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Military to remove 'Enola Gay' photos for violating DEI rules (www.newsweek.com)
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[–] 1024_Kibibytes@lemm.ee 119 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Also apparently any photo of any Black or woman service member.

Because they didn't consider the possibility that women and Black service members did noteworthy things based on their actual merit.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Including a Hispanic Marine who received a Medal of Honor for jumping on a grenade to save his comrades. Medal given in 1946, the infamous period of DEI...

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 86 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Images of historically significant military achievements or personnel, such as the Tuskegee Airmen and the first female Marine Corps infantry graduates, have been flagged for removal."

Wow. That's pretty blatant.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago

The Tuskegee airmen thing pisses me off so much. Like brick-throwing shit-burning degree of angry.