Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is a Moral Sickness Infecting Our Military

 The political vigilantism taking place under the banner of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion must be immediately and completely excised from our military.

At a minimum, they say, the spasm of violence is a response that must be "Contextualized." Although quantitatively different, the moral reasoning used to rationalize the slaughter and rape of innocent Israelis is qualitatively the same as the moral calculus inherent to DEI. Morality is no longer measured against objective and immutable ideas of good and evil but is instead determined by where actions or ideas fall on a politically approved taxonomy of grievances.

The horrors on display in Gaza also show it is the slipperiest of slippery slopes to teach young men with guns that some people simply aren't as valuable as other people, or to suggest that it might, just maybe, be justifiable to behead someone because they are a member of a group that is deemed an "Oppressor." Within the military context, this is the same type of moral relativism that will inevitably justify rounding-up and shooting "Partisans," torturing POWs, and razing "Enemy" villages.

Through DEI, the U.S. military promulgates, teaches, and ultimately enforces the idea people should be treated differently based on who their parents were or the color of their skin.

Napoleon famously opined that "The moral is to the physical as three is to one" and maybe an American military focused on "Diversity" and led by officers who lack moral clarity will be an exception to this maxim.

The American military has been the world's standard for better part of a century, and yet none of the forces put into the field were constructed or led according to DEI's principles.

Why do the current political and military leaders believe a military organized around DEI's ideology will be better than the military we have? Or, more cynically, do our current political and military leaders believe that having an ideologically conformist military is more important than fielding an effective, lethal, and patriotic one that can defend our nation? On the available evidence, it appears that they do.

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