After watching the latest recruitment campaign for the U.S. Army, one could be forgiven for thinking that the United States military has entered the Twilight Zone. The new campaign, known as \u201cThe Calling\u201d and composed of 2-3 minute videos explaining the backstories and reasons for joining of five service members, is the dream of every leftist who supports the woke takeover of the army; indeed, the campaign is even more politically correct than the recent recruitment videos put out by the CIA. It seems that the military and intelligence services, the last government holdouts against political correctness, have finally succumbed to the woke mob.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In one of the recruitment videos, \u201cEmma\u201d tells us that she was \u201craised by two moms\u201d and had a \u201cfairly typical childhood.\u201d She also lets us know that she \u201cmarched for [LGBT] equality\u201d and that despite suffering an injury, one of her moms was able to \u201cget back on her feet eventually standing at the alter to marry my other mom.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In another video, we meet Jennifer, the child of immigrants from the Dominican Republic who was forced to live in a three-bedroom apartment with ten family members. Her dad attempted suicide and when she was a teenager her mom sent her back to the Dominican Republic for a year to avoid trouble and \u201cappreciate the life I had.\u201d There she lived in a house \u201cwith a tin roof and tourists used to drive by and throw candy at us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then we meet Rickie, a first-generation immigrant from Haiti, and David, an Asian-American who struggled in school but tells us \u201cit doesn\u2019t take a genius to become an army pilot.\u201d Finally, we meet Janeen, an African-American whose father, \u201chaving served in the army during the Vietnam era responding to civil unrest,\u201d would not bless her joining the military. She then decided upon a singing career, performing first in Las Vegas and then \u201cafter a performance at the Apollo Theater in New York I was invited to sing for a top cruise line.\u201d Eventually her dad relented and she joined the army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The one story we do not hear is that of a white male from a traditional family, even though white males make up the majority of the army and will continue to do so for years to come. But since the army is committed to critical race theory, white males are oppressors whose stories are not worth telling. And had a white male been included, to have had him from a traditional married mother-father family would have been anathema to the woke military, as that would not support the narrative that all family forms are equal, despite research clearly showing that children do best when raised in a healthy traditional family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
America\u2019s adversaries in Beijing, Pyongyang, and Tehran are smiling to themselves today as they see that our armed forces are more committed to recruiting based on identity\u2014whether that of race, sex, ethnicity, and the like\u2014rather than on character and competence. With both the CIA and now our military beholden more to wokeness than to protecting American citizens, we can no longer sleep soundly at night.
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