Judicial Watch: Documents Reveal US Army Indoctrinated Soldiers on Dangers of ‘White Privilege’

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MARCH 09, 2016

‘Our society attaches privilege to being white and male and heterosexual.’

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it obtained documents from the United States Department of the Army revealing that in April 2015, 400 soldiers in the 67th Signal Battalion at Fort Gordon, Georgia, were subjected to a “white privilege” briefing, including a PowerPoint presentation instructing the attendees: “Our society attaches privilege to being white and male and heterosexual …”

The slideshow also informed the soldiers: “Race privilege gives whites little reason to pay a lot of attention to African Americans.” It alleged that there are unspecified “powerful forces everywhere” keeping different kinds of people from being valued, accepted, and appreciated, but “we act as if it doesn’t exist.” This alleged privilege creates a “yawning divide” in income, wealth, and dignity. The material described a mythical African woman who isn’t aware that she’s black until she comes to America, encounters “white racism” and discovers the U.S. is “organized according to race.”

The Department of the Army documents were obtained in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking:

Any and all materials used in an Equal Opportunity briefing provided on April 2, 2015, to the 67th Signal Battalion at Fort Gordon, Georgia, which included a discussion of “white privilege,” including but not limited to, handouts, PowerPoint presentations, audio/video tapes, course syllabi, and any recordings of the presentation itself.

The response to the Judicial Watch FOIA request included the entire Equal Opportunity Training PowerPoint presentation entitled “Power and Privilege,” which states:

Privilege exists when one group has something of value that is denied to others simply because of the groups they belong to, rather than because of anything they’ve done or failed to do.

Privilege has become one of those loaded words we need to reclaim so that we can use it to name and illuminate the truth

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Race privilege gives whites little reason to pay a lot of attention to African Americans or to how white privilege affects them. “To be white in American [sic] means not having to think about it” [Quotation not attributed]

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Our society attaches privilege to being white and male and heterosexual regardless of your social class.

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Imagine a school or a workplace where all kinds of people feel comfortable showing up. [sic] valued, accepted, supported, appreciated, respected, belonging. [sic] Something very powerful keeps this from us.

The truth of this powerful forces [sic] is everywhere, but we don’t know how to talk about it and so we act as though it doesn’t exist

The trouble we’re in privileges [sic] some groups at the expense of others.

It creates a yawning divide in levels of income, wealth, dignity, safety, health and quality of life.

It promotes fear, suspicion, discrimination, harassment, and violence.


Consider the “black woman” in Africa who has not experienced white racism and does not identify herself as a “black woman”. African, a woman, but not black.

She only became “black” when she came to the U.S. where privilege is organized according to race, where she is assigned to a social category that bears that name and she is treated differently as a result. [Emphasis added]

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The trouble we’re in can’t be solved unless the “privileged” make the problem of privilege their problem and do something about it.

The fact that it’s so easy for me and other people in dominant groups not to do this is the single most powerful barrier to change.

Though news of the indoctrination incident was briefly reported in Stars and Stripes shortly after it occurred, only one of the above slides previously has been made public. Confronted with the information at the time, an Army spokesperson claimed the presentation was not officially sanctioned.

Judicial Watch previously obtained Defense Department equal opportunity training materials that depict conservative organizations as “hate groups” and advise students to be aware that “many extremists will talk of individual liberties, states’ rights, and how to make the world a better place.” And last month, Judicial Watch uncovered Air Force Academy documents that show how the Academy used its “Chapel Tithes and Offering Fund” to pay for cadets to participate in worship services featuring witchcraft, “Faery Magick,” and voodoo.

"Outrageous" – that is the only word to describe this type of raw racist indoctrination,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The Obama administration undermines the morale of our military with morally repugnant ‘equal opportunity training’ that makes many soldiers feel unwelcome because they are the wrong sex, race, religion or aren’t part of a politically correct group.”

Idiots are slowly but surely destroying every Institution in the Country!

I found a video. Even though it is a respectable news site, I looked for more videos on this. I checked all their links too, until I got to 'Judicial Watch' & read those.

I didn't want to believe it.

Speechless...

It appears, the libtards are doing their
level best, to sissify the military.

Marine Corps drill instructors are some of the most looked up to individuals in the Corps. They take slimy puke civilians amd turn then into Marines.
The Drill Instructor Creed:

"These recruits are entrusted to my care. I
will train them to the best of my ability. I
will develop them into smartly disciplined,
physically fit, basically trained marines,
thoroughly indoctrinated in love of the
Corps and country. I will demand of them
and demonstrate by my own example, the
highest standards of personal conduct,
morality and professional skill."

A recruits first glance into Marine Corps life is guided by Drill Intructors. They are taught discipline, loyalty, respect, and the Marine Corps'
core values of honor, courage, and commitment by Drill Instructors.
Every Marine, past and present,will tell you that they may not remember what they ate yesterday, but they will always remember their drill instructors. Its been 32 years and I still do...

Senior Drill Instructor GySgt Battle
Drill Instructor Sgt.Martin
Drill Imstructor Sgt. Hernandez
Drill Instructor SSgt. Smith

....there were two African Americans, a Latino, and Drill Instructor SSgt Smith was white, go figure...

SOunds like the same kind of fad-driven nonsense I was subjected to when I worked for a major international business some years back. Every time some upper level muckety-muck heard about some "team building exercise," no matter how insipid , esoteric, or tiime-wasting it was, we got run through it at the next corporate meeting.

It't the only positive thing I took away from the move to outsourcing everyone. CEOs can't waste as much of the company's profits on nonsense when they don't have as much direct control over employees.

