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Pennsylvania MAGA Sen. Candidate: ‘Military Has Been Color-Blind for Almost 200 Years’ (This is a Lie)

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By now it’s become a cliche to point to Saving Private Ryan’s first chaotic scene as the “most realistic battle seen” ever shown on film. We cannot weigh in on the validity of that point, we’ve never fought for our country and thus won’t pretend to know. Those who have can tell us. What we can say as political analysts is that Saving Private Ryan got one thing very right.

We don’t know how many black service members stormed Normandy, surely there were many. But none of them were in the white units. The service was still segregated. In fact, it wasn’t until 1948 that Truman integrated the military. Ironically, as opposed to gay rights, the military led the way in racial civil rights. One might be more cynical and say that by 1948, the military didn’t have the “luxury” of being so choosy. Regardless, the military integrated.

Thus, it is pretty damned odd that when Tucker continues to wage war against the racism that white men battle every day (the most racially oppressed group in America, which explains Fox’s affirmative action program, hiring as many white men as possible), he had on Pennsylvania MAGA Sean Parnell, thought to be running for the U.S. Senate. Parnell wants you to know that the military has never based policy on skin color!

Tucker: “From the outside in, the U.S. military seems like by far the least racist institution in American life, and has been for many decades,” said Carlson.

Parnell: “Absolutely. It’s absolutely true. We have been a color-blind culture in the United States military for almost 200 years. We’ve gotten a lot of things right. Keep your politics and your social experiments out of our military, and let us focus on what we were always intended to do: protecting the United States of America and winning wars.”

And excluding Black Americans – or at least forcing them to serve in their own units, in order to win those wars, correct? By the way, we’re not sure if it occurred to either of these geniuses, but let’s say the military is the least discriminatory institution in America (It’s actually pro-sports, they really don’t care), does that mean that they cannot get better? Does that mean that there is nothing more to learn?

We like this walk around thinking of ourselves as fairly sophisticated and “woke.” But we learn more about our biases every single day. Does it somehow hurt them?

Yes, if you’re Tucker, the most obvious racist (barely hidden) on cable television. It must hurt, being a rich white man, passed over by literally every other gender, skin color, religion, and immigrations status. Poor guy… we mean, rich guy.

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Jason
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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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