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by growupkids 4224 days ago
What's your point? That anecdotally you've heard that someone in the military used a term that's offensive, and you then therefore conclude that the military is just as racist now as it was then?

You're wrong. The US military used to be segregated back then, now it's not and actually desegregated before the rest of the country. As proof of a watershed change, the former chairman of the joint chiefs was African American, there are many minority generals and admirals in the US military, the military has a robust EEO program and outright quotas for leadership positions, including for officers. And much more.

It's not helpful to assert nothing's changed based on an anecdote, clearly a lot has changed.

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"Military service" is correlated with "conservative politics" which is correlated with "racism".