Air Force removing running test requirement from its fitness tests, allowing airmen to choose a walking test instead taskandpurpose.com/news/air-force…
Also replacing "traditional push-ups" with an exercise of "raising their hands up while in push-up ready position..."
"give airmen flexibility to do the test the way they want.."
So, they did away with weight and waist measurements last year, but are in the process of some still to be determined "required body composition measurement."
“It’s also just about appearance in our uniform,” Kelly said. “People count on us to protect them. They have to see us as credible warfighting people.”
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
Non-black, non-white Americans grow up toggling between the perspectives of black and white America that monopolize culture and politics while there own is largely underdeveloped and marginalized, making that very marginalization the actual substance of their own perspective
In the case of both Hispanics and Asian Americans, but especially the latter, there is an entirely astroturfed activist pseudo-discipline that purports to speak on their behalf while remaining encased in amber, still thinking in terms of Maoist third world liberation
The job of these folks is to support efforts to reduce Asians in admissions and support efforts to lie systematically about who is attacking Asians on the street and support efforts to continue "progressive" criminal justice policies that will deny them protection
This way of speaking about the other is the norm outside of WEIRD (Western Educated Industrialized Rich Democractic) countries and those that bear their influence.
It's why those who have experience of those places find WEIRD self-flagellation on race so hard to fathom.
Now the anti-colonial critique would be that "well, now that they became wealthy atop exploitation of the rest of the world, they get to be moral"; similar to "now that they are wealthy through industrial pollution, they get to be environmentalists", which is in a real sense true
And then it comes down to whether the actual source of Western wealth and hegemony is domination and exploitation or the creation and scaling up of non-zero economies and societies.
"Improving the race" by dating white -- this interview with some NYT reporters about colorism points out that the Dominican Republic and its immigrant community in the US is far more explicitly racist than the country to which they emigrated... nytimes.com/2021/06/21/mov…
The reporter also refers to colorism within the black American community, but "improving the race" is far more *explicit*
The ultimate cause of this valuation, is of course, colonial domination by Europeans.
My point is that moving from Latin to Anglo-America means moving to a place where this valuation is much less overt and intense, and likely to be best preserved *within* your immigrant cohort
Resentful narcissists and histrionic personalities are justly marginalized; no organization can function without doing so. In their zeal to help the unjustly marginalized, we empowered the justly marginalized, often at the expense of unjustly marginalized (and everybody else)
Twitter created a layer atop the entire social and professional world solely devoted to empowering the histrionic and vindictive personalities among us
A massive force multiplier for grievance and dysfunction that specifically screens out the deliberation and fair process that serves as a check on such personalities in the real world