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The Pentagon could be poised for a rapid about-face under the Trump administration, with the Obama administration's push for social reform surrendering to what could be an old-school emphasis on combat readiness and the spirit of the United States military, experts told FoxNews.com.
Under President Obama, the military sought to integrate transgender persons into the ranks, allow women into special operations forces and purge the nomenclature of gender-specific words, adopting what some critics say was a "politically correct" liberal agenda. That's a contrast to the traditional U.S. military approach.
In addition, some Navy ships have been named for civil rights activists. And while the Obama administration has taken an inclusive approach on some issues, it has also worked to minimize expressions of Christianity in the ranks. For example, several officers have been disciplined for displaying Bibles or gospel verses in their quarters.
Veterans and military experts told FoxNews.com that, while some of Obama's civil rights advancements may be locked in, neither Trump nor his choice for secretary of defense, Gen. James "Mad Dog" Mattis, are likely to make social experimentation a priority.
Source: Fox News
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 14 2017, @09:38AM
Motherfucker, tolerance does not mean you sit back and accept any shit anyone else wants to do.
That's exactly what it is, by definition.
In particular, you are not to be tolerant of intolerance
A common mistake, which immediately reveals the total hypocrisy of most who preach tolerance as innately good.
What you are suggesting is not unlike that pacifists should go to war with those who are not pacifist.
In the end, what you're really talking about isn't true tolerance, but instead a limited tolerance of only the things which you like. To then claim that this is the one and only "tolerance" is an attempt to claim that the things which you like are objectively good.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday January 14 2017, @06:54PM
You fell right into it, you moron. Read the below post about what the stolen concept fallacy is. You're doing the equivalent of arguing for complete epistemological scepticism; when someone asks you how you know this, you'll have no possible answer. God, why are so many of the ACs on this site so completely fucking illiterate?!
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 15 2017, @05:35AM
He's just being a disingenuous retard and misconstruing what people actually mean when they call for more tolerance by taking everything they say 100% literally. He likely knows what they mean, so this is just a dishonest argumentation tactic.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday January 16 2017, @12:46AM
What we need to do is figure out a way to encode a slap across the face into TCP/IP specifically for people who do shit like this :/
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...