Military to Remove 'Enola Gay' Photos for Violating DEI Rules

[liberal N proud]

Images of "Enola Gay," the aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in Japan are among those targeted by the U.S. military in an initiative to eliminate content related to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).

They are among a number of photos unrelated to DEI that have been mistakenly flagged, including those from an Army Corps of Engineers dredging project in California, seemingly because an engineer in the image had the last name "Gay."

https://www.newsweek.com/military-remove-enola-gay-photos-dei-rules-2041029


Just how stupid is this regime?

[sop]

1. Stupefyingly stupid.

[Prairie Gates]

2. AI is the future! These technologies are very good! Let them do your healthcare!

[boonecreek]

3. Just heard that on Stephanie Miller.

Somehow I was able to avoid face-palming myself into oblivion.
OK, so I did it virtually.

[Mr. Evil]

23. I got an AI bot to do it for me.

[GiqueCee]

4. This would be hilarious...

... if it wasn't a jaw-dropping example of staggering stupidity.
There is a tiny village in Vermont called Gaysville. It was named for the brothers Gay, not the gay bothers. There are still many of their descendants who share the surname, who I'm sure have suffered crude jokes at their expense. I know that certain social platforms will scold those who mention the name of the village in any context for perceived bigotry, no matter how misinformed said platform may be.
AI is not unlike a toddler with a loaded gun. What could go wrong?

Edit to add: Anyone who is opposed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is a fucking bigot by definition, and should be shunned and ostracized for their obscene inhumanity.

[aeromanKC]

5. The Onion?

😵‍💫

[DENVERPOPS]

6. Their first step in re-writting history

Next there will be a massive fire, of unknown origin, in the National archives...........

Texas has already started, with no historians writing history text books, no scientists writing history text books, etc etc.

[MsSalvia]

7. History as seen by Pete Hegseth

Through the bottom of a glass of whiskey glass.

[NotHardly]

9. That boy needs to be Betty Forded right bloody now.

[NotHardly]

8. All mention of women in the military & deletion of Black service members...

...only white men are allowed to be remembered and honored.

For some context: During WWII, the average soldier was five feet, eight inches tall, and weighed144 pounds. During basic training, which was received at Fort Benning, GA, you gained 5 to 20 pounds and added an inch to your 33 ¼” chest. Obviously, manly men ... but they won the war while our Meal Team 6 can't get out of their Lazy Boy lounges.

[CaptainTruth]

10. An appropriate meme

[bmichaelh]

11. Ensign Gay

George Henry Gay Jr. was an ensign during the Battle of Midway in WW II who witnessed part of the battle while floating some 30 hours in the ocean.

He was a recipient of the Navy Cross.

[flashman13]

38. Ensign Gay was the sole survivor of Torpedo Squadron 8, VT-8.

VT-8 was made up of 15 slow obsolescent torpedo bombers that attacked the Japanese carriers without any fighter support. They were wiped out. Twenty nine pilots and crew died. No hits were made.

Their sacrifice drew in the Japanese fighters down from altitude and opened the way for the dive bombers to make their attacks unhindered. Three Japanese carriers were destroyed. In those few moments the the tide of war in the Pacific turned.

I can not comprehend such bravery.

[Attilatheblond]

12. Rely on computers to do the work and get really stupid results

Filed under: AI don't know much about history

[Linda ladeewolf]

20. AI is only as smart as the idiots teaching it.

[Mr. Evil]

31. I learned this in college 43 years ago.

GIGO = Garbage In, Garbage Out.

[Attilatheblond]

44. And those idiots seem to have only studied coding

Evidently having a broad general education with a lot of history/sociology/culture courses are just a waste of time for the bros who wanna get rich quick.

And this is how civilization falls; people with very limited knowledge and a driving interest is razzle dazzle resume entries with no context.

[Linda ladeewolf]

62. This type of person is only interested in what benefits themselves.

They do not care for consequences, good or bad to other people, others are simply collateral damage. They do not care for art, culture, or other human beings, and they worship money, that is all they care about.

[Ray Bruns]

13. These people are terminally stupid.

I really don’t know how these people walk and remember to breathe at the same time

[MarineCombatEngineer]

14. So what's next?

The removal from the history books about Ens. George Gay Jr., the only survivor of Torpedo Squadron 8 during the Battle of Midway because his last name is Gay?

These anti DEI assholes know no bounds.

[Historic NY]

18. I pity people with the given name Gay.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

19. Especially with this criminal Admin. nt

[OMGWTF]

32. My MAGAt cousin's first name is "Gay", and I'd ask how she feels now, but we don't talk.

[japple]

34. Good thing Marvin Gaye's family had the "e" at the end.

His legacy and music would be down the memory hole.

