Black Medal of Honor recipient removed from US Department of Defense website

www.theguardian.com Black Medal of Honor recipient removed from US Department of Defense website

Page honoring Charles C Rogers for his Vietnam war service is now defunct with letters ‘DEI’ added to website address

Summary

The U.S. Department of Defense removed the webpage honoring Maj. Gen. Charles C. Rogers, a Black Vietnam War hero awarded the Medal of Honor in 1970.

The page now returns a “404” error, and its URL was changed to include “DEI.” Rogers, the highest-ranking African American to receive the medal, was awarded by President Nixon in 1970 for heroism during the Vietnam War.

The deletion follows Trump’s efforts to roll back DEI initiatives in the federal government, including an executive order terminating diversity programs.

The Defense Department has not commented on the removal.

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I hate that saying "they are fascists" is not at all in the slightest hyperbole :(
WTF is this timeline?

"The URL was also changed, with the word “medal” changed to “deimedal”." JFC. This is just the most blatant fucking racism. I don't think I'm legally allowed to say what I want to see done to everyone involved with this, but it ain't pretty.
- https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/Article/2824721/deimedal-of-honor-monday-army-maj-gen-charles-calvin-rogers/
  Yep.
  
  And in case something changes.
  http://web.archive.org/web/20250317032651/https://search.usa.gov/search?query=Gen+Charles+Calvin+Rogers&affiliate=defensegov&utf8=%26%23x2713%3B
  http://web.archive.org/web/20250316221553/https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/Article/2824721/deimedal-of-honor-monday-army-maj-gen-charles-calvin-rogers/
  
  Just to make it clear, clicking the below link will redirect you to the deimedal url.
  https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/Article/2824721/medal-of-honor-monday-army-maj-gen-charles-calvin-rogers/
- What I will say about them publicly is that if we are afforded another shot at democracy after all this, they and their fellow travelers cannot be permitted to have a voice in the political process. Just about any system of government can work if everybody involved is commited to making it work, but if 1/3+ of voters hold pluralistic, representative democracy in active disdain there is no system that can protect itself against those people engaging with the system in bad faith. This was the fundamental failing of reconstruction, and it's shaping up to be the undoing of freedom in the US now.
  I'm increasingly coming to the conclusion that just letting the "marketplace of ideas" play out is tantamount to throwing the gates open to any demagogue with a big enough megaphone. Participation in the political process must be restricted to good-faith actors in some fashion, be that at the "supply side" of media and content creation or at the voting booth. Anything else is akin to a basketball team kicking, biting, and throwing punches on the court and the referees shrugging and insisting they have to be allowed to play anyway.
  
  the thing is, the 'marketplace of ideas' was very strictly controlled. when was the last time you heard a communist or socialist talk on a major platform? do you even know what anarchism IS?
  there was no 'fair marketplace of ideas' there was liberals and fascists jacking each other off, murdering everyone else, and telling you they're all that can exist.
- It's always been blatant racism. American media and the Democrats just let them get away with it for some reason? We all know what "woke" means, just like we all knew what "religious rights" meant. All it takes is challenging them on it each and every single time it slips out of their mouth. But for some reason they all just hop along, quite happy to be hobknobbing with racists and homophobes and the like, as if all it takes is just a wee little code word for it to be okay.
  This world is fucked.

By this logic we should remove Clarence Thomas from his seat by executive order and call his tenure deijustice.
- He's one of the "good ones"

His Wikipedia page which details the events that led to his being awarded the Medal of Honor.
I hope this absolutely enrages every military member, but especially every non-white military member. This is a slap in the face.
- Dude was fucking battlefield monster. https://www.cmohs.org/recipients/charles-c-rogers
  
  He was blown to the ground by an artillery shell, popped back up, rallied his men to repell an onslot, then got wounded again, ignored that shit, killed seven men attacking his position, then directed artillery to blow apart a enemy troops position. All while seriously wounded and definitely concussed.
  Abolute beast and hero. He saved many lives that day.
- I'm ashamed for having served this country. It feels like I helped these fuckers do this by putting in the uniform.
  My brothers and sisters in uniform, the actual people, deserve better than this. We're watching our family of millions get destroyed with the only hope of salvation being literal mutiny. Slap in the face doesn't even begin to describe the pain these fuckers have caused.

