Judicial Watch (JW), a deeply conservative 29-year-old Washington, D.C.-based group that describes itself as a “non-partisan education foundation,” asserts that our military is “headed down the dark alley of anti-American wokeism.”
As JW sees it, the U.S. Air Force Academy is an egregious offender because it “has made race and gender instruction a top priority in the training of cadets.”
This conclusion, JW Executive Director Tom Fitton wrote in a March press release, follows a September 2022 Freedom of Information Act request that provided the group with 167 pages of documents. Included was a description of Behavioral Science 362, a required class about the impact of class, race, gender and sexuality on human development.
Neither Judicial Watch nor Fitton think that these topics have any place in military instruction. What’s more, they argue that the course is proof that the U.S. military is succumbing to “Marxist” critical race theory, or CRT.
And they’re not alone. A bevy of conservative groups — including longstanding organizations like the Heritage Foundation and newly formed […]
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