The community of people w/disabilities is the ONLY special emphasis group that anyone can join at any time. A fever, a fall, or a disease is all it takes. The aging process itself can make you a person with a disability. If you live long enough, you’ll acqire a disabilty. Stop the us vs them crap
I read somewhere that it is actually white women who benefit from DEI programs the most.
So when I hear a white woman complaining about DEI… 🙄… Lord help me not regress my evolution in order to deal with these people! Even in the aisles of Costco. I can’t escape them!!
Me trying to explain this to my therapist who doesn't understand it applies to people like myself
(Tbf until recently I didn't know that either, took awhile before I connected the dots)
He doesn't like it currently, but I hope I can try soften his mind over the coming period
Now that I think about it I've not seen the Special Needs bagger at my local Piggly Wiggly since this amti-DEI BS started. Don't tell me they canned him?!
I guess I’m naive but I can’t wrap my head around the fact that PINO 47 is doing away with so many programs that help people. What amazes me is he is so proud of it. I already miss the compassion we had in this country, people are being treated like garbage now, unless they are wealthy.
Had this argument with a relative recently. They (Depression baby) were upset that someone they know has been on disability as an adult for over 40 years.
My point is that that reversing the tax cuts on the 0.1% would cover all SSDI forever.
They are personally offended that, having worked for 70+ years (they are almost 90), they feel everyone else should also have worked. They ignore disability issues.
This person is a RCD; as liberal as a mainstream D gets. How do we fix that?
Detractors see the word "Diversity" and immediately think "black people" and that's enough to sell it to MAGA. Along with a disturbing number of leftists.
Before it was CRT & BLM.
It's important and rewarding to engage the guy bagging your groceries - these people are typically the kindest, bravest and spontaneously creative person you will see all day.
The orange stain's physical disparaging of the handicapped should have cost him that 1st election.
Things that boggle the mind. An entire group of people who sit in front of their TV, watching Trump spew one line of bullshit after another, then spend the next day repeating everything as the gospel while calling everyone else sheep.
And even if it was just about ethnicity it would still be wrong to get rid of it. Diversity makes us stronger not weaker. Our country is made up of lots of different kinds people, not just white men. So we need all kinds of people working everywhere
It's a wonderful goal, and that's the problem. Loyal Republicans think it's mighty suspicious when people not just like themselves expect those 'equal rights'.
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Medicare and Medicaid for dementia patients can be $9-12k a month in a care facility. Many states have familial responsibility laws that require immediate family to care for those patients should their insurance relapse.
Actually, that's not the result about 95% of the time.
They stammer, typically, and pivot to an unrelated subject like the Black Lives Matter movement, feminism, or Critical Race Theory, so I have to push for a response to "No, what is it about diversity, equity, or inclusion you oppose?"
So it's a yes but they don't want to admit it in plain English.
Either that or they are completely vacuous and lacking any sort of critical thinking ability, and reciting scripts they've heard in their Trumpist social media circles.
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I was thinking that but those who are educated/ capable of critical thinking, would think that.
Those folks that are not so educated or naturally prone to critical thinking, would make assumptions., which would be influenced by the Media or other sources of misinformation they are subject to 🤔
It also includes Trump turd 💩 @byrondonalds.bsky.social who has announced he is running for governor in Fl. He must as a Republican step down ! NO DEI in Fl 🤣🤣Love that your party is working actively against you !!!
Before DEI,My Dad who was disabled couldn’t get a full time job ! Their excuse was they could not accommodate his disability or their insurance won’t cover him! This was after his company that he worked at for 36 years folded in the 80’s ‼️😡
Luckily my brother was part owner of an aerospace firm and hired him as a consultant to get around the insurance BS!
He had a masters in engineering and was a quality control manager at his old company! This was all before DEI‼️😡
And why was he disabled?? He caught polio when he reported for officer training for the Navy in 44’. Before that he worked a war industry job deemed too important to allow him to volunteer until at last at 26 they gave him an exemption! He didn’t even get the chance to take the oath!!
They crowded 300 people into a barracks for two days for medical and processing and a number of them got sick! All they did for him was take care of all his medical treatment and bills! Nothing else
Because it includes race, it would also include the guy who invented modern traffic lights, the man who brought vaccines to America from Africa, the women who revolutionized computing and put men on the moon, the thousands of people who brought rice to America. THEY BUILT AMERICA.
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As always, they are counting on the undereducated, misinformed, bigoted base to assume its only about Black & brown people...which of course they're totally fine with screwing those people over anyway.
Thats right. These republitards want those who can't stand on their own to simply die. They want able bodied lemmings to work, pay taxes and buy useless shit from companies. That's the Maga plan.
Mostly, DEI is to make sure women, especially white women, have access to upper management when they are far more qualified than white men. Trump is an example of what happens when you hire a moron rather than the more capable Vice President Harris!
Also: DEI doesn’t mean you are settling for ‘lesser’ workers - it literally means choosing the best candidate but now from a much wider pool of applicants, regardless of other factors.
