{"id":757566,"date":"2021-09-16T03:21:37","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T07:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=757566"},"modified":"2021-09-16T08:44:43","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T12:44:43","slug":"critical-race-theory-has-no-place-in-military-rep-ken-buck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/critical-race-theory-has-no-place-in-military-rep-ken-buck\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical Race Theory Has No Place in Military: Rep. Ken Buck"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fcritical-race-theory-has-no-place-in-military-rep-ken-buck%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=757566&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--><p>Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) wants the U.S. military to be more focused on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepKenBuck\/status\/1437876053163261953\">readiness, not wokeness<\/a>\u201d and hopes to put an end to \u201cdangerous and divisive\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-critical-race-theory\">critical race theory<\/a> being taught to service men and women.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Buck submitted an<a href=\"https:\/\/rules.house.gov\/bill\/117\/hr-4350\"> amendment<\/a> to the\u00a02022 National Defense Authorization Act (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/house-bill\/4350\/text\">NDAA<\/a>), which\u00a0specifies the annual budget and expenditures of the Department of Defense,\u00a0regarding\u00a0diversity, equity, and inclusion practices being mandated at the DOD, when it comes to employment training.<\/p>\n<p>Buck is just one of many GOP lawmakers who oppose\u00a0critical race theory (CRT) over fears that peddling the Marxist theory to service members will only serve to reduce both their\u00a0cohesion and combat effectiveness when it comes to fighting real threats facing America, such as those posed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/top-terrorism-threats-not-from-afghanistan-director-of-national-intelligence_3996164.html\">terrorist groups.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Critical race theory<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/charlie-kirk-tyrants-want-to-overturn-our-constitutional-rights-but-people-hold-political-power_3873813.html\"> redefines human history<\/a>\u00a0as a struggle between the \u201coppressors\u201d\u2014typically white people\u2014and the \u201coppressed\u201d\u2014other identity groups\u2014similar to Marxism\u2019s reduction of history to a struggle between the \u201cbourgeois\u201d and the \u201cproletariat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CRT\u00a0adherents generally believe that America is systemically racist and that racial oppression exists and that\u00a0institutions that emerged in majority-white societies are racist and \u201cwhite supremacist.\u201d The theory has slowly\u00a0expanded in recent decades through academia, government structures, school systems, and the corporate world.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with The Epoch Times, congressman Buck said he believes CRT\u2014which has become more of a central focus following the death of George Floyd\u00a0while in police custody on May 25, 2020\u2014\u00a0has \u201cno place\u201d within the U.S. military, calling it \u201cdangerous and divisive\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that there are political theories that are being espoused in this country, such as critical race theory,\u00a0that\u00a0are dangerous, and divisive and have no place in the military,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we want to have those discussions in the private sphere, in the marketplace of ideas, we can certainly have those discussions, but to require members of the military to be trained in critical race theory and to have inclusion and diversity officers in the Department of Defense, I think undermines the necessary discipline that we need in our military to conduct business.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3903221\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/07\/15\/Stop-critical-race-theory-CRT-1200x805.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"805\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3903221\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Stop-critical-race-theory-CRT-600x403-1.jpg\" alt=\"critical race theory protest\" width=\"600\" height=\"403\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>People hold up signs during a rally against Critical Race Theory (CRT) being taught in schools at the Loudoun County Government Center in Leesburg, Va., on June 12, 2021. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figure>\n<p>Advocates of CRT, such as\u00a0Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, have <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RanttMedia\/status\/1407753160760889351?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1407753160760889351%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsweek.com%2Fgeneral-mark-milley-passionate-defense-critical-race-theory-viral-video-1603668\">defended its teachings<\/a> among the\u00a0U.S. military, saying that he wants to \u201cunderstand white rage\u201d and that it\u2019s important for military members to be \u201copen-minded and be widely read\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>But\u00a0Buck disagrees with this sentiment, and says the military should instead be focusing their attention on \u201cwinning wars\u201d and not spending hours and hours being trained on \u201csocial issues\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny time we require hours and hours of training on\u00a0diversity, inclusion, and other areas, we take away from the time that our troops are actually engaged in the activities that that will save their lives, the training is so important to them,\u201d the\u00a0congressman said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can remember talking to a general several years ago, and the Obama administration required more hours of training in a particular month than the\u00a0service members worked in that month,\u201d Buck said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn other words, more than 40 hours a week they were expected to be in this type of diversity training, and not in the field practicing and training for why they joined the military.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Buck noted that placing too much of a burden on teaching social issues to military members can also actually widen the divide between Americans based on their race, among other things, which in turn \u201ctakes away from the\u00a0cohesion that is necessary to create a unified fighting force.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u00a0reduces our ability for military preparedness for all threats out there \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-china\">China<\/a>, which is the\u00a0greatest threat to this country\u2019s security,\u201d he said while adding Russia, Iran, North Korea, and terrorist groups that present a threat to the United States.<\/p>\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/default-user.png\" alt=\"Katabella Roberts\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"names\">\n<p>Katabella Roberts<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) wants the U.S. military to be more focused on \u201creadiness, not wokeness\u201d and hopes to put an end to \u201cdangerous and divisive\u201d critical race theory being &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-757566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757566","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}