Trump admin slammed as ‘stupidest’ ever after linking WWII plane ‘Enola Gay’ to DEI
Summary
The Trump administration is facing backlash after reports that the Defense Department flagged over 26,000 images for deletion due to alleged connections to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
Among them are photos of trailblazing pilots, including the Tuskegee Airmen and Col. Jeannie Leavitt.
Most controversially, an image of the WWII aircraft Enola Gay was flagged, seemingly because its name includes the word "gay."
The revelation has sparked mockery online, with critics calling this "the STUPIDEST administration in American history."
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-admin-slammed-as-stupidest-ever-after-linking-wwii-jet-enola-gay-to-dei_n_67cb1032e4b05512c9048b11Open linkView original on lemmy.world905
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“MOST controversially”???
They’re deleting the Tuskegee Airmen! An all-black Army fighter and bomber group!
They are literally calling them “DEI” when they’re from a time where they couldn’t share water fountains with white people.
That Big Ball’s regex he pulled from a Twitch extension tutorial on setting up automod highlighting found the word “Gay” an no one reviewed the context is certainly one of the dumbest things, but cmon it’s hardly the fucking worst shit they’re doing.
They are literally deleting our history in front of us. Fuck these guys, may they be tried, convicted, and sentenced to death!
Down the memory hole it goes.
Orwell, 1984
Sounds like the perfect job for AI
Who's going to convict them? The DOJ?
I think we just need Player 2.
They're deleting Medal of Honor recipients. Famously DEI position that...
It shows how their laziness and incompetence is going to destroy everything.
At this rate, the Onion will struggle to compete.
The Onion making up more plausible and more believable articles to show people that the world don’t have to be this insane?
The Onion should start coming up with headlines like "Trump has quiet evening at home with Melania". That'd be pretty unbelievable.
Melania Seen Smiling and Hugging Husband
Trump goes to Kiev to give Zielinski his deck of cards. Also no suits party
That would be far too much fiction. The Onion makes people wonder if it is true or not.
I heard someone say that next they’ll ban Transatlantic flights
Good thing nobody really uses transistor radios any more.
Good idea! Trump is all in for isolation, and given the track record of the last 6+ weeks ..... so please do ban transatlantic travel for the USA. As off today is just fine.
All public transport is in danger of getting shut down I reckon..
Make Americans Walk to Work (Again?)
We won't have to walk to work. We'll live in little huts on the plantation where we work off our debts.
The Enola Gay hangs in the Udvar Hazy branch of the Smithsonian, and seeing it in person is the only time I've ever been overwhelmed by an artifact. I was grateful that there was a bench right there to sit on, and it occurred to me that probably wasn't a random placement.
I adore going to the Air and Space museum. I'm usually overwhelmed with wonder by all the space craft because seeing a thing makes it all real and tangible but seeing the Enola Gay was a different kind of overwhelming. Seeing it drives home a true sense of horror for what happened that day and what has been unleashed on the world. But that museum contains more than just artifacts; it contains our cumulative memories and experiences as a country. My last visit was almost two decades ago but I had the most moving experience I'll probably ever have there. At one point during our tour my husband and I were walking through an exhibit of planes used in the Asia-Pacific theater. We were in this tight little offshoot where there was a single plane in the center of the room and placards along the walls. It was really crowded and noisy but I wanted to read all the placards. As I was reading with my back turned the room almost suddenly got real quiet and thinned out real quick. My husband nudged me to get my attention and as I turned around there was an old man in a wheelchair right in front of the plane. He must have been a veteran because he had his service ball-cap on. Everyone was instinctively giving this man room and a moment of silence as he openly wept while staring at the plane. My husband and I stood there a few moments longer before quietly nodding at his family members in recognition and respect before we too left the room. I'll never be able to imagine what was going through that man's mind or what he was re-living in that moment but I've been thinking about that experience a lot since last November. I felt respect, empathy, and even a bit of patriotism at the time but lately all I feel is shame that this country has gleefully spit in the face of our veterans and their service today.
Ctrl F, "Gay". How the admin makes a naughty list
This is 100% what actually happened. Plus no oversight of course.
Yeah probably some pimple-faced DOGE kid who never learned about the Enola Gay because their school systems were underfunded and they're too young to remember OMD.
Ok, well, it’s stuck in my head now, so https://youtu.be/d5XJ2GiR6Bo
The kids are just the easy targets but don't let that fool you, there are several people in their 40s and at least one guy in his 60s.
Back in the mid 90’s I worked on developing an internet search engine long before Google existed. One of the tasks I worked on was a porn filter. Our first attempt failed miserably when we tried filtering on XXX and suddenly everything from Super Bowl 30 to all manner of other content with Roman numerals got flagged…
This reminds me of just how clueless we were way back then…
It’s a bit worse now because we have “AI” that parses through things, makes crazy different kinds of mistakes and people in power have more faith in its accuracy than they do in the humans whose lives they alter because of it.
