Put a nickel in the drum, shame another racist bum.

You may have heard the news that the Salvation Army, heretofore a rock-ribbed Better Business Bureau Accredited Christian-based unit determined to save the bodies and souls of as many people as it could, had fallen prey to regrettable political correctness in its training. Specifically, according to Breitbart:

The Salvation Army has followed the lead of other woke organizations in entering the establishment media-manufactured race war and is asking donors to offer a “sincere apology” for White supremacy and White-dominated culture, as detailed in a resource guide “developed to guide The Salvation Army family in gracious discussions about overcoming the damage racism has inflicted upon our world.”...

The resource guide itself contains “five sessions” to “help delve into the topic of racism and the Church.” Those include entire sections titled “Self-Care for People of Color,” “What is Whiteness?,” “Lamenting and Repenting — a Conversation Guide,” among others. 

Well, how about that. O'Sullivan's First Law says that any organization or enterprise that is not expressly right wing will become left wing over time, and it certainly looks like the Army was falling into that trap, going from an ecumenical arm of good works to naming and shaming white people for all the racism in the world.

Okay.

I have donated to the Army many times, through the kettles, but also through mail donations, and I've known at least one guy who was saved from dying on the street as a bum by the organization. So this seemed bothersome. I sent them a note to say how disappointed I was that they had caved to critical race theory, essentially a firehose of misinformation designed to encourage us not to love but to hate one another. I explained that I would be taking my charitable donations elsewhere. They did reply as such:

Some individuals and groups have recently attempted to mislabel our organization to serve their own agenda(s). They have made claims that we believe our donors should apologize for their skin color, that The Salvation Army believes America is an inherently racist society, and that our organization has abandoned its beliefs for one ideology or another. These are absolutely untrue and they distort the very goal of our work. We encourage you to learn more about our beliefs, and to read our full response to these claims.

But I had read that reply already, and as I responded, it's not a discussion about race when one people are singled out as racist as a postulate, with no recourse but "lamenting and repenting." I told them they had lost their way. I will take my racist money elsewhere. 

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Well, I can't say I get results, but two things happened after that: the Salvation Army withdrew the "Let's Talk About Racism" guide, a.k.a. "Let's Make Toxic Allegations Against White People," and it was later reported that volunteers and contributions have fallen through the floor. Good. If it doesn't hurt, they won't learn. 

CRT and similar programs have no intention of helping us love one another; they are intended to ruin and tribalize our nation. The Army had better get away from its blinkered ideas about "social justice" (the most backward term in the world, as it is neither social nor just) and get its focus back on its mission. They may not recover from this, at least not for a long time, and it would be a true pity if it fell apart this way.

My main concern is that no matter how much the organization suffers for this, it will never learn. It will call the racist training program a tempest in a red kettle, and point to the real reason for the lack of donations and volunteers--the Omicron Variant, the economy, the lack of people Christmas shopping in person, whatever. Or they'll just shrug and say Welp, it's because they're all racist, and we were right, and go down with the ship. C'est la guerre, eh, Army?