GOP Cancel Culture for MoH Awardees.

[dirtywick]

the jig is kind of up when the url is dei medal.

 

[johnny karate]

Calling the page "DEI Medal of Honor" was bound to bring scrutiny.

My money is on malicious compliance.

Why would someone who's "complying" out of malice be in any rush to back out their changes?

Complying with what, exactly?

 

[johnny karate]

I'm sure our resident... Well, we're not allowed to call them the n-word for some reason, so I don't know what to call them, has some plausible explanation for why the url was changed to "dei-medal", too. Just another mistake, I'm sure .

Seriously, would love to have someone with experience with psychology and/or cults explain to me why they are still vehemently denying that the Elonia regime isn't fascist, or aiming to institute a dictatorship. One might as well try to argue that water isn't wet at this point, yet they're still at it.

I like how the only time a conspiracy theorist assumes an innocent explanation is when overt racists do something overtly racist.

 

[steenkh]

Why would someone who's "complying" out of malice be in any rush to back out their changes?

Didn’t Hegseth quickly reinstate the Tuskegee airmen in the curriculum? He could do the same with these MoH changes. Unless, of course, it is on purpose.

 

[steenkh]

Complying with what, exactly?

Removing black soldiers from obscure pages that nobody reads.

 

[Norman Alexander]

Still haven't seen a cogent definition of "woke mind". It seems to be a slippery, amorphous, imaginary thing, that nevertheless has huge imaginary power. Or not. More likely, like "DEI hire", it is just a pejorative term dragged out to justify blatant racism.

 

[thaiboxerken]

Won't be long until they want to label "woke" as an insanity just like they are doing with Trump Derangement Syndrome. These are just ways to shut down dissent and free speech.

 

[Norman Alexander]

Won't be long until they want to label "woke" as an insanity just like they are doing with Trump Derangement Syndrome. These are just ways to shut down dissent and free speech.

First Amendment for me, not for thee.

 

[arthwollipot]

Oh, my goodness. This is surely just an accidental snafu by some webmaster at the DoD.

If it weren't a part of such a large pattern, your pathetic rationalisation might hold some water.

Removing black soldiers from obscure pages that nobody reads.

If nobody reads them, how do we know about it?

 

[Orphia Nay]

An internet search for the phrase "us department of defense charles calvin rogers" results in the top result down below.

https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/Article/2824721/deimedal-of-honor-monday-army-maj-gen-charles-calvin-rogers/

If you use the same search parameters for another person like Audie Murphy, then you get an actual working link with a bio on the MoH awardee. https://www.defense.gov/News/Featur.../medal-of-honor-monday-army-maj-audie-murphy/
Notice how the URL for Murphy's entry does not say "deimedal-of-honor"? Murphy is white by the way.

The same working link/result appears for Gregory Boyington, a Native American.

The powers that be (Trump, Hegseth) have decided to erase Lt. Col. Charles Calvin Rodgers' accomplishments from the government website. To most Americans who heard of him, Rodgers was a hero. But to people like Trump and Hegseth, he is just a ******.

Charles Calvin Rogers - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I tried checking the link without the "dei" bit, but that's still 404 not found.

https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/Article/2824721/medal-of-honor-monday-army-maj-gen-charles-calvin-rogers/

And I did a search of his name on the DOD website, and nothing came up.

 

[steenkh]

If nobody reads them, how do we know about it?

It was meant as a hypothetical reason for why these changes were done: Perhaps the person responsible for the change thought that nobody would notice,

 

[Orphia Nay]

Found it on the Wayback Machine.

Medal of Honor Monday: Army Maj. Gen. Charles Calvin Rogers

Army Maj. Gen. Charles Calvin Rogers worked for gender and race equality while in the service. But he's perhaps most well-known for his leadership during an intense battle in Vietnam, which earned him

web.archive.org

The first paragraph has this sentence: "As a Black man, he worked for gender and race equality while in the service."

I have to wonder if that's what got his page pinged.

 

[Orphia Nay]

And I wonder if there are other Black MoH winners who survived the DOD website purge.

 

[arthwollipot]

The addition of "dei" to the URL kinda looks to me like a script kiddie hack to automate the process of searching for and removing pages from a range of sites. But I'm not a script kiddie so what do I know?

 

[Ranb]

I'm sure the woke mind imagines Trump and Hegseth personally sitting down and screening DoD websites to remove pages that honor people of color.

I think they have like minded bigots doing that for them.

 

[d4m10n]

The powers that be (Trump, Hegseth) have decided to erase Lt. Col. Charles Calvin Rodgers' accomplishments from the government website.

And I wonder if there are other Black MoH winners who survived the DOD website purge.

It strikes me as possible (perhaps likely) that many government webpages are getting pulled down due to keyword searches without much in the way of human editorial review.

These Words Are Disappearing in the New Trump Administration

Federal agencies have issued guidance to employees on hundreds of terms to limit or avoid using. An analysis of government websites shows many of the same words being removed.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Jack by the hedge]

It strikes me as possible (perhaps likely) that many government webpages are getting pulled down due to keyword searches without much in the way of human editorial review.

These Words Are Disappearing in the New Trump Administration

Federal agencies have issued guidance to employees on hundreds of terms to limit or avoid using. An analysis of government websites shows many of the same words being removed.

www.nytimes.com

Sooner or later that equality-obsessed troublemaker Abe Lincoln will be disappeared.

That'll leave a nice empty throne for the Trump Memorial golden statue to sit on. And a head to be remodelled on Mt Rushmore.

 

[Andy_Ross]

It's already been modelled at Mar-a-Lago

 

[d4m10n]

Sooner or later that equality-obsessed troublemaker Abe Lincoln will be disappeared.

He was known to advance racial justice for historically marginalized groups.

 

[Resume]

Arlington National Cemetery scrubs history from website.

Arlington National Cemetery has scrubbed from its website information and educational materials about the history of black and female service members.

Some of the content removed from the site was on veterans who had received the nation's highest military recognition, the Medal of Honor, according to military news site Task & Purpose.

The content removal is part of a larger effort by President Donald Trump to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices in the military and throughout the federal government.

Approximately 400,000 veterans are buried in the Army-run cemetery, which was established after the US Civil War at the home of the South's general, Robert E. Lee.
On the cemetery's website, internal links that directed users to webpages with information about the "Notable Graves" of dozens of black, Hispanic and female veterans were missing on Friday.

The pages contained short biographies about veterans such as Gen Colin L Powell, the first black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, which is the highest rank in the military after the president.

They also told the life stories of members of the Tuskegee Airmen, the country's first black military airmen.

Earlier this year, the Defense Department had to reinstate training materials on the revered airmen after a national outcry over their removal following Trump's orders on DEI.