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Donald Trump appears to have envisioned his speech on Sunday in Riyadh as an answer to Barack Obamas 2009 address in Cairo. And reading the two side by side is illuminating. The speeches differ in many ways, but none more striking than this: Trumps speech was far more politically correct.

Political correctness, as it is used in common parlance, means avoiding hard truths so as not to offend the people around you. And Trump made his hostility to political correctness a centerpiece of his campaign. Nowhere was this more evident than in his discussion of radical Islam. Again and again, Trump blamed Americas vulnerability to jihadist terrorism on President Obama and Hillary Clintons refusal honestly to speak about the pathologies of Muslims and Islam. At a Wisconsin town hall in March of last year, CNNs Anderson Cooper asked, Do you trust Muslims in America? Trump responded, We have a problem, and we can try and be very politically correct and pretend we dont have a problem, but, Anderson, we have a major, major problem. In June, in defending his proposed ban on Muslim immigration to the United States, Trump declared that, The current politically correct response cripples our ability to talk and to think and act clearly to keep America safe from terrorism.

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But for all the pillorying Obama received for supposedly whitewashing the problems of the Islamic world, his Cairo speech actually addressed them quite bluntly. Speaking at Egypts prestigious Cairo University, Obama condemned Holocaust denial in Muslim countries, calling it baseless, ignorant, and hateful. He denounced people who threaten Israel with destruction and repeat vile stereotypes about Jews. He highlighted the oppression of women in Muslim lands, declaring that a woman who is denied an education is denied equality. And it is no coincidence that countries where women are well-educated are far more likely to be prosperous. He referenced the Middle Easts economic failures, arguing that no development strategy can be based only upon what comes out of the ground, nor can it be sustained while young people are out of work. And in a clear challenge to his host, Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak, he insisted that all people yearn for certain things: the ability to speak your mind and have a say in how you are governed; confidence in the rule of law and the equal administration of justice; government that is transparent and doesn't steal from the people; the freedom to live as you choose. Those are not just American ideas, they are human rights, and that is why we will support them everywhere.

Compare that to Trump, who said virtually nothing that caused his hosts any discomfort. Trump criticized terrorist groups like ISIS for their persecution of Jews, and he condemned Iran for pledging the destruction of Israel. But since ISIS and Iran are Riyadhs most bitter foes, those condemnations wont have bothered the Saudi monarchs at all. Unlike Obama, Trump avoided the broader problem of anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial in Islamic countries, a problem in which his Saudi hosts are deeply complicit. Nor did he even hint at the fact that Saudi Arabia still does not recognize Israel.

On the question of womens rights, it was much the same. Trump attacked jihadist terrorists for the oppression of women. But he described King Salmans government as a virtual beacon of womens rights. Saudi Arabias Vision for 2030 is an important and encouraging statement of tolerance, respect, empowering women, and economic development, Trump declared. You would never have known that women in the Kingdom still cant drive.

Trump didnt even mention the words democracy, liberty, or freedom. To the contrary, in a sentence that will bring grins to autocrats across the region, he declared that, We are not here to lecturewe are not here to tell other people how to live, what to do, who to be.

Trump did condemn extremism. But speaking in the country he has accused of complicity in 9/11, he did not once pointedly suggest that any Middle East regime except Irans might bear any responsibility for that extremism. Rather than suggesting, as both Obama and George W. Bush did, that the authoritarianism and corruption of Arab governments might have helped spawn groups like al-Qaeda and ISIS, Trump reversed the causality. The Middle Easts untapped potential he declared, is held at bay by bloodshed and terror. And in so doing, he endorsed the agenda that Saudi Arabia and other Sunni Arab dictatorships have been urging for years: Help us confront Iran and kill terrorists (which includes anyone who opposes our hold on power) and all will be well. In his speech in Riyadh, Trump didnt even use the phrase that he endlessly excoriated Clinton and Obama for avoiding: radical Islamic terrorism. He talked about extremism. But never used it as an adjective to modify the noun Islam.

