The Pentagon has slammed Netflix for airing “woke garbage” in the wake of the release of queer military drama series Boots.
Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson told Entertainment Weekly that it doesn’t support Boots, which it claimed has an “ideological agenda”.
Boots follows 13 Reasons Why star Miles Heizer as Cameron Cope, a closeted teen who signs up to the marine corps after struggling to find a sense of purpose at home. While at boot camp, with his best friend Ray (newcomer Liam Oh), he learns that it’s not just tough and gruelling, but homophobic too.
The Netflix drama is set in 1990, when being gay in the US armed forces was still illegal. The US military ended its ban on gay people serving when president Bill Clinton’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy was repealed in 2011.
Netflix accused of feeding ‘woke garbage’ to audiences
Wilson said: “Under President Trump and Secretary [Pete] Hegseth, the U.S. military is getting back to restoring the warrior ethos. Our standards across the board are elite, uniform, and sex neutral because the weight of a rucksack or a human being doesn’t care if you’re a man, a woman, gay, or straight.”
The statement added that officials “will not compromise our standards to satisfy an ideological agenda, unlike Netflix whose leadership consistently produces and feeds woke garbage to their audience and children.”
Defence secretary Hegseth prompted a national outcry after claiming the Trump administration aims to hold military service members to the “highest male standard.”
In August, trans military service members were dismissed from all US army services in August under an executive order signed by US president Donald Trump in January, claiming their identity was “incompatible with active duty.”
Wilson’s comment comes amid right-wing calls to boycott Netflix over its LGBTQ-inclusion. In September, Elon Musk took to X to announce that he had cancelled his Netflix account after Libs of TikTok criticised trans-inclusive show Dead End: Paranormal Park, which was cancelled more than two years ago.
Musk’s outrage was followed by Marjorie Taylor Greene announcing she’d cancelled her Netflix subscription over a five-year-old clip of a trans storyline from The Baby-Sitters Club.
All episodes of Boots are streaming now on Netflix.
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