Tuberville failed to mention that he’s personally prevented hundreds of officers from being promoted because he disagrees with a 2022 Pentagon policy.
Tuberville failed to mention that he’s personally prevented hundreds of officers from being promoted because he disagrees with a 2022 Pentagon policy.
His actual complaint is:
First, if it works, it’s encouraging better decisions and increasing team effectiveness. I have no idea if the US military is doing a good job with this or not, but if they’re doing it right they are building a better military way more cost effectively than one more fighter jet or whatever we would be using the money on.
But even if they’re not doing the most effective form of training, it’s 0.0075% of the defense budget. It’s $40 per person employed by the department. That is extremely average for diversity training.
And lastly, this isn’t like, new. The military has been doing diversity research and training since 1971. I’m sure Biden has some input if he wants it, he un-did a Trump ban on some training with an executive order, but I don’t think the question of budgeting $90MM vs $114MM goes to “the top” at all.
What an idiot to choose to say this.
How much has it cost the military in lawsuits and defending racism, harassment, sexual assault, and every other form of behavior that homophobes, racists, and misogynists perpetrate on those around them. How has that affected leadership, personnel readiness, quality of work? Betcha that cost is far higher than some shitty hot take on “OMG the military is soft…”
It is a mistake to assume the right wing cares about facts. They don’t use words to find or describe truth. They use them for effect.
DoD budget is $1.52 trillion btw
I think we can handle 1/10,000th of our budget being spent on not being shitty to fellow military members.
I can’t believe more of Tuberville’s former football players haven’t came out calling out his racist bullshit, there’s no way this guy wasn’t this bad while he was coaching.
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