None of this should be a surprise. Trump is a coward. He says wildly offensive things when the objects of his derision arent around, but crumples when he actually meets them. In his presidential announcement speech, Trump called Mexican immigrants rapists. But when he sat down with his Hispanic Advisory Council, he proved humble and conciliatory and called mass deportations neither possible nor humane. During the campaign, he endlessly trashed Mexicos government. But when he actually arrived in Mexico City last August, he declared the trip a great, great, honor and when President Enrique Pea Nieto asked him about his famous pledge to make Mexico pay for a wall between the two countries, Trump refused to discuss the subject. During the campaign, Trump accused Black Lives Matter of being responsible for the murder of police, and described African American living conditions as hellish. But when he actually showed up at a black church in Detroit last September, he spent most of his time flattering his hosts. Trumps speech, noted The Washington Post, constituted a jarring shift in tone and message. During the campaign, Trump repeatedly claimed that China was manipulating its currency. But after meeting with Chinas president, he acknowledged that was not true.

The Saudis appear thrilled that Trump was so conciliatory on his visit. They should enjoy themselves while they can. Americans have learned this about Trump: What he says to your face often bears no relationship to what he says behind your back.

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Will President Trump and Secretary Tillerson embrace Middle East reality, and reject political correctness, by avoiding procrastination on the relocation of the US Embassy to Jerusalem,

While the election of President Trump represented a setback to political-correctness, Secretary of State Rex Tillersons interview on May 14, 2017 NBCs Meet the Pressreflected the State Departments political correctness on US-Israel and US-Arab relations, the Palestinian issue and the relocation of the US Embassy to Jerusalem.

The interview may have sent a message of US procrastination on the relocation of the US Embassy to Jerusalem, the ancient core of Judaism and Jewish history, which inspired the early US Pilgrims and Founding Fathers. Procrastination would be interpreted by Arabs as US retreat in the face of Arab pressure and threats, eroding the US posture of deterrence, triggering further pressure and emboldening anti-US Islamic terrorism.

Secretary Tillerson embraced the State Departments zero-sum-game philosophy. He assumes that enhanced US-Israel relations undermine US-Arab relations. However, since 1948, and especially in recent years, US-Israel geo-strategic cooperation has surged dramatically, simultaneously with expanded US-Arab security cooperation, and unprecedented counter-terrorism cooperation between Israel and Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States, Jordan and Egypt, despite the lack of progress on the Palestinian front.

Contrary to conventional Western wisdom, the pro-US Arab regimes distinguish between challenges which are primary (e.g., the Iranian threat) and secondary/tertiary (e.g., the Palestinian issue). Therefore, when the machetes of Irans Ayatollahs and other Islamic terrorists are at their throats, the pro-US Arab regimes recognize that Israel is the only reliable life insurance agent in the Middle East, regardless of the Palestinian issue.

Secretary Tillerson insinuated that the relocation of the US Embassy to western Jerusalem - which is within the boundaries of pre-1967 Israelcould undermine the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians. Thus, he provided tailwind to the 69-year-old Department of States viewwhich contradicts the position of the American people and their representatives in the House and Senate - that there is no legitimacy to Israels sovereignty over any part of Jerusalem. It radicalizes the Arabs, forcing them to outflank the US from the maximalist side, deluding themselves that they have nothing to lose and time is, supposedly, on their side.

Tillerson also seems to subscribe to Foggy Bottoms view that the Palestinian issue is a core cause of the Arab-Israeli conflict and Middle East turbulence, and a top priority for Arab policy-makers. Therefore, he assumes that the relocation of the US Embassy to Jerusalem could fuel anti-US terrorism and undermine US cooperation with pro-US Arab countries, such as Saudi Arabia, against the mutual threats of the Ayatollahs of Iran and additional sources of Islamic terrorism.

