“We are dealing with human beings that want to join the Air Force or human beings that are in the Air Force that may not fully grasp or understand where we are going with DEI.”—LtGen Kevin Schneider
Yes, where exactly are you going with this Marxist-rooted ideology/agenda?
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One of President Joe Biden’s nominees for top Air Force posts calls for diversity, equity, and inclusion to be part of the military’s “DNA,” while another has tweeted about “whiteness.”
Lt. Gen. Kevin Schneider and Brig. Gen. Elizabeth Arledge are two of Biden’s Air Force nominees who have pushed woke policies for the military.
Schneider and Arledge also are two of some 200 military promotions being blocked by Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., in his effort to undo the Defense Department’s new taxpayer-funded abortion policy.
The Daily Signal previously reported that Tuberville had blocked the promotion of Navy Capt. Michael Donnelly, who allowed a drag show on the U.S.S. Ronald Reagan.
In April, Biden tapped Schneider as commander of the Pacific Air Forces, a major command that organizes and trains U.S. air units and bases in Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, South Korea, and Japan, according to Air Force Times.
Schneider is on the record extolling the importance of the organizing principle of diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI, in the military.
“Ultimately, what DEI is getting after, [is] identifying the barriers that currently exist, getting messaging out to the public [about] what opportunities do exist and then just drawing the talent that we need to excel as a force,” Schneider said in a video interview in February produced by the Air Force.
If approved by the Senate, his promotion would elevate Schneider to a four-star general.
Biden’s nomination of Schneider comes as the U.S. is faced with China aggression in the air and sea in the Pacific region.
“When we can stop having meetings about [DEI], or stop having specific, focused discussions on it, and it becomes part of our DNA, then we have achieved success,” Schneider says later in the Air Force video.
“I do think that’s one of those things we are going to have to continue to address,” the lieutenant general says.
“We are going to have to continue to get after it. We are dealing with human beings that want to join the Air Force or human beings that are in the Air Force that may not fully grasp or understand where we are going with DEI.”. . . . (read more on Daily Signal)
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