{"id":1944873,"date":"2023-06-05T21:54:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T01:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gen-mark-milley-says-canceling-drag-show-on-military-base-absolute-right-thing-to-do\/"},"modified":"2023-06-05T21:55:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T01:55:34","slug":"gen-mark-milley-says-canceling-drag-show-on-military-base-absolute-right-thing-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gen-mark-milley-says-canceling-drag-show-on-military-base-absolute-right-thing-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Gen. Mark Milley supports canceling military base drag show."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fgen-mark-milley-says-canceling-drag-show-on-military-base-absolute-right-thing-to-do%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=1944873&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--><h2>Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Supports Cancellation of Drag Show on Military Base<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley agreed with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin&#8217;s decision to cancel a drag show on a U.S. military base.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In an interview with CNN, Milley pushed back on accusations by Republicans that &#8220;woke&#8221; policies were posing a threat to military readiness. However, the general ceded that the military should not be hosting drag events on its bases, particularly if federal funds are used to do so.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd that, I think, is the absolute right thing to do,\u201d Milley said, referring to Austin&#8217;s decision to cancel the show.<\/p>\n<p>Drag shows \u201cwere never part of [Department of Defense] policy to begin with, and they\u2019re certainly not funded by federal funds,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<h3>Pushing Back on Accusations of &#8220;Wokeism&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>However, Milley pushed back on accusations that &#8220;wokeism&#8221; was infecting the military, saying, \u201cA lot of this is misunderstood and mischaracterized.\u201d He also said the conversation had been \u201cexaggerated for whatever reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the accusations of woke are grossly overexaggerated,\u201d Milley told the outlet. \u201cEvery soldier, sailor, airman, and Marine are out there focused on the mission, and the mission is to defend the United States, its people, our interests, and the constitution of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Milley has clashed with congressional Republicans in the past, particularly on policies that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gen-mark-milley-says-canceling-drag-show-on-military-base-absolute-right-thing-to-do\/\" title=\"Gen. Mark Milley supports canceling military base drag show.\">push socially progressive initiatives<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Heated Exchange Over Critical Race Theory<\/h3>\n<p>The general got into a heated exchange in June 2021 with Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Michael Waltz (R-FL) over the teaching of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">critical race theory<\/a> in the military.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the issue of critical race theory, etc., a lot of us have to get much smarter on whatever the theory is. But I do think it&#8217;s important, actually, for those of us in uniform to be open-minded and be widely read,\u201d Milley said. \u201cI want to understand white rage, and I&#8217;m white.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI personally find it offensive that we are accusing the United States military, general officers, commissioned [and] noncommissioned officers of being \u2018woke&#8217; or something else because we&#8217;re studying some theories that are out there,\u201d Milley added. \u201cI&#8217;ve read Karl Marx, I&#8217;ve read Lenin; that doesn&#8217;t make me a communist.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Republican Response<\/h3>\n<p>Many Republicans did not take kindly to Milley&#8217;s remarks, holding them up as proof that the problem was significant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve heard directly from numerous concerned parents, cadets, soldiers, and veterans about West Point hosting Dr. Carol Anderson, who has called the Republican Party\u2019s platform white nationalism, to lecture about \u2018whiteness and white rage\u2019 and teaching [critical race theory]. As a combat vet, I can tell you this is divisive to unit cohesion,\u201d Waltz said in a statement to the Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click <a href=\"#\">here<\/a> to read more from the Washington Examiner.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;s primary focus is on warfighting and not social issues, and that decisions on such matters should be made at the local level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1944874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[538],"tags":[6573,4944,7069,7084,5200,4505,13116,5830,9787],"class_list":["post-1944873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-base","tag-canceling","tag-drag","tag-gen","tag-mark","tag-military","tag-milley","tag-show","tag-supports"],"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\/1944873","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=1944873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1944874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1944873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1944873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1944873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}