However, anti-US Islamic terrorism has been totally divorced from the Palestinian issue and Israel, as demonstrated by the blowing up of the US Embassy and Marines barracks in Lebanon in 1983 (300 US Marines murdered), at a time when the US brutalized Israel over its hot pursuit of the PLO. In fact, the 1998 suicide car-bombing of the US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania (300 persons murdered), and the October 2000 suicide attack on the USS Cole in Aden, Yemen (17 US Marines murdered), occurred while President Clinton refrained from relocating the US Embassy to Jerusalem, as prescribed by 1995 legislation, and while Israeli Prime Minister Barak offered the Palestinians a full Israeli withdrawal, including Jerusalems Temple Mount.

Moreover, since 1948, contrary to the Department of States conventional wisdom, Middle East reality has documented top-heavy pro-Palestinian Arab talk, but anti-Palestinian, or indifferent, Arab walk.

For example, no Arab-Israeli war was ever ignited by the Palestinian issue. It was highlighted by the conclusion of the 1948-49 war, when Egypt, Jordan, Iraq and Syria occupied Gaza, Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) and Al-Hama, but never contemplated transferring these areas to the Palestinians, strictly constraining Palestinian activities.

In addition, none of the recent Arab tectonic eruptions from Tunisia, in Northeastern Africa, through Egypt, Syria, Yemen, Iraq and Bahrain in the Persian Gulf are related, directly or indirectly, to the Palestinian issue or Israel.

The assumption that the relocation of the US Embassy to Jerusalem would undermine US-Saudi cooperation in the face of the Ayatollahs and additional sources of Islamic terrorism, ignores the Saudiand all other Arab regimes - view of the Palestinians.

They have always considered the Palestinians a role model of intra-Arab treachery and subversion. Hence, the severe constraints of Palestinian maneuverability in their countries, and the meager financial assistance to the Palestinians (compared with the US foreign aid to the Palestinian Authority), and the absence of military support. For instance, no Arab regime ever got involved in any of the Palestinian-Israeli wars in Lebanon, Judea and Samaria and Gaza.

In contrast to the recent Arab talk and State Department political correctness, the Arab countries have never considered Jerusalem to be their top holy citystatus reserved for Mecca and Medina - capital or cultural center. Jerusalem was largely neglected during Islamic rule, servingat mostas a political platform in their conflicts with the infidel.

Reality-based political incorrectness motivated Israel and Egypt, in 1977, in defiance of US President Carter, to negotiate and conclude a bilateral peace accord with no Palestinian, regional or international involvement. It also motivated Israel and Jordan, in 1994, to conclude another bilateral peace accord. The US played a critical deal-closing role in both cases, but only after the two parties reached the framework of bilateral agreement.

Moreover, a litany of peace initiatives, launched by the US, failed when attempting to subordinate reality to the US own benevolent political correctness, which stipulated a multilateral peace process, focusing on the Palestinian issue.

Will President Trump and Secretary Tillerson embrace Middle East reality, and reject political correctness, by avoiding procrastination on the relocation of the US Embassy to Jerusalem, thus sparing the US further erosion of its posture of deterrence in the Middle East and beyond?

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Upon the legislations approval, Sen. Allen remarked on the grave importance of recognizing the actions of significant historic figures, flawed as they may be.

Where does it end? Allen asked. Are all parts of American history subject to purging, until every Ivy League professor is satisfied and the American story has been re-written as nothing but a complete fraud and a betrayal of our founding values of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?

The bill creates a standing committee to hear waiver requests from cities and counties, though historic artifacts under the care of museums, archives, libraries, and universities are specifically exempt from the prohibition against removal or alteration.

Lets stop this absurd destruction of monuments that offend the tender sensibilities of any person, anywhere, and preserve our history the good and the bad for our children and grandchildren to learn from, Allen said.

Last month, the City of New Orleans, Louisiana began the removal of several confederate memorials from public grounds, leading to many protests and counter-protests at the sites. According to the mayor of New Orleans, the monuments were removed because they failed to appropriately reflect the values of diversity and inclusion that make New Orleans strong today.

The bill now goes to Governor Kay Ivey for signature.

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I want to vent my frustrations. Is it not my right to have a difference of opinion without being called a racist, a homophobe or a sexist? People in these groups are still a minority. It seems we are not allowed to dislike or disagree with any minority group in this society. We are supposed to have open minds.

