{"id":11498,"date":"2013-11-04T14:25:15","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T14:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11498"},"modified":"2013-11-04T14:25:15","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T14:25:15","slug":"pentagon-training-manual-says-whites-have-unfair-advantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11498","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon training manual says whites have unfair advantage"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"imperiallaundry\"<\/a>A controversial 600-plus page manual used by the Pentagon to train its Equal Opportunity officers teaches that \u201chealthy, white, heterosexual, Christian\u201d men hold an unfair advantage over other races, and warns in great detail about a so-called \u201cWhite Male Club.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cSimply 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,\u201d reads a statement in the manual created by the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute (DEOMI).<\/p>\n

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The manual, which was obtained by Fox News, also instructs troops to \u201csupport the leadership of people of color. Do this consistently, but not uncritically,\u201d the manual states.<\/p>\n

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The Equal Opportunity Advisor Student Guide is the textbook used during a three month DEOMI course taught at Patrick Air Force Base in Florida. Individuals who attend the training lead Equal Opportunity briefings on military installations around the nation.<\/p>\n

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The 637-page manual covers a wide range of issues from racism and religious diversity to cultural awareness, extremism and white privilege.<\/p>\n

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I obtained a copy of the manual from an Equal Opportunity officer who was disturbed by the course content and furious over the DEOMI\u2019s reliance on the Southern Poverty Law Center for information on \u201cextremist\u201d groups.<\/p>\n

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DEOMI instructors were also responsible for briefings at bases around the country that falsely labeled evangelical Christians, Catholics and a number of high-profile Christian ministries as domestic hate groups.<\/p>\n

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DEOMI opened in 1971 in response to the civil rights movement. It\u2019s responsible for Equal Opportunity\/Equal Employment Opportunity education and training for military active duty and reservists, according to its website.<\/p>\n

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The subject of white privilege emerged in a 20-page section titled, \u201cPower and Privilege.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhites are the empowered group,\u201d the manual declares. \u201cWhite males represent the haves as compared to the have-nots.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The military document advises personnel to \u201cassume racism is everywhere, every day\u201d and \u201cnotice code words for race.\u201d They are also instructed to \u201cunderstand and learn from the history of whiteness and racism.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cAssume racism is everywhere, everyday,\u201d read a statement in a section titled, \u2018How to be a strong \u2018white ally.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cOne of the privileges of being white is not having to see or deal with racism all the time,\u201d the manual states. \u201cWe have to learn to see the effect that racism has.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The guide also points out that whites are over-represented and blacks are underrepresented in positive news stories, that middle class blacks live in poorer neighborhoods than middle class whites and that even though there are more white criminals than any other race, the news coverage of black criminals is about equal to the news coverage of white criminals.<\/p>\n

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The military manual goes into great detail about a so-called \u201cWhite Male Club.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn spite of slave insurrections, civil war, the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, the women\u2019s suffrage movement leading to the 19th amendment, the civil rights movement, urban rebellions and the contemporary feminist movement, the club persists,\u201d the document states.<\/p>\n

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The military also implies that white Americans may be in denial about racism.<\/p>\n

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In a section titled, \u201cRationalizations for Retaining Privilege and Avoiding Responsibilities,\u201d the military lays out excuses white people use.<\/p>\n

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\u201cToday some white people may use the tactic of denial when they say, \u2018It\u2019s a level playing field; this is a land of equal opportunity,\u2019\u201d the manual reads. \u201cSome white people may be counterattacking today by saying political correctness rules the universities or they want special status.\u201d<\/p>\n

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DEOMI points out that if \u201cwhite people are unable to maintain that the atrocities are all in the past, they may switch to tactics to make a current situation seem isolated.\u201d<\/p>\n

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They said some of the ways whites may claim to be victims include saying things like, \u201cI have it just as bad as anyone else,\u201d \u201cThey\u2019re taking away our jobs,\u201d or \u201cWhite people are under attack.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The military concludes the section by urging students to \u201cunderstand and learn from the history of whiteness and racism\u201d and \u201csupport the leadership of people of color.\u201d – Fox news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A controversial 600-plus page manual used by the Pentagon to train its Equal Opportunity officers teaches that \u201chealthy, white, heterosexual, Christian\u201d men hold an unfair advantage over other races, and warns in great detail about a so-called \u201cWhite Male Club.\u201d \u201cSimply put, a healthy, white, heterosexual, Christian male receives many unearned advantages of social privilege, … Continue reading “Pentagon training manual says whites have unfair advantage”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[7270,7268,1646,7269],"class_list":["post-11498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-defense-equal-opportunity-management-institute-deomi","tag-equal-opportunity","tag-pentagon","tag-unfair-advantage-of-whites"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/imperiallaundry.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11502,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11498\/revisions\/11502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}