Army Gen. Mark Milley pushed back on claims from Republicans that the military is “woke” and as a result not prepared to take on modern threats, saying he’s “not even sure what that word truly means.”
“What I see is a military that’s exceptionally strong. It’s powerful; it’s ready. In fact, our readiness rates, the way we measure readiness, is better now than they’ve been in years,” Milley said in a CNN interview Sunday.
Republican politicians and candidates have blasted the Pentagon for so-called woke policies, pointing to efforts to recruit a diverse group of military service members and be inclusive to transgender soldiers.
Those claims have also headlined efforts to reduce military spending.
Based General for not even entertaining the idea of knowing what the W word even means.
It’s too bad all our journalists are sold out to corpos otherwise they should respond to anyone wanting woke with “what is that? Idk what you are talking about please elaborate”.
Not that “based” makes sense here either, but yes, exactly: “woke” means whatever the speaker wants it to mean at the time, like “cromulent”.
That’s not entirely true. To pass the “stop WOKE act”, the bill had to have a definition of"wokeness". You know what the definition is? Awareness of systemic injustice.
Jesus Christ, we all have the goddamn internet:
Dictionary Definitions from Oxford Languages · Learn more woke verb past of wake1.
This isn’t hard!
Thats… Not the meaning of woke according to alt righters
PersnicketyPenguin was being sarcastic 😂
Finding satire on the internet is really hard sometimes
The first few times I heard “woke” used, it was in the context of people who don’t follow the sheep because they aren’t asleep. Hence, they have woke up.
Yes, and now the sheep are using it as an insult.
It was always a vacuous ambiguous way to say someone was liberally enlightened without having to justify the claim with anything specific. That is true for both the positive and pejorative use of woke. I enjoy the song “Wide Awake” by Parquet Courts that made fun of the term in it’s original use.
That is true for both the positive and pejorative use of woke.
At this point, from what I can tell, there is no truth for the pejorative use of ‘woke.’ It means whatever the Republican saying it wants it to mean. If they want it to mean anything at all but ‘this is a bad thing.’
Well playing some bozos’ advocate here, but
At one point it was very woke to expect the actors from Friends to apologise because they weren’t Black
I think it comes from like “wake up sheeple”
How’s not being woke working out for the slowly imploding Russian military?
You mean the one only staffed by minority serfs and white male convicts?
Where raising morale is when they shoot anyone who retreats?
They aren’t able to shoot anyone who retreats, because they aren’t issued rifles.
I hear that they have green blood, and are incapable of emotions. That’s why the Russian government has to assign couples, otherwise their society would collapse from lack of love like it did in the 90s.
In fact Russia is so weak that its also a massive threat to the world and stability.
How can a military be “woke”? They literally tour the world killing brown poor people.
The word has no meaning any more, and likely never did.
“Woke is the word I use to express my absolute and utterly baseless hatred for any Person, Thing, Idea or Concept, without having to resort to the hard slurs that would get me eviscerated and remove my plausible deniability” - Republican Zeitgeist
Before the right co-opted it, it was a reference to being awake to social injustice and aware of systemic discrimination. Then the right grabbed onto it and decided that everything social justice is ‘woke’ and pretty much replaced SJW with it. Today it means anything ‘liberal’ with regards to social matters per the American Overton window metric.
It gets more and more simple over time. Now it just means “things I don’t like”. Your tie is woke.
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They caught a lot of criticism for being ‘woke’ (in the sense of being socially progressive) a few years ago when they air this video as parts of an recruiting campaign.
https://youtu.be/MIYGFSONKbk?si=CmbnyWYptJfnxOH8
For the lazy it’s an animated story of a woman that became a soldier who was raised by two moms. It touches on her advocating for the LGBT community and empowering women in the video.
It’s stands in contrast to the typical recruiting method of portraying tanks and generic disposable 18yr old men blowing things up by highlighting a personal story of a woman.
It was part of a series of other similar videos released at the time. I think the controversy was from the perception that it was an attempt to appear socially progressive in a performative manner without actual resolving any of their problematic behavior like covering up sexual assaults.
Another example of it I’ve heard from a LT I know is holding suicide prevention meetings and then treating soldiers in a way that makes them hate their life.
Authoritarianism requires the support of the military and a military that’s full of LGBT people won’t support authoritarians that wants to execute LGBT people.
It’s got nothing to do with the actual quality of readiness of the military. It’s theatrics to let minorities know they’re not welcome, using the currently fashionable trigger word.
Didnt they already prevent the military from trying to purge white supremacists or am I miss remembering?
Two sides of the same coin
These people never change. They complained when they allowed non white people to enlist. They complained when they stop segregating the units. They complained about woman, about inclusivity etc. They just keep moving the goalpost whenever there is progress then, claim the next thing will destroy the military. Just their thinly weiled prejudice.
