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Pentagon puts Scouts 'on notice' over DEI and girl-centered policies

https://lemmy.world/post/43726759

Pentagon puts Scouts 'on notice' over DEI and girl-centered policies - Lemmy.World

After threatening to sever ties with Scouting America and kick the youth group off military bases worldwide, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday gave a six-month reprieve to the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts of America. Hegseth made the announcement in a video posted to X, framing it as an ultimatum to Scouting to conform to the Trump administration’s anti-DEI agenda. He detailed his many criticisms of the group, saying Scouts had “lost their way” by changing the organization’s name and “watering down” what he called “the focus on God as the ruler of the universe.” He accused the Scouts of promoting “an insidious, radical, woke ideology that is anti-America and anti-American.”

RedWeasel Mar 1

Aww, must get rid of the evileist of things, girls. /s

totesmygoat Mar 1

He just wants them to go back to their roots. And align with the current administration. Allow the pedos back. Those kids are just there for the taking.

panda_abyss Mar 1

Hegseth has the most fragile ego I’ve ever seen. He’s a baby. He has the smallest dick energy I’ve ever seen, it’s the human equivalent of a chihuahua.

WizardofFrobozz Mar 1

There is no one I’d rather see be beaten within an inch of his life on live television

Really? Have you not seen Stephen Miller? Ok, maybe for him we should go that final inch too.

I do believe that for him, the beating will continue post-mortem. You know, double tap and all that.

Sterile_Technique Mar 1

within an inch of his life

Fuckin tease.

thats a tough call.

bomberesque Mar 1

The most fragile ego? There’s not someone you can think of with an even more fragile car of man baby syndrome?

CharlesDarwin Mar 1

Probably has a lot to do with why he’s on his third wife and drinks.

It’s really too bad they haven’t found a way to safely augment penises. This might solve so many problems with people like this…

usernameunnecessary Mar 1

The kind of article you’d expect to read about dictatorships cut off from the rest of the world. This sort of talk sounds crazy even with North Korea’s standards.

floofloof Mar 1

dictatorships cut off from the rest of the world

Trump’s people are working hard on that.

AnchoriteMagus Mar 1

He then slapped the reporter, yelled “No tagbacks!”, and ran up the ladder to his tree house. When the reporter tried to ask followup questions, Kegsbreath pulled the ladder up after himself and plugged his ears, screaming “No girls allowed!” until his mom brought him some dino nuggies.

ordnance_qf_17_pounder Mar 1

Nazi Pete what a snowflake

He just really does not like girls, and likes to play dress-up. He has the mental development age of a 8 year old. He’d probably be happiest with a sandbox and a couple of tonka trucks-- and he’d play in it dressed up in a little smart looking suit.

The Pentagon. The center of the war machine in america. Is worried about what kids do in scouts. While actively at war on several fronts. Glad they have their priorities straight. Wouldn’t want to blow up an elementary school for example?

TachyonTele Mar 1

Mic drop

RotatingParts Mar 1

Playing the “god” card. Amazing how many people fall for that.

Lodespawn Mar 1

I did cub scouts for like 3 years and I’m pretty confident there was nothing about god in there

RotatingParts Mar 1

That’s good to hear.

troopleader.scouting.org/…/information/#%3A~%3Ate…. Unfortunately leaders must profess a belief in God.

Information: DUTY TO GOD

Related Advancement and Awards Boy Scout requirements related to Scout spirit Personal Fitness merit badge Messengers of Peace emblem Religious emblems

Troop Leader Resources

Lodespawn Mar 1

Looks like thats still listed as a topic for leaders in Scouts Australia, but theres nothing on God in the requirements for actual scouts other than respecting freedom of religion.

the focus on God as the ruler of the universe

I don’t know what it is about this line or the mood I’m in, but… I’d like to buy some shiny bright red size 12 pumps so I can stomp my giant scary disgusting transfem foot on his idiot throat in style and teach him who really rules his universe.

Salamanderwizard Mar 1

It’s such a “nu-huh you didn’t get me, I use a shield!” Type of energy. Like oh your god is the ruler? I guess I should bend down then.

Fucking hate it. Especially from heg. He’s a cunt, and if there is a god I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t want heg any where near him.

Shitler Youth incoming

whotookkarl Mar 1

Too busy blowing up schools and fishermen targeting countries that aren’t protected by nukes to provide equality

this is not a serious country

FreshParsnip Mar 1

I can’t even tell what’s real anymore? Did Trump really forget that Quuen Elizabeth is dead and say she should pardon her son? Did he really say we don’t know where the sun goes at night? I honestly can’t tell if these are real quotes or rumours started by satirical news sites

Everything reads like something from The Onion.

TrickDacy Mar 1

Yeah, it could be from the onion if all their writers had brain damage.

Leave our adolescent friends & neighbours alone!

E Pluribus Unum!

Official motto of the United States of America

‘One from many’

ramenshaman Mar 1

So, speaking as a former boy scout, I never thought it was a great idea to take a bunch of co-ed potentially horny teenagers out camping in the woods, but shut the fuck up, Pete. This is not your job. Yes, historically boy scouts and girl scouts have been quite different and girls should get to do the things that boy scouts do, but I was a pretty horny teenager back in my boy scout days.

AfricanExpansionist Mar 1

Former Scout here. They have done it in Europe for generations. They actually hand out condoms at jamborees and even have alcohol tents for youth over 16 (Scouts in Europe go to age 21)

I don’t know if that’s a good idea altogether-- just saying America didn’t invent this.

My local council has a long-run ting exchange program with a Canadian council, where scouting is coed. Every 4 years we send a bunch of scouts up to camp and spend time with our Canadian counterparts, and then the next year they send a bunch down to do the same here.

I haven’t looked into how they work it since they started allowing girls to participate, but back when I was in we had an arrangement with the local girl scout council for them to participate and host female Canadian scouts and to travel to Canada with us(and of course female venturers also participated)

The program has been going on for almost 60 years, and I’ve never heard of there being an issue. Girls and boys camp in separate areas but participate in activities as a single unit.

And that’s much the same way Scouts America is operating now.

And on top of that

Venturing and sea scouts have also been coed for a long time.

There was always female camp staff at summer camp who were around our age.

I’m sure along the way some kids have taken the opportunity to do what horny teenagers have always done since time immemorial, but I think it’s probably fair to assume that if not at scouts they probably would have found another time and place to do that anyway, not being in scouts certainly hasn’t put a damper on that for a great many people over the years.

And of course, its 2026, gay scouts don’t have to stay in the closet anymore.

CharlesDarwin Mar 1

I wonder if this stupid Faux News host has ever even bothered to learn anything at all about the Scouts and their principles.

hateisreality Mar 1

There wasn’t any alcohol involved so of course not

I have received information from our sponsors that the Scouts’ rules have changed. We now have one rule, and one rule only! Absolute and unquestioning loyalty to Donald J Trump! This goes double when he summons you to Mar a Lago for an interview.

RizzRustbolt Mar 1

FirstComm already?

So long Phobos I guess.

flop_leash_973 Mar 1

The DOD focusing on the important things while it is currently bombing the civilians of another country I see. /s

superkong47 Mar 1

If the Scouts have ANY kind of respect left for themselves as an organization they’ll tell dui hire kegsbreath exactly where to shove his ultimatum, these nazi fucks are out of fucking control, the time for peace is long passed…

AfricanExpansionist Mar 1

Speaking as an Eagle Scout-- WGAF?