More than 800 records of service members who were kicked out of the military under the ādonāt ask, donāt tellā policy were recently upgraded toĀ receiveĀ honorable discharges, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Tuesday.
For people interested in knowing what the ādonāt ask donāt tellā policy is
The policy prohibited military personnel from discriminating against or harassing closeted homosexual or bisexual service members or applicants, while barring openly gay, lesbian, or bisexual persons from military service.
This is such a cryptic headline for anyone unfamiliar. Even reading the article its not immediately clear without the context of the community this was posted to.
this headline was 100% readable for someone old enough to have lived through this nonsense. seems trivial to lookup the policy if young ones are unfamiliar
A: āDont ask dont tellā is a completely made up bullshit phrase specific to the US that makes no sense outside of context
B: Without knowing about A its impossible to know whether them getting a āhonorable dischargeā is an improvement or not.
Reading the entire story and not just the headline helps.
You must be new here!
Haha! Youād think Iād know by now.
Nah. Iām plenty old enough and itās a shit headline, probably purposeful ragebait.
More than 800 service members ejected from US military under ādonāt ask, donāt tellā
WTF how is that possible, is that still in effect in some way??
receive honorable discharges
ā¦ oh. Whew.
It was literally answered right by Googleās AI when i googled it if youāre not aware the history of queer people in the world enough to know about a big issue that happened in a major global actorās military in 1993 until 2011.
I always felt like there isnāt the shaming on the internet for the intellectual laziness like there used to be. It used to be the responsibility of the reader to take a moment and educate themselves, but now we proudly proclaim not only did we not do the bare minimum, but the OP was bad for not spoon feeding us?
Thereās already so little interaction with the posted content here and you canāt even bother to try?