Absurd on the face of it. But making a cogent point is beside the point here, all they’re really doing is sending the message that as soon as they’re back in power, the military will be politicized.
Edit: Or possibly given the Russian military treatment; contracts awarded, real units never delivered, and the money all absconded with by craven oligarchs until the only way to prosecute a war is with mercs.
Edit 2: Merc squads padded out with penal legions. We do have plenty of prisoners, after all.
The military would be changed to defend the regime instead of the country.
Part of it was communicated via Trump’s pardon of the war criminal. In Trump’s mind, he was signaling that he would let the military do whatever they wanted in exchange for loyalty. For most of the military senior brass, it was a symbol of giving up on their ideals.
Can you imagine going through everything it takes to become a high ranking officer to then have to answer to these asshats?
Just look at this guy’s career. 44 years with his nose to the grindstone and boots on the ground just to have chickenhawks scream at you about “wokeness.”
General Milley is honestly my favorite Amaerican
I love how republicans navigated themselves into a position where the best thing anyone else can do is ignoring them.
No discussion, because it doesn’t lead anywhere.
No listening to them, because they talk about the end of the white race, autism from vaccines or woke stuff.
It’s like living with children, but you at least listen to a child when something bothers them. You don’t care for republicans, conservatives or nazis. It doesn’t matter how they call themselves. At this point, they march together and therefore are the same.
If only they hadn’t the right to vote…things could be easier.
(If you read any kind of 4chan conspiracy theory about leftist communist cannibals from lizard space who want to abolish their right to vote, now you now where it came from.)
A world where conservatives don’t have the right to vote is possible, but can’t be done through electoral politics. Its not as lazy as “Lets overthrow the government man” either. You can work with your friends to create a network of powerful mass organizations. Things like worker owned small businesses (co ops), mutual aid programs, neighborhood watches, and unions! If enough people do that, then it will be way more effective than voting, because what those mass organizations do is not determined by the rich men north of Richmond.
If one of those organizations doesn’t exist in your area, then now you have an easy avenue towards making friends and meeting people. If you want to be liked, and enjoy getting yelled at, then this sort of local activism is great.
If one of those organizations exists in your area, then you don’t have to deal with the stress of being in any leadership position unless you really want to.
Especially if you live in a small community, you can run for local office once your mass organization is successful enough. At that point you should join a national organization that matches your groups ideals.
Most accurate headline ever, on both counts 😂
when you’ve got an organization filled with high school grads, funded by religious gun nuts, you’re not gonna get the brightest people
I find it hard to believe that the largest and most effective organization designed specifically to kill or otherwise incapacitate whichever opposing forces their set against, isn’t woke.
It’s pretty obvious that Gen. Milley is wearing a wig, and what do you think he’s hiding below that wig? Yep, you guessed it, blue and purple dyed hair.
I guarantee you that after this sham of a hearing, Gen. Milley’s entire polycule was laughing at how xe hoodwinked us yet again.
FYI Gen. Milley’s preferred pronoun is Xe, so put some respect on that shit.
It’s pretty obvious that Gen. Milley is wearing a wig, and what do you think he’s hiding below that wig?
My guess would be an M1A1 Abrams, painted in blue, pink and white.
Gen. Milley’s preferred pronoun is Xe, so put some respect on that shit.
And if those idiots are going to keep up with this ‘military woke’ shit, Gen. Milley is going identify as a fucking/problem.
“Woke” could be taken as the opposite of “denialist”.
Wikipedia defines “woke” as “alert to racial prejudice and discrimination”, although today it’s often extended to other prejudices besides racism.
Thus, “anti-woke” can be taken to mean “in denial about racial (etc.) prejudice and discrimination”.
For example, we could say that the Association of German National Jews, the pro-Nazi Jewish group that existed from 1921 to 1935, was an “anti-woke” organization. This group sought to convince German Jews that they could drop their Jewishness and assimilate within a Nazi-dominated Germany.
Why does anyone care what Miley Cyrus has to say about the military?!? I mean, she sits on a wrecking ball naked!!
What?
Oh, nevermind.
— Roseanne Roseannadanna
Not that I’m all stoked on a bloated US military, but the main reason our forces would not be prepared is due to republican fuckery, so to see a general get grilled about it by the GOP proves that irony and self awareness is long dead where those fossils are concerned
“This is a military that’s dedicated to maintaining our readiness, our capabilities, our lethality. And the thing that we also need to focus on is the modernization for the future character of war that I see fundamentally changing,” Milley said.
“This military is a lot of things, but woke, it’s not. So I take exception to that. I think that people say those things for reasons that are their own reasons, but it’s not true. It’s not accurate,” he continued. “It’s not a broad-brush description of the U.S. military as it exists today.”
