West Point: Turning Out Highly Trained Killing Machines

[Bill]

https://www.westpoint.edu/academics/academic-departments/behavioral-sciences-and-leadership/diversity-and-inclusion-studies

Class of ’20 Inaugural Diversity & Inclusion Studies Minors

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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Strategies

Diversity & Inclusion Plan (2020-2025)
USCC Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity Strategy (2020) [release o/a 11 JUL 2020]
Dean's Diversity Strategy (AY 2017)
Diversity & Inclusion Studies Minor (Request Curriculum Committee)
Diversity, Inclusion, Equity at USMA
Diversity & Inclusion Studies Minor

Diversity and Inclusion Studies (DISM) is an interdisciplinary minor administered by the Department of Behavioral Sciences & Leadership that consists of humanities and social science courses. America is a multicultural polity and demands knowledgeable and pragmatic thinkers who understand the range of human experiences. The Diversity and Inclusion Studies Minor (DISM) exposes cadets to varied perspectives & methodologies for understanding and studying the humanities. By carefully drawing from existing courses in multiple departments, the DISM complements and enhances the core curriculum, academic majors, and several West Point Centers and committees. The DISM helps fulfill the Superintendent’s and Dean’s vision for diversity and inclusion at West Point. Moreover, the DISM at West Point offers cadets a framework for critically and creatively thinking about the broader impact of diversity and inclusion at the individual, organizational, societal, and/or global levels. It also provides our cadets opportunities to pursue diversity and inclusion in intra-, multi- and inter-disciplinary ways.

5-Course Minor

Must take 2 of 3
PL377: Social Inequality
EN352: Power and Difference
SS392: The Politics of Race, Gender, and Sexuality

Must Take 1 of 4
HI391: World Religions
HI461: Sex and Civilizations
HI463: Race, Ethnicity, Nation
HI398: Society & Culture in American History

2 of 42 Free Electives from DISM-designated courses in Sociology, History, English, Philosophy, Psychology, Geography, Law, Foreign Languages, and Social Sciences. Courses may be double counted between the minor and any other curricular component, so long as three (3) courses remain unique to the minor. Cadets participating in semesters abroad, internships, Academic Individual Advanced Development programs (AIADs), and Special Topics courses may receive credit to-ward the DISM. Photo (below): Cadets and faculty on the Department of Law’s Civil Rights Staff Ride, a two-week journey throughout the American South to understand diversity and immerse cadets in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.

I wonder if General Milley will teach a course in White rage at Westpoint, once he retires?

[DAB]

join the Army, go to far away and interesting places, meet unusual people, and kill them.

since officers only carry out orders from above, and pass them along to those under them, how much critical thinking is going on presently. old men argue, young men fight.

[Bill]

join the Army, go to far away and interesting places, meet unusual people, and kill them.

since officers only carry out orders from above, and pass them along to those under them, how much critical thinking is going on presently. old men argue, young men fight.

And after all we're only ordinary men.
Me and you.
God only knows it's not what we would choose to do.
'Forward' he cried from the rear
And the front rank died.
And the general sat and the lines on the map
Moved from side to side.
Black and blue
And who knows which is which and who is who.
Up and down.
But in the end it's only round and round.
Haven't you heard it's a battle of words
The poster bearer cried.
Listen son, said the man with the gun
There's room for you inside.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_It2WPW4O3s