“We are committed to maintaining a culture where all Airmen feel welcome and can thrive.”. A white supremacist serving in the Air Force has finally been kicked out of the service after months of review, an Air Force spokesperson said last week. Shawn Michael McCaffrey, formerly Airman 1st Class McCaffrey, has a history of promoting white supremacist, anti-Semitic, racist and homophobic beliefs on social media. In fact, a Google search could have detected his hateful opinions, but the Air Force appeared to have missed that when McCaffrey enlisted six months ago on Jan. 26. “Shawn McCaffrey is no longer serving in the U.S. Air Force,” service spokesperson Ann Stefanek told Task & Purpose on Monday. HuffPost first reported the news last week. “Information brought to the attention of his command after Mr. McCaffrey’s enlistment led to an entry-level separation due to erroneous enlistment,” she added. The statement comes three months after McCaffrey’s presence in the military’s premier airpower branch was first reported in April. As the months passed and McCaffrey was still in uniform, he drew the ire of Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.), the chair of the House Armed Services Military Personnel Subcommittee. “I will be contacting Air Force leadership to find out why this individual – who has his own author page on a website for far-right extremists, describes himself as an ‘activist,’ and co-hosted a weekly podcast in which he attacked Jews, women, LGBTQ+ people, the U.S. armed forces, and many others using unacceptable slurs – remains on active duty and under review given the very public and abundant evidence of his extremist ties,” the congresswoman told Task & Purpose in June.
At the time, Stefanek said that the Air Force was “not aware of the allegations during the enlistment process,” she said. “No further information or details of this allegation can be released until the facts involving this allegation are fully reviewed.” The Department of Defense’s definition of extremism is in flux as the military attempts to bolster its efforts to root out extremists in the ranks. Still, DoD regulations forbid service members from participating in “organizations that advocate supremacist, extremist or criminal gang doctrine, ideology or causes,” such as those that discriminate based on race, creed, color, sex, religion ethnicity or national origin, or advocate the use of force, violence or criminal activity to deprive individuals of their civil rights.
via taskandpurpose: Air Force finally boots prominent white supremacist after months of review
siehe auch: Shawn McCaffrey. Overview. Shawn McCaffrey [Shawn Michael McCaffrey] has spread coronavirus anti-Semitism as well as general anti-Semitism and bigotry on social media. As of April 2021, McCaffrey was reportedly an “Airman 1st Class” in the U.S. Air Force. McCaffrey reportedly joined the U.S. Air Force in January 2021, graduated from bootcamp training in March 2021 and pledged his oath of enlistment in the U.S. Air Force on January 26, 2021. As of April 2021, McCaffrey was registered to vote in Oakland County, Detroit, Michigan. In May 2020, McCaffrey was a YouTube podcaster and used the channel name “prince hubris.” As of April 2021, McCaffrey used his own name on YouTube. In 2016, McCaffrey was affiliated with the white nationalist campus organization Identity Evropa (IE), which rebranded itself in March 2019 as the American Identity Movement (AIM). As of April 2021, McCaffrey was listed as an author on the white nationalist website Altright.com as “an Identity Evropa activist.”On May 27, 2018, McCaffrey stated [00:00:47] that he was “definitely not a member of Identity Evropa… anymore.” In September 2019, McCaffrey used the name “im so f**king blackpilled” on Twitter. In December 2017, McCaffrey used the name “DJ FASH” on Twitter. “Fash” is a slang term for “fascist.” In May 2020, McCaffrey used the name “Twitter Refugee” on Instagram.