Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to strike the name of pioneering gay rights activist Harvey Milk from one of its ships, orchestrating the change as Pride month celebrations take place, according to sources.
A defense official said the timing of the decision was intentional. The order was first reported by Military.com and confirmed by ABC News.
Milk was one of the first openly gay men elected to public office in the United States after winning a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977. He was assassinated a year later.
From the NYT story elsewhere, emphasis mine:
Mr. Milk is one of several trailblazers whose name has been identified for possible removal from naval vessels. According to a senior official familiar with a memo from John Phelan, the secretary of the Navy, they include Thurgood Marshall, the first Black Supreme Court justice; Ruth Bader Ginsburg, another Supreme Court justice, who became a feminist icon; Harriet Tubman, who, after being born into slavery, became an abolitionist instrumental in the Underground Railroad; Lucy Stone, a prominent abolitionist and suffragist; Medgar Evers, a civil-rights leader who was assassinated by a member of the Ku Klux Klan; Cesar Chavez, a labor leader; and Dolores Huerta, another labor leader.
When all of the light brown people are rounded up by ICE and they come to deport the dark brown skinned people, what are you going to do? Nothing it seems.
They’re also renaming ships that are named after other civil rights leaders. Like SS Harriet Tubman and Thurgood Marshall.
they are so afraid that dicks are delicious.
They are though 😉
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The guy who shot Milk was also a veteran. USS Dan White incoming.
I bet these ass burps would be partial to a USS Eddie Gallagher.
Did Pete take the vodka bottle away from his cock holster for long enough to say something else completely fucking stupid?
They should rename it to mega milk
ffs whoever wrote that headline needs to get a new job. It sounds like: Hegseth renames the ship to honor a gay right activist Harvey Milk.
They thrive on our hate.
He’s going to rename them all like, “Cruisinator” and “Gunshipinator” like any misunderstood evil genius.
If I were a dead US civil rights leader and the military named a ship after me, I’d be rolling in my gave over the perversion & debasement of what I’d stood for.
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