In a fundraising email titled “dismantling woke Marxist ideologies," right-wing GOP congressman Paul Gosar responded to a recent report showing that the number of white recruits in the military has dropped significantly, Vice News reported.
“The number of white recruits has plummeted,” Gosar wrote. “[It’s] a casualty of this cultural skirmish that has left our Army beleaguered and besieged by ‘woke’ ideologies.”
“This is not merely a crisis of numbers,” Gosar added. “It is a crisis of spirit.”
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A recent investigation by Military.com found that there was a total of 44,042 new white Army recruits in 2018, but that number dropped consistently each year to a low of 25,070 in 2023.
In contrast, some white nationalists and neo-Nazis online celebrated Military.com’s findings, according to Vice's report.
“Reject the anti-white American Empire,” white nationalist publication VDARE declared in response to the report. Encourage your sons to stay far, far away from service to a nation that hates you… And guess what: It’s happening.”
“Young white men don’t want to fight for a regime that despises them,” far-right conspiracy theorist Paul Joseph Watson wrote on Telegram. “Who could have possibly anticipated this?”
Read more at Vice News.
