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Rhiannon12866

(232,562 posts) Thu Mar 27, 2025, 03:35 AM Mar 27

Warren Warns Trump Administration's Attacks on Military Diversity Are "Wildly Self-Destructive" - Senator Elizabeth Warren

Senator Warren's opening remarks at a March 26, 2025 hearing of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel entitled: Hearing to Conduct Oversight and Receive Testimony on the Status of the Military Service Academies. - 03/26/2025.

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Warren Warns Trump Administration's Attacks on Military Diversity Are "Wildly Self-Destructive" - Senator Elizabeth Warren (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Mar 27 OP

To be effective, the Military depends upon a group to be wholly cohesive no_hypocrisy Mar 27 #1

I have two cousins who are West Point graduates - and one is female. Rhiannon12866 Mar 27 #2

no_hypocrisy

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1. To be effective, the Military depends upon a group to be wholly cohesive

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Thu Mar 27, 2025, 04:39 AM

Mar 27

and dedicated to each other as well as the mission they're assigned.

If you have certain members adopting racist and xenophobic attitudes, both the racist and victim won't be able to depend upon one another to protect them and/or to execute the mission. Not forgetting that they have to live together. You can't have members of, say, a platoon persecuting one another like hazing in a fraternity -- or worse.

Rhiannon12866

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2. I have two cousins who are West Point graduates - and one is female.

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Reply #1)

Thu Mar 27, 2025, 04:43 AM

Mar 27

And I take your point and it makes me cringe that attitudes have changed.

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