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ANALYSIS/OPINION:

The happenings detailed in yesterdays front-page article, Troops get reading lists for books on critical race theory, are more than alarming because they promote divisiveness and destroy unit morale and cohesion.

There is an insidious aspect to making CRT required training in the military. As a civilian, if you object to what is being taught in a classroom or workplace you can stand up and walk out. However, in the military, members are subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), so a uniformed member cannot simply walk out. If they do, they could be walked right into jail for violating an order (whether it is a lawful order is questionable because forcing racist behavior and race-based decision making violates the U.S. Constitution and federal law).

Refusal to comply with this mandatory training, reading and these white privilege walks can be criminalized in the military. Is this the next step in our civilian world, too? Will the social-injustice warriors on the Hill and in the Biden administration take the next step and make it a criminal action to refuse such indoctrination, using the military as an example? Teachers are being fired for not towing the woke line. Is the threat of incarceration the next coercive step?

The secretary of defense has admitted that the U.S. armed forces are not racist, so why is this indoctrination being implemented in the first place? Racist indoctrination in the military must be ended. If you think this position is extreme, even laughable, remember, not too many years ago, Sen. Bernie Sanders was considered way out there. Look at todays political, social and cultural environment. Were woke and racism is now being promoted and taught. Mr. Sanders is mainstream, and our country is running headlong into socialism.

Capt. EDWARD J. OBLOY

Judge Advocate Generals Corps, U.S. Army (retired)

Bristow, Va.

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