for “Units and Soldiers.” Notable is a series of vignettes that cover pronoun usage, urinalysis observation, and a serviceman who wants “to discuss his newly confirmed pregnancy.” With respect to showers, schedules can be adjusted or curtains installed. But a soldier’s gender in the Army’s system governs which facilities are used. Accommodating only a transgender soldier is prohibited.

And, of course, anti-racism training has seeped into the manuals:

A NASA training on “Allyship for Executives” says that the term “African American” is “utilized heavily in white spaces,” and it “can make Black people feel excluded as the term tends to ‘other.’” Another NASA slide series explains that inclusive leaders “are willing to be ‘uncomfortable’” in exploring “race, gender, sexual orientation” and so forth. “We have been taught to act as if we are colorblind and gender-neutral,” it adds, but “these efforts actually limit us.”

Of course, the Biden presidency has been front and center on these matters:

But one lesson is that there is now a conveyor belt from academia to the diversity-industrial complex. The portmanteau “misogynoir” was coined in 2010 on a blog called Crunk Feminist Collective. Eleven years later it’s in a training for government workers.

This type of re-education was accelerated by President Biden’s 2021 executive order directing agencies to “increase the availability and use of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility training.” It’s a form of political indoctrination intended to impose woke values on the vast federal bureaucracy and U.S. military.

Who had ever imagined that political indoctrination would take over the American military. And you were worried about the CCP? Time to wake up and smell the coffee.