General Bone Spurs has decided to erase the accomplishments of every non white military figure. Tell me what possible reason there is for this aside from racism. Any reason. Make up the most ridiculous bullshit you can imagine. You can't do it. You can't justify this.
Trump is a racist. MAGA is racist.
- America is racist.
  Not every American, obviously.
  But as a nation, institutionally, America is racist.
  Some times it's more so than others, but it always is, to varying degrees throughout its history.
  
  That's DEI! No, wait, that's critical race theory! No, wait, that's fake news! OK, now I got it...
- That's what I've been wondering. These heinous acts are supposed to have good faith excuses, aren't they? Some way to try and pretend it isn't racist? "The people being deported are dangerous criminsls" (I don't believe that, but that's the excuse). What is the non-racist justification for erasing the accomplishments of black people?
  
  They are at the very least implying the medals were improperly awarded.
- Perhaps like the gays they are too precious and we shouldn't encourage them to fight?

Rogers, the highest-ranking African American to receive the medal, was awarded by President Nixon in 1970 for heroism during the Vietnam War.
When NIXON is less reflexively racist than you, you KNOW you're fucked up!
Reminder for those who might be unaware or forgot:
Nixon started the War On Drugs specifically to hurt the two groups of people he hated more than anyone else in the world: black people and hippies.
- That's not a conspiracy too. One of the main people involved straight up said that it was so they could put black people and hippies in prison since being black or a hippy wasn't a felony.

History is too "woke" and full of "forced diversity"

Friendly reminder that Trump described military personnel who got captured or killed in action as "suckers" and "losers". He and his lackeys have zero respect for military honor, bravery, and sacrifice.
- he specifically said i dont like captured or dead people.
- respect for military honor, bravery, and sacrifice
  All these things are barely applicable to the USA in Vietnam war.

So, vets and active military who voted for trump.. how ya feeling about this?
- To be blunt, a lot of those voters are not paying attention to the news or they are in the MAGA disinformation bubble. If the latter group hears about this story at all, they’re going to be fed lies and they’re going to feel fine about this.
  
  Business as usual.
  …Don’t wanna stoke envy Among the Proletariat…
  Tucker Carlson
- Why would they care?
  
  Hm good point. I guess to them this would be a case of "hurting the right people".
- If i had to take a shot in the dark
  "Fake news" is what i would assume

Nothing says you're a coward louder than trying to erase a hero.

The URL was also changed, with the word “medal” changed to “deimedal”.
What. The. Fuck.
- But they're not racist! No no no! /s

If you were raised right, this is one of the things you'd know is wrong to do. Absolutely shameful.
All minorities should quit the military service right now in protest.
- Please keep your non-MAGA soldiers in service.
  Signed, a Canadian.
- ~~All minorities~~ everyone who doesn't want to be part of a racist fascist regime should quit their military service right now in protest. It should be obvious at this point that Comrade Krasnov doesn't give a fuck about military service members, veterans, etc. Especially minority veterans, that just makes it worse. And that follows a long line of the republicans who have consistently voted against VA benefits and yell about supporting our troops while they are comfortable having them succumb to treatable injury or commit suicide once they leave the military. They're only valuable when they’re making billionaires more wealthy or killing enemies of the state.

This is a deeper problem than race. Being willing to erase the record of a Medal of Honor recipient so haphazardly in an attempt to be racist shows how little the DoD is paying attention to details versus letting Dark MAGA/DOGE take over the country and potentially alter history in the process.