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Black Medal of Honor recipient removed from US Department of Defense website (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 week ago by floofloof to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26951215

Summary

The U.S. Department of Defense removed the webpage honoring Maj. Gen. Charles C. Rogers, a Black Vietnam War hero awarded the Medal of Honor in 1970.

The page now returns a “404” error, and its URL was changed to include “DEI.” Rogers, the highest-ranking African American to receive the medal, was awarded by President Nixon in 1970 for heroism during the Vietnam War.

The deletion follows Trump’s efforts to roll back DEI initiatives in the federal government, including an executive order terminating diversity programs.

The Defense Department has not commented on the removal.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So clearly DEI is the new N-word?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Unironically always has been, but no one really likes that take.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Where talking about dog whistle term, right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

We're?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Literally whitewashing history.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It always infuriates me when I see people complain that "Trump did this" or "Elon did that" (referring to the Bluesky comments). Of course they did, this is exactly what they said they would do.

If someone aims a gun at their foot and pulls the trigger, you don't blame the gun. This is what the orange buffoon campaigned on, it's what the majority of Americans voted for. Put the blame where it belongs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

They're all cowards

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I don’t know why the Democratic Party thinks it needs to win over Trump voters and is willing to shift to the right for them. Awful people exist and they tend to vote Republican, trying to win them over is a losing strategy that will only push progressives and leftists away.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

nobody else escapes responsibility because there's a system level explanation for their behavior, why should the richest and most powerful?