I was very surprised to see this in the Deseret News (“What the Tucker Carlson controversy says about American rhetorical warfare,” March 16). Tucker Carlson’s remarks were sexist, vicious, shallow and even racist.
Some of the new guidelines, for instance, specifically address hairstyle requirements that have been a problem for women of color.
And I was very amused at the first line of the piece: “Last week, the U.S. military did something it has never done in 200-year history: It used official communications to personally attack a private citizen who criticized it.”
That is not a statement I’m prepared to take at face value. Perhaps sending U.S. citizens to internment camps or conducting drone strikes against U.S. citizens without a trial (Anwar al-Awlaki) or conducting secret medical experiments on servicemen weren’t done through “official communications,” but it’s very hard to see Carlson being the first citizen wronged by the U.S. military in the context of the history of that institution.
I acknowledge that our military is not perfect or above criticism. But it is a necessary institution, and I’m grateful for its many profoundly positive contributions through its history also.
I’ve read many of the statements and am satisfied that they weren’t fallacious or political at all. These aren’t “administration” voices. They were not only a deserved rebuke of Carlson, but also a positive celebration of the contribution of women to our military. On the other hand, it is utterly fallacious to suppose that the armed services can’t accommodate the needs of service women except at the expense of readiness.
I was sad to see the military apologize for some of the statements, but I understand and am grateful for their commitment to remain politically neutral.
Alan Grover
North Ogden
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