Unrelated, but I have always hated how they use roman numerals for Super Bowls. I can convert roman numerals to arabic but I never feel like actually doing so, so whenever I read something about a particular game I never really know which one they're talking about. Even if they used arabic, it still wouldn't be as useful as just knowing what year it was.
Amazing, I'm sure you've got many an interesting story to tell being in the field for that long.
Elon's crotch gremlin tech kiddies probably think the twin towers were a ride at six flags...
Nah, it's the second best book and third best movie in the LOTR trilogy
The Lord of the Rings films are already ranked the same as their position in the trilogy. Fite me.
Fixed it for you
No thanks.
New use of crotch gremlins unlocked!
Most of these people no longer understand the difference between facts and opinions.
From the standpoint where they're equal, it should be possible to rewrite history to fit the opinion. But of course, reality doesn't work that way.
Case in point: Jim Jordan, Thomas Massie, Michael Shellenberger, et. al: https://tdefender.substack.com/p/alamo-moment-congress-holds-hearing-government-censorship
Fellas, is instantly vaporizing 60,000 people gay?
Only if you don't say "no homo" first.
Maj. Kong: I'm about to horse around with the gayist shit hits bomb release again.
Whole lot of damage can be done by stupid people, especially if they are young and given a permission structure to break shit. For reference, see the Nazi Youth, the Red Guards, etc....
Not sure who is actually heading this up, but I would not be surprised if it was handed off to some eager beaver teenagers because a whole lot of idiots think that kids understand tech better than others (which is of course just very stupid in itself, but I suspect it's an Inception of idiocy with this bunch, so if they adopted that counterfactual view, too, it would not be surprising).
Stupid people cause more evil than evil people
https://youtu.be/53ZaXpIn2fg?si=UIzgJmW8kIbpv858
Same link without the tracker ;)
Yeah it’s really disturbing how many people seem to be ignoring or not aware of that part
The Enola Gay crew members are rolling in their graves. Krasnov and his crew of thugs are bunch of fucking morons.
trump also railed about millions of dollars of research money being spent on making mice transgender, because he (and his minions) don't understand what "transgenic mice" are.
My 12 year old overheard me making fun of "trump has no clue what transgenic means cause he barely has a 3rd grade education" and my son said asked why the ninja turtles would be bad. And you know what, he's essentially correct.
A 12 year old has a better concept of what transgenic means than the President Dumbfuck Shitstain.
There really needs to be some sort of general intelligence, emotional intelligence and common sense testing before someone can become a presidential candidate.
I know I'm late to stopping the damage that's already occurred, but I have plenty of hard disk space on my server. Anybody know where I can download a backup of these sites so we have another copy in the world? Even better, if I could mirror a backup from before the Fourth Reich moved in.
"SLAMMED" I say! "SLAMMED!"
What is this open mic night? FFS.
Not to argue with the article headline, but the stupidest line was crossed long ago. The administration is just padding their stupidity score at this point.
Yeah, cause these folks literally hit control + f and typed in gay. Everything that had the word gay was deleted.
So, how many in the government are called Gaylord? Will they be detained and forced to give up their name? Mandatory change to Petey?
I guess there's also a Gaylord street and monument here and there?
Nothing says DEI like killing a hundred thousand nonwhite foreign people to force their government to change their religion to better align with the preferences of rich and powerful white Americans..
Ctrl + F - "Gay"
I dislike DEI as well, but this ain't it chief.
I'd love to hear a coherent reason backed by facts and evidence about why DEI is bad?
Whenever someone tells me they don't like DEI and I ask why, it's always some unhinged spiel about women and immigrants taking their jobs.
I absolutely think this new DEI hobbyhorse is just for the Magats to get to be racist pieces of shit but if I had to construct a coherent point against the concept of DEI hiring it might go:
But I don't think it's as black and white as that.
I just don't buy it. I've worked at plenty of companies and I never saw it work that way. Sure, I've seen "we have to interview more candidates" or "we need to write our job applications to be more inclusive", but I never saw "we need to hire the lessor candidate because they're x".
In my experience when someone is whining that they lost a possible job to a "DEI hire", they're usually just butthurt that someone was better than them.
Absolutely agree with you. I've been all over tech and engineering industry, in the arts too.
I now work in a publicly funded university and it's not happening here. If not here where the hell is it?
We are encouraged to not dismiss people based on race, sex etc by our diversity training but anyone with half a brain doesn't need that and the others would ignore it as 'woke' or some other cop out.
Der terk err jerbs!!
To be honest, I've had this discussion countless times at this point and I'm just tired of discussing it, especially with americans. It's a fruitless endeavor.