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July 3, 2021 For Pride month, the US Navy marches under a different flag By Andrea Widburg

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July 3, 2021

For Pride month, the US Navy marches under a different flag

By Andrea Widburg

When Winston Churchill was First Lord of the Admiralty and proposed some much-needed reforms, the pushback he received claimed that the reforms ran afoul of naval tradition. Churchill snapped back, "Naval tradition? Naval tradition? Monstrous. Nothing but rum, sodomy, prayers, and the lash." More than 100 years later, it appears that the United States Navy is embracing that sodomy tradition. How else to explain that officers at a Naval Seabees unit allegedly forced everyone to attend a "Diversity Hike," while waving a "stars and rainbow-stripes" flag as they went?

Matt Walsh first broke the news, which he received from a naval wife whose active-duty husband was one of the people forced on the march:

In the flyer announcing the hike — a flyer complete with not one, but two gay flags — the reason given for the hike was "We will support our brothers and sister [sic] whom [sic] are a part of the Pride community." For attire, hikers were told to wear "Pride attire, colorful clothing."

The only flag flying was this one, the stars and rainbow stripes:

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Indeed, the Navy was so proud of the march and the flag that it put up a Facebook post boasting that, "[i]n honor of Pride Month, Construction Battalion Maintenance Unit 303 went on a Pride Hike at Sunset Cliff on June 25, 2021." It even highlighted the flag in its Facebook photos:

You probably noticed, as many others did, that there's nothing in the flyer that Walsh posted to indicate that hike attendance was mandatory. However, if we believe the woman who submitted the information to Walsh, we can assume that it was one of those things common to any hierarchical organization in which those in command so strongly suggested attendance that it was tantamount to an order.

Chris Menahan discovered that, in April, men in the same unit "had to hold up these humiliating signs telling one another not to commit rape." Sure enough, here are the photos:

It turns out that San Diego's Construction Battalion Maintenance unit goes all out for Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (SAPR) month, which really seems quite insulting to the men in the unit (or the aggressive lesbians?):

I won't comment here on whether the military's switching from "don't ask, don't tell" to openly LGBT service was a good thing or not. However, I see absolutely no reason why the Navy, or any branch of the American military, should be celebrating the LGBT cohort.

If people under the LGBT flag want to celebrate themselves, that's fine, but to make it official American military policy to revel in the fact that people go to bed with people of the same sex and with people of "every" "gender," or with people who can't figure out their own sex, is a joke. The military is about creating a force capable of defending this country at a moment's notice. It should never be about making people who constitute a minority of American sexual identity feel good about themselves.

As for me, I take no pride in Pride. I'm opposed to belittling, injury, or discriminating against the LGBT spectrum, but that's it. I don't believe there's a constitutional right to same-sex "marriage" because that clashes with religious liberty (although I believe that states can authorize whatever civil unions they want). And I don't believe in what's currently going on under Joe Biden, which is the nation's bow-down to people suffering from gender dysphoria.

And most of all, I don't believe in making people serving in the Navy go on Pride hikes under a gay flag, and that's true whether it's an official mandate to go on the hike or an unofficial, nudge-nudge "you'd better go" mandate. Our military should never march under any flag but the American one.

Image: The Navy marches under the gay flag. Construction Battalion Maintenance Unit THREE ZERO THREE Mainbody Facebook photo.

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July 3, 2021 What is Critical Race Theory? By Malcolm Wade

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July 3, 2021

What is Critical Race Theory?

By Malcolm Wade

Critical Race Theory — it's everywhere. It's in the news and in our schools, but what is it exactly? Well, it seems that in politics, bad ideas never die; they are just repackaged and sold under a different name. So it is with CRT.

In 1848, Karl Marx developed the economical/moral manifesto on which socialism, communism, and fascism are based. The perceived problem was the disparity of power between the social/economical classes, the bourgeoisie who created businesses (i.e., the capitalists) and those whose labor was utilized to build and maintain those businesses (i.e., the workers). The solution, according to Marxism, was for the workers to consider their employment an act of oppression and revolt against those who employed them. The workers would then seize the capital (both money and resources) from their oppressors and then create a more balanced and equitable society for all. (Question for Marx: "If your society is based on the taking of resources that belong to someone else, how can you ever expect to have a just and moral society?")

The history of the twentieth century for much of the world may be accurately described as the embrace of various forms of Marxism and the inevitable tragedy that resulted from doing so. As Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, Cuba, China, and numerous other countries became symbols of oppression, starvation, and tragedy, it became harder and harder for the Marxists and academia to sell their ideas to the American people. The undeniable fact was that, for all its imperfections, capitalism had proven to be far superior to Marxism as a means to raise individuals out of poverty, manufacture and distribute resources, and improve standard of living if not equally, at least universally.

Instead of abandoning Marxist ideas to the dustbin of history, along with the notion of a flat earth, alchemy, and phrenology, American academics have simply substituted "race" for "class" and relabeled Marxism as Critical Race Theory. The "capitalists" have been replaced with "whiteness," and the oppressed are everyone else. The 87 years in which slavery was legal in America, along with the history of segregation and Jim Crow laws, is used a "proof" of this oppression. The Emancipation Proclamation and any improvements in race relations over the years must be ignored, and the actions of those long dead to others long dead must be the focus of everyone living today.

Like a bacterium that is resistant to antibiotics, Critical Race Theory is even more difficult to confront than Marxism, because those who oppose Marxism can only be slandered as "greedy capitalists," while those who oppose CRT can be defamed as "racist." Even more ingenious is the substitution of Western civilization (i.e., the ideas of science and reason that began with the ancient Greeks, was adopted by the Romans, and thus spread throughout Europe) for "white supremacy." Thus, one cannot use reasoned arguments to refute CRT because rational thought is now considered a product of "white supremacy." (This is also how math can now be considered "racist.")

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Regardless of whether we call it Marxism or Critical Race Theory, the philosophy of setting people against one another can never lead to a moral or equitable society. If CRT is allowed to define us today, then we can only expect that the 21st century will bring the same horrific consequences that socialism, communism, and fascism led to in the 20th century.