{"id":230857,"date":"2021-04-01T06:14:05","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T06:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=230857"},"modified":"2021-04-02T06:37:52","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T06:37:52","slug":"u-s-navys-extremism-training-pushing-blm-at-work-is-a-ok-but-not-politically-partisan-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=230857","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Navy&#8217;s &#8216;Extremism&#8217; Training: Pushing BLM At Work Is A-OK But Not &#8216;Politically Partisan&#8217; Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Chris Menahan \u2013 Information Liberation.com March 31, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Earlier this month, the Pentagon said that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationliberation.com\/?id=62114\">&#8220;extremism&#8221; training was needed for troops who see the &#8220;Capitol riot&#8221; and &#8220;Black Lives Matter protests&#8221; as similar.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Fox News reported that the Navy&#8217;s &#8220;extremism&#8221; training consists of telling sailors that &#8220;it&#8217;s okay to advocate for Black Lives Matter (BLM) while at work&#8221; but they&#8217;re &#8220;not allowed to discuss &#8216;politically partisan&#8217; issues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Saying &#8220;it&#8217;s OK to be white&#8221; will presumably land you in the brig!<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/navy-extremism-training-black-lives-matter\">Fox News, &#8220;Navy&#8217;s &#8216;extremism&#8217; training says it&#8217;s OK to advocate for BLM at work but not &#8216;politically partisan&#8217; issues&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The US Navy\u2019s &#8220;extremism&#8221; training says it&#8217;s okay to advocate for Black Lives Matter (BLM) while at work but sailors are not allowed to discuss &#8220;politically partisan&#8221; issues, according to training slides obtained by Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>A question posed in a &#8220;scenarios for discussion&#8221; slide asked if BLM was &#8220;political stuff&#8221; that superiors in the Navy are &#8220;not supposed to be talking about at work,&#8221; according to the slides, which Fox obtained from a U.S. military official who took part in the training at the Pentagon.<\/p>\n<p>The answer given by the Navy called BLM a &#8220;public policy issue&#8221; and gave the green light for advocating for the organization &#8220;as long as the behavior is otherwise lawful and the advocacy is not politically partisan in nature.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Advocating for or against a public policy issue (as here) is authorized as long as the behavior is otherwise lawful and the advocacy is not politically partisan in nature (e.g. it doesn&#8217;t specifically address a political party),&#8221; the slide reads. &#8220;If the discussions make you uncomfortable, discuss the matter with your boss or another supervisor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pentagon press secretary John Kirby was asked about the issue on Monday and refused to give a proper response:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Reporter: &quot;Is talking about the Black Lives Matter Movement in the workplace, is that considered partisan?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Pentagon Press Sec. John Kirby: &quot;I&#39;m not able to answer that question.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GzkjGjD5vM\">pic.twitter.com\/GzkjGjD5vM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Recount (@therecount) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/therecount\/status\/1376616212700991489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 29, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jack Posobiec shared a message reportedly from a sailor who attended the &#8220;extremism indoctrination&#8221; earlier this month.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SCOOP: Navy extremism training today shut down sailor who asked about Antifa, BLM riots, and radical Islam<\/p>\n<p>&quot;That&#39;s not what this is about&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vHFVTgTmhP\">pic.twitter.com\/vHFVTgTmhP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackPosobiec\/status\/1374559719919079425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 24, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They showed us a video from [the Secretary of Defense], every time the word extremism was said in the video there were pictures of white people both in uniform and not in uniform,&#8221; the sailor said. &#8220;No persons of color.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said he told his chief that BLM was an extremist group and his chief responded by saying that &#8220;in order for them to be extremist they have to commit unlawful acts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I almost fell of my chair,&#8221; the sailor said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationliberation.com\/?id=62132\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Navy&#8217;s &#8220;extremism&#8221; training sounds ominously like political indoctrination. 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