State Dept. 'reforms' foreign service training to include white supremacist teachings

The Trump administration is planning to train new foreign service employees with the help of overtly racist works.

https://www.ms.now/opinion/state-dept-foreign-service-reforms-huntington-codevilla

The State Department announced “reforms” to its foreign service training program, including requiring or recommending the writings of far-right figures who have pushed white supremacist theories. A fact sheet about the U.S. Foreign Service “modernization efforts,” published Wednesday, lists numerous changes the department is making under the banner of “Preparing the U.S. Foreign Service for the 21st Century.”

More than 13,000 people work for the U.S. Foreign Service, which carries out the country’s diplomatic efforts abroad. Among the newly announced changes is a plan to implement a “comprehensive basic training program” featuring “required and recommended” readings from “George Washington, John Quincy Adams, and James Monroe, selections from the Federalist Papers, and works from George Kennan, Angelo Codevilla, and Samuel Huntington.”

Those last three in particular are popular among white nationalists due to their unabashedly racist and illiberal rhetoric. Kennan was a former influential diplomat at the State Department who served as an ambassador twice. He also once supported authoritarian rule in the United States, and his racist worldview has been touted by white supremacists.

Huntington was a political scientist who served in the White House, but later turned from scholarship to fueling hysteria toward Mexican immigrants. His 1993 “Clash of Civilizations” essay has helped fuel MAGA world’s anti-immigrant ethos. The New Republic reported on Huntington’s last book before his death, titled “Who Are We?”:



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