{"id":1863146,"date":"2023-02-28T09:22:06","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T14:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1863146"},"modified":"2023-02-28T09:25:05","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T14:25:05","slug":"elon-musk-criticizes-u-s-military-for-diversity-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-criticizes-u-s-military-for-diversity-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Criticizes U.S. Military for Diversity Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Felon-musk-criticizes-u-s-military-for-diversity-focus%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1863146&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/BIZ-WRK-TWITTER-HARDCORE-ZUM-1-scaled-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Twitter CEO Elon Musk made a scathing attack on the Defense Department Sunday. He claimed that the military is losing focus on national defense since the Defense Department tweeted about DEI diversity &#8220;summit&#8221; It was held last week.<\/p>\n<p>DoD&#8217;s tweet regarding the summit described diversity within the military as &#8220;a strategic imperative critical to mission readiness and accomplishment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Musk responded, &#8220;Your strategic imperative is defending the United States.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Protecting the United States is your strategic imperative<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1627390270663806976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>As lawmakers attack the military for policies or statements they consider too progressive or politicized, this comment comes as lawmakers make similar comments. On Twitter, Rep. Jim Banks (R.I.) also criticized the summit.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/americanmilitarynews.com\/2023\/01\/revealed-militarys-woke-training-documents-made-public\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">READ MORE: Military&#8217;s \u2018woke&#8217; training documents made public<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As Chairman of the Military Personnel Subcommittee, ensuring our military is focused on lethality and readiness, NOT wokeness and DEI, is my top priority,&#8221; Banks refer to diversity, equity, inclusion.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As the Chairman of Military Personnel Subcommittee I am committed to ensuring that our military is ready and able to fight, not wakingness and DEI. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fbjqfxbYdy\">https:\/\/t.co\/fbjqfxbYdy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jim Banks (@RepJimBanks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepJimBanks\/status\/1627400590702657536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>An earlier bill, the &#8220;Restoring Military Focus Act&#8221; Congress was presented with a bill that would &#8220;eliminate the unnecessary progressive agenda being pushed by the left that undermines the United States military,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/roy.house.gov\/media\/press-releases\/rep-roy-sen-rubio-fight-back-against-woke-politicization-us-military\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">According to<\/a> Press release<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Chip Roy (Republican-Texas) and Senator Marco Rubio (Republican-Florida) introduced the bill to the House of Representatives and Senate. Two lawmakers <a href=\"https:\/\/americanmilitarynews.com\/2022\/11\/rubio-roy-release-woke-military-investigative-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A report of 18 pages was released<\/a> Last year, &#8220;WOKE WARFIGHTERS&#8221; The report documented instances in which military leaders encouraged racially charged theories, and criticised them for encouraging individuality among LGBT members.<\/p>\n<p>The summit was hosted by the DoD&#8217;s Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. <a href=\"https:\/\/diversity.defense.gov\/About-ODEI\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">This describes<\/a> It &#8220;vision&#8221; As &#8220;foster[ing] a diverse and inclusive mission ready total force&#8221; Its mission is to &#8220;[d]irect and oversee policies to promote a DoD culture of dignity and respect that values diversity and inclusion as readiness imperatives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to DoD, the summit took place between February 15-17. Participants had the opportunity &#8220;immerse yourself with distinguished presenters and renowned experts in government, higher education, business, science, and technology.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/figure>\n<p>Musk replied to Musk&#8217;s tweet with a video that showed summit attendees in a lecture-hall environment. It said that it was hosting its inaugural summit. &#8220;experts&#8221; In diversity, equity and inclusion &#8220;because our people matter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Diversity is an essential strategic imperative for mission readiness and achievement. For the 2023 Inaugural, we were there a href=&#8221;https:\/\/twitter.com\/DoD_ODEI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&#8221;>@DoD_ODEI<\/a> Summit as DEIA experts led forums to advance the DEIA and DoD mission \u2014 because our people matter. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VX42BC1Imo\">pic.twitter.com\/VX42BC1Imo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Department of Defense \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@DeptofDefense) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeptofDefense\/status\/1626959842572222465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 18, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter CEO Elon Musk made a scathing attack on the Defense Department Sunday. He claimed that the military is losing focus on national defense since the Defense Department tweeted about DEI diversity &#8220;summit&#8221; It was held last week. DoD&#8217;s tweet regarding the summit described diversity within the military as &#8220;a strategic imperative critical to mission &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1863149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[3763,6759,4249,7786,4505,4250,7238],"class_list":["post-1863146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-criticizes","tag-diversity","tag-elon","tag-focus","tag-military","tag-musk","tag-u-s"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1863146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1863149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1863146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1863146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1863146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}