* Pentagon official Gil Cisneros faced grilling on the controversy in House hearing
* DoD Education Activity diversity boss Kelisa Wing tweeted the remarks last year
* Cisneros says she was transferred for unrelated reasons, but not disciplined
A top Pentagon official has said that a diversity officer who tweeted disparaging remarks about white people will not face workplace discipline following a lengthy internal investigation.
Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Gil Cisneros faced tough grilling on the controversy from Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee at a hearing on Thursday.
Cisneros confirmed that DoDo employee Kelisa Wing will not be fired or otherwise sanctioned for tweets she wrote prior to taking a job as the chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer in the Department of Defense's Education Activity office (DoDEA), which oversees schooling for children of military families.
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WNU Editor: If this Pentagon diversity officer was white and he/she had made disparaging remarks about nonwhites, you can take this to the bank, this person would be fired immediately.
Update:The Pentagon's media allies are pushing back on accusatons that the US Department of Defense is becoming a woke institution .... The Pentagon prepares for its next battle: GOP accusations of ‘wokeness’ (Politico). But as the above video illustrates, they have their work cut out.