Yup, you guessed it, the Medal of Honor can be revoked as an “anti-DEI” policy:
They yanked the 442/100th Japanese division as well. Long time Hawaii Senator Daniel Inouye was also a Medal of Honor recipient.
I wish I could think of something funny to say about this…but it just makes me angry. Trump, Musk and all the republicans are just so cowardly.
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Why do these MAGA clowns hate America (and Veterans) so much?
When I say America, I mean the melting pot that makes America unique, diverse and strong. And those things have defined us since our inception- and that’s the stuff that really makes America great.
Unfortunately, hate has also been there since inception. That is our shameful history and that’s what takes away from America’s greatness. Attempts to reconcile that show maturity as a nation.
These fuckwits want to roll the clock back 100 years. F every single one of them.
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It seems that the page is now back online, but these fucking anti-DEI shitheads in the government have shown their true colors with this move. Apparently it’s hard for them to believe that a person of color could have achieved what he did or demonstrated the bravery that he did. Fuckwits, all of them.
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Everyone needs to take a breath. No MoHs have been rescinded because of DEI. Much like the Enola Gay, this is more than likely just the result of ham-fisted keyword searches, and people executing policy who are playing “better safe than sorry” in their initial scrubs of government websites.
There is plenty of actual harmful stuff going on. This probably isn’t the one to get overly worked up about. The webpage is back up and functioning.
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It’s pretty simple really. Despite their absurd protests, they are racist assholes.
I never thought the medal had been rescinded, but they pulled down the page and there was a reference to DEImedal in its place. It’s easy to dismiss it as some hamfisted idiot getting a bit overzealous in their scrubbing of websites, but it begs the question as to what search terms they were using as the basis for the scrub/deletion. With the Enola Gay it seems pretty easy to recognize they don’t like the word “gay” but it also suggests they scrubbed the page solely because he’s black. I don’t call that being hamfisted, I call that racism.
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You shouldn’t always ascribe things to malice which can be explained by mere incompetence.
It goes somewhat to slowguy’s point that people will be overly broad in an attempt to not miss anything in this purging.
This is what meer incompetence looks like:
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I like the German word for meerkat - Erdmännchen - Little earth man
Isn’t that just a hobbit?
Pretty sure this doesn’t fall under the excuse of “ham-fisted.” Do I still need to take a breath, because this is just a coincidence?
In his quest to make the US military whiter, SecDef Hegseth is busy concocting pretexts to exclude Blacks from the military. Here’s the latest in a series. A new Marine Corps policy says troops with a genetic skin condition that can cause pain and scarring from shaving and mainly affects Black men can be separated if the health issue persists. The “interim guidance” issued Thursday gives military health care providers 90 days to reevaluate Marines diagnosed with pseudofolliculitis barbae, or PFB. If they don’t recover based on a four-phase treatment program outlined in the message, have to remain on a shaving waiver for more than a year, and a commander deems it fit, the Corps can administratively separate them “due to incompatibility with service,” according to the message.
Was this a problem before this Administration took over?
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If we’re talking LofRings, maybe a dwarf.
Last time I was at the SD Zoo, I annoyed others by disdainfully pointing out that we were just looking a mere cats.
I truly hope you are right, but given this administrations willingness to embrace many people that are openly racist or have said some pretty reprehensible things, I’m not quite willing to give them a pass on this one.
This isn’t a Blacks specific policy, although it disproportionately impacts Blacks just due to physiology. SecDef ordered a force-wide rapid review of “military standards.” This includes beard standards, along with other fitness and grooming standards which were, in fact, relaxed in many cases, over the past few years. The Marine Corps has always been tighter with these standards than some other services.
SecDef’s guidance didn’t direct any changes. It simply directs gathering of information and review of standards, what changes have been made, and why.
Thanks for posting this. I went ahead and read his wiki page and he was quite the man. He enlisted in the '50’s and dealt with racism when he served. It’s sad that all those years later here we are.
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Doesn’t seem to be a one-off incompetence thing. This, the Tuskegee airmen, . . . and on and on… It’s like an effort to erase black history.
It’s one thing to take a position that there shouldn’t be any reference to race/color/ethnicity etc. and that everything should be based purely on merit. But I assume Charles Rogers earned his MoH completely on merit (irregardless of being black). So editing references to not call out his color would be one thing. Removing all references about him – that’s not right. If the implication is that he earned his medal because he was black and otherwise wouldn’t have earned it – that seems ugly racism.