Pentagon Orders Social Media Purge of Diversity Mentions by March 5v

The Pentagon has directed a cleanup of diversity-related mentions on social media, with a deadline set for March 5. Read more on the policy shift.
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Finding an effective balance between diversity, equity, and inclusion as my colleague in Boston has written, is downright ethos at the Pentagon. They compliment the hectic depths of the paperwork departments populated by officers, and service men and women are tasked with purging the entirety of the department's social media accounts and dismantling ambiguous personnel cutbacks the entire department is undergoing. 

With the commencement of the new policy, the entire pretense of social media will determine who gets to report solely to the waiting room, as officers are tasked with the perpetual task of single handedly scouring website and fighting for the top ranking position over hundreds of thousands of mentions on pages that are drenched with articles, and videos supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion. 

The memo states that unless they have the capability to execute all of these tasks before the commencement of the fifth date in March then all content published during the last four years under Biden’s rule shall be kept on the shadow side and remain cut off from public eyes. The document is in possession of the associated trust. 

My presumption is the administration is eager to have the request motion forwarded to them, as the members of government blunder their way to bear the brunt of the information and data of civilians willing to surrender under the guise of signing paychecks to loyal government employees.

Last week, several senior military officials, including Gen CQ Brown Jr. who was the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Adm Lisa Franchetti the chief of naval operations; Gen Jim Slife the vice chief of the Air Force, and the judge advocates general for the services, were instated as fired. The campaign had an objective of gettng rid of military leaders that are considered “woke,” which is why high ranking officials were first on the chopping block. However, the termination of the JAGs was done for reasons that appear to be quite different. 

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Restriction against Trump firing the whistleblower agency head has recently been elongated by a judge. 

A few changes to the social media policy are being issued a few days after the department sent out a memo reminding the services to which the commands were given to stay politically neutral execute their responsibilities. 

In light of the changes that have been made in the department, trust from the public must be maintained as a priority, said the memo that was signed on February 19 by Darin Selnick, who is working for the undersecretary for personnel on an interim assignment.

This is one of the most baffling things to happen in modern political history. Trump’s order to end all government sponsored diversity, equity, and inclusion programs is baffling in its own right, but his attempt to purge diversity content has meeeoowed. Like, did he ignore the reception to Black History Month where Woods was present? Not very likely, but we did grab onto a little bit of hope! And his reception not having Woods present would negate his complete disregard for black achievement in sports. But why am I even surprised? He does love to artfully mangle the English language whenever it suits him, which during his presidential run was always.

According to US officials, They're claiming Trumps reps told them armed force leaders had mere days to go through decades worth of web content. Getting rid of anything with women, minority gains, or cultural pride and Heritage was the goal. When upper management said they lacked the the personnel to follow through, the answer was simple. Simply delete everything from the last 4 years.

This is unfortunate, because those post the employees combed through to figure out what to remove publicly and what should be neatly relocated to the archives, only to be permabanned from ever being reposted, were essential. Filling out form after form to erase these posts after AI combed through was a joke in itself, but not quite as laughable as those taking 4 years worth of Biden screed posts only to overrit- I mean delete. They are so far gone they don't realize that essentially removing the Biden era from the departments online records is not clever. But discussing the reason why is just so tedious. ფორმი 14 43 90 62 68 10 76 65

The memo, which adds a bit of detail to the DEI purge under Secretary Hegseth, was also signed by the department's new chief spokesman Sean Parnell. It has however caused the services and department sections to scramble to recruit individuals ready to devote substantial time to a detail-intensive task.  

Some officials noted they remain skeptical how this will merge with efforts to comply with Trump’s directive of enhancing US military capability by juggling other general strategic aims. A lot of staff time now would need to be dedicated to removing the DEI content from years of archived military webpages, which would violate other more urgent security and warfighting responsibilities.  

Furthermore, what defines a story, post, photo, or even video as assertion of DEI concerns also seems to be ambiguous.  

Statements made in the memo highlight ‘ promotion of critical race theory, gender ideology and the provision of preferential treatment based on gender, ethnicity or race’ as DEI content. They also classified any claim that does not conform to a merit-centric or non-ethnic-centric policy might sprout news pieces focusing service personnel or civilians’ race and gender as DEI content.

And with the celebration of Black History Month under Trump, it simultaneously earns the right to call for the removal of any material that seeks to promote what Hegseth considers Cultural Awareness Months, in an earlier memo he wrote an Identity Months dead at DOD. 

In that memo dated January 31, he noted that attempts to fracture the force in order to promote on group over the other tends to destroy unit cohesion and jeopardizes mission accomplishment. Moreover, he has also stated that the attempts to be more inclusive, placed less emphasis on fighting the war.

Consequently, he said the department and the services do not have official support to host or celebrate Black History Month, Women's History Month, AIP Heritage Month, Pride month, National Hispanic Heritage Month National Disability Employment Awareness Month, and National American Indian Heritage Month.

Rather, he said units and offices should strive to honor the courage and achievements of military personnel of every ethnicity, sex, and background as we reclaim our warrior culture and ethos. 

Unlike the previous one, this new order begs the question of how do workers decide which documents to remove. And it raises concerns that there could be repeating a different type of overzealousness where workers erase any photographs or footage with the inclusion of women and minorities just so they do not forget something.

This overreach led to complications early on after Trump's command to eliminate all traces of DEI from social media. The Air Force, for example, quickly scrapped new recruitment training modules that used Tuskegee Airmen videos.

That blunder drew the White House’s anger and left the department vulnerable to charges of being partisan in pursuing the enforcement of the order. The Air Force, as noted, rapidly undid the cessation of the videos.

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