Diversity Thursday
2024 or 1924?
It has been a couple of years since we last checked in on the United States Coast Guard Academy. Read that link, and the DivThu in 2017 when we looked again at the USCG's sad decline into official sectarianism. There is a trend line.
At one time the USCG Academy was a rare light where everyone was on an equal footing. There was no discrimination based on race, creed, color, or national origin.
As we covered in 2010, that changed and nothing has been done since to bring the USCGA back to centerline.
Buried in the annual Coast Guard authorization act passed this week by Congress is wording that would strike from the U.S. Code the statement that all appointments to the Coast Guard Academy "shall be made without regard to the sex, race, color or religious beliefs of an applicant."
Under current federal law the academy is "race neutral," but the change would put it on the same footing as other colleges and universities in balancing its enrollment by admitting students from specific groups.
Where is the USCGA 14 years later?
Michael R. Shevock earlier this month pointed us to the CGA Diversity & Inclusion Action Plan 2024-2026.
It has all the problems we’ve covered for almost two decades of DivThu, but I’m just going to pick the openings of each of their four lines of effort so you can get an idea of the absolute intellectual rot our elected representatives have allowed to take root.
BEHOLD!
That translates to:
The metrics are not working; we will now apply a top down quota system to force the metrics to work; the People’s Commissariat will enforce a revolution to smash existing “systems, values, norms, and logics” that do not align with sectarian political dictates.
Yes, I get this vibe too.
This translates to:
The People’s Commissariat needs more staff and funding; we need additional sectarian organizations; we will define “psychological and physical security” by our terms and enforced by our diktat; we will identify the people and institutions that are “barriers.” They will be removed.
This translates to:
We need more, and more aggressive, Zampolit to ensure political and ideological correctness. All leaders will actively promote The Party and its Cultural Marxist principles. Remember,
":As the military struggle draws to a close, the political struggle intensifies. In the hour of victory, the military will have served its purpose – and all men will be judged politically regardless of their military record.”
- Razin, Liberius' Political Commissar in Dr. Zhivago
This translates to:
You have your metrics; meet them. The metrics are the mission. Of The Party, By The Party, For The Party.
The old shibboleth is thrown up again:
"Diverse teams have been shown to score higher on performance, excellence, and innovation indicators."
Prove it.
Instead of trying to match skin tone chips, perhaps they should be seeking people who will emulate Douglas Munro, or Joshua James and the ways they made the Coast Guard great. I bet that not one of the USCG Diversity zampolits can identify those white cis-gender males or what they did, and I am damn sure that the zampolits themselves would never repeat any of their deeds.
More discrimination does not end discrimination.
As a '63 grad with a lot of history to look back on, I'm impressed with what I superficially see when I visit the Academy, but the Alumni Bulletin is rife with so many ethnic / racial / gender group hugs that I wonder if these young men and women can cope with any real adversity if the overall goal is to avoid being offended. My first experience with being called a swab and ranking lower than the Admiral's cat was lesson one in growing a backbone. Neither was I impressed with the recent implication of five dozen second classmen in a cheating scandal. Despite all the supposed ethics training I wonder what the actual trajectory is.