Naval Academy Library Ordered To Ax Diversity Books

The New York Times reports:

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office has ordered the Naval Academy to identify books related to so-called diversity, equity and inclusion themes that are housed in the school’s Nimitz Library, and to remove them from circulation.

This week, according to a defense official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss policy decisions, Mr. Hegseth’s office became aware that the nation’s military service academies did not believe that President Trump’s Jan. 29 executive order to end “radical indoctrination” in kindergarten through 12th-grade classrooms applied to them, as they are colleges.

The defense secretary’s office informed the Naval Academy that Mr. Hegseth’s intent was for the order to apply to the academies, and that the secretary expected compliance. The academy’s library in Annapolis, Md., houses roughly 590,000 print books, 322 databases, and more than 5,000 print journals and magazines, Cmdr. Tim Hawkins, a Navy spokesman said.

Read the full article. If things go as they have elsewhere, trashed books will include biographies of noted Black, Latino, and Asian soldiers, Black Civil War regiments, and anything else that isn’t about white servicemembers.

Naval Academy Takes Steps to End Diversity Policies in Books and Admissions
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