There's no place for DEI in our nation's military forces. The only criteria for recruiting and promotion must be merit, with no regard for melanin content or any other innate characteristic. The mission of the military, protecting the liberty and property of the American people, is too important to indulge our armed forces with woke horse squeeze.
With that in mind, it's good to see that the Department of Justice has settled with the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in a lawsuit over race-based admissions.
The Justice Department has reached a settlement with the U.S. Military Academy at West Point to resolve a federal lawsuit targeting the elite schools over race-based admissions policies.
Lawsuits filed by Students for Fair Admissions Inc., a group that represents students, targeted West Point and the U.S. Air Force Academy in Boulder, Colo., over their consideration of race in admissions, but dropped the legal challenges this week after the Trump administration negotiated a settlement.
The DOJ said the settlement with the group "avoids the need for continued litigation" in both cases and includes "agreed-upon terms that help ensure that admission to these prestigious institutions is based exclusively on merit, not race or ethnicity."
(Note: The Air Force Academy is in Colorado Springs, not Boulder.)
It seems the obvious thing to ask, why in the name of all that's sensible were they doing this in the first place? But I think we know the answer: These policies were put in place as part of the federal government's degrading and nonsensical adoption of DEI policies across the board. These may be some of the most ridiculous and self-destructive policies in our era, but now, at least in the federal government, they are being slam-dunked.
"This Department is committed to eliminating DEI practices throughout the federal government," Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in a statement. "We are proud to partner with the Department of Defense to permanently end race-based admissions at West Point and the Air Force Academy — admission to these prestigious military institutions should be based exclusively on merit."
U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton for the Southern District of New York echoed those sentiments, saying it "ensures that our future military leaders will carry on the greatness that is born of opportunity, effort, and a level playing field."
Under the terms of the agreement, both academies have agreed not to consider race or ethnicity in admissions; set no race-based goals or quotas; shield race and ethnicity information from admissions decision makers and train admissions personnel to adhere to strict merit-only standards, according to the group. The policies, approved by the U.S. Department of Defense, will be permanent and apply to all future admissions cycles, it said.
We should note that nothing is permanent. The next Democratic administration will no doubt try this stupidity again.
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Our armed forces are too important for anything but merit to be the criterion. Mission is foremost, and that mission is to close with and destroy the enemy by fire, maneuver, and shock effect. We want the best, regardless of skin color or ancestry. That's all. And now, we have some hope, that's what we'll get.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion practices are being whittled away, at least at the federal level. The Trump administration is swinging the big stick of federal funding to eliminate them in academia as well. All of this is to the good, to the good of our armed forces, our education system, and to our country in general. The elephant in the room that the left won't acknowledge is that race-based admission, as West Point was accused of practicing, is actually racist, no matter which group is being promoted and which, excluded. When a thing is wrong, it is wrong in every particular, no matter whose ox is gored; that's how principles work. That's how you know the left favors these racist policies; if you want to know what the left really thinks, just watch what they accuse the right of.
For now, though, West Point admissions will be by merit. That's as it should be.
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