Tuesday, October 3, 2023

The West Point conundrum: How do you fight for a country you’re taught to hate?

America is a multicultural polity and demands knowledgeable and pragmatic thinkers who understand the range of human experiences.

You can see the hostility to America's institutions in the classes students must take for this minor: Must take 2 of 3 PL377: Social Inequality EN352: Power and Difference SS392: The Politics of Race, Gender, and Sexuality Must Take 1 of 4 HI391: World Religions HI461: Sex and Civilizations HI463: Race, Ethnicity, Nation HI398: Society & Culture in American History In other words, America is an evil country, both root and branch.

For decades, colleges and universities have been churning out people who hate America.

What put it on my radar is that, with the first graduates with that minor starting to leave West Point, the inestimable Daniel Greenfield looked at what it means for America when its primary Army academy is training its graduates in race hatred, among other things.

Snip] Beyond the usual divisive tenets of identity politics, what does DEI in the military really mean? As West Point's DEI minor shows, it's impossible to be loyal to both DEI and America.

Snip] If America's political system is indeed suffering from "Inherent inequalities", then the only remedy is to transform that system.

Which one is West Point training its graduates to defend: the Constitution or DEI? What does it mean to defend the Constitution and what does "Duty, Honor, Country" mean if America is defined by, as a course in the DEI minor argues, inherently unequal systems? And what does it mean when the Army asks its future leaders to define leadership in terms that are fundamentally opposed to the Constitution and the country? Whom are Army officers meant to be loyal to, the terms of their oath or the woke politics that they are being indoctrinated with? America was a nation built on the rock of the Constitution, the Bible, the free market, and love for country. 

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/10/the_west_point_conundrum_how_do_you_fight_for_a_country_youre_taught_to_hate.html 

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