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The Pentagon continued its purification of everything related to diversity, fairness and inclusion on Friday and ordered all military leaders, orders and academies to assess all books in their libraries that tackle racism and sexism.
A memo published on Friday seemed to be the latest broad width of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseeth against programs and materials of diversity and shares. The memo was signed by Tim Dill and performed the duties of Defense -under employees for staff.
The memo said that books on diversity promote “division concepts and gender ideology” that “are incompatible with the department’s core mission.” It requires that all department leaders identify books that fall into that category and remove them from military library boards before 21 May.
At that time, the memo says, there will be further instructions about which books are permanently removed.
This is recently expanding a similar purification in the Naval Academy Library, in Maryland. Last month, civil navy officials, according to orders from Mr. Hegseeth, took off boards, including one that criticizes ‘The Bell Curve’, a text from 1994 that claims that black men and women are genetically less intelligent than white people. But the academy kept itself on its shelves “The Bell Curve”.
In a separate memo on Friday, Mr. Hegseeth also said that there would be “no consideration for race, ethnicity or sex” in admission to American military academies, which, he said, will direct admission “exclusively on merit”. He ordered the service academies to rank candidates with ‘on earnings -based scores’. It was unclear what that meant exactly, but Mr Hegseeth added that “on merit -based scores can give weight to unique athletic talent or other experiences such as previous military service.”
Mr. Hegseeth did not say what he was planning to do about the long -standing practice of senators in the United States who recommend people for admission to military academies.
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