Implying that all DEI hires are automatically lesser qualified that other hires is racist trash logic.
There's not a single group in here that Republicans don't hate. Autistics? They've made it pretty clear we're going to the concentration camp soon. Pregnant women? Fuck, there's no one Republicans hate more than that. The cruelty of scrapping DEI is the entire point.
People forget that DEI isn't a hiring program, but an overall training program for leadership. The idea is to consider the way decisions affects all groups and how the impact can differ for each one.
It's obviously not all of them ... but... For so many that superiority is baked into them from a young age, just like inferiority is baked into everyone else. They move through the world benefiting from systems that were built to cater to them without truly realizing it.
It incudes women Women who were overqualified hard workers trying to support their family who got passed over for some under qualified white man they had trained because he was a white male. DEI means you get the best of the best
What about transgender mice?
& The Enola Gay, it was a Boeing B-29 bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb? (it's been wiped from history because it's gay)
It’s also about your mother, your sister, wife or daughter. It’s not a give away it’s simply encouraging all to apply. The best qualified will get the job but all should be encouraged to try, including white men.
DEI means others who are as qualified or more qualified get the SAME shot as white males, not more of a shot. IDK why they can't understand this... Oh, they can, they just don't want to
They frame it as Meritocracy vs DEI, but Meritocracy is the ideal/myth and incredibly difficult to attain without a framework that acknowledges our inherent biases. DEI gets you closer to Meritocracy. The administration is racist. That’s all there is to it.
For proof of this look at Moneyball book/movie, a sport with half a century worth of stats at its disposal still was judging athletes on how they look/acted. Specialists can’t even get it right when they’re judging players in a zero sum game!
Well said. I'm sorry it fell on deaf ears. It's our fatalistic way. If we ignore it we may never have to fight it and if we do have to fight it at least we don't have to worry about it until the day of. So says the sages of american suburbia.
Tell them, "It includes your moms and your daddies and your papaws & mamaws. Can you afford to care for them at home with no medical insurance? So what they worked 30 yrs in a coal mine helped win WW2 w/nuclear material that sickened them and sacraficed again and again to preserve & protect America
But as long as it only affects black trans people it’s okay right? While we are enduring the real suffering glad to see you made time to make this post
Anti-DEI people seem to be fixated on DEI being quota checkboxes companies perform for spectators while not actually including them in decisions but that's just one piece of DEI.
It's like a political party: A package deal with some good, some bad, some stupid.
It affected me twice 1- high risk pregnancy. 2- lung blood clots , both lungs and right leg.
I have worked a very long time in healthcare and they rush u back to work
Remember that passage in the Bible, when Jesus says "fucketh the lame and the blind. Only the best people may join my ministry. Like Pilate. He's cool. And he shall go forth and get rid the waste. Like Apostle Thaddaeus. "Baddaeus Thaddaeus" I call him."? Yeah. Me neither.
F'elon POTUS is over 40 with at least 2 disabilities I can see (cognitive and a limp), DEI. VP who got into Yale under a Veteran DEI allowance, DEI. The F'Elon who is an African Immigrant, DEI. DEI is also a yte woman, a veteran...DEI is you, me, your neighbor your mother, your father. DEI.
Watched a video of 20 something conservatives that not only believe DEIA is affirmative action, they believe government agencies are getting tax breaks for DEI hires🤦♀️
Oh it affects me for sure I may be white but I’m a trans woman and veteran with severe depression and ADHD and a history of being abused. Even if it doesn’t effect you for some reason I guarantee if helps someone you love.
Stop doing things only because you directly benefit.
DEI limits white privilege and discrimination against minorities.
It is also allows for the disabled to become a more productive citizen.The christofascists dislike these ideas because conservatism/fascism are about individual power for the select over the rest of us. The rest are merely livestock.
Tax the billionaires, break up the mega corporations, inhibit offshoring jobs and whole industries, strengthen workers rights, end At-Will Employment laws, in short take care of the working class instead of the wealthy. You'll do more good than shuffling DEI deckchairs for the corporate overlords.
DEI initiatives really mean we don't have to settle for mediocre losers, which is why the mediocre losers are so butthurt. Rather than practice introspection and self-improvement to DESERVE valuable roles, they want to kneecap the world around them to drag everyone back to their subterranean level.
Don't ever let a trump supporter lie to you, the same information available to us was available to them.
Every last Trump voter knew exactly what they were voting for.
NO FORGIVENESS
It includes women of all ages and ethnicities, because without DEI old white men traditionally excluded them entirely from consideration for most jobs.
We the people already love all people. We have always valued diversity in this country and we’ve put protections in place. DEI was weaponized to play stupid games. When democrats fought a civil war to keep slaves and lost, diversity won and we continue to strive for improvement.
They pick on the most vulnerable people who need the most help.
It's SICKENING.
