The Joint Chiefs is now all-white, all-male, overseeing a force that is 20 percent female and 43 percent people of color

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The Atlantic @TheAtlantic
As the Pentagon purges some minorities and women from high-ranking positions, the message being sent to lower-ranking officers is that “they will be assessed on the basis of their gender, race, or politics, rather than their abilities,” @AdamSerwer writes:

Pete Hegseth Is Trying to Resegregate the Military
“Color-blind and merit-based” now seems to be anything but.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/pete-hegseth-military-diversity/686734/

Mike Young @micyoung75
Serwer's framing holds up against the documented record.

Hegseth fired Gen. CQ Brown, Adm. Lisa Franchetti, Army Chief Gen. Randy George - in the middle of a war, no charges, no stated reason. Pulled two Black men and two women from a brigadier general promotion list. Blocked or delayed more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across four service branches.

None were charged with anything. None were accused of incompetence. The Atlantic's read: they committed "only the offense of being part of a military institution that Hegseth wants to restock with MAGA loyalists."

Pentagon staff are calling him "Dumb McNamara" internally. The Joint Chiefs is now all-white, all-male, overseeing a force that is 20 percent female and 43 percent people of color.

He said at his confirmation hearing promotions would be merit-based. He could not name a single case where DEI had lowered military standards. He still can't.

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[dalton99a]

1. Stupid, racist piece of shit is unfit to be anywhere near the Pentagon

[Redleg]

2. Yes- they have brought back "merit" to the military- their definition of merit just happens to favorite white males

I wonder what Hegseth's black troops thought of him when he was their platoon leader?

[leftstreet]

3. All (white male) Lives Matter

Please, please let this be the last dying gasp of a misogynist, racist, homophobic Entitlement Derangement Syndrome

[Solly Mack]

4. White supremacy is identity politics.

Same with the patriarchymisogyny. Favoring straight and Christian - all identity politics.

But because some folks see straight, white, Christian and male as some sort of norm, as "the" standard, they don't see it as identify politics - and that inability to see it only serves to highlight their bigotry.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

5. Kick

[David__77]

6. The economic draft is a thing, unfortunately.

[Ray Bruns]

7. Racist misogynistic POS does something racist and misogynistic.

Film at eleven.

[Joinfortmill]

8. Infuriating, but hold this thought: there will be a reckoning.

[pfitz59]

9. Most likely Christo-Facist as well

'Gott mit uns!'

[moondust]

10. Welcome to the MAGA Confederacy!