Chase Spears on Military Public Affairs Officers and the Hysterical Overreaction Strategy Against the Anti-DEI Initiative

The same sort of thing is happening in academia, too:

Last week, the Department of Defense reinstated multiple historical websites and social media posts featuring the Tuskegee Airmen, the Enola Gay, the WWII Navajo Code Talkers, the Women Airforce Service Pilots, Jackie Robinson, and the Marines at Iwo Jima, among others. These were not removed due to an official directive or innocent mistake, but rather as an act of internal sabotage—an attempt by military agents to paint the new administration as historically illiterate and regressive. The actual order was to eliminate content promoting Marxist DEI ideologies that divide the military, not to erase American history.

This hysterical overreaction strategy first (so far as I know) appeared in response to Florida's efforts to push back against ideological capture in academia. Lefty professors started claiming that they had to stop teaching certain courses, that basically U.S. history couldn't be taught, and other such loony things. The left is caught with its pants down here. Its ideas are indefensible, so it's decided to pretend that the rational efforts to roll back its totalitarian capture of academia is itself totalitarian! If you won't let us take over your truth-seeking institutions and turn them to our propagandistic ends, then you are the totalitarians! See?! If you won't let us brainwash your kids with CRT, then we can't teach American history at all!

   This is the final stage of the standard 5-phase defense of a crazy leftists idea (below, x):

There's no such thing as x

We're not doing x

We are doing x, but that's ok.

We are doing x, and that's a good thing.

It's impossible not to do x!