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Pentagon says it's cutting ties with 'woke' Harvard, ending military training (text.npr.org)

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"For too long, this department has sent our best and brightest officers to Harvard, hoping the university would better understand and appreciate our warrior class," Hegseth said. "Instead, too many of our officers came back looking too much like Harvard — heads full of globalist and radical ideologies that do not improve our fighting ranks."

In a separate post on X, Hegseth wrote, "Harvard is woke; The War Department is not."

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[–] RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip 111 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Republicans don't like an educated populace. "Smart people don't like me"

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 47 points 2 days ago

also the more an officer understands humanity the less likely the are to follow inhumane orders

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