We Already written About the Minister of Defense of Pete Hegset too expensive ranting on the country's military spirit. But one detail slipped past most of the observers – racism, standing behind his new ban on shaving profiles.
The shaving profile is a refusal that allows a participant missing the rules of pure shaving and grows a beard. The Ministry of Defense recently announced the end of constant abnormalities of the beardAllowing only a year to exclude.
But on Tuesday, Hegset clarified his feelingsThe field “There is no more beard anymore,” he said. “The era of unbridled and ridiculous shaving profiles is finished.”
There are only two reasons for this: religious release or medical necessity. Several religions require beard, including Islam, both Sikhism, and many Orthodox Jews also wear beards from traditions and biblical interpretations on how to cut them.
This makes it obvious that here is the hegset and the magician of the Rada of the Anti-Muslim fanaticism for allegedly religious policies. Less obvious is the destructive influence of politics on black military personnel.
Medical release for Pseudopolricolite beardOr PFB, a painful condition in which curly hair turns into the skin, causing pimples and scars from acne. This is disproportionately affects blacks. 2013 study They found that between 45–80% of black people they suffer from PFB.
Even at the lower end, half of black men in the form can no longer serve without a constant scar. Latino Americans are also more prone to this state.
White men? Only 3% Touched.
The harm goes beyond the pain. Shaving profiles are already punishing a career. According to study In military medicine, 63% of black men on shaving profiles in the Air Force reported that this would damage their career. The respondents described that they were refused a career, such as honorary punishers, the Air Force group, a set of obligations and an instructor for the head of the pilot, all of them pipelines for promotion.
Meanwhile, no other large military power has such a ban. Military Israel Allows beardsThe most armies of NATO Allow the beardsThe field is hard fighters of history – Vikings –Shook them proudly. Damn, even “Game of Thrones” understood The strength of the beardField
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If you need terrible military, let the beards grow. Even the vice -president of JD Vance Sport alone And he thinks that it makes him look tight.
Nevertheless, under the order of Hegset, anyone who refuses to shave will be He knocked out of the military During the year. WITH 17% of our armed forces black– About 346,000 military personnel (although, of course, some of them are women) – this order can cost the American military tens of thousands of experienced, loyal, patriotic soldiers. This would cause damage to readiness, discarding diversity.
But this is the point. This administration is in the war with negligent America, and it is ready to weaken the military themselves to make it whiter
