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Should White Privilege Cards be sold on Military Installations?
by bison
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Thursday, June 12, 2025 at 5:25:13p EDT

Selling ‘White Privilege Cards’ on-base:

[This is the language on the back. I had to do a screenshot of a picture someone sent me and transcribe it because I couldn't post the picture.

WP
This card grants its bearer happiness and
success because it's the color of your skin
and not the choices you make that
determine your abilities to be successful.
WP]

The article continues below.

Undermining Military Neutrality, Cohesion, and Core Values

Yesterday felt like another gut-punch to American ideals. At Fort Bragg, President Trump turned what should have been a nonpartisan address to the troops into a full-blown campaign rally, lacing it with digs at Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and California Governor Gavin Newsom while branding immigration an “invasion.” Soldiers in uniform cheered the most incendiary lines, a scene that blurred the line between civilian politics and the apolitical military tradition the nation counts on.

Then the news got uglier. Reporters on the base discovered pop-up tables hawking MAGA gear—among the flags and hats, a plastic wallet insert reading “White Privilege Card: Trump.” The card’s success and happiness flow automatically to its bearer by white skin supposedly “linked” to Trump. Letting that kind of merchandise onto a military installation is more than tone-deaf; it’s dangerous.

Why does the White Privilege Card have no place on a U.S. base?

1. It violates military neutrality.
DoD rules prohibit partisan, inflammatory sales on the post; the display alone undermines the Army’s hard-won image of political impartiality.
2. It insults the ranks.
For service members of color—or anyone who’s worn the flag to help dismantle racism—this “gag” feels like a slap. It glorifies privilege, stokes division, and poisons unit cohesion.

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