Defense secretary’s latest interposition resulted in all-male, overwhelmingly white picks for promotion to admiralty
The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, stripped nine navy officers including women and Black service members from a promotion list last month, according to a person familiar with the matter, resulting in an all-male, overwhelmingly white slate of 22 advancing as nominees to become one-star admirals.
Hegseth’s unusual intervention violated promotion rules designed to be merit-based and apolitical, the New York Times said on Tuesday, and extended the Trump administration’s push to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the military.
The original promotion list included three women and two Black officers in addition to the two who remained, the newspaper said.
Literally? If that were true then I would be the only person up voting me or down voting them.
Of course I am, it’s my personal opinion, and I’ve already said I don’t like things being pointlessly gendered which is also an opinion. But saying that no one else thought that is just being obtuse.
I’m not sure repeating “well it’s my opinion” is helping.
Flat earthers, anti-vax, and moon landing deniers also have opinions… but they’re wrong… there’s like 3 other people commenting the same stuff trying to explain it, all being pretty civil too. I haven’t seen any comments (maybe one popped up while I was writing this) backing up your opinion which is why they are saying nobody else really thought that but you.