{"id":115447,"date":"2021-07-12T12:45:35","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T16:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=115447"},"modified":"2021-07-12T11:15:11","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T15:15:11","slug":"double-double-toil-and-trouble-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=115447","title":{"rendered":"Double, Double, Toil and Trouble&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-82032\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Grackle-2-copy-copy-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Grackle-2-copy-copy-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Grackle-2-copy-copy-768x487.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Grackle-2-copy-copy-500x317.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Grackle-2-copy-copy.jpg 1234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I may gag while I&#8217;m [posting this, but I think it&#8217;s a necessary evil that we be truly aware of what is going on now in so-called &#8220;training&#8221; the troops. I do not know whether to term this an attempt at brainwashing the ignorant and uninformed, or perhaps an undefined form of sowing sedition in the ranks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWokeism\u201d and other idiocies are pervading the military, making it more and more difficult for the troops to do their job. This is disruptive, inhibits the troops from doing their real jobs, and appears to be intentionally inflicted on the troops for no reason other than to cause disruption in the ranks. The article mentions \u2018fake wokeness\u2019 as a disruptor. No, it does not seem harmless activity to me. If the troops are starting to complain about it, they are a lot smarter than their alleged superiors think they are.<\/p>\n<p>Please read on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/policy\/2021\/06\/hundreds-troops-complain-about-woke-racism-extremism-training-cotton-claims\/174672\/\">https:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/policy\/2021\/06\/hundreds-troops-complain-about-woke-racism-extremism-training-cotton-claims\/174672\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the article: During a drill weekend, unit leaders held a stand down on race\u2014a pause in their usual training\u2014where they taught troops about white supremacy and the importance of staying apolitical on social media. But one service member balked at the training\u2019s focus on far-right extremist groups, not other organizations like Black Lives Matter or Antifa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone who has been face to face with them during the riots will tell you they are in fact well organized militant hate groups,\u201d the service member wrote. \u201cHowever, we are encouraged to stand with them, but not groups that stand for the Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., says this is one of more than two dozen stories that show the military has gone too far with what another service member called \u201cfake wokeness.\u201d In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.govexec.com\/media\/gbc\/docs\/pdfs_edit\/memorandum_for_recordv2jb.pdf\">memo<\/a> from Cotton to the Senate Armed Services Committee obtained by <em>Defense One<\/em>, the senator includes 28 written complaints from troops, which could not be independently verified, about training sessions and regulations that service members argue paint the military as fundamentally racist and support left-leaning groups while labeling conservative movements as extremist. Cotton and Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, two weeks ago set up a public whistleblower site <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepDanCrenshaw\/status\/1398362620974014464\">inviting<\/a> service members to complain about \u201cwoke ideology\u201d in the military.\u00a0\u2013 article.<\/p>\n<p><em>Paint the military as fundamentally racist???<\/em> Who is doing this? It is no accident, in my view. I have no way of knowing, or likely finding out, who is behind this crap, but there is definitely something rotten going on here.<\/p>\n<p>If there are people joining our military with the sole purpose of causing disruption and antagonism, they need to be weeded out, right now. Ditto if they are senior military and see this is an opportunity to destroy from within.<\/p>\n<p>I never saw any of this crap in the 1960s or 1970s, and anyone who was found to have acted like this was sent packing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I may gag while I&#8217;m [posting this, but I think it&#8217;s a necessary evil that we &hellip; <a title=\"Double, Double, Toil and Trouble&#8230;.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=115447\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Double, Double, Toil and Trouble&#8230;.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,598,188,271],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-get-woke","category-reality-check","category-ygbsm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115448,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115447\/revisions\/115448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}