Showing posts with label recruit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label recruit. Show all posts

Friday, December 20, 2019

Congress Quietly Cut Term ‘White Nationalists’ From Measure to Screen Military Recruits

A measure in the National Defense Authorization Act intended to encourage screening for white-nationalist beliefs in military enlistees was quietly altered by the Republican-controlled Senate on Tuesday, according to HuffPost. The original House amendment was passed to keep white nationalists out of the U.S. military, but the term no longer appears in the act as the revised version requires the Department of Defense to instead screen military enlistees for “extremist and gang-related activity.” The Senate’s version of the massive military spending bill went directly to President Donald Trump’s desk.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/congress-quietly-cut-term-white-nationalists-from-measure-to-screen-military-recruits

Sunday, August 27, 2017

Former white nationalists confirm that Trump is using the same language that recruited them

This we already know: Donald Trump is racist and a friend to white nationalists. Since Charlottesville, he’s been using talk of “taking away culture” to justify keeping Confederate monuments in place as well as to rile up his base of white people who feel marginalized in an America that is becoming browner. The coded language and racial dog whistles of the Southern Strategy that Republicans have been using for decades are no longer subtle or coded. This politician is openly using the same language white supremacists use to recruit members and former skinheads confirm this....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1693191

Friday, June 9, 2017








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