A variety, fairness and inclusion (DEI) coaching within the Pentagon’s schooling wing recommends a e book that claims Thanksgiving “perpetuates the facility of White supremacy,” a report from a watchdog group alleged.
Authorities watchdog OpenTheBooks launched a July report which alleges the Division of Protection Schooling Exercise (DoDEA) is indoctrinating military-connected kids with “radical DEI curriculum.” There are over 60,000 kids enrolled within the DoD colleges, that are positioned within the U.S. and throughout the globe.
The watchdog despatched a Freedom of Info Act request for “DEI private growth content material provided to DoDEA staff” and returned a slide from a presentation selling a e book titled “Teaching for Fairness.” All through the e book, it expresses anti-American and anti-Western sentiment.
“DoDEA staffers had been offered with a e book known as Teaching for Fairness, which rebukes capitalism, ‘patriarchy,’ traditions like Thanksgiving, and America’s existence as a rustic,” OpenTheBooks mentioned in its report.
For instance, it claimed Thanksgiving was related to “White supremacy” and was a part of the “distortion of fact” concerning U.S. historical past.
“In america, we hardly ever keep in mind that we’re on stolen lands, lands that had been taken via blankets deliberately contaminated with smallpox, via damaged treaties, and thru outright genocide,” the e book mentioned. “Our lack of reminiscence, and the intentional distortion of fact, has led to the macabre. Take Thanksgiving, for instance… sometimes celebrated with a giant meal and household gathering… Historical past has been sanitized, and the brutality of colonialism has been erased. This perpetuates the facility of White supremacy.”
One other part of the e book states, “america was not based on ideas of fairness and justice.”
It went on to criticize america for being a capitalist society.
“Notions of White supremacy had been developed hand in hand with the growth of colonization and capitalism,” the e book mentioned. “Capitalism, bear in mind, birthed the ideology that White persons are superior and that individuals of shade exist to serve their masters.”
A number of GOP lawmakers took discover of the report and despatched a letter to Protection Secretary Lloyd Austin, demanding the DoD stop and desist its alleged indoctrination.
“These books are blatantly racist in the direction of a whole bunch of hundreds of thousands of Individuals and delegitimize the founding of America itself,” Reps. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., and Jim Banks, R-Ind., mentioned in a letter to Austin on Monday. “Radical woke ideology is rotting out the colleges of our service members’ kids and as a substitute of addressing this, you may have solely exacerbated it. Our service members mustn’t have to decide on between serving their nation or saving their kids.”
The Pentagon launched an announcement to Fox Information Digital, stating the paperwork from the FOIA request had been a part of a “voluntary e book examine.”
“The e book ‘Teaching for Fairness’ was utilized in a voluntary e book examine. This e book shouldn’t be used inside the DoDEA-wide educator skilled studying or skilled growth packages,” the DoD mentioned.
“It’s shameful and unsustainable that whereas our servicemen and girls are risking their lives to defend our nation, their kids are being taught that America is a racist nation not price combating for,” Banks mentioned.
Stefanik added, “Our service members face many challenges and making certain their kids obtain a high-quality patriotic schooling shouldn’t be one in every of them.”
Fox Information Digital beforehand spoke to lecturers at DoDEA who defined that they had been uninterested in being force-fed DEI.
“In the event that they wished me to start out browbeating the youngsters about how our historical past [is]… racist, they need to have advised me this once I was employed as a result of I would not have agreed to do it. As a result of it is not true,” one instructor mentioned.
“I name it a social Marxist course,” one other mentioned.
