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OMG. "Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order"

"Articles about the renowned Native American Code Talkers have disappeared from some military websites, with several broken URLs now labeled "DEI.""

axios.com/local/salt-lake-city

A two-man team of Navajo code talkers attached to a Marine regiment in the Pacific relay orders over the field radio using their native language. The Navajo language was a particularly effective code during World War II, as it is not a written language and few people understand it.
Axios Salt Lake City · Exclusive: Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI orderBy Erin Alberty

@larand The only thing that admin can be counted on is that every time you think they can't get lower, they do.

@CStamp I’m not calling it an administration anymore. I’m calling it a regime.

@CStamp
If "anti-discrimination" efforts () are now deemed illegal , what are ANTI-anti-discrimination efforts? 🤔

@Susan60 I'd love for them to show us the White boys who got kicked aside to let the less qualified Navajo speakers get those jobs. ;)

@CStamp
Ha! I just don’t understand how they think this is helpful? I mean, how to guarantee the loss of whatever support they might’ve had from women, POC, Gay people (as opposed to trans whom they never really pretended to like)… now wonder the polls are starting to turn.

@Susan60 Think of the time and money they are wasting on this. It's mind boggling. And what pathetic little White boys to have been so upset to see folk who weren't White men on these pages that this is their first agenda. Again, just mind boggling. It speaks to a very snowflakey military and they are making fools out of themselves and said military.

@CStamp

I’m guessing that there will be a lot of people working for the US government who are starting to suffer significant levels of moral injury. Even low level workers who don’t have anything to do with carrying out policy changes, will be starting to squirm. They might think that they can’t afford to walk away from their job, that they are already vulnerable & as unemployment worsens, that won’t improve. But at the same time, they will be starting to feel guilty about being employed by a government which is clearly fascist.

There are basically 2 ways to deal with that. Leave, or allow the guilt to form a hard shell of resentment, that they then project onto the wrong people.

@Susan60 People need incomes, so just quitting isn't easy. Many job markets are struggling these days. Hopefully they will use their paid vacations to upgrade skills so they have more flexibility in jobs.

@CStamp
It’s a terrible bind to be in. Especially in a country where leadership seems intent on tearing everything down.

@CStamp During apartheid, the South African government kept a list of people whose names it was illegal to mention in public, including Nelson Mandela.

I wonder if Musk has explained it to Trump.

@CStamp Erased for doing something *no other white man could do*. Beyond description.

@dan613 Right? They were crucial BECAUSE they were Navajo able to speak their native language. It really is insane.