I think we are starting to lose the separation between men and women. We are created for reproductive purposes. Men cant have babies. Only the future will tell us what this society will lead to.

Then there are people like Bill Cosby, Kobe Bryant, Michael Jackson and even the mayor of Seattle getting off or possibly getting away with crimes of rape and pedophilia because they are wealthy and can hire the best lawyers. This is very sad in this save us from ourselves world we live in.

We are more divided than ever in this politically correct nation!

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For someone who offered no apologies after he mocked a disabled reporter, gleefully described the joys of grabbing women by the p-y and defended the size of his penis during a televised debate, President Donald Trump seems to be developing a newfound respect for playing nice at least, on his terms.

Trump took on the anti-PC mantle during the GOP primary, often relishing the opportunity to bash what he considered the excesses of our politically correct media landscape. Asked during a Republican presidential debate by then-Fox News host Megyn Kelly about calling women he dislikes fat pigs, slobs and disgusting animals, as well as telling a contestant on Celebrity Apprentice that it must be a pretty picture when she is on her knees, Trump said this:

I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct. Ive been challenged by so many people, and I dont frankly have time for total political correctness. And to be honest with you, this country doesnt have time, either.

But while private citizen and candidate Trump lamented this (seemingly imagined) social prohibition on calling Rosie ODonnell ugly, now that hes in the White House, Trump and his staff seem to be developing a more nuanced perspective on the issue.

For example, last week saw a flurry of controversy surrounding Stephen Colberts joke about Trumps mouth serving as Russian President Vladimir Putins c- holster, but no one was more scandalized than the formerly anti-politically correct team Trump. Reasonable people can disagree about whether Colberts joke was homophobic, or the figurative equivalent of calling someone a patsy. What is for sure funny about the episode was watching the folks who would normally defend Trump for, say, accusing Kelly of having blood coming out of her wherever, suddenly become fragile prudes over a late-night TV joke.

I wont dignify those comments with a response, White House press secretary Sean Spicer told Fox News. Kellyanne Conway, counselor to the president, went further, telling the network that the joke was not funny. [This] is about showing basic respect to the president of the United States and the office of the president, she said.

Trump himself had wounded words for Colbert: You see a no-talent guy like Colbert. Theres nothing funny about what he says. And what he says is filthy, he told Time magazine, And you have kids watching.

Of course, Colbert isnt the only entertainer to wind up the Trump White House: When Snoop Dogg released his music video for Lavender, it included a scene in which the rapper uses a toy gun to pretend to shoot a clown who has a strong resemblance to Trump.

The implied violence is cartoonish at worst, but Trump who boasted during the campaign that he could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody without taking a hit in the polls was aghast.

Can you imagine what the outcry would be if @SnoopDogg, failing career and all, had aimed and fired the gun at President Obama? Trump tweeted at the time. Jail time!

Would he, though? Some may recall that controversial right-wing rocker Ted Nugent made headlines after bringing two machine guns onstage during a 2007 concert, calling then-candidate Barack Obama a piece of s- who should suck on a machine gun. Nugent wasnt arrested or jailed for his remarks, but he did receive an invitation to the Trump White House in April where, he claimed, he decorously opted not to pose for a photo putting his middle finger up at the official portrait of Hillary Clinton. Im beginning to sense a pattern.

Likewise, after Trumps bombshell firing of FBI director James B. Comey, Conway made the rounds on TV to implore rude and nosy Americans not to pry into the matter; questioning the timing of the firing, she said, was inappropriate. Of course, perhaps Trumps long-running beef with the media could finally be put to rest if, as Conway told CNNs Jake Tapper in February, the mean reporters could just show Trump some respect. But maybe all the president needs is a safe space of his own.

Chris Caesar is a Boston-based writer whose work has appeared in The Boston Globe, Death & Taxes, Boston.com and Metro Newspapers.

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According to Mohan Singh, the founder of Sikh Awareness Society, the grooming gangs have been allowed to prosper in Britain because the authorities are afraid they'll be labelled racist if they speak out. Mohan Singh was participating in a Sunday morning radio talk show (see video) hosted by Katie Hopkins show on LBC, a London-based national talk and phone-in radio station.

