{"id":25820,"date":"2011-07-12T11:44:28","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T15:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=25820"},"modified":"2011-07-12T11:44:28","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T15:44:28","slug":"dan-chois-revisionist-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=25820","title":{"rendered":"Dan Choi’s revisionist history"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ponsdorf sent us a link from some clown car called DiversityInc<\/a> which reports on the courageous nitwit Dan Choi and a speech he gave to some weepy Wendys;<\/p>\n

Former Army Lt. Dan Choi was one of just eight Arabic-language experts in his West Point graduating class, and he served in “The Triangle of Death” in Iraq. Despite his unique expertise, his Army career ended abruptly in 2009 after he came out on “The Rachel Maddow Show.” The Army promptly discharged him under “don’t ask, don’t tell,” which prohibited gay and lesbian people from serving openly in the military. The 17-year-old law was repealed late in 2010.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dan Choi’s military career ended in 2005 when he punched a platoon sergeant in the chest<\/a> at Fort Drum. And then created a Power Point Presentation of the event for his PFC buddies. That might explain why four years later Choi was still a lieutenant – many of his fellow ring-knocker grads were probably on the majors list before he went on Maddow’s show and outed himself.<\/p>\n

And as far as the Army “promptly” discharging Choi…he came out on the Maddow show in early 2009, he wasn’t discharged until 18 months later<\/a>. 18 agonizing months for those of us who witnessed Choi chaining himself to the White House fence no less than three time while wearing our uniform. That should have earned him a discharge irrespective of his sexual proclivities.<\/p>\n

The DiversityInc article continues;<\/p>\n

Since then, Choi frequently speaks out about discrimination and violence against LGBT people. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What about Choi’s violence against a subordinate in 2005 – the incident which effectively ended his career as a military officer years before he “outed” himself? Does he speak out about that?<\/p>\n

Speakers such as Choi\u2014whose experience links veterans, LGBT people, Asian Americans and others in a compelling story<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Don’t link me to Choi’s bullshit career as a fuck-up drama queen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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