Air Force scraps course that used videos of Tuskegee Airmen and female WWII pilots

[Moonglow]

The films were not DEI training they were retrospective films of the air forces history.

To exclude white men from positions and give them to blacks, women, ans gays - even in cases where the white men were the more capable.

How many CEOs are white men? How many generals down to lieutenants are white, sargents that are white?

 

[DonGlock26]

The part where you claim DEI discriminates against white men.

You can start here:

"The Meltzer Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging at New York University School of Law reports that 114 lawsuits have been filed nationwide challenging DEI training, including four cases based on directors’ duties, eight cases focused on diversity targets, seven cases focused on diversity training, 13 cases arguing the training infringes upon citizens’ constitutional freedom of speech and religion, 22 cases focused on government programs, five cases related to school and university admissions, 37 cases involving targeted programs, and 23 cases alleging workplace discrimination."

DEI trainings spark workplace lawsuits

The proliferation of workplace “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) trainings has generated more than 100 lawsuits nationwide, including one stemming…

ocpathink.org

"Vaughn vs. CBS Broadcasting is one recent case filed on July 1. The plaintiff, a heterosexual white male news anchor, alleges he was replaced with a “younger minority news anchor” because of his race, sex, sexual orientation and age. The plaintiff alleges his removal was part of a broader effort to meet internal representation goals.


That case is currently ongoing, like many others, though some have been decided, like Duvall vs. Novant Health. In that case, the plaintiff, a white man, also brought a discrimination claim against his former employer and said he was fired to advance his employer’s diversity goals.

A jury found race and or sex were motivating factors leading to the plaintiff’s firing and awarded him punitive damages of $10 million, which were later reduced to $300,000. On appeal, the verdict was upheld though punitive damages were set aside.

Such reverse discrimination lawsuits vary greatly based on individual circumstances and what evidence is available to explain how a hiring decision was made. Accordingly, employment law experts expect DEI-based hiring programs to become more covert. "

Why anti-DEI lawsuits are piling up this year

So far this year, at least 37 federal lawsuits targeting DEI programming have been filed, according to a tracker from NYU.

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[Meathead]

WTF do you think DEI training is?

A joke.

 

[j-mac]

I don't see the connection

Sure you don’t….

 

[RetiredGySgt]

The mission of the Air Force like other military forces is to "provide for the common defense" in a modern world. A/F history might be interesting but training is what get's the job done

actually building espirit de core is good to the Marines used to do that I don't know if they still do.

 

[Mac-7]

You asked the dumb question of what whites?

Why was DEI created?

It was created because blacks were not doing well under a merit system

 

[ThisIsMe]

So, to better understand this, does anyone know WHEN they started using these videos for training? I looked and couldn't find it, all the search engines show are these latest articles.

Has the air force always used these videos, or did they just start showing them when they started the DEI courses?

If it's the former, then they were wrong to remove them, if it's the latter, then it's just compliance with the new EO.

 

[22lcidw]

The Tuskegee Airmen and the WACs are part of Air Force History. Your dumb ass doesn't even know what DEI is. You just repeat anything the white race hustlers you listen to tell you.

If there is any propaganda in it, then it is no good. Complaining about how the system was wrong in the past and then pushing the notion that without certain groups denied, the war or going into space could not be done is crazy. Telling the truth about it would be prudent as trailblazers for groups today to admire.

 

[MisterBeale]

So, to better understand this, does anyone know WHEN they started using these videos for training? I looked and couldn't find it, all the search engines show are these latest articles.

Has the air force always used these videos, or did they just start showing them when they started the DEI courses?

If it's the former, then they were wrong to remove them, if it's the latter, then it's just compliance with the new EO.

That is. . . the $64,000 question.

I can't find these training vids anywhere for us to discuss them intelligently.


This should be the first clue that this is more than likely, a manufactured outrage.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

To exclude white men from positions and give them to blacks, women, ans gays - even in cases where the white men were the more capable.

Please show us where that is happening.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Please show us where that is happening.

LOL really?

 

[Superbadbrutha]

View attachment 1070829

Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs And Preferencing

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.

www.whitehouse.gov

". . . . Sec. 2. Implementation. (a) The Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), assisted by the Attorney General and the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), shall coordinate the termination of all discriminatory programs, including illegal DEI and “diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility” (DEIA) mandates, policies, programs, preferences, and activities in the Federal Government, under whatever name they appear. To carry out this directive, the Director of OPM, with the assistance of the Attorney General as requested, shall review and revise, as appropriate, all existing Federal employment practices, union contracts, and training policies or programs to comply with this order. Federal employment practices, including Federal employee performance reviews, shall reward individual initiative, skills, performance, and hard work and shall not under any circumstances consider DEI or DEIA factors, goals, policies, mandates, or requirements.

(b) Each agency, department, or commission head, in consultation with the Attorney General, the Director of OMB, and the Director of OPM, as appropriate, shall take the following actions within sixty days of this order:

(i) terminate, to the maximum extent allowed by law, all DEI, DEIA, and “environmental justice” offices and positions (including but not limited to “Chief Diversity Officer” positions); all “equity action plans,” “equity” actions, initiatives, or programs, “equity-related” grants or contracts; and all DEI or DEIA performance requirements for employees, contractors, or grantees.

