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Breitbart: Exclusive: Marine Veteran Rep. Mike Gallagher Blasts Military’s Woke ‘Diversity’ Agenda

In the address last week at Hillsdale College, Gallagher criticized military leaders for “asking us to embrace a brand of identity politics that is fashionable on the left right now, one which judges people explicitly by the color of their skin rather than on their merits as individuals.” He added:

It should alarm us that the same military leaders we trust to train our sons and daughters for war are building their DEI agenda upon a foundation of fringe history and shoddy social science. Their underlying assumption that we can generalize questionable findings from the private sector to the specific business of asking young men and women to kill and be killed for their country is an assault on common sense.

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