In the realm of national security, how important is genderqueerness? According to a recently revealed document, it deserves great regard.
The Daily Wire has published the National Security Agency's 34-page Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Glossary. The list of terms and their meaning solidly set the Defense Department's Woke level to Red.
The agency has an aim, and it's safety -- of feelings. Hence, the following words are featured:
- Allyship
- Marginalization
- Microaggression
- Micro-Insults
- Micro-Invalidation
That last entry refers to a perniciously pale perpetration:
micro-invalidation: Communications that subtly exclude, negate, or nullify the thoughts, feelings, or experiential reality of a person of color. For instance, white individuals often ask Asian-Americans where they were born, conveying the message that they are perpetual foreigners in their own land.
Throughout the leftward list, whites are prominently panned:
- racism (cultural) [abridged]: Refers to representations, messages and stories conveying the idea that behaviors and values associated with white people or "whiteness" are automatically "better" or more "normal" than those associated with other racially defined groups. Cultural racism shows up in advertising, movies, history books, definitions of patriotism, and in policies and laws.
- white fragility: The state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves [in white people]. ... These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium. Racial stress results from an interruption to what is racially familiar (DiAngelo 2018).
- white privilege: Refers to the unquestioned and unearned set of advantages, entitlements, benefits and choices bestowed on people solely because they are white; an exemption of social, political, and/or economic burdens placed on non-white people; benefitting from societal structuring that prioritizes white people and whiteness. Generally, white people who experience such privilege do so without being conscious of it.
The word "white" appears 39 times. What can help halt chalky churlishness? The NSA knows:
affirmative action: A set of policies and practices designed to eliminate unlawful discrimination among applicants, remedy the results of such prior discrimination, and prevent such discrimination in the future.
Color-blindness isn't enough; actually, it may be immoral:
color-blind: A term referring to the disregard of racial characteristics; the belief in treating everyone "equally" by treating everyone the same; based in the presumption that differences are by definition bad or problematic, and therefore best ignored (i.e., "I don't see race."). ... [O]pponents of color-blind practices believe that color-blindness allows those in power to disregard or ignore the history of oppression and how it is experienced today.
The list condemns cultural appropriation and historical oppression while affirming Critical Race Theory -- it's critical since we're soaked in "structural racism."
Onto another arena of oppression, the sexually smeared are shielded:
- Biphobia
- Homophobia
- Transphobia
- Transmisogyny
The NSA confirms that sex isn't biological; rather, it's "assigned at birth." Sexual myths persist -- such as the one about there being two...
- cisnormativity: The belief that being cisgender is normal. This belief feeds into a system of oppression that privileges cisgender individuals and denies equality to transgender people.
- cissexism: The assumption that all people are cisgender. Because this assumption is so deeply ingrained in our society through socialization, many people say and do things that are cissexist without realizing it or intending to.
- gender binary: The idea that there are only two genders: man and woman. This idea is challenged by individuals who identify as non-binary (e.g., genderqueer, agender).
The intelligence titan gives props to a panoply of pants-related peoples:
- Agender
- Bigender/Dual Gender
- Drag Queen/King
- Gender Fluid
- Genderqueer
- Pansexual
- Male-to-Female (Transitioners)
- Female-to-Male (Transitioners)
- Pronouns "Ze" and "Zir"
A few sexual standouts:
- demisexual: A person who does not experience sexual attraction to someone until a greater, often emotional, bond is formed.
- pangender: Someone whose gender identity is comprised of all or many gender identities and expressions.
- sapiosexual: One who find the contents of someone else's mind to be their most attractive attribute, above physical or other characteristics.
The glossary hails "two spirit" as "a Native American term." That label, in fact, was created in 1990 at the Third Annual Inter-Tribal Native American/First Nations Gay and Lesbian American Conference in Winnipeg, Canada.
Speaking of Native Americans, surprisingly, the agency admits all born in the U.S. are just that:
American: A native or inhabitant of any of the countries of North, South, or Central America. Widely used to denote a native or citizen of the United States.
Still, the NSA fights Caucasian corrosion with a clear head:
non-white: Used at times to reference all persons or groups outside of the white culture, often in the clear consciousness that white culture should be seen as an alternative to various non-white cultures and not as normative.
The list is emblematic of a new governmental phase. In departments across the broad bureaucracy, left-wing ideology has won -- no matter the results of periodic elections. The core of our empowered federal behemoth has transformed -- even in areas of protective preparedness:
Army Secretary Champions What's 'Important': Making 'Marginalized Communities' 'Feel Included'
Report: The Army Will Force Female Soldiers to Shower With Biological Males
Report: Navy Says Sailors Can Use Whichever Locker Room Suits Their Gender Identity
Report: US Army Mandates Training to Help Soldiers Shake off Their Sex 'Assigned at Birth'
'Keep Trying' — Naval Sea Systems Command Tells Americans to Advance Transgenderism
Air Force Academy Professor Defends Teaching Critical Race Theory and 'Structural Racism' to Cadets
Military Generals Call for Increased Diversity, Encourage More Women in Combat
Might such extraneous concentration impair the Defense Department's foundational function? Time will tell. In the DoD's defense, perhaps the NSA has discovered an enemy more malignant than any foreign force. And where that threat is concerned, our security apparatus is locked and loaded:
patriarchy: A social system and institution in which men have primary power in the political, social, economic, legal, and familial spheres; patriarchy favors male-dominated thought, and is centralized on the male narrative or perspective of how the world works and should work.
Maybe America should be secured by the thoughts of pangender demisexuals.
-ALEX
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