Mohan Singh had established the Sikh Awareness Society (SAS) in 1998 over growing concerns that kids of his community were falling victim to the grooming gangs, predominantly run by Muslims of Pakistani origin.

A BBC Inside Out investigation had uncovered how British Sikh girls were being preyed upon by men who subject them to sexual abuse. In many instances the men, mostly Muslims of Pakistani origin, deceive the girls into believing they are Sikhs to gain their trust. Desperate to hide their secret, fearing it will bring ill-repute to their families, victimised girls are often forced to leave home.

Singh told host Katie: "I think it is due to political correctness, but it's also down to nobody wants to be called a racist. Nobody wants to call a spade a spade. Nobody really grabbing the bull by the horns and saying "No, abuse is abuse".

"But they don't want to be labelled that we're after one community, we're targeting one community.

"We can see all the reports coming out Rotherham, the failings of the police, the failings of the local councillors.

"The whole system failed and that's what's been happening for the last 30 years. And it is political correctness. People are just too too afraid to, you know, just too too afraid to speak the truth."

UK Sikhs group have been urging politicians not to describe the grooming gang as Asian describing the term as too vague and besmirching communities. For instance, they had pointed out that four of the six people convicted of offences including rape and assault as part of years of sexual abuse in the Yorkshire town were of Pakistani heritage.

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JEFF GARLIN: By the way, everyone has the license to disobey political correctness. I feel that everything is about good taste and self-restraint.

My favorite comedian of all time is Richard Pryor so I'm not a prude, but I think some things maybe you can say more eloquently. Some things you can say in a way that if you're intelligent you'll pick up on it, and if you won't, you don't. Subtleties, nuancethat's what gets lost in the whole big battle of political correctness. I don't believe in any political correctness. I don't think even if I'm talking about like, you say to me, Who's your favorite comedian, or, Who do you think is up and coming, and I name two male comedians, that does not mean that I think female comedians aren't funny or I don't have a favorite female, it just means in that moment I thought of those two people. Yet there are people who will have a strong opinion on that moment. They would write underneath on the comments: Why aren't you talking about the funny women? Just because I didnt! I didn't make a blanket statement! So political correctness is wrong, is super ignorantsuper ignorantand super partisan.

Let me tell you something: I'm not a centrist. I'm not right. I consider myself a liberal, but not a lefty if that makes sense. I'm liberal-minded in that I'll vote for anyone who is a good human being, whether they're from the Green Party, Democratic Party, Republican Party. For me it's about humanity. And partisanship? Ive got to tell you, I read everything on the Internet and just as many liberals are as annoying as right-wing people. They're all annoying, everyone with this, Be like me or you're wrong.

People used to make a decision; they'd see something and they'd decide if it was true or not. Now they base truths on their own truth. I see what I believe as opposed to I'm trying to believe what I see. But even the term of fake newsfuck that. Fuck fake news. Fuck all these terms because they're only terms that are used by the douche bags. They're not termsI'm not saying you're a douche bag for saying it, it was a questionbut the point being is: do you think I live my day reading all sorts of material from the Washington Post to the National Review if I'm interested, whatever it is, do you think that any of it I look at and go, "Well that's fake news, fake news. What about fake news?" I think these are just words that are thrown at us, they're words that are currently in the lexicon. They'll be gone. It all changes, man. It does.

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For someone who offered no apologies after he mocked a disabled reporter, gleefully described the joys of grabbing womenby the py and defended the size of his penis during a televised debate, President Trump seems to be developing a newfound respect for playing nice at least, on his terms.

Trump took on the anti-PC mantle during the GOP primary, often relishing the opportunity to bash what he considered the excesses of our politically correct media landscape. Asked during a Republican presidential debate by then-Fox News host Megyn Kelly about calling women he dislikes fat pigs, slobs and disgusting animals, as well as telling a contestant on Celebrity Apprentice that it must be a pretty picture when she is onher knees, Trump said this:

I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct.Ive been challenged by so many people, and I dont frankly have time for total political correctness. And to be honest with you, this country doesnt have time, either.

[Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Every GOP candidate is wrong about political correctness]

But while private citizen and candidate Trump lamented this (seemingly imagined) social prohibition on calling Rosie ODonnell ugly, now that hes in the White House, Trump and his staff seem to be developing a more nuanced perspective on the issue.

For example, last week saw a flurry of controversy surrounding Stephen Colberts joke about Trumps mouth serving as Russian President Vladimir Putins c holster but no one was more scandalized than the formerly anti-politically correct team Trump.Reasonable people can disagree about whether Colberts joke was homophobic, or the figurative equivalent of calling someone a patsy.What is for sure funny about the episode was watching the folks who would normally defend Trump for, say, accusing Kelly of having blood coming out of her wherever, suddenly become fragile prudesover a late-night TV joke.

I wont dignify those comments with a response, White House press secretary Sean Spicer told Fox News. Kellyanne Conway, counselor to the president, went further, telling the network that the joke was not funny.[This] is about showing basic respect to the president of the United States and the office of the president, she said.

Trump himself had wounded words for Colbert:You see a no-talent guy like Colbert. Theres nothing funny about what he says. And what he says is filthy, he told Time magazine, And you have kids watching.

Of course, Colbert isnt the only entertainer to wind up the Trump White House: When Snoop Dogg released his music video for Lavender, itincluded a scene in which the rapper uses a toy gun to pretend to shoot a clown who has a strong resemblance to Trump.

[The right has its own version of political correctness. Its just as stifling.]

The implied violence is cartoonish at worst, but Trump who boasted during the campaign that he could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody without taking a hit in the polls was aghast.

Can you imagine what the outcry would be if @SnoopDogg, failing career and all, had aimed and fired the gun at President Obama? Trump tweeted at the time. Jail time!

Would he, though? Some may recall that controversial right-wing rocker Ted Nugent made headlines after bringing two machine guns onstage during a 2007 concert, calling then-presidential candidate Barack Obama a piece of s who should suck on a machine gun. Nugent wasnt arrested or jailed for his remarks, but hedid receive an invitation to the Trump White Housein April (where, he claimed, he decorously opted not to pose for a photo putting his middle finger up at the official portrait of Hillary Clinton). Im beginning to sense a pattern.

Likewise, after Trumps bombshell firing of FBI director James B. Comey, Conway made the rounds on TV to implore rude and nosy Americans not to pry into the matter; questioning the timing of the firing, she said, was inappropriate.Of course, perhaps Trumps long-running beef with the media could finally be put to rest if, as Conway told CNNs Jake Tapper in February, the mean reporters could just show Trump some respect. But maybe all the presidentneeds is a safe space of his own.

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The Marine Corps first-ever recruitment video showing a woman in combat quickly devolved into a spat about political correctness after it was posted to Facebook Friday.

The recruitment commercial, called Battle Up, shows a young girl confronting bullies, playing rugby and then evolvinginto a Marine later in life, at which point she leads other Marines and engages in a firefight through an ambush. The final scene shows her helping the homeless. Marine Capt. Erin Demochko, who served in Afghanistan, played the woman.

The video has already racked up almost half a million views after being posted to the Marine Corps official Facebook page Friday.

Almost as soon as the commercial appeared on Facebook, conversation devolved into a spat about political correctness. The first comment by Facebook user Chris Clark reads: had to be a chicktired of all this political correct bullshit. now let all the man haters come out of the woodwork

Immediately, the Marine Corps page responded and said: Thats not a chick, Chris. Youre watching a Marine.

USMC feminization underway. Old Mud Marine is bothered by this. Semper Fi! another Facebook user wrote.

Still others, instead of outright opposing female Marines, said they wouldnt mind females around, so long as they meet the same standards.

I look at it this way, if they are thick skinned, can meet the same standards as us and perform just as well, one user wrote. Then by all means you can fight a long side us. But all the PC bullshit goes out the window, you will be treated the same, held accountable just as much as the male counterparts.

Others opted to shame those who disagreed with the idea of women in combat.

