Hegseth rants about ‘woke military’ and ‘political correctness’ during fiery West Point graduation speech: ‘Diversity is not our strength. Unity is our strength,’ Hegseth told graduating West Point cadets

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  1. Silent-Resort-3076 on

    Snippet: (And, the knucklehead is saying all of this i**n front of a very diverse graduating** class!)

    * Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used his West Point commencement address to criticize former leaders, accusing them of turning the armed forces into a “woke Princeton” and weakening the American spirit through DEI policies.
    * In the rain on Saturday at Michie Stadium in West Point, New York, Hegseth told graduating cadets that past leadership and reforms had weakened the military, accusing previous officials of turning the academy into what he described as a misguided academic environment.
    * **“We saw woke and weak leaders trying to make West Point look like woke Princeton**, which happens to be my long-lost and lost alma mater,” Hegseth said.
    * **“They tried to introduce diversity and inclusion studies.** They hire professors who advocated for anti-American ideologies right here in these halls, but no more,” he said to a muted response from the crowd, arguing that West Point is “special” and “above politics.”
    * “The single dumbest phrase in military history was peddled in our army only a few short years ago. You’ve all heard it, maybe in your first two years at West Point. **Our diversity is our strength. The single dumbest phrase in military history,” he said.**

    **🙄**

    **EDITED TO ADD:**

    And, LOOK at the faces of the cadets! Start at 1:07:54

    Many are women, many are international, many are DIVERSE!🙄

    [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xarxj8CQuLc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xarxj8CQuLc)

  2. 2LiveGucciCrew on

    >Diversity is not out strength

    Shit bro can we deport Elon and Peter Thiel then? You know screw non Americans.

  3. Philo_Publius1776 on

    Diversity isn’t the opposite of unity. That’s division. You know what happens when you reject diversity? Division.

    You cannot have unity without diversity.

  4. alphabets0up_ on

    Isn’t diversity unity? Like, everyone coming together… you know, inclusion rather than exclusion?

  5. He’s going to quote V for Vendetta next right?! ”Strength Through Unity, Unity Through Faith”

  6. TheDirtyDrunk on

    Man, for someone with a tattoo that would be worn by people who identify as a white nationalist bigot, he sure acts like a white national bigot, good thing he pinky promised he wasn’t

  7. Why is this douche complaining about “wokeness”? Hasn’t he been in charge for the last 18 months? Is there a lack of leadership here?

    Oh, and fuck this guy if the /s wasn’t evident.

  8. Why would any red blooded citizen want diversity?

    Every pizza Every day should be plain cheese.  Every coffee Every morning should be black. NO sugar, no cream, and definitely no latte! NO exceptions.  Every car should be painted white and Made in the USA, none of this foreign crap.  You hear that Nissan. VW, &  BMW?  Every restaurant should serve ONLY American food.  No more of that Chinese, Thai, or Italian bullshit. Etc, etc,

    Get the idea?  Diversity absolutely sucks.

    Amirite or amirite?

    E: as if needed /s

    (Fuck these incredibly stupid fascists.)

  9. damn, what would be a memorable occasion for these people ruined by sentient alcoholism

  10. GorgeousStrangeer on

    A graduation speech at a service academy is historically supposed to be a non-partisan, unifying send-off for newly commissioned officers who just swore an oath to support and defend the entire Constitution. Turning a West Point commencement into a Fox News-style cultural grievance monologue is an absolute disservice to those cadets. Telling a diverse class of future leaders that ‘diversity is not our strength’ on day one of their active-duty careers doesn’t build cohesion, it intentionally fractures the chain of command along political fault lines before they even reach their first platoons.

  11. Boy them white power dog whistles have just gone right out the fucking window haven’t they?

  12. Imagine being so stupid as to not understand diversity, AND not grasp that diversity and unity are not mutually exclusive.

  13. Imagine being a non white cadet at this ceremony and still thinking, Yes, this is the country im fighting for and on behalf.

  14. astroglitch0 on

    These little snowflakes need to hire some writers, always spewing the same tired bullshit over and over.

  15. Still amazes me that competent military personnel haven’t done something about this sissy sack of shit. I can’t imagine being a 4-star general and taking orders from him. 

  16. The opposite of diversity is uniformity, not unity. Uniformity is a long word.

  17. Yeah I wonder how that speech was perceived by the 30 something % of the graduates that are not white?

  18. killer-tofu87 on

    Hegseth was labeled an “inside threat” for extremism by his chain of command and left before he was thrown out

  19. sxyaustincpl on

    > “diversity is not our strength”

    Does this idiot realize that 20% of the armed forces are black, 18% are Hispanic, and 18% are female??

    Our strength is literally our diversity

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