"The US defense department webpage celebrating an army general who served in the Vietnam war and was awarded the country’s highest military decoration has been removed and the letters “DEI” added to the site’s address.On Saturday, US army Maj Gen Charles Calvin Rogers’s Medal of Honor webpage led to a “404” error message. The URL was also changed, with the word “medal” changed to “deimedal”.Rogers, who was awarded the Medal of Honor by then president Richard Nixon in 1970, served in the Vietnam war, where he was wounded three times while leading the defense of a base.According to the West Virginia military hall of fame, Rogers was the highest-ranking African American to receive the medal. After his death in 1990, Rogers’s remains were buried at the Arlington national cemetery in Washington DC, and in 1999 a bridge in Fayette county, where Rogers was born, was renamed the Charles C Rogers Bridge..."
More information at The Guardian.
Addendum: the alterations appear to have been reversed.
Next we'll be learning that all "DEI soldiers" will be removed from interment at Arlington Cemetery.
ReplyDeleteRacism.
ReplyDeleteJust want to make sure that word is near this article. Because that is what this is. The press seems to have forgotten the words racism and sexism when it comes to all these cases. And no, you don't need a pundit, columnist or expert to opine. You just need a dictionary.
Apparently the Arlington Cemetery website has already been whitewashed.
ReplyDeleteWait till these dingbats discover that Arlington Cemetery was put in General Lee's (not the car, the actual general) backyard/plantation out of pure spite.
DeleteNot sure if they'd see that as a dig against the poor humiliated Confederacy, or as an admirable effort of spite. After all, this anti-DEI nonsense is only happening out of racist spite because these little white boys could not keep up.
I just went to the web page and it is there.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/article/2824721/medal-of-honor-monday-army-maj-gen-charles-calvin-rogers/
Good. Presumably some heat was applied in response to the bad publicity.
DeletePurely disgusting.
ReplyDeleteWhile I am not a big supporter of DEI (at least in its most woke forms), I dare say that some people, in their haste to comply with Trump's attempt to remove all things DEI, made the distasteful assumption that if someone black received some high award, it was due to DEI rather than merit. What idiocy!
ReplyDeleteWhat is DEI in its most woke forms?
DeleteSerious question. I do not know what that means.
"woke forms" = the inaccurate assumption that DEI means giving preferential treatment to whoever, as opposed to fair treatment. In the throats of conservatives it's become as meaningless as every other word they adopt as a rallying cry.
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