Thursday, February 28, 2019

White supremacists in uniform

The New York Times today has this story by Dave Philipps on the history of white supremacism in the U.S. armed forces, sparked by the recent arrest of a Coast Guard Headquarters lieutenant. The article notes: "Though critics say the military is not doing enough to root out extremism, it does much more now than it once did. Significant change came in the 1980s, when the military began to see right-wing extremists as a national security issue and began to impose new restrictions, usually in reaction to egregious episodes."

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