Oh, and as usual. this kind of thing isn't the result of liberalism or conservatism or any of that crap. It's the result of "leadership by rote." That happens no matter which side is in charge, if they hire or promote management according to allegiance to the top guys, instead of by merit and FUNCTIONAL accomplishment.

".. and as usual. this kind of thing isn't the result of liberalism or conservatism or any of that crap. It's the result of "leadership by rote." That happens no matter which side is in charge, if they hire or promote management according to allegiance to the top guys, instead of by merit and FUNCTIONAL accomplishment

It is the Military of The United States of America, not a company.

The Commander and Chief is responsible.

Believe it or not, both the United States military, AND private companies, are run by PEOPLE. Real live human beings, subject to the same erroneous thinking as other real live human beings.

That's my point. Both the military, AND especially the larger corporations, are subject to people coming to be in charge, who think that the way to address any concern that comes up, especially a socio-political one such as is involved here, will choose the exact same rubber stamp approach.

ESPECIALLY these days, with the encouragement of BOTH primary political parties, the US military OUTSOURCES a lot of tasks, rather than developing the skills within their own people. Especially when they think the task at hand will be short-lived.

So again, this has nothing to do with liberalism or conservatism, it has to do with HOW PEOPLE RUNNING LARGE ORGANIZATIONS DO THINGS THESE DAYS.

Because the "quick fix" presentations are bought off the shelf from outside vendors, some of them will always offend or upset someone. And they will always tend to show the influence that the outside vendors are designing their programs to address.

if you fail to realize the mechanisms that are actually involved, all you will accomplish by pitching a fuss, is to cause one set of vendors to be discarded in favor of another set who will distort things in ANOTHER way.

Well I agree, this is not a libitard or reptilian adgenda. It's been going for hundreds of years. Powers that pull the strings are off shore, not in the states. Think unionjack.

No surprise to this guy.

Again... It is the Military of The United States of America, not a company.

The Commander and Chief is responsible


His silence speaks for itself.
No one can convince me he didn't approve it. And if but some remote change he didn't know, until after the fact. (And BEFORE the investigation) Then heads should of rolled. They did not !

He should except responsibility & IMO he should of made a public apology to all the armed forces & perhaps the entire country.

Stop making excuses for him

Again, you clearly don't know how the US military does and doesn't work.

The Commander in Chief no more directs the details of how a given public relations situation is handled in the ranks, than he does decide who goes to the brig for weekend "fun" that goes awry.

I suppose you think that President Bush directed General Petraeus to have an affair with a woman who was writing about him. After all, he was "Commander In Chief."

Back during the second US led invasion of Iraq, the US military in the field, repeatedly bypassed unmanned Iraqi ammunition dumps, and failed to leave anyone to guard them. An unknown number of Americans and Iraqis died later from IED's manufactured from munitions taken from those locations.

Do you imagine that George W. Bush specifically directed the field generals to set this up? That is what you are implying here.

so knowledge about social trends and current events is

'indoctrination',,,,,,?

interesting


The truth of this powerful forces [sic] is everywhere, but we don’t know how to talk about it and so we act as though it doesn’t exist


and I would have loved for them to include a more balanced report of the male privilege and heterosexual privilege which were also a part of the one time class


lol

indoctrination

Urban Dictionary
Top Definition : The Obama 47

[ur]http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=The+Obama+47/

The Obama 47

Refers to the 47% of the population that will vote for President Barack Obama, no matter what he says or does, because the majority of them are unintelligent, on Government assistance / welfare; emotionally enamored with Obama; African American; etc.

They consist, primarily, of uneducated people who don't work and thus, do not care about the economy, foreign policy, or the health of the United States in general.

All that they primarily are concerned about, is that they receive their food stamps; free HUD housing; other Government assistance; etc.
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Obama's 47 Percent That Want Free Stuff:

http://youtu.be/F2yT_ROmsrg/
06:48

lol

urban dictionary is a great reference for slang such as bushism which stands for stupid things bush said


and one day, trumpism, will also be added



but the recurring mindless sheeple response that welfare means laziness and free stuff, will forever be a favorite distraction from talking about deeper issues,,,just like dismissing peoples concerns or experiences with bigotry,,,by implying that its just an overused and inaccurate complaint

Note: this is not the definition of people who actually EXIST, it is the definition of the ENTIRELY POLITICAL PROPAGANDA name which opponents came up with, to try to deflect away from the fact that it was their own candidate who stupidly admitted in public, that he refused to consider the concerns of almost half the country.

The true champions of "Want Free Stuff," are the wealthy and the large corporations who want to pay little or not taxes at all, while making sure that the WORKING CLASS pays 100% of the cost of, and supplies all the bodies for, the military and civilian service people who make THEIR lives safe and easy.

The "free stuff" anyone else might want, is tuppence by comparison, but the richer a politician is in this country, the more petulant they become when someone with less than they have, get so much as a nickel.

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" White Privilege" is a political propaganda term made up recently, by Progressives to breed & instill hate & division as a fear/hate tactic for a Socialist regime.

" The Obama 47 " is a slang term made up by the PUBLIC, 8 years ago, based on the government's own
statictics

What does that tell you?

not much,

white privilege was a description of segregated conditions in the 60s,

where as there was no accompanying data to suggest that half of the population needing help were all supporting Obama

there was actual data showing certain 'privilege' white skin seemed to correlate with

*spin* *spin* *spin*


Yeah,
I can see where people who have never served a day in uniform,
can be "experts" on military life.




Fact of the matter;
The policy implementation of the idiocy was a command decision.

Don't confuse stupidity with carefully planned destruction.