[liberal N proud]

39. I have a friend who's name Gaye

Pronounced Gay

[dalton99a]

15. Kick

[markodochartaigh]

16. Bye bye Fred and Wilma,

"When you're with the Flintstones
Have a yabba-dabba-doo time
A dabba-doo time
We'll have a gay old time."

[Mr. Jinx]

17. Brilliant.

This is where a lack of civics and history classes, along with a helping of bigotry, has brought us.

[Jean Genie]

21. Stupid!

Plenty stupid! Appallingly stupid! Amazingly stupid! Unbelievably stupid!

[Sneederbunk]

22. Whiskey Pete needs a lucid moment.

[Attilatheblond]

45. I shan't hold my breath

[Linda ladeewolf]

24. If AI has to be taught and learns by what we research on the internet,

Perhaps if we search out a lot more history we can help it to learn the right things.we can teach it that greed is bad. It might be able to even understand moral concepts if we teach it properly. They aren’t going to give up on it. But we might be able to give it rules it can work by. Do it now in the learning stage. It might be what keeps it from trying to destroy us eventually.

[OMGWTF]

25. Rethuglicans thinks about gay sex more than gays think about gay sex. Why is that?

(They doth protest too much, methinks).

[ultralite001]

26. Attacking history with the ferocity of

the iPhone’s “autocorrect” feature…

+ no one around knowledgeable enough to fix it…

[AverageOldGuy]

27. "Just how stupid is this regime?"

I think what happened was this: Someone asked Trump or Musk or both "Just how stupid can you be" -- and they took it as a challenge.

[Buns_of_Fire]

28. Won't be decking the halls with boughs of holly this Christmas.

You can deck the halls all you want, but xnay on donning your gay apparel.

[dchill]

29. Dear Dog-ers: Gay - like "the" - is just a word. It's not DEI...

...or Anti-DEI. "The fucking traitors" and "The balanced diet" are to completely different ways to use the same word. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

[Paladin]

30. The plane was named after pilot Paul Tibbet's MOTHER.

That fact has been readily available for decades.

I keep thinking that the current regime can't possibly appear any more stupid---and every fucking day, I get proven wrong. The military better kick back against this, and hard.

[Attilatheblond]

46. Knew that fact when I was 6

But history isn't a thing in GOP supported 'education'

[Walleye]

53. Not only are they too stupid to read they won't even watch movies

There is a whole Hollywood feature about the Enola Gay

[OLDMDDEM]

33. I sincerely hope that if there is an election in 2026, the repugs become the minority in both parties.

Then, go after the orange anus without regard for anyone's feelings.

[Progressive dog]

35. That's to be expected

from some of the stupidest people ever.

[The Blue Flower]

36. Well, the 'intelligence' IS artificial

[AmericaUnderSiege]

37. What they're really going after are symbols of anti-fascism.

Hundred percent they will eventually try to remove most or all WW2 movies from the national archives and library of congress.

[malthaussen]

40. GIGO.

It's still a useful rule in this AI era. In fact, given the way AI works, it's even more appropriate.

-- Mal

[Hassin Bin Sober]

41. I'm proposing a new rule: posts should be marked Onion/Not Onion

Jesusfuckingchrist

[Norbert]

42. Enola Gay was Gen Paul Tibbet's mom.

I mean, this is Norman Rockwell stuff.

Think of all the women named Gay that these idiots are putting a stigma to.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

43. My high school football coach's wife was named Gay.

Of course, as a young high school gay kid, I had to listen to his “faggot” jokes, comments about “Jews” and “zipper heads” — and the his ridiculously long drawn out Jesus prayers before games.

[hadEnuf]

47. DEI

An abbreviation recently seized upon by right wing politicians, villainized, and then echoed by shit propagandists like Fox news.

Now it is the prime target of White House policy. This is beyond insane. It is completely Orwellian.

And most people don't even know what the abbreviation stands for to begin with.

[Joinfortmill]

48. Impeach him!

[Dem4life1234]

49. The same administration who couldn't tell transgenic from transgender?

Fucking dumb as hell.

Can't do four years of this bullshit.

Why are they so afraid of gay people? Leave people alone.

