The Troubling Effort to Indoctrinate Our Service Members on Extremism, BLM and Antifa

We covered the problem of the military going after Tucker Carlson and marching on Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene‘s office, clearly involving themselves in political things that they shouldn’t be getting involved in, taking an unprecedented side.

But it’s far worse than that. “Woke” politics has far infiltrated the military. So much so that they’re now at the stage of going after members’ political opinions.

Our friends over at PJ Media had an exclusive written by “Ted Mahan” (not his real name), a member of the Navy who has about twenty years of service, which described the “stand down order” the Navy employed as they tried to preach against and root out “extremism.”

The training we received this month was rushed through in the wake of the Washington, D.C., riot. The course, which was given in a PowerPoint deck, included a slide defining “extremism.” One would expect a broad, catch-all phrase that makes it clear that any radical activity undermining our nation or promoting criminal activity would not be tolerable.

But that would be wrong. Extremism was narrowly defined as “supremacist” beliefs only. That’s it. Nothing else. Nothing about anarchism, nothing about any group that might be found on the left. Everyone in the room – of every race, incidentally – had a collective hush as the chilling effect of this clearly biased definition dawned on our team. As one person on our team put it, “Why does the DoD only care about one kind of extremism? Why do they refuse to talk about antifa? Why is it extremist to attack a Capitol police officer, but not extremist to attack a Portland police officer?” [….]

Nor was there any mention of antifa, which explicitly and often openly promotes violent activities. It seems odd that in 2020, when we saw 1,000 riots with varying levels of violence, our training would be centered on the one riot connected to the right and ignore the 999 connected to the left.

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