{"id":175696,"date":"2020-12-21T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/12\/21\/a-definition-of-advancement-that-i-was-unfamiliar-with\/"},"modified":"2020-12-21T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T02:00:00","slug":"a-definition-of-advancement-that-i-was-unfamiliar-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/12\/21\/a-definition-of-advancement-that-i-was-unfamiliar-with\/","title":{"rendered":"A Definition of Advancement That I Was Unfamiliar With"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/AHaQFVc.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/AHaQFVc.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a>I have to agree with the cartoonist, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2020\/12\/09\/first-time-woman-will-take-command-of-aircraft-carrier.html\">the fact that a woman is raining down death and destruction upon black and brown people throughout the world<\/a> is not a cause for celebration, a better solution is to stop the bombing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">In a historic first, the Navy has recommended a female officer to command an aircraft carrier. <\/p>\n<p>Capt. Amy Bauernschmidt is one of six officers recommended to command a nuclear-powered carrier in fiscal 2022. Also selected for the job were Capts. Colin Day, David Duff, Brent Gaut, David-Tavis Pollard and Craig Sicola. <\/p>\n<p>Naval <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/air-force\">Air Force<\/a>s did not respond to requests for comment from Bauernschmidt, or questions about when the captains will be assigned to carriers and what having a woman serving in this role will bring to the force. <\/p>\n<p>Bauernschmidt has already broken barriers in her Navy career since leaving the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/base-guide\/us-naval-academy\">Naval Academy<\/a> in 1994. She became the first woman to serve as executive officer on a nuclear warship, the carrier Abraham Lincoln, in 2016.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The definitive word on this is Caitlin Johnstone&#8217;s essay, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.substack.com\/p\/biden-will-have-the-most-diverse\">Biden Will Have The Most Diverse, Intersectional Cabinet Of Mass Murderers Ever Assembled<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is not enough that women or minorities have an equal opportunity to oppress.&nbsp; The oppression should stop.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2020\/12\/links-12-21-2020.html\">Naked Capitalism<\/a>., both for the article and the cartoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to agree with the cartoonist, the fact that a woman is raining down death and destruction upon black and brown people throughout the world is not a cause for celebration, a better solution is to stop the bombing: In a historic first, the Navy has recommended a female officer to command an aircraft &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[387,379,445,504,569],"class_list":["post-175696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-hypocrisy","tag-military","tag-naval","tag-philosophy","tag-sexism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}