[VGNonly]

50. At a library

a person was raising a fuss because a book group was going to be studying Transcendentalism.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

51. ENOLA GAY BANNED!

[MichMan]

52. I recall a lot of controversy over the exhibit of the aircraft

Focused on the verbiage posted regarding the use of nuclear bombs against Hiroshima and also Japan's role in WWII.

https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/history/controversy-over-enola-gay-exhibition/

[JanMichael]

54. Ignorant mouth breathing knuckle dragging cretins

[MichMan]

55. Flintstones, meet the Flintstones

"Flintstones, meet the Flintstones
They're the modern stone-age family
From the town of Bedrock
They're a page right out of history

Let's ride with the family down the street
Through the courtesy of Fred's two feet

When you're with the Flintstones
Have a yabba-dabba-doo time
A dabba-doo time
We'll have a gay old time"

[LetMyPeopleVote]

56. MaddowBlog-The White House's find-and-replace problem becomes even more embarrassing

The White House’s find-and-replace problem becomes even more embarrassing

The White House’s find-and-replace problem becomes even more embarrassing - MSNBC

No words - at least that I can state here.

— (@buzzard123.bsky.social) 2025-03-07T17:46:07.252Z

Link to tweet

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/white-houses-find-replace-problem-becomes-even-embarrassing-rcna195342

The Trump administration, for example, has launched a bizarre crusade against diversity, equity and inclusion efforts throughout the federal government, including the Internal Revenue Service’s procedural handbook for employees. Officials, however, weren’t paying close attention to the details......

But to fully appreciate the absurdity of the GOP’s Ctrl-F problem, consider this amazing report from The Associated Press.

References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and the first women to pass Marine infantry training are among the tens of thousands of photos and online posts marked for deletion as the Defense Department works to purge diversity, equity and inclusion content, according to a database obtained by The Associated Press. The database, which was confirmed by U.S. officials and published by AP, includes more than 26,000 images that have been flagged for removal across every military branch. But the eventual total could be much higher.

There’s a lot to unpack in the AP’s report, which has not been independently verified by MSNBC or NBC News, but of particular interest is the way in which the Trump administration reportedly approached photographs of a historically significant airplane.

“In some cases, photos seemed to be flagged for removal simply because their file included the word ‘gay,’ including service members with that last name and an image of the B-29 aircraft Enola Gay, which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II,” the AP reported.

Almost exactly 30 years later, Donald Trump’s Pentagon is concerned about images of the airplane, not because of its payload, but because of the word “gay.”

Perhaps we should be relieved that the Republican administration didn’t try to rebrand the plane as “Enola Homosexual”?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

57. MddowBlog-The White House's find-and-replace problem becomes even more embarrassing

The White House’s find-and-replace problem becomes even more embarrassing

The White House’s find-and-replace problem becomes even more embarrassing - MSNBC

No words - at least that I can state here.

— (@buzzard123.bsky.social) 2025-03-07T17:46:07.252Z

Link to tweet

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/white-houses-find-replace-problem-becomes-even-embarrassing-rcna195342

The Trump administration, for example, has launched a bizarre crusade against diversity, equity and inclusion efforts throughout the federal government, including the Internal Revenue Service’s procedural handbook for employees. Officials, however, weren’t paying close attention to the details......

But to fully appreciate the absurdity of the GOP’s Ctrl-F problem, consider this amazing report from The Associated Press.

References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and the first women to pass Marine infantry training are among the tens of thousands of photos and online posts marked for deletion as the Defense Department works to purge diversity, equity and inclusion content, according to a database obtained by The Associated Press. The database, which was confirmed by U.S. officials and published by AP, includes more than 26,000 images that have been flagged for removal across every military branch. But the eventual total could be much higher.

There’s a lot to unpack in the AP’s report, which has not been independently verified by MSNBC or NBC News, but of particular interest is the way in which the Trump administration reportedly approached photographs of a historically significant airplane.

“In some cases, photos seemed to be flagged for removal simply because their file included the word ‘gay,’ including service members with that last name and an image of the B-29 aircraft Enola Gay, which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II,” the AP reported.

Almost exactly 30 years later, Donald Trump’s Pentagon is concerned about images of the airplane, not because of its payload, but because of the word “gay.”

Perhaps we should be relieved that the Republican administration didn’t try to rebrand the plane as “Enola Homosexual”?

[Sneederbunk]

58. How long before they remove the bomber from the Smithsonian?

[TygrBright]

59. Teh stoopid!! It burrrnnnz! n/t

[TNNurse]

60. You want to say ignorant, but this is just stupid.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

61. Petty little fuckers. As if this is more important than the work that was being those dedicated civil servants

they booted out without notice nor actual knowledge of what they did.

Scared to compete on a balanced playing field. Remember how black athletes were barred from certain sports because piss-ant, scaredy cat white men knew they might actually have to compete and possibly lose to an "inferior."