Amid ‘DEI’ purge, Pentagon removes webpage on Iwo Jima flag-raiser Pages celebrating Navajo code talkers and other minority service members were also erased.

When you erase the history of the code talkers, you are erasing the history of the Second World War.
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Let's just say it:

The Trump Administration is offended by the idea that anyone but white men have a place in history.

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I don’t know why, but I feel like there is a distinct viciousness to that man’s comb over.

Thinking about how Indian Health Service is so underfunded that they denied payment for my grandma’s cancer pills. Add the cutting of Medicaid to that, and yeah lots of Native people are going to die.

This is terrible.

Just getting people to see this is such hard work. I’ve been saying since the “shoot on 5th Avenue” line that he is a very real danger to our country. People just think it’s all going to be ok.

It isn’t but they don’t care.

With you on that.

Please check out the thread for the data and the recent report.

Just attended a great webinar from these leading researchers. Such important work is being done by this team. Great insights from speakers as well. Thanks PRRI!

And that I’ve repeatedly invited you to a private dialogue and you prefer to hurl public insults shows where you are really coming from.

You aren’t expressing the teaching. You are acting as a political shill attacking concepts like wokeness and DEI.

I know the teaching and I’ve lived it in far more challenging circumstances than you.

Otherwise, this does not serve God or the church so let’s stop now. If you want a more productive discussion please pm me.

Peace.

I invite you to pm me if you actually want yo to understand these topics.

Again, I’m a Catholic scholar just like you but with firsthand knowledge of the context you’re discussing.

It is beneath the church and the academy for you to resort to childish name calling this way instead of honoring my knowledge and accomplishments.

Sending my support especially to those working for the common good when those who benefit don’t return the favor.

Duty and selflessness mean something. They are beautiful traits and if no one thanked you lately, let me.

Thank you for fighting for the good stuff. There’s room in my heart for you.

I know the data, done the research, I get the theology and I have real world experience.

You should take my class.

Hello new followers! I’m a hospital chaplain, practical theologian and artist. I write about the US context and I welcome dialogue with my theological, clinical, social science and artistic colleagues.

Here to provide spiritual support and sometimes, critical pushback to nonsense.

No, this is your ideological bias formed in your heart about issues a continent away that you only know about through political media. You’ve probably never set foot in the US let alone lived and worked in the country. You can’t even refer to scholarship because there’s none to support you.

Of course there is. That’s why you’re posting about DEI and complaining about what you believe is wokeness though I showed you the true origin of the concept. You clearly are influenced by American political messaging. It’s very clear.

Listen, if the best you can do is make absurd analogies like this, then I really question your grasp of these concepts and their importance. Human beings and their situations are not reduced to just some absurd claim as you have proposed.

Fundamentally against your role as a priest and as a public theologian. Amplifying biased political positions which you have no practical exposure to and are not in your context, but do motivate people to harm others because a priest told them it was ok.

You

As reductive an argument as I’d expect from someone with no practical experience with trans persons yet claims to know more than those of us with experience.

Which have been defined in your mind by conservative American media. Not by research or church teaching.

Here, learn what Woke really means if we are helping each other to resources. The term originated in my culture and has been purposely misinterpreted. Started by Leadbelly, encouraging people to be aware of oppressive political systems.

Buddy, you need to wake up. I’m fully aware. I’ve studied them probably more thoroughly than you. And, again, I have concrete, practical experience with persons.

Still no interest in the DEI discussion I see.

I’ve made my points here and I have a full life to live.

Adios.

And I know you want a gender debate instead of discussing why you are amplifying American right wing propaganda about diversity initiatives .

Are you sending me these things thinking I’ve never read them or that I don’t understand them? Because neither assumption would be correct.

Anyone can throw documents around. That doesn’t demonstrate a grasp of the situation or the context of these people.

Pretty ironic that you judge a fellow Catholic who clearly has more knowledge and practical lived experience in the context you are commenting on as someone with unacceptable theologies when you live on another continent in a clerical bubble.