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Pentagon says it's cutting ties with 'woke' Harvard, ending military training (text.npr.org)

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"For too long, this department has sent our best and brightest officers to Harvard, hoping the university would better understand and appreciate our warrior class," Hegseth said. "Instead, too many of our officers came back looking too much like Harvard — heads full of globalist and radical ideologies that do not improve our fighting ranks."

In a separate post on X, Hegseth wrote, "Harvard is woke; The War Department is not."

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[–] RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip 86 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Republicans don't like an educated populace. "Smart people don't like me"

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 32 points 6 hours ago

also the more an officer understands humanity the less likely the are to follow inhumane orders

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 14 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Harvard isn't where the smart people go to become smarter. It's where the rich kids go to network and socially reproduce their capitalist values system.

The decision by the Pentagon is a political realignment. No doubt they'll start recruiting more heavily from Texas, Florida, Stanford and the Trump aligned tech sector.