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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.

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[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 51 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 10 points 1 day ago

People living in and looking at the USA: Archive Everything

There will be a lot of work to restore normalcy.

[–] Kurious84@lemmings.world 30 points 2 days ago

This is real? Wow. The regime of hate. We supposed to cheer that we hate gay people now?

It's petty and cruel. Just like every clown like hegsdeaf. that is part of this regime.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago

They’re also renaming ships that are named after other civil rights leaders. Like SS Harriet Tubman and Thurgood Marshall.

https://www.rawstory.com/dei-2672256680/

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 19 points 1 day ago

Is the dead gay guy scaring you Pete ? Damn what a fragile little thing that masculinity of yours must be.

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm a Log Cabin Republican and I FULLY SUPPORT THIS! Just like I FULLY SUPPORT ELIMINATING Gay People from Serving and My MARRIAGE! I'm NOT In a Cult!

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

This is my uncle unironically. Completely obvious to the stupidity.

[–] letsgo2themall@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

they are so afraid that dicks are delicious.

[–] Horsey@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

They are though 😉

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

That sounds like good news. I'm confused.

Edit: the ship is already named after Milk. Hegseth wants to give it a different name

Article title makes it sound like he wanted to rename a ship to Milk to celebrate the activist. Apparently that already happened in 2016 (cool!) and he wants to get rid of the name (boo!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USNS_Harvey_Milk

[–] capt_wolf@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's Hegseth, so I just assumed it was the bad take...

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Did Pete take the vodka bottle away from his cock holster for long enough to say something else completely fucking stupid?

[–] dinren@discuss.online 3 points 2 days ago

Just in time for pride month

[–] Zugyuk@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

They should rename it to mega milk

[–] mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 2 points 1 day ago

Was my first thought, and thought that shitstain finally did something I don't disagree with. But nope, he's still just a piece of shit.

[–] mrwrinkles@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

He's going to rename them all like, "Cruisinator" and "Gunshipinator" like any misunderstood evil genius.

[–] kuato@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org -1 points 1 day ago

orchestrating the change as Pride month celebrations take place

Social influencers: how to get maximum attention on your posts.

But that's not how you run a country.

And let's not forget: it's Mango Mussolini and the grey eminences behind him who put all these idiots in power.

Is the implosion of the USA already happening, or will it go out with a bang?