There’s lots to laugh at in the Pentagon’s political correctness run amok. If the Enola Gay — the B-29 Superfortress that carried the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945 — is suspect, can these people really be serious?

If the previous administration had flagged the bomb, which was code-named Little Boy, as being inappropriately gendered, or its counterpart, Fat Man, as potential body shaming, it wouldn’t have been any more ridiculous.

We can give the military the benefit of the doubt that images of the historic plane, like photos of the Tuskagee Airmen or the Women’s Airforce Service Pilots corps, were inadvertently caught in a diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) keyword dragnet and will be preserved. But we can also be quite sure that the era of the thought police is still very much with us.

Consider the letter the U.S. attorney’s office for the District of Columbia sent to Georgetown Law School notifying the dean that “no applicant for our fellows program, our summer internship, or employment in our office who is a student or affiliated with a law school or university that continues to teach and utilize DEI will be considered.”

A threat letter from a government law enforcement agency telling a school to change its ideological viewpoint or its students and graduates will be punished tells us that these may not be serious ideas, but their proponents are serious about implementing them. (And any Republicans who’d point out that Georgetown is a recipient of federal grant money should consider what their reaction would be if a Democratic administration warned a Catholic university about anti-abortion teaching in its curriculum.)

Indeed, what Republicans are doing now is different directionally but not methodologically from what Democrats were doing before. Get a load of what a right-wing group

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