That's honestly why when growing up I NEVER identified with my family's religion--It sickened me...
And to see what it's grown into now?
Is kind of soul-crushing I'm not gonna lie.
All those people being hurt :(
DEI means me. That’s for everyone depending on the situation. In a woman owned company that could also mean a white middle aged man looking for a job. So glad we did away with having to consider white middle aged men in our companies. 👏
The saddest part is that the scarcity logic of maga is going to be a self fulfilling prophecy. They're going to create a recession for no reason and give all the jobs to white males, and say "see? They were giving your jobs to DEI and we got them back" while in reality they raised unemployment.
It's about everyone, that means everyone - including white Christian males - having a place in businesses & education, where qualifications, culture & capabilities are respected.
It's about diversity & respect - true diversity, real respect - by all, for all.
The older person with a college degree and CPA certification with 25 years experience as a CFO who got caught in a recession and spent 5 years looking for another job.
That’s MAGA’s fucking modus operandi - fuck giving everyone a chance for a seat at the table, because it’s all about me, me, ME and fuck everyone else! Fucking selfish bigoted fucks!!!
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People forget, but people over 40 might be some of the original DEI beyond systemic racism and sexism. People over 40 are technically a protected class and should, like I do, want other disadvantaged groups to have equality and the ability to not be discriminated against in hiring.
DEI stands for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, which is defined as differences in dimensions of human identity.
The best and brightest could very easely be a DEI person!
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So when I hear a white woman complaining about DEI… 🙄… Lord help me not regress my evolution in order to deal with these people! Even in the aisles of Costco. I can’t escape them!!
(Tbf until recently I didn't know that either, took awhile before I connected the dots)
He doesn't like it currently, but I hope I can try soften his mind over the coming period
My point is that that reversing the tax cuts on the 0.1% would cover all SSDI forever.
But it’s an emotional issue with them.
This person is a RCD; as liberal as a mainstream D gets. How do we fix that?
Always have been
It's important and rewarding to engage the guy bagging your groceries - these people are typically the kindest, bravest and spontaneously creative person you will see all day.
The orange stain's physical disparaging of the handicapped should have cost him that 1st election.
They stammer, typically, and pivot to an unrelated subject like the Black Lives Matter movement, feminism, or Critical Race Theory, so I have to push for a response to "No, what is it about diversity, equity, or inclusion you oppose?"
Either that or they are completely vacuous and lacking any sort of critical thinking ability, and reciting scripts they've heard in their Trumpist social media circles.
Come to think of it, it's probably a bit of both.
Is the opposite of “woke” being “ignorant”? Do people aspire to ignorance?
So now we have Trump against DEI initiatives. Ditto with the aspiring to ignorance!
Those folks that are not so educated or naturally prone to critical thinking, would make assumptions., which would be influenced by the Media or other sources of misinformation they are subject to 🤔
He had a masters in engineering and was a quality control manager at his old company! This was all before DEI‼️😡
Simeone please tell them they're fired
Cuz that's who getting rid of DEI is all about "helping."
Oh and there's also the underlying assumption that minorities and women are obviously unqualified for those jobs.
Let’s goooooo!!!
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Implying that all DEI hires are automatically lesser qualified that other hires is racist trash logic.
Now people say it's EQUITY.
Equity is a stock market term for ownership.
What happened to EQUALITY?
They fight to cut funding for all programs that help those people.
Trump voters cheered when trump talked about cuts.
& The Enola Gay, it was a Boeing B-29 bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb? (it's been wiped from history because it's gay)
THAT'S the difference between parties.
It's like a political party: A package deal with some good, some bad, some stupid.
Nobody wins unless everybody wins.
When somebody loses, everybody loses
I have worked a very long time in healthcare and they rush u back to work
Neither will be in place in a year
or We the people are F'ed ( ok the world is in trouble too)
Great depression or worse here we come
the fu_king certifiable crazy is at it again
Stop doing things only because you directly benefit.
It is also allows for the disabled to become a more productive citizen.The christofascists dislike these ideas because conservatism/fascism are about individual power for the select over the rest of us. The rest are merely livestock.
They don't like to read.☕
this 👇 is too long
Every last Trump voter knew exactly what they were voting for.
NO FORGIVENESS
It's SICKENING.
That's honestly why when growing up I NEVER identified with my family's religion--It sickened me...
And to see what it's grown into now?
Is kind of soul-crushing I'm not gonna lie.
All those people being hurt :(
*Except white and asian people, because DEI is just racism and discrimination with new paint
EXACTLY💯💯💯
It's like trump saying the immigrants were taking "black jobs"
I take this as "black jobs" = farm labor or menial labor.
It's about everyone, that means everyone - including white Christian males - having a place in businesses & education, where qualifications, culture & capabilities are respected.
It's about diversity & respect - true diversity, real respect - by all, for all.
Just thought I should leave this here.
Just as an example.
The best and brightest could very easely be a DEI person!
You CAN be discriminated
AGAINST.