"If you can read, thank a teacher. If you can read English , thank a Marine."
Here's a fun question. If it weren't for the Marines, what language would you be reading ?
Charles
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<http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk> wrote:
> From what C's saying, this 'rape culture' and demeaning of women is
coming
> from the top-down and whatever comes from recruits is simply allowed to
> exist and flourish. A lot of it's a constant barrage of information
warfare
> aimed at these kids, to get them to distrust any ties they might have back
> home. Hence, the constant talk of how their girlfriends, back home, are
> fucking around on them. The intention is to break them of their
> individuality, make them suspicious of any other form of solidarity that
> might compete with the Marines, softening them up to be committed to the
> unit.
>
> I.e., in boot camp, you don't refer to yourself as "I". You speak about
> yourself in the 3rd person and you are repeatedly punished until you break
> yourself of any habit of referring to yourself as *I*. If you're vomiting
> from heat exhaustion on Parris Island and a drill sergeant ask you what
> your major malfunction is, you aren't even allowed the dignity of screwing
> up and saying "I'm sick" and getting help. YOu have to say it in the third
> person and you can keep puking 'til you get it right.