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fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

Military to remove 'Enola Gay' photos for violating DEI rules

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Military to remove 'Enola Gay' photos for violating DEI rules

www.newsweek.com

fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago
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A photo of Army biologists was on a list of images to be purged, seemingly because it mentioned they were recording data about fish that included their gender.
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  • jaybone@lemmy.world
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    Why can’t they just rename it Enola Straight?

    Though Enola sounds pretty ethnic.

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    jesus christ they’re dumb

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      They know exactly what they’re doing, it’s a “purification,” not entirely dissimilar to the same that happened in the 1930s in Germany.

      • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
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        Oh, no, they’re dumb as a bag of bricks. Dumbest Nazis of all time. AI just makes them dumber.

        • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
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          Nononono! They’re super-smart! Even when everything they do looks exactly what an incredibly stupid person would do that’s just because they’re playing 1000D chess! They’ve thought of everything so we should all just give up and accept their rule.

      • alterforlett @lemmy.world
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        I think most people realise. It’s still really fucking dumb

      • Valmond@lemmy.world
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        Does everyone big country have to go through that phase?

        • ArxCyberwolf@lemmy.ca
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          Removed by mod

    • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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      not at all. trying to eliminate gay people from history, and also a nice convenient moment to sweep some war crimes under the rug

      • traches@sh.itjust.works
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        People like this don’t think it was wrong

        • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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          they’re not who they’re manufacturing consent from. it’s the ~55% of people who apparently listen to nothing but spotify and watch nothing but entertainment

  • kersploosh@sh.itjust.works
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    I was really hoping this was a case of intentional malicious compliance to draw attention to the stupidity of this new policy. No such luck.

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    Also apparently any photo of any Black or woman service member.

    Because they didn’t consider the possibility that women and Black service members did noteworthy things based on their actual merit.

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      Including a Hispanic Marine who received a Medal of Honor for jumping on a grenade to save his comrades. Medal given in 1946, the infamous period of DEI…

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      “Images of historically significant military achievements or personnel, such as the Tuskegee Airmen and the first female Marine Corps infantry graduates, have been flagged for removal.”

      Wow. That’s pretty blatant.

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        Removed by mod

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    This is just the right kind of absurd for our current government circus. I believe the headline completely without even reading the article.

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    What are you doing this weekend, Trump? Something gay, no doubt?

    • HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.one
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      Making the gay pay tarrifs.

    • Lemminary@lemmy.world
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      Sucking on more toes.

  • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.world
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    Have a yabba dabba do time, a dabba do time…

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    find /mnt/gubarmentfiles/ -name “*gay*” -exec rm {} \;

    – some dogenerate, propably.

    • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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      I don’t believe that they’re even that capable. Probably really on LLMs to write every script for them and don’t know whether or not it actually works.

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    I wonder if this is an example of malicious compliance.

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    They won’t, they will be reviewed by a human being at some point and reinstated, they’ve been flagged by an automated program.

    It’s the Scunthorpe problem all over again.

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      That automated program flagged at least tens of thousands of historical photos, most of which aren’t as silly as ‘haha plane gay’ but of actual people (some of whom are still very much alive) in a blatant attempt to literally whitewash American history. Like, they’ve flagged the photos of literal Medal of Honor recipients because their skin tone is darker than eggshell, this is objectively horrifying. The loss of even one of those files is completely disrespectful on a number of levels

    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
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      Yeah, I’m sure everything is going to turn out A- ok with this whole thing. 👍👍

      • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
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        Oh, it most definitely won’t. Just not for the reason everyone is saying.

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    So censorship 🤣

  • Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Jesus, they’re going through and “purifying” all the different government archives. This is gonna do irreparable harm to our knowledge of history. Utterly vile

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    This is just a book burning.

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    If they do this then they should at least be consistent and remove every mention of the words Straight, Bi, Pan and Trans as well

    Taking your Biplane for a transatlantic flight, straight to the Panama canal? That’s a paddlin

    • T00l_shed@lemmy.world
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      I wonder how the fascies will say: “I need a new frying pan”

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      Via the Gulf of Mexico.

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      Removed by mod

      • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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        Tran-sport in general is banned. So is all Bi-ology.

    • neons@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Transatlantic towards Panama?

      We Europeans didn’t ban those words.

      Transcontinental would work though

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    This is hilarious.

    • Maggoty@lemmy.world
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      It’s infuriating

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        I mean, That too.

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