(ii) provide the Director of the OMB with a list of all:

(A) agency or department DEI, DEIA, or “environmental justice” positions, committees, programs, services, activities, budgets, and expenditures in existence on November 4, 2024, and an assessment of whether these positions, committees, programs, services, activities, budgets, and expenditures have been misleadingly relabeled in an attempt to preserve their pre-November 4, 2024 function;

(B) Federal contractors who have provided DEI training or DEI training materials to agency or department employees; and

(C) Federal grantees who received Federal funding to provide or advance DEI, DEIA, or “environmental justice” programs, services, or activities since January 20, 2021.

(iii) direct the deputy agency or department head to:

(A) assess the operational impact (e.g., the number of new DEI hires) and cost of the prior administration’s DEI, DEIA, and “environmental justice” programs and policies; and

(B) recommend actions, such as Congressional notifications under 28 U.S.C. 530D, to align agency or department programs, activities, policies, regulations, guidance, employment practices, enforcement activities, contracts (including set-asides), grants, consent orders, and litigating positions with the policy of equal dignity and respect identified in section 1 of this order. The agency or department head and the Director of OMB shall jointly ensure that the deputy agency or department head has the authority and resources needed to carry out this directive.

(c) To inform and advise the President, so that he may formulate appropriate and effective civil-rights policies for the Executive Branch, the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy shall convene a monthly meeting attended by the Director of OMB, the Director of OPM, and each deputy agency or department head to:

(i) hear reports on the prevalence and the economic and social costs of DEI, DEIA, and “environmental justice” in agency or department programs, activities, policies, regulations, guidance, employment practices, enforcement activities, contracts (including set-asides), grants, consent orders, and litigating positions;

(ii) discuss any barriers to measures to comply with this order; and

(iii) monitor and track agency and department progress and identify potential areas for additional Presidential or legislative action to advance the policy of equal dignity and respect. . . "


Nothing in this order forbids educating troops about the history of the Air Force. This decision to exclude certain educational materials was made by the Air Force. Why? We can't really know unless we see those vids in the context of this E.O.

So, in other words, let's go back to the way things were done before, where there was no way to stop racism and discrimination.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

LOL really?

Really?

 

[MisterBeale]

So, in other words, let's go back to the way things were done before, where there was no way to stop racism and discrimination.

I don't know.


You might be right, you might be wrong?

Post for me these training vids, so I can make an accurate assessment.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

Of course it does. In the liberal county where I grew up, the fire department announced that 50% of all new hires would be black (even though they were at most 15% of the population).

That meant when a black and white both applied for the same position, the black man got the job even when he was less qualified.

That’s racism. Pure and simple.

You always have some bullshit story to tell that nobody can fact check to see if it's true or not. Give me some concrete examples not any of your fairytales of growing up in Bumbfuck, Iowa.

 

[Seymour Flops]

The Air Force has removed training courses with videos of its storied Tuskegee Airmen and the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs — the female World War II pilots who were vital in ferrying warplanes for the military — to comply with the Trump administration's crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

More DEI fallout: Air Force scraps course that used videos of Tuskegee Airmen and female WWII pilots

The Air Force has removed training courses with videos of its storied Tuskegee Airmen and the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs — the female World War II pilots who were vital in ferrying warplanes for the military — to comply with the Trump administration's crackdown on diversity, equity...

www.startribune.com

The racist are celebrating, I definitely want someone to ask Byron Donalds, Wesley Hunt and Tim Scott about this.

Those poor cadets have been fed a steady diet of Tuskegee Airmen, Underground Railroad, March across the bridge, Sufferagettes, etc. for twelve or thirteen years by the time the get to the Air Force Academy.

I'm sure the white ones dutifully cried in shame while the black ones dutifully seethed with anger. The women learned to throw a fit if someone mentioned that women get emotional.

How's about they learn aerodynamics, now? How to calculate maximum loads? Bomb site adjustments for windage? Or would too many "preferred" minorities and women flunk those courses?

 

[struth]

You don't think the accomplishments of the Tuskegee Airmen should be a part of the training for new recruits to learn from.

No they shouldn’t be part of training…they completely different planes now, it’s not comparable at all

Should we train race car drivers in Model-Ts? That’s the comparison

 

[BlackSand]

So I guess we don't need to teach the Army and Navy about the Revolutionary War.

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I am becoming more and more surprised how utterly retarded you think new recruits should be ...
If you need to teach them about the Revolutionary War and Tuskegee Airmen after they join.
I mean what backwoods, incompetent high school did you go to?

Which is probably why they are dropping the classes ...
The classes were more about indoctrination and woke ideology, than unit readiness, lethality and operational success ...

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[Wild Bill Kelsoe]

The Air Force has removed training courses with videos of its storied Tuskegee Airmen and the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs — the female World War II pilots who were vital in ferrying warplanes for the military — to comply with the Trump administration's crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

More DEI fallout: Air Force scraps course that used videos of Tuskegee Airmen and female WWII pilots

The Air Force has removed training courses with videos of its storied Tuskegee Airmen and the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs — the female World War II pilots who were vital in ferrying warplanes for the military — to comply with the Trump administration's crackdown on diversity, equity...

www.startribune.com

The racist are celebrating, I definitely want someone to ask Byron Donalds, Wesley Hunt and Tim Scott about this.

So, what relevant skills did this course teach?

 

[Wild Bill Kelsoe]

You don't think the accomplishments of the Tuskegee Airmen should be a part of the training for new recruits to learn from.

No, I don't think training time should be wasted on history lessons.