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Pete Hegseth: “The citizen in Society merit badge that encouraged Scouts to…”

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DEI is Indeed Dead - The Boy Scouts of America are Back!

Published | Video Starts at 03:38

First, Scouting America has agreed to comply immediately with the provisions of Executive Order 14173. This includes reviewing and replacing politicized, divisive and discriminatory language throughout the organization, programs and all publications. No more DEI 0 second, The citizen in Society merit badge that encouraged Scouts to explore diversity, equity, inclusion and identity... has been discontinued. They always mask it under a name that sounds great but is doing something else and then asks those Scouts to engage in activism on those topics. That badge has been discontinued. (03:38–03:58)

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