DENVER (KDVR) — Following a brand new memo despatched by the U.S. Division of Protection to its companies, numerous posts have disappeared from Colorado organizations’ social media.
Alongside them have appeared a number of posts addressing the social presence purge. All of them say practically the identical factor, studying practically the identical as this Colorado Nationwide Guard publish:
“In alignment with Division of Protection (DoD) Instruction 5400.17 and up to date Govt Orders issued by the President, the Colorado Nationwide Guard is reviewing and adjusting its social media content material to make sure compliance with DoD insurance policies and priorities. Because of this, sure posts have been eliminated or are within the strategy of being eliminated or modified in accordance with federal steering.
The Colorado Nationwide Guard is dedicated to transparency, professionalism, and adherence to presidential orders and DoD directives.”
The Pentagon’s missive despatched on Wednesday directs companies to take away any mentions that “promote range, fairness and inclusion.” The blanket assertion offered on social media acknowledging the elimination of the content material was additionally required to make sure readability for anybody on the social media accounts or web sites.
The deadline to conform is March 5 — subsequent Friday. If the DoD elements are unable to take away all DEI content material by March 5, they’re tasked with prioritizing the posts made between Jan. 20, 2021, and Jan. 19 of this yr.
“Whereas DEI-related content material exterior of this date vary should even be eliminated, articles, pictures, and movies from the final 4 years are the fast precedence to align DoD communication with the present Administration,” the order states.
The order additionally outlines what the Trump Administration considers DEI:
- Info that promotes applications, ideas or supplies about essential race idea, gender ideology, and preferential remedy or quotas primarily based upon intercourse, race or ethnicity
- Different DEI-related issues with respect to promotion and choice reform, advisory boards, councils and dealing teams
- Content material counter to merit-based or color-blind insurance policies, for which the DoD order gave examples of articles specializing in traits like race, ethnicity or intercourse
- Promotion of cultural consciousness months as outlined in a Jan. 31 memorandum “Identification Months Lifeless at DoD.”
That January memorandum, despatched by Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth, declared that DEI divides the drive by placing one group forward of one other, which he stated would “threaten mission execution.”
“Installations, models, and workplaces are inspired to have a good time the valor and success of navy heroes of all races, genders, and backgrounds as we restore our warrior tradition and ethos,” Hegseth wrote. “We’re pleased with our warriors and their historical past, however we’ll give attention to the character of their service as an alternative of their immutable traits.”
