An Interesting Example of DEI in Action

[sturg33]

I assure you the amount of people in the past 20 years who thought “I would go fight in this useless ****ing war and hopefully not get PTSD or die, but I hear there are women on the battlefield now so I’m less safe” is not high enough to offset the number of willing soldiers you’d be losing. The type of strong, capable heroes you’re lamenting didn’t get left behind by the military, they just found better options and stopped joining.

hypothetically, if we could replace the women leaving with capable men, would you support banning women from the military combat duty?

 

[mqt]

hypothetically, if we could replace the women leaving with capable men, would you support banning women from the military combat duty?

Me? Nah. I don’t support the current size and scope of our military and absent any major threat to national security would favor solutions that are non-discriminatory and focused on making the military a better value proposition for young people. The next war will be won with technology, not which army has stronger individual soldiers.

But I wouldn’t dismiss it outright and wouldn’t refuse to vote for a candidate based on their support for it. Women in the military is not the hill I’m willing to die on, I just want us dropping fewer bombs and harming fewer young Americans overseas.

 

[mqt]

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Honestly after the aggressive conservative messaging on DEI during the election cycle, I think I’d be hiding this poll if I were trying to make a point on public perception of it. Only 2% less people think the balance is right and only 3% of left-leaning respondents moved from positive to neutral. Given the context surrounding the issue, I’d have to think pro-DEI advocates would be thrilled with that little slippage.

 

[sturg33]

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Honestly after the aggressive conservative messaging on DEI during the election cycle, I think I’d be hiding this poll if I were trying to make a point on public perception of it. Only 2% less people think the balance is right and only 3% of left-leaning respondents moved from positive to neutral. Given the context surrounding the issue, I’d have to think pro-DEI advocates would be thrilled with that little slippage.

Agreed. Not nearly enough opposition to racism, discrimination, and failure