'Have you lost your mind?' Blue-check envisions 'a foreign policy with racial equity at its core'

Remember when NBC News presidential historian Michael Beschloss got all bent out of shape when then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted “America First” from his official government account, perhaps giving away more than he intended by calling it a “partisan slogan”? In a speech given to the G7 countries in February, President Biden made his message clear: The Trump era of “America First” diplomacy is over. These tweets are from early February:

Biden just now: There is no longer a bright line between foreign and domestic policy, and to push back against authoritarianism effectively, the US must make racial equity a "whole of government effort."

— Howard French (@hofrench) February 4, 2021

Here’s Anne-Marie Slaughter of New America:

This is essential. But it's not just that without racial equity at home we cannot be effective abroad; why not start imagining what a foreign policy with racial equity at its core would look like? https://t.co/gqkMXD3hd1

— Anne-Marie Slaughter (@SlaughterAM) February 4, 2021

Have you lost your mind?

— Andrew Sullivan (@sullydish) February 28, 2021

There is actually an interesting and important debate to be had here, but certainly not with this opening.

— Anne-Marie Slaughter (@SlaughterAM) February 28, 2021

I think you have your answer @sullydish

— Matty Imlac (@MattyImlac) February 28, 2021

Alas, another Obama retread and Hillary loyalist who's willing to say anything to land a big job in the Biden administration.

— M. Chapman (@mcvadc) March 1, 2021

Remember like a year ago when I was saying that Wokeness is a national security threat for like ten different big reasons?

— James Lindsay, cultural phenomenon (@ConceptualJames) March 1, 2021

Yeah, but they said Biden was the least woke Dem candidate, so there was nothing to worry about.

— Wesley Mullins (@wesleyamullins) March 1, 2021

In 2005 after Katrina, Condaleeza Rice said the legacy of the civil rights movement was enabling the US to find "its voice as a true champion of democracy beyond our shores." Before that recall the gender equality rationales for Afghanistan. So a return to that type of discourse.

— Nikhil Pal Singh (@nikhil_palsingh) March 1, 2021

I get this. It totally makes sense.

But the US military really is training its officers in "nonviolent communication" — telling them to say "I feel" rather than "I think" — and really is putting Ibram X. Kendi on syllabuses. https://t.co/TZqpb4OEuL

— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) March 1, 2021

Remember last summer when someone posted a slide from the U.S. Army’s “Operation Inclusion,” citing the phrase “Make America Great Again” as an example of “covert white supremacy”?

So there's this weird co-evolution here of branding, messaging, and actual adoption of wokeness in the military and natsec state. What started with Max Boot announcing his white privilege in WaPo is being institutionalized.

— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) March 1, 2021

Correction, Boot confessed to his white privilege in Foreign Policy, not WaPo https://t.co/3IAKcXxcTD

— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) March 1, 2021

Therapeutic sensitivity stuff that took over the corporate world is now embedded in the US military

— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) March 1, 2021

For sure it will all be retrofitted as a pretext for armed intervention. But it's not happening for that reason.

— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) March 1, 2021

People are surprised to learn that the military is teaching nonviolent communication, Ibram X Kendi, micro-aggressions, urging the end of "hyper-masculinity". Seems at odds with their mission.

But not at all odds with being a massive bureaucracy run by the federal government.

— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) March 1, 2021

Donald Trump would have continued his mission to strip this kind of training out of government entities in his second term.

I REALLY want to see the new woke drill sergeants in action

— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) March 1, 2021

We’re so screwed.

— Steve Huchteman (@Shuchteman) March 1, 2021

The CCP already uses a lot of woke language in its English-language press efforts. It's clearly something they see as an Anglophone weakness.

— Rational Policy (@ratlpolicy) March 1, 2021

Patton just did a 360

— Ask Questions (@NkayKay) March 1, 2021

"I feel" is just such bad language usage. I don't care how you feel about a matter. I want to know what you think about it. I guess in the woke world where subjective feelings are primary this makes sense.

— No Name is Safe (@truthtobugmen) March 1, 2021

We’ll annihilate entire villages, murder children, slaughter civilians, but god forbid you use the wrong pronoun.

— Zed Sez (@NissZedX) March 1, 2021

Related:

‘Brace for impact’: Biden makes it clear for G7 leaders that he’s putting an end to Trump’s ‘America first’ agenda https://t.co/HCcMbeROXQ

— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) February 19, 2021