“I've read Mao Zedong. I've read Karl Marx. I've read Lenin," said Mark Milley, who heads the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "That doesn't make me a communist."
He spoke at a hearing before the House Armed Services Committee after several Republican members took potshots at signs of the military's fledgling use of critical race theory. It was a showboating performance by those trying to prove their Trumpy bona fides for reelection. They accused the military of being "woke."
One of the potshots was from Michael Waltz, (R-Fla.), who criticized the Academy at West Point for teaching critical race theory in class. "Divisive," Waltz said. He also disliked the voluntary seminar on "Understanding whiteness and white rage."
"I want to understand white rage, and I'm white," Milley said. He later added, "I personally find it offensive that we are accusing the United States military .... of being ‘woke’ or something else because we are studying some theories that are out there.”
Milley wasn't the only target of criticism: Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida claimed that one of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's senior advisers is "a critical race theorist."
Austin shot back, "This is the first I'd ever heard Mr. Garrison being described as a critical race theorist, so this is new."
Perhaps the best statement of the hearing came from Milley. “I do think it’s important, actually, for those of us in uniform to be open-minded and be widely read." Take that, GOP!
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/559925-joint-chiefs-chairman-clashes-with-gop-on-race-theory-white-rage?fbclid=IwAR3fg_WHqODgiiwYNAK1mIJ4i9G9kIU2HMqZ-nPiHImpMtB9vXaV5scToUg
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