Defense Department hid DEI relaunch in K-12 schools, emotionally manipulates students: watchdog
July 26, 2024
As the Democrat-controlled Senate prepares to debate and consider amendments to the fiscal 2025 National Defense Authorization Act, which already passed the GOP-led House with several amendments supported by Anti-Woke Caucus members, a transparency group is shining a light on the curriculum and vendors in the Pentagon’s 70,000-student school system.
The K-12 Department of Defense Education Activity, probed in a January hearing on “progressive ideologies in the U.S. military,” simply reshuffled its “radical” diversity, equity and inclusion programs and staff after reassigning DEI chief Kelisa Wing and deleting its DEI Division page, according to a report by OpenTheBooks.com published Thursday.
Wing’s tweets assailed whites and used racial slurs against them, including “Karen” and “caudacity,” meaning the audacity of Caucasians against nonwhites, prompting GOP lawmakers to demand a DoD investigation.
Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., said DoD waited until three hours before a March 23, 2023, military personnel subcommittee hearing on DEI to tell her Wing’s outcome, which Undersecretary Gilbert Cisneros Jr. said was “part of a headquarters restructuring,” not discipline.