Pentagon training manual: white males have unfair advantages

BMT (RIP) · 10-31-2013, 14:02

“Simply put, a healthy, white, heterosexual, Christian male receives many unearned advantages of social privilege, whereas a black, homosexual, atheist female in poor health receives many unearned disadvantages of social privilege,” reads a statement in the manual created by the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute.

I"d like to know what POS signed off on this crap!! :-((

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/...ir-advantages/

BMT

Paslode · 10-31-2013, 14:21

EEOC....ADA.....good ideas that have taken extreme left turns

jbour13 · 10-31-2013, 15:13

Well as I see it, you can elect to fix one of those categories quickly yourself if you are disciplined enough to. That is your own health.

The other requires you to ascribe to something bigger than yourself. That is the religion.

I'm sorry, but I didn't ask to be born white, and therefore believed to be thought of as privileged. I do what most of us do, expectation management. I'm an analyst, I make people well aware that I'm not clairvoyant or a mind reader. I say this because each person owes it to themselves, and especially those of us in the military (or former) to have some self awareness and let each other know what we can do.

This is yet another document of progressive bullshit that explains away any responsibility for your own actions and allows you to play the victim. Learned helplessness.

http://psychology.about.com/od/linde...lplessness.htm

Not the best source, but it sells the point of play the victim, be the victim. Instead of standing up and earning something based on merit, you can just put on puppy dog eyes and get given your accolades. What a bunch of bullshit.

Surf n Turf · 10-31-2013, 15:35

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Equal Opportunity officers teaches that "healthy, white, heterosexual, Christian" men hold an unfair advantage over other races, and warns in great detail about a so-called "White Male Club."
“Simply put, a healthy, white, heterosexual, Christian male receives many unearned advantages of social privilege,

I'm pushing 72 years old, and waiting for this "white privilege" to kick in -- better hurry, as I'm gettin' tired of working hard for everything.
SnT

Richard · 10-31-2013, 17:19

It may not be a study guide in current use...but this school sure has a way of producing poorly edited inflammatory materials. IIRC we went round on this course's curriculum perviously over something that called the 'Founding Fathers' extremists or some such thing.

Richard

BMT (RIP) · 10-31-2013, 18:06

http://personal.crocodoc.com/AkQ0Rg2

EAOC student guide.

BMT

Flagg · 10-31-2013, 18:07

Would it be correct in stating that the various institutions of the US military desegregated/integrated well before the rest of the US?

I wonder if this stuff is partially as a reaction from government as a result of institutional jealousy?

What I mean by that is the US government(Legislative/Executive Branches) is currently suffering from long-term low popularity ratings from its own citizens while the US military I would guess would be force ranked as the most respected of public institutions in the US.

Do the political class view the military that serves them as a threat?

Wouldn't that at least partially explain efforts to try to drag military institutions down to their level?

In a way it feels like vandalism on an institutional/massive scale…….

**Team Sergeant** · 11-03-2013, 10:28

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Originally Posted by BMT

“Simply put, a healthy, white, heterosexual, Christian male receives many unearned advantages of social privilege, whereas a black, homosexual, atheist female in poor health receives many unearned disadvantages of social privilege,” reads a statement in the manual created by the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute.

I"d like to know what POS signed off on this crap!! :-((

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/...ir-advantages/

BMT

And all this time I thought Oprah Winfrey was a billionaire, silly me.

ddoering · 11-03-2013, 17:02

This whole thing is more than slightly insulting to every white male that has served this country. The author should be taken out and horse whipped, tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail.

ddoering · 11-06-2013, 11:49

Having thought further on this I now realize why O dosen't like the Constitution- it was written by white guys as well. Another example of flawed white thinking.