Thatthe Obama administration opened up all combat roles to women has functioned as a major source of conflict among servicemembers, veterans and also the public, as evidenced by the heated debate in response to the Marine Corps latest commercial. However, Trumps man in the Pentagon, Secretary of Defense James Mattis, has signaled he will not reverse the Obama administrations decision to open up combat roles to women.

While publicly, many military officials have insisted that the change gives the armed services access to a whole new pool of talent, a DOD report issued earlier this year found that a focus group of 12 junior female officers believed that gender integration is really about forwarding a social agenda.

These women did not view gender integration as a requirement to ensure the broadest possible pool of talent is available for national security, the reportstated.

The point of the latest commercial was to show that the service is not only looking for a few good men,Maj. Gen. Paul, head of Marine Corps Recruiting Command, told the Associated Press.

Were actually using all of our recurring efforts to find good women as well, he added.

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Syracuse Diversity and Inclusion groups recommendations flush with racial political correctness

Syracuse University has released an updateon its Chancellors Workgroup on Diversity and Inclusion, and it includes a full 18 politically correct (and magnificently institutionally contrite) recommendations.

Because, after all, thats what Diversity and Inclusion workgroupsdo.

Some of the recommendations like the establishment of aDiversity and Inclusion Council are complete, while the others remainin process.

One of the latter,for example, is #4: Offer free tutoring for all undergraduates to address inequities and to support and retain undergraduates from marginalized and underrepresented groups. This item notes there will be [f]ree one-on-one tutoring for historically difficult courses will be introduced in fall 2018.

Since it addresses inequities, does this mean its a two-fer that historically marginalized populations will get the tutoring for historically difficult courses?

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8. Require attention to diversity and inclusion as key components of all faculty and staff evaluations. Require an expanded statement on diversity and inclusion in all syllabi Status: In Process

The provosts office will revise the annual curriculum vitae update form to include a question asking faculty members to share how diversity and inclusion issues were included in their teaching, research and service. Future discussions about including diversity and inclusion in reviews of faculty performance will be given attention.

The Office of Human Resources created a set of guidelines to distribute in schools, colleges and units, and senior HR business partners have been giving advice and counsel to the schools, colleges and units to include diversity and inclusion efforts in their daily work. To emphasize diversity and inclusion, formal training programs were led by the Office of Equal Opportunity, Inclusion and Resolution Services, HR and the Office of Faculty Affairs. Department of Public Safety Officers were given Implicit Bias training.

11. Improve New Student Orientation to further understandings and forge relationships across racial, ethnic, religious and other lines. Establish a Syracuse Reads Program that feature books that foster a sense of understanding and inclusion Status: In Process

The program will include books like Ta-Nehisi Coates Between the World and Me and readings will be succeeded by small group discussions aided by diversity educators. Beginning September 2017, the Office of Learning Communities will conduct a student learning outcomes assessment to determine how effective the program is. At the end of the 2017-18 academic year, the Office of the Provost and the Office of Residence Life will determine how to expand and sustain the program after examining the assessment by the Office of Learning Communities. The program is intended to fall in line with the chancellors Academic Strategic Plan and the Syracuse Core 4+4 program.

If #8, in particular, doesnt disturb you, it probably should. AsThe College Fix noted a month ago, the Oregon Association of Scholars reported that [m]ore than 20 colleges have a stated requirement that faculty must show their commitment to the ideals of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Many of these schools include links to online resources which show how to keep the white students from dominating all classroom discussions, reflect a commitment to queer visibility, and teach students not to thoughtlessly reproduce the standard white and Western model of legitimate knowledge.

It would be quite entertainingto see that physics professor pouring over innumerable diversity supplements attempting to figure out how to upgrade his commitment to queer visibility.

Other Syracuse recommendations of note include acknowledging that the schoolsits on Native land at all major public events and flying the Haudenosaunee flag wherever the American flag is flown on campus, updat[ing] the Campus Access Map to include all-gender bathrooms, and creat[ing] a Diversity Portal to inventory and calendar diversity/inclusion programs and activities at the university.

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