, Forbes ; Jackie Robinson’s Pentagon Page Removed—Then Restored—In DEI Purge
"A webpage dedicated to baseball star Jackie Robinson’s military career was removed from the Department of Defense website this week in the Pentagon’s purge of content it deems aligned with diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives—but was later restored after the agency suggested it was a “mistake.”...
The page was “mistakenly” removed in the DEI purge, an unnamed Department of Defense official told ABC News, adding that it and others that had been taken down — including those honoring the Tuskegee Airmen, the Marines at Iwo Jima and Navajo Code Talkers — would be restored.
Pentagon Press Secretary John Ullyot said in a statement to Forbes that errors are corrected “in rare cases that content is removed—either deliberately or by mistake—that is out of the clearly outlined scope of the directive.”
Ullyot defended the Trump administration’s directive to dismantle DEI initiatives at the agency, however, referring to the acronym as “Discriminatory Equity Ideology” which he said “is a form of Woke cultural Marxism that Divides the force, Erodes unit cohesion and Interferes with services’ core warfighting mission.”"
