In another sign the nation’s government-run service academies are being weaponized to push a radical “woke” agenda, officials within the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy were caught pushing lessons that “misogyny and racism grow from the same white, male root.”
The Merchant Marine Academy is supposed to teach students how to operate and navigate commercial ships, not radical social agenda. (RELATED: Universities Training Gen Z To Be Woke Snitches And To Punish Speech)
Now U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, wants an explanation, weeks after it was revealed the Academy also censored a popular campus painting because it included a depiction of Christ.
Cruz sent a letter to Vice Admiral Joanna Nunan, the superintendent of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA), “demanding answers about the safety of cadets in light of disturbing remarks by the school’s sexual assault prevention and response (SAPR) director,” a statement from Cruz’s office reports.
Cruz reports the director, Anton Tripolskii, tweeted that, “We don’t have forces who do right by survivors of intimate partner and sexual violence because we don’t have forces who don’t abuse Brown and Black people” and that “misogyny and racism grow from the same white, male root.”
It is never explained what that has to do with operating a ship.
Now Cruz wants “details about the USMMA’s hiring process and whether any counseling or disciplinary action was taken with Mr. Tripolskii over his public statements.”
Sen. Cruz wrote:
Federal law requires USMMA’s SAPR office to “represent the interests of any cadet at the Academy who reports being a victim of sexual harassment, dating violence, domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking, even if such interests are in conflict with the interests of the Academy.” However, as referenced previously, it has recently come to light that the current director of the Academy’s SAPR office, Anton Tripolskii—who was hired in 2022 for the $142,595 salaried position—made a litany of public statements indicating gender and racial bias. Specifically, on June 6, 2020, Mr. Tripolskii tweeted: “We don’t have forces who do right by survivors of intimate partner and sexual violence because we don’t have forces who don’t abuse Brown and Black people. Same forces, same reasons. Misogyny and racism grow from the same white, male root.”
Mr. Tripolskii’s statements are troubling for obvious reasons. They are both bigoted and objectively false. It is empirically inaccurate to claim that the sole source of misogyny and racism are white males, and for cadets who happen to fall into those categories, it is difficult to see how they could believe they would be treated fairly by Mr. Tripolskii.
“In addition to this letter, earlier this year, Sen. Cruz sent a letter to USMMA Superintendent Vice Admiral Joanna Nunan raising concerns about the academy’s decision to cover, and plan to move, the historical painting ‘Christ on the Water,’ which honors mariners lost at sea during World War II,” Cruz’s office adds. (RELATED: Ruins Of Famous Building Missing Since WWII Found)
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Its OUR damn Ed Indoc System
It is harder and harder to almost impossible to understand how our military, and I will include the Merchant Marine academy due to it’s immense contributions during all wars the U.S.has been involved in, how these organizations have become so weak minded and totally unprepared to perform their expected function with the feckless leadership that now prevails. When and why did this begin ?