The$ 70,000 campaign by retired commander changes clean.
After a retired commander just objected to the removal of hundreds of “diversity, capital, and addition” books as censorship, the U.S. Naval Academy library has since returned them to its shelves.
Following an attempt from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, The Naval Academy removed about 400 publications from its collection that promoted DEI, according to a report from The College Fix.
Just 20 books are currently being held up for a proper compliance review, according to The 19th News.
On April 5, retired chief William Marks started raising funds on GoFundMe to remove the textbooks. He intended to raise$ 3, 810, but he far exceeded his goal, bringing in$ 70, 000.
According to the GoFundMe information,” This charity will obtain one copy of every book” on the list of prohibited books.  ,
Our defense and our country deserve better, according to the cadets, and our country deserves better. Allow the smartest students in the world choose what books to read, it says.” Midshipmen are among the smartest individuals in the world.”  ,
According to The 19th News,” He calls his effort to maintain the midshipmen’s exposure to all books in the Nimitz Library Operation Caged Bird, which was good targeted because it described racial discrimination and child abuse,”
Signs claimed for the news that “without information, knowledge, and academic progress, we will never become a powerful Navy.”
” The Pentagon was really suppressing information and limiting debate, which is really striking me,” he said.
He added that what struck him was the apparently random and terrible selection of books taken, and that they were essential for understanding the country’s history and represented a diverse representation of American culture.
Jinny Amundson, the author of the plan, claimed that she thought the removal of the books was “censorship.”
The idea of censoring any kind of books only makes us brain beats, Amundson said.
” And it’s our neighborhood,” she continued. The]midshipmen ] perceive our store as one of their kind of unofficial bookstores and as a place they adore. We have the university, management, and middlemen who enter and take our place seriously,” she said.
The library’s collection included the following books:” How to Be an Antiracist,” edited by Arjun Singh Sethi,” American Hate: Victims Talk Out,” edited by Arjun Singh Sethi,” I know why the Captive Bird Sings,” and” Man & Woman, Boy & Girl: Sex identification from conception to maturity,” edited by John Money.
The books were taken down in response to an administrative order signed by President Donald Trump in January, which aimed to end all La regulations and practices in federal agencies.
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