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Top Marine Corps official orders removal of all Confederate symbols from bases worldwide
 - Commandant General David Berger issued an order that Confederate-related paraphernalia be removed from Marine Corp installations worldwide
Like it or not, they're suppressing both speech and culture. First they come for the guys you don't like, then for the people you disagree with. Eventually they'll come for you. The ghost of Thomas Jefferson is is saying some very bad words.
- The decision comes after a survey revealed 36 percent of troops have experienced white supremacy or racism in their ranks
"A = B" equation. If your description of "racism" is pretty loose, then 36 percent of everybody's probably experience "white supremacy or racism."
- Half of minority service members had personally witnessed racism
We're "racist" in a combat environment. In Vietnam, the enemy (and to lots of people the Vietnamese in general) were zips, slants, gooks, what have you. I have no doubt that Afghanistan, Iraq, and similarly unpleasant places are populated by rag heads, hajjis, and folks of that ilk. Under other circumstances we're more polite. I fear those witnessing the racism under other circumstance are including "microaggressions" in the total. In the course of twenty years in the Army, I personally saw two instances of actual racism, one of them on my second day of basic training.
- Troops listed white supremacy as a larger threat to the country than immigration
Yeah, buddy. It's those klansmen in uniform you gotta watch for. We have 1.3 million active-duty troops. Statistically, some of them are bound to be anuses.
- Berger's decision also comes in the wake of high-profile incidents in which troops were shown to be engaged in extremism
Crawling out the walls, are they? White supremacists under every bed? Senator McCarthy sez he has a list of 100 200 300 white supremacists in government!
- Lance Corporal Vasillios Pistolis was kicked out of the Marine Corps in 2018. He was identified violently smashing a Confederate flag onto a counter-protester at the 2017 'Unite the Right' rally in Charlottesville, Virginia
They forgot Timothy McVeigh. Shucks, that was just 25 years ago.
I don't like racists, and if I ever met a white supremacist I probably wouldn't like him/her/it. Neither can I stand having my opinions scrutinized and "corrected." When I was a kid (in this case, anything under about age sixty) the Confederate flag could be seen on cars, in houses, on bathing suits, state flags, underwear, you name it. Lots of places used to fly both the national flag and the Stars and Bars. The implication wasn't white supremacy, but Southerness.
Posted by: Skidmark 2020-02-28 |
