The Air Force has purged it’s training materials of sections on the Tuskegee Airman and the Women Air Service Pilots. When I first saw this on FB, I couldn’t believe it. Looked for a more credible source, and found it.
As said before, where will the “JCs” find enough fit, straight, white, men, to fill all the jobs, because, apparently, they aren’t supposed to hire anyone else.
Steve
That would be best described as malicious compliance. The Tuskegee Airmen and WASPs have nothing to do with DEI.
With malicious obedience you’re told to do something, and you do it in a way that will cause the most disruption and create maximum embarrassment, all the while claiming you were loyally following orders.
DB2
So the Air Force powers-that-be did this on their own initiative and fear no retribution if they did not “comply” with the EO, right?
What does it gain the Air Force in causing “the most disruption and create maximum embarrassment”?
One has to consider the notion that it was following orders.
Pete
Au contraire mon frère - It’s compliance with maliciousness. Black and women pilots? Gotta be DEI.
When you’re on the team being coached by Charlie Kirk and the star player is Tucker, at some point you’ve gotta ask yourself, “Am I on the wrong team?”
lol…in a departmental meeting, at the pump seal company, the secretary said she wanted to know where each of us was, all the time…so I made a point of telling her every time I went to the bathroom, or engineering, or accounting, or IT, or to the blueprint room. She soon tired of my constantly interrupting her, and told me to stop telling her where I was going.
That being said, big shots don’t like being embarrassed. In my experience, that is a career-ender. This could be exactly what it appears: anti-DEI run amok, morphing into crushing anything that leans against the narrative of white, male, supremacy. Recall, this news broke just as the new SecDef, who said women should not be in combat was approved.
Steve
I figured you would appreciate the strategy, Steve.
DB2
A well known technique for dealing with with idiot managers. In factories, the usual means is to stop using shortcuts that improve efficiency and productivity, and do every little thing exactly by the book, until crashing production rates force management to reverse their ill-considered decree.
Steve
It is really interesting the term " malicious obedience". It’s like stating we were only targeting people who broke the law. The people that were law abiding citizens were only being arrested because of malicious obedience. Or they only slashed their tires because of malicious obedience. It gives them cover to do whatever they wish because hey , It was other people performing malicious obedience, not real obedience. It’s not like i pardoned the oath keepers and proud boys, that was done by the malicious obedience people. Stand back and Stand by.
Just remember, you made me post this…one of the many hilarious bits in “Road To Wellville”.
Wellville is one of the very very very best bits of art for anyone wanting to comprehend the breadth of the USA’s bizareness.
Thanks Steve. I had forgotten that segment.
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Thing is, while Kellogg took some things to extremes, his basic idea of a veggie diet, regular exercise, and…ummm…active bowels, isn’t really that bad. They only mention it a couple times, in passing, in the film, but the San was owned by the Seventh Day Adventist church, which advocates a vegetarian diet.
Kellogg also believed that you could take a child out of the worst environment imaginable, put him in a good environment, and the child would straighten out. He adopted a flock of kids. The cure didn’t quite take hold in George tho.
Battle Creek is only 20 miles down the road from Kalamazoo, so the San is something of local lore. The original San did burn down, as the film shows. The narration notes that the fire was so big, the light could be seen from Kalamazoo.
Steve
One of my staff at RS was like George, incorrigible. Dan was in his 30s, still living with his parents. He had been demoted to my store, from a big mall store, as punishment. Like George, Dan would drop his coat, galoshes, and stocking cap on the floor in the back room, instead of hanging them up on the available hooks, like a civilized person. I told him, repeatedly, to take care of his stuff, so that everyone else was not constantly tripping of it. I finally told him, that if I find any of his stuff laying on the floor, I would toss it up into the rafters. Next day, he dumped his stuff on the floor, as usual. I tossed everything into the rafters, as I said I would. Next day, he dumped everything on the floor again. Into the rafters everything went again. He never caught on. Completely untrainable, just like George.
Steve
I was afraid that the Air Force was whitewashing it’s history of poor project management and cost control (i.e., the $2 Trillion F-35 program)
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The Air Force said Sunday that videos about the famed Tuskegee Airmen and a unit of pioneering female aviators would be restored to the basic training curriculum for new recruits beginning Monday.
A course that included the videos was shut down last week so officials could review it to make sure it complied with President Trump’s executive order ending federal diversity, equity and inclusion programs
DB2
So, who will be offered up as the scapegoat for this flap?
Steve