BrikoX to United States | News & Politics@midwest.socialEnglish • 2 months agoPete Hegseth orders Navy to strip name of gay rights icon Harvey Milk from ship in time for Pride Monthwww.independent.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square53arrow-up1279file-textcross-posted to: news@lemmy.world
arrow-up1279external-linkPete Hegseth orders Navy to strip name of gay rights icon Harvey Milk from ship in time for Pride Monthwww.independent.co.ukBrikoX to United States | News & Politics@midwest.socialEnglish • 2 months agomessage-square53file-textcross-posted to: news@lemmy.world
Defense secretary’s memo says stripping the name of the Navy veteran is part of an effort to reestablish ‘warrior culture’
minus-square@loopedcandle@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglish21•2 months agoRenaming a ship is really bad luck, IIRC. And sailors are hilariously superstitious. So if they rename it after some conservative anti-gay asshat (narrator: they will) that the ship is going to be the most despised ship in the fleet.
Renaming a ship is really bad luck, IIRC. And sailors are hilariously superstitious. So if they rename it after some conservative anti-gay asshat (narrator: they will) that the ship is going to be the most despised ship in the fleet.