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The CIA’s woke recruitment video gets panned: Don Jnr leads ridicule as recruit describes herself as ‘intersectional cisgender millennial’ diagnosed with ‘generalized anxiety disorder’
from Daily Mail:
- The CIA officer, who is not named, 36, tells viewers she is ‘unapologetically me’
- The clip has sparked a fierce reaction online with users labelling it ‘woke’
- Donald Trump Jr. shared the clip and tweeted: ‘China and Russia will love this’
- One former CIA officer tweeted: ‘The CIA used to be about mission to country. America is less safe with this new CIA, and dangerously more political’
- Another Twitter user compared it to a Saturday Night Live skit
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A new CIA recruitment video has been widely ridiculed online after the recruit described herself as an ‘intersectional cisgender millennial’.
The unnamed CIA officer, 36, tells viewers she is ‘unapologetically me’, adding that she to suffer from ‘imposter syndrome’ but now refuses to ‘internalize misguided patriarchal ideas of what a woman can or should be.’
But the clip has sparked a fierce reaction online with users labelling it ‘woke’. Another said: ‘The world is laughing at us.’
Former CIA officer Bryan Dean Wright, tweeted: ‘The CIA used to be about mission to country. (I speak from experience).
‘Now it’s now about demanding — and getting — accommodation to fix an emotional wound or advance a personal agenda. America is less safe with this new CIA, and dangerously more political.’
Another Twitter user compared it to a Saturday Night Live skit.
Glenn Greenwald, part of a team that won a Pulitzer for reports about government surveillance programs based on leaks by Edward Snowden, tweeted: ‘Lots of people who pay no attention to the CIA and the security state seem to think this CIA video is the first time they’ve promoted, endorsed and embraced woke ideology.
‘They’ve been doing it for years. I wrote about back in 2015.’
The clip was shared to Twitter on April 28 in a post which read: ‘I am unapologetically me. I want you to be unapologetically you, whoever you are.
‘Whether you work at #CIA, or anywhere else in the world. Command your space. Mija, you are worth it.’
The CIA officer tells viewers she is ‘unapologetically me’, adding that she to suffer from ‘imposter syndrome’ but now refuses to ‘internalize misguided patriarchal ideas of what a woman can or should be’
‘I am a cisgender millennial.’ CIA’s ‘woke’ recruitment video
The clip was shared to Twitter on April 28 in a post which read: ‘I am unapologetically me. I want you to be unapologetically you, whoever you are’
But the clip has sparked a fierce reaction online with users labelling it ‘woke’. Another said: ‘The world is laughing at us.’ Donald Trump Jr. tweeted: ‘China and Russia will love this’
The agent tells viewers: ‘I am intersectional, but my existence is not a box-checking exercise. I am a walking declaration, a woman whose inflection does not rise at the end of her sentences, suggesting that a question has been asked.’
The clip does not detail the qualifications needed to work at the CIA or what the role entails.
She adds: ‘I am a woman of color. I am a mom. I am a cisgender Millennial who has been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder.’
In the TV show Homeland agent Carrie Mathison, played by Claire Danes, attempts to keep her bipolar disorder hidden from the CIA over fears of losing her security clearance.
