described the decision to pause teaching the videos as "malicious compliance" with the DEI review.
Good to know there's still good guys there. Love me some malicious compliance to make a point.
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How is this 'malicious compliance'? Removing a DEI-focussed teaching aid, even temporarily, seems like 'compliant compliance'?
Without knowing the content of the training or the actual intent of the people who decided to pull it, it's pretty hard to say whether it was malicious compliance, or just plain-old compliance.
However, it got at least one republican's feathers ruffled (the one who called it malicious is a Republican)
So if they knew it would get that kind of reaction and did it specifically to do so, that would be "malicious"
I could certainly imagine someone in the airforce deciding "You know, Alabama has pretty much nothing to be proud of except for the Tuskegee Airmen. I bet if word gets out that we're stopping this training, some Alabama politician will make a stink over it, and make us roll it back. Then when they get on our case about other 'DEI' training, we can point to this as an example and say 'well we tried to stop that one and you got butthurt about it, and these are more of the same kind of thing, so either make up your fucking minds or get off our fucking backs and let us do our god damned jobs'"
Again though, without knowing their actual intention it could just be plain ol' compliance or even just incompetence that led to this.
People don't know legal stuff inside out as a permanent memory. They need time to read the materials and understand what they can do legally.
Thus, 'malicious compliance' is resisting by following the laws to the letter and 'compliant compliance' is not giving a shit about the laws.
I'm pretty sure the air force has been the most resistant branch to the fascist takeover. Probably because they have a much higher ratio of educated people than the other branches. Having the air force on the correct side of history could be critical too if things get out of hand in america.
Hahahahaha. You’ve never met any air force officers i’m guessing? Their ranks are chock full of evangelicals. They’re always getting into trouble for leaders trying to push their religion or punishing subordinates who aren’t religious. They will be the branch that helps the most in a christian takeover.
More women than other branches I believe, as well. At least that used to be the case.
The branch that’s fully captured by fundamentalist Christians? Unlikely.