Sen. Tom Cotton says Critical Race Theory in the military is ‘destructive to morale’

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May 22, 2021

Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas told Breitbart News Friday that Critical Race Theory is destructive for the US military.

Cotton said it is harmful for our servicemen and women to hear such harmful words, especially younger recruits.

“It’s particularly bad for this to be taught to our young troopers, whether it’s at service academy use or in professional military education, or just in routine quarterly or annual training, because they need to look to their right and their left and see not the representative of a racial group, but a battle buddy, a comrade in arms who will lay down their life in defense of each other and their nation,” Cotton told Breitbart.

Cotton said the theory is destructive to the military and the

“If I were in a foreign intelligence service, I can think a few things that would be more destructive to morale and unit cohesion in the United States military than critical race theory, the idea that we are somehow simply representatives of our race as opposed to American patriots who are wearing the flag of our country in defense of our common ideals,” Cotton said.

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