The US defense department webpage celebrating an army general who served in the Vietnam war and was awarded the country’s highest military decoration has been removed and the letters “DEI” added to the site’s address.
On Saturday, US army Maj Gen Charles Calvin Rogers’s Medal of Honor webpage led to a “404” error message. The URL was also changed, with the word “medal” changed to “deimedal”.
Rogers, who was awarded the Medal of Honor by then president Richard Nixon in 1970, served in the Vietnam war, where he was wounded three times while leading the defense of a base.
According to the West Virginia military hall of fame, Rogers was the highest-ranking African American to receive the medal. After his death in 1990, Rogers’s remains were buried at the Arlington national cemetery in Washington DC, and in 1999 a bridge in Fayette county, where Rogers was born, was renamed the Charles C Rogers Bridge.
Remember just a few years back when Black republican senator Tim Scott was chastising Biden and the Dems for suggesting the US was a racist society? Well, it is shamefully racist what the Grump admin is doing with this anti-DEI stuff now. I can't believe this will sit well with veterans but Grump has insulted them before and I'm told he's still popular with the military and police, as if anybody should find that reassuring. I gather the neoliberal argument coming from the admin is that this "shock doctrine" stuff, shutting down government services, will hurt temporarily but once all the waste and deadwood is cleared away it's going to be back to boom times for the economy. And they seem to believe it but they sound increasingly like fascists and religious cult zealots; dismissive of any contradicting evidence. Musk may have some deep AI research tools but the cuts so far stand out for being arbitrary or prejudiced, some personal grievance of Musk's, and virtually nothing that could be reasonably called "waste." What it feels like to me is we're veering closer to general strike like conditions. The Dems will not or cannot stop the destruction. The courts are too slow and/or corrupt. This stuff is so insulting and degrading to so many: veterans, government workers, farmers, educators, scientists, foreign trade, industries that depend on immigrant labor, lawyers, consumers, protesters, etc. It's as if they were trying to alienate everyone but the billionaires and the most rabid Christian Nationalist bigots. How long will everyone else, super majorities of the country after all, put up with it?
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