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'Diversity is an operational imperative': Canada's VA holds 2-day seminar to promote 'feminist theory of intersectionality'
Veterans Affairs Canada recently released a report detailing their findings from a two-day event titled the 2023 Women and 2SLGBTQI+ Veterans Forum.
The lengthy event featured hours upon hours of testimony from different veterans and government employees who gave disparaging reviews of the Canadian Armed Forces and their experiences of alleged discrimination within it.
During a six-hour video of the second day of the forum, the Veterans Affairs Executive Equity Officer Jackie Wills noted that the event would focus on "multiple marginalizations," a concept "rooted in the feminist theory of intersectionality," according to the government report.
True North reported that retired service member Kareth Huber, a man who purports to be transgender, suggested that "white male special force" operators have it easier than LGBT members.
"I’ve been a lot of different places for veterans, and there’s always a miasma in the room of, 'The freak is now taking the stage,'" Huber continued.
"Some of you in the room have seen me get angry because some white male special force operator thinks that he had it bad. Ok, be your white male special force operator, go do your special force operation, and then get the shit beat out of you by your fellow forces because you’re a fag," he added.
Retired Maj. Kathryn Foss explained that she is a bigoted person simply by way of being born in Canada.
"I’m racist, I’m sexist. I’m all of those. I was born in this country. I was born in this culture, so you cannot deny that," she claimed. "My father was a little bit more than I am, I'll say that."
Foss also alluded to a possible thousand-year history regarding racism in the country.
"Unless you look at the culture, and I’m not talking about yesterday. If you go back a few — a thousand years maybe, even — it tells you a lot. The culture, the ideology, what underpins the racism, the sexism, the transphobia, etc."
Everybody needs to watch this. \n\nVeterans Affairs dedicated an entire conference to disparaging white Canadians in uniform and calling the military racist. \n\nThese activists are driving @VeteransENG_CA policy while veterans can barely access services. \n\nhttps://t.co/lc80dIcrAe— (@)
The official report on the event explained the goals of the veterans organization in much greater detail. Highlights included quotes such as "diversity is a fact; inclusion is a choice," and "diversity is an operational imperative."
As for their conclusions, the document stated that Department of Defense/Canadian Armed Forces senior leaders were committed to upholding a number of promises.
A dedication to "evolve the culture" of the military was noted, along with continuing the conversation with "equity-deserving and historically marginalized veterans," while sharing "their stories to inform the journey toward equity."
Veterans Affairs also said it will strengthen "story-telling content" and "produce learning materials" in order to create space to recognize diverse needs and honor "diverse histories."
With an 87% approval rate from forum participants, the report closed with a quote citing the need for "safe spaces" for everyone.
The testimonials of the panelists drove the message of inclusion and the need for safe spaces for everyone, especially those marginalized as a result of their gender or race.
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Military officials and leftists in Washington have long bemoaned the overwhelming presence of white people in the U.S. military. Now that race obsessives have gotten their way and far fewer recruits from the disfavored group are enlisting, officials are beginning to fret.
According to Military.com, the U.S. Army fell 10,000 short of its 65,000 enlistment target in 2023. This drop was largely driven by a significant drop in the number of white recruits.
In 2018, 44,042 new Army recruits — 56.4% of the total — were white. Over the years, that number has plummeted, hitting 25,070 or 44% of the overall recruits in 2023, down 6% from the previous year. This demographic group has seen a uniquely dramatic decline when compared to other racial groups.
Overall recruiting totals have remained relatively flat for black and Hispanic recruits, but as white recruits have turned out in smaller numbers, the proportions of black and Hispanic recruits in the pool have increased from 20% to 24% and from 17% to 24%, respectively.
Military.com indicated it encountered even more damning data speaking to a dramatic "shift in demographics" but that Army officials wrote it off as a "system coding error."
Army officials told Military.com that there is not one single cause for this decline but indicated obesity and the poor quality of the public education system might have been factors. While these factors might explain a drop in recruitment across the board, they wouldn't explain a racially specific drop in proportion of 12.4 points over a five-year period.
An Army official suggested the decline may have also been political, driven by conservatives' critiques of the Biden administration and its politicization of the military. The official, paraphrased by Military.com, credited conservative lawmakers and right-wing media in particular with souring their "overwhelmingly white audience" against the military over its identity politics and with prompting would-be recruits in the mix to "abando[n] their warfighting priorities."
"There's a level of prestige in parts of conservative America with service that has degraded. Now, you can say you don't want to join, for whatever reason, or bad-mouth the service without any cultural guilt associated for the first time in those areas," said the official.
Besides taking issue with the Pentagon's radical LGBT activism, abortion promotion, and its sweeping accusations of extremism, the erosion of such guilt among white people and conservatives might also have something to do with the military's apparent animus toward them.
A 2011 report ordered by Congress claimed the military was too white and too male.
The Pentagon released a manual blasting "healthy, white, heterosexual, Christian" men for having "unearned advantages of social privilege."
The former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army Gen. Mark Milley, complained in 2021 that the military was not diverse enough, stressing, "We must get better." He also defended the Pentagon's embrace of critical race theory, stating, "I want to understand white rage."
A battalion commander reportedly stressed in 2021, "If you're a white male, you are part of the problem."
It appears that in remedying a perceived problem, the Army created a real problem at a time of great international instability.
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