“Wokeness” Is Coming For Us All

“Wokeness” Is Coming For Us All

By Dannie McIntire

JUNE 3, 2022

This morning, coffee in hand in hand, I sat down to peruse today’s news on the internet, an article on yahoo news sent me back to the kitchen to add a stiff splash of whiskey to my coffee.

Per “military.com”, “U.S. Army officials are considering making changes to an existing policy on compassionate reassignment which would allow soldiers to request relocation if they are concerned that state or local laws discriminate against them based on gender, sex, religion, race, or pregnancy”

“Wokeness” is coming to the U.S. army. 

The United States is one of approximately 100 countries that staffs its military with an all-volunteer force (AVF). I have nothing but the utmost respect for our men and women who choose to serve in uniform and protect our nation.

Mankind is the most successful “mammal” to ever inhabit our earth, whether this is by divine design or evolution is your personal belief, but mankind has yet to achieve the degree of civilization when disputes between nations are always solved without warfare.

Since our inception as a nation, our “way of life” has endured in part to having a population willing to serve and protect. I fear the “wokeness” now creeping into our military will eventually degrade its ability to protect our homeland.

Now this is merely my opinion, and as they say, everyone “has one”, but

I believe allowing our military personnel to dictate where they are stationed based on perceived “hurt feelings” due to “various state or local laws” is ludicrous. 

Now, this probably goes against the grain of “woke thinking”, but shouldn’t our military be basing personnel location assignments based on sound operational needs instead of a “Wokeness” doctrine?

I fear the “Wokeness” that is creeping into the everyday fabric of our society has already done more harm than good. 

Recently, a Wisconsin school district filed sexual harassment complaints against three middle school children for calling a classmate by the wrong pronoun. The “wrong pronoun”, you can’t make this kind of stuff up! 

It seems some of our primary schools have gone from teaching “reading, writing, arithmetic” to “him, her, them, they, it” pronoun metic’.

The San Francisco United School district, recently announced that the word “chief” will no longer be used in reference to job titles in the San Francisco Unified School District in an effort, school officials said, to avoid the word’s connotation with Native Americans. If that trend appears to gain steam I may buy stock in an office nameplate manufacturer, a lot of “Chief Executive Officer” signs are going to have to be replaced so as not to offend anyone.

The Department of Defense is moving to spend time and money to rename nine Army military bases. The “Congressional Naming Commission,” spent $2 million dollars and 16 months deciding current “culture concerns” dictated the renaming of nine Army bases. The $2 million already spent will be just the tip of the iceberg of wasted taxpayer dollars. Any military items, from signage to stationery associated with the bases by name will have to be replaced using additional federal tax dollars. Local jurisdictions will have to replace such items as signage they’ve installed referencing the bases using their taxpayer dollars. This cost to “prevent hurt feelings” is going to total in the multi-millions of wasted tax dollars.  Again, I need to consider buying stock in a sign manufacturing company!    

America is tottering towards an abyss of absurdness and it seems fewer and fewer of us are willing to stand up and say “enough is enough” for fear they’ll be accused of being “anti-woke” or “culture insensitive”. 

Heck, I’m 72 years old, and suddenly I’m no longer sure which restroom to use. The last time I looked it seems logical I should identify as a male but a restroom with the signage of “It” has me wondering! 

Perhaps the vintage television show from the 60”s “The Adams Family” was ahead of its time by naming a character with a gender neutral pronoun, “Cousin It”.