{"id":139390,"date":"2023-03-31T11:44:49","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T15:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=139390"},"modified":"2023-03-31T11:44:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T15:44:49","slug":"dod-education-dei-unit-dissolved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=139390","title":{"rendered":"DOD Education DEI* Unit Dissolved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-132020 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/austin-1665506622.1686.jpg\" alt=\"austin.jpg\" width=\"277\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\n<em>*Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion SecDef Lloyd Austin <\/em><\/p>\n<p>SecDef Austin was shocked Shocked! to learn of Drag Queen Story Hours performed onboard our military bases. Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) was kind enough to bring this to his attention in a House Armed Services Committee hearing. The banter began with Gaetz displaying a series of slides showing the problematic shows have been hosted on board base libraries, and asked how much taxpayer money is funding drag queen story hours on our military bases.<\/p>\n<p>Austin denied funding or supporting the story hours, and claimed this is the first he&#8217;s heard of the practice. Glad that&#8217;s settled. Wonder if there&#8217;s other woke practices he&#8217;s unaware of.<\/p>\n<h3>Pentagon disbands DEI unit after chief accused of &#8216;racism&#8217; against Whites, injects agenda deeper into agency<\/h3>\n<p><strong><em>DEI specialists will further entrenched to push their agenda in every aspect of the Pentagon&#8217;s schools, servicing thousands of children<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Hannah Grossman<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Pentagon&#8217;s education wing for the children of military members \u2013 the Department of Defense Education Activity \u2013 privately announced that it was gutting an entire unit devoted to diversity, equity and inclusion as Republicans mounted pressure, criticizing what they said was a &#8220;woke agenda&#8221; in the military, Fox News Digital uncovered.<\/p>\n<p>DoDEA&#8217;s director, Tom Brady, said he will be dispersing the DEI specialists into existing units as part of a &#8220;reconfiguration of talent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The DEI unit was created after Biden directed all federal agencies by executive order to &#8220;establish or elevate Chief Diversity Officers,&#8221; among other priorities. A few months later, Kelisa Wing was selected to lead the DEI unit, and involved in curriculum, professional development and hiring.<\/p>\n<p>Less than a year after her promotion, Wing was placed in a six-month government probe after Fox News Digital reported on her tweets, which were criticized as &#8220;racist&#8221; and hostile to White people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/pentagon-disbands-dei-unit-chief-accused-racism-against-whites-injects-agenda-deeper-agency\">Fox News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/09\/13\/dod-equity-chief-kelisa-wing-has-history-of-ant-white-posts\/\">NY Post<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As Chief DEI Officer, the self-described &#8220;woke administrator&#8221; has a history of targeting white co-workers on social media and coined the charming phrase &#8220;CAUdacity&#8221; among other noteworthy remarks. After these missives were made public and her woke racist past was brought to light the DOD was forced to review the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Wing, of course, remains a DOD employee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion SecDef Lloyd Austin SecDef Austin was shocked Shocked! to learn of Drag &hellip; <a title=\"DOD Education DEI* Unit Dissolved\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=139390\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DOD Education DEI* Unit Dissolved<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213,237,328,654],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-big-pentagon","category-diversity","category-op-ed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139390","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\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}