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Far-Right Congressman Complains There Aren’t Enough White People Joining the Army (www.vice.com)

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Rep. Paul Gosar blamed the drop in white recruits on the army’s supposed “woke Marxist ideologies.”

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[-] EndOfLine@lemmy.world 81 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Incentives for joining the military target lower income communities.

The military is continually sent into one unpopular conflict after another since at least Vietnam (right around the time the report noticed a drop in white enlistment).

Legislators pass and / or preserve policies that create barriers preventing non-whites from accumulatimg wealth.

Hmmm ... I wonder if there is a connection.

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 11 points 9 months ago

This can be used against him:

Wait, let me get that right - you’re basically saying you want more white people to be poor…? I’m not sure your “base” is going to like that.

[-] Arbiter@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

I doubt his followers are thinking things through that far.

[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

They do not understand the concept of cause and effect.

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