With Drag Shows And ‘Genderfluid’ Internships, It’s No Wonder Military Recruiting Is Down

Institutional groupthink and delusion have become endemic at the Pentagon. It started on Inauguration Day, 2021, when President Joe Biden directed all government agencies to devise and enforce diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) mandates.

“Diversity” and “nondiscrimination” are important, but percentage-based “equity” goals differ from “equality.” Additional Biden administration orders reversed President Donald Trump’s nuanced policy regarding transgender military personnel and erased Trump’s directive eliminating controversial critical race theory (CRT) instruction programs.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin quickly ordered worldwide “anti-extremist” standdown sessions, which featured divisive CRT themes and unresolvable accusations of “systemic racism” or “white supremacy.” The demoralizing sessions diverted 5.3 million man-hours from normal operations, but investigators found fewer than 100 extremists among 2 million servicemembers.

Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., and other lawmakers have received hundreds of messages and reports of “egregiously inappropriate” CRT training sessions. Judicial Watch obtained numerous documents confirming CRT indoctrination at West Point and is suing for more from the Naval Academy.

The Air Force Academy sparked controversy with a “diversity and inclusion” slide show combining platitudes with odd suggestions for “inclusive language,” such as “parents, caregivers, or guardians” instead of “Mom” and “Dad.”

More seriously, the CRT-influenced presentation disparaged the word “colorblind.” That characterization radically departs from the colorblind principles of Martin Luther King Jr., and President Harry Truman’s 1948 executive order ending discrimination in the military.

Claiming that the presentation had been taken out of context, Air Force Academy Superintendent Lt. Gen. Richard Clark wrote, “We should respect everyone’s situation and not make assumptions.” This was ironic since CRT instructions are built on assumptions and stereotypes. Prejudgments based on sex or skin color alone define what prejudice is.

Discrimination Against White Males

Denials of woke-ism ring false when the academy hosts seminars like “Transgender Visibility and Awareness in our Air Force,” while excluding “cisgender men” from the academy’s Brooke Owens Fellowship program — a nine-week paid internship for cadets interested in aerospace.

Now the program is reserved for women and “non-binary, agender, bigender, two-spirit, demigender, genderfluid, genderqueer, or another form of gender minority.” This type of brazen discrimination smacks of woke-ism, and it is not unique.

Red State reports that the Air Force was short 1,650 pilots in 2021, but officials plan to reduce white officers from 80 percent to 67.5 percent. They also plan to decrease white male pilots, currently 86 percent, by dropping prior flight training as a “plus” factor for selection.

Why would an experienced white male pilot join or stay in the Air Force knowing he will be the target of racial discrimination, especially when commercial airlines offer generous family and financial advantages?

The Army ended fiscal year 2021 short 15,000 recruits (25 percent), and the other services barely made their goals by accelerating delayed-entry recruits. This will make it harder to meet objectives next year, but Pentagon leaders expect recruiters to spend more time and resources trying to attract female prospects with a lower propensity to serve.

Woke-ism also manifests in disastrous Covid-19 vaccine