• calliope@retrolemmy.com
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    23 days ago

    Sadly, for the most part military members have been fine with this for decades.

    The Vietnam War was the first desegregated war the U.S. military took part in; racial violence and membership in racist organizations spiked afterwards.

    The war in Afghanistan also caused membership in racist organizations to spike.

    These are the major premises of two academic books: Bring the War Home by Kathleen Belew and God, Guns, and Sedition by Bruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware.