the OTHER thing about the white house’s anti-diversity push is that like old fashioned segregation it is explicitly an effort to undermine unions! like c’mon! don’t be stupid!
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The White House's anti-diversity push is indeed a concerning development, and its potential impact on unions is a crucial aspect to consider. By rolling back diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, the administration is not only undermining efforts to promote equality and fairness.
That's why We the People voted
V.P Harris and Walz !
They tried to tell them , we did
too on deaf ears, but I still don't believe he won fairly
I call B.S. It's a fact that he suppresses Black folks' votes in the Red States and the popular vote. That's a sick, S.O.B, joke, haha !
People should have made the vote too big to steal. So those that stayed home, and those that voted other, are in the same boat as those that voted Trump.
Trump's standard fascist/racist tactic is merely to sow as much division, hate, racism, intolerance as possible across America; in full coordination with Fox lie parrots and Putin's trolls who do the same on US social media. Every demographic they divide one from another; even divide women from men.
Unions are 0ne reason prices are so fucking high,take away the union which is the middle man and prices will go down, but assholes don't understand that
The Republicans are at war with the modern world & that means anyone who isn’t a white male Christian. To them the enemy is all black/brown/Asian Americans,etc; all women, all unions, all non Christians, all people of no particular faith, the working classes, etc. We all need to unite as one group.
I believe that what is guiding all of this is cruelty. These are stupid people. Malignant narcissists love to harm others. I’d agree with you but 1. You give them too much credit for having brains, 2. They are destroying EVERYTHING! DEI is a small part of a huge picture.
Segregation?
Hmmm interesting.
Seems like a lot of white liberals spent A LOT of time and energy..creating "safe spaces" for all minorities
Convincing them that it was a place of safety
Now..I've always wondered how black Americans don't see it as being talked into self segregation by white people
what’s crazy to me; if things were indeed on a level playing field based on “merit” like they claim, there would be a whole hell of a lot less white men in power.
I still don't get how any labor organizations ended up supporting Trump or not supporting Harris. The Republicans are anti-labor and everything happening now was obvious to what they wanted to do. The voting against one's interests just makes no sense to me.
Decades of neglect left the union membership politically divided and the unions themselves neutered. Shawn Fain is the first UAW leader in my life to break through the news. It's what has so many oligarchs terrified, years of full(ish) employment was empowering labor and they didn't like that.
They hysterically swat anything that would make them work harder.
Trump and his cronies want to abolish unions and enslave black people again.
You see, black people are "lazy", even though most of this country was built BY black people who were enslaved.
Make that make sense...
racism was literally invented to prevent slave uprisings.
like there was primitive racism, but scientific racism (which was the foundation of legalized racial oppression and persists to this day) was led by the same people who owned slaves.
Rural doesn’t want unions. Rural wants land, cattle, crops, & weapons to hold on to all 3. Ownership & family to manage it. Anyone else an outsider. Look at the voting map. Rural goes GOP via FOX NEWS featuring endless stories of violence and crime. Why? To divide the country & maintain power.
They also want the cheap labor 47 is trying to deport wholesale because he's so terrified of anyone who seems Hispanic. As I typed that I just realized it contains the words "His Panic"
Rural might just be poor needing work and knowing the only way in hell they get it is keep their mouth shut and do whatever the hell they are told. Have you looked at the RED VOTING MAP? Fox on EVERY IDIOT BOX
That’s exactly what I said. This is a way to destroy unions. That’s why he’s doing this and he’s letting President Hitler must do whatever he wants to accomplish that!
The press is getting sucked in again. Stop calling it anti-DEI and start calling it what it is; racist.
These are not anti-DEI lists. Or anti-DEI Executive Orders. There are racist lists and racist EOs.
RTW is being pushed hard. It will union bust and cause low wage jobs to proliferate, especially when we're facing economic and employment instability. I reluctantly give them props for being so effing thorough and relentless in their dastardly pursuit of total domination.
2/…that was defiled by violent insurrectionists (now pardoned) 4 years ago. Our greatest organizers & activists MUST amass the greatest demonstration since “I have a dream,” & a million+ MUST show up. #1 article MUST be Space Nazi MuXkovich’s criminal compromise of the nation’s data.
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We are fighting for the lives of those around us, our children & their children.
There's an unabashed push to get rid of unions. There is no hiding that.
After what those teachers unions did to our kids during Covid? They gotta go
Some unions (the trades) are great as they ensure safety training but some unions (teachers) are 100% self serving and protect mediocrity.
Exactly! Why isn’t the entire labor movement denouncing union busting Trump - Musk illegal moves? Mass firings without process for illicit motives? Saying management’s desires can override collective bargaining agreements? If it were anyone but Trump they’d have the big rat outside the WH.
I don’t know about 95% but social media has created meaningless factions of people manipulated by emotional levers who are much less curious about the external world, including the social world. They now see the whole world through a lens that wildly distorts facts about it.
I wish I could say I was surprised by how many union members voted for trump and other republicans. talk about shooting yourself in the foot...and your wallet. and your means of making a living. The cognative dissonance is astounding.
Racism was invented under colonial capitalism to keep the blacks, poor whites, and indigenous people from overthrowing the system that oppressed all three groups. It set out to keep them angry at each other for the problems caused by the owners.
Republicans don’t want us to call them racists while they reverse the projects and policies designed to make a system that was statistically unfair to begin with more fair. If they don’t want to be called racist, maybe they shouldn’t reinforce racism.
Most American workers have been conditioned to hate unions. They see them as bullies who protect those who are less productive. But somehow justify the way their employer treats them or if they're BUEs they don't understand the benefits they get are from union bargaining.
Funny that they are against diversity, but slightly influential women on the right are given cabinet level positions as ambassadorships, as long as they kiss the ring
It's divide and conquer, just like always, and they won't do shit for white people, who were suckers for rich in the Civil War and are still suckers for rich to this day.
A MAGA explained to me that celebrating just women or just black people is not ‘fair’ and everyone should be celebrated equally, so really removing DEI is a step toward equality. The craziness these cultish fools believe is astonishing.
Is it time to remind people that Musk and Bezos filed a lawsuit immediately after the election to have the National Labor Relations Board declared unconstitutional?
oh what are you talking about? conservatives have always loved unions. they even love the idea of them and think they are a necessary part of the social contract, which they believe in and cherish with all of their farts.
It's amazing what simple working class people are willing to go to prison for or even kill or die for when the wealthy white elitists who convince them to do so continue to live in the lap of luxury.
You can't deny the men identifying as women, taking part in women's sporting events is just plain wrong on so many levels.
Trump spot on with banning that insanity.
Even the World Boxing Federation had banned that man from women's boxing after they tested him scientifically.
Trump is essentially neutering the NLRB in the hope that SCOTUS rules its existence unconstitutional, which they probably will. And I need to know what the plan is from these people once that happens and their face is covered in egg
one of the reason the union era collapsed in the first place is because conservatives cultivated white outrage that black workers would get the same benefits
yeah what really depresses me is it seems you can't entirely blame it on outside antagonists. this is something the human psyche just Does. early-age integration (bussing) to erode racism is the only thing that helps.
As long as integration is treated like a freebie for Black folks it will always lose support. There needs to be a multi-racial constituency that WANTS it. So less bussing, and more parents wanting to create integrated classes and social spaces
Not sure what bronto is on, but I didn’t say any thing about bussing notworking. I would say it’s the least effective method because it still works in the paradigm of predom. White spaces “accommodating” others. If we properly fund predom black schools bussing wouldn’t even be needed
I personally believe that the whitelash and panic following Obama, George Floyd, etc. is caused by the fact that there IS a growing multi-racial constituency that wants it. More people were starting to see their interests differently, and this is an enormous threat so we cue some revanchism.
no, bussing works. this is proven fact. very little social reform comes from waiting for people to want it. you bring kids up to think it's normal and then they influence their parents to either get on board or at least shut up.
We may have been getting there with the kids thinking it’s normal, which is why we’re experiencing this extreme backlash. Unfortunately, the right is reaching young men through their insecurities about women.
Yes and no - you *can* have social reform that way, but you're much more likely to see widespread uptake and support if the society reaches critical mass on their own.
Critical mass seems to be the criterion that makes change stick as well, a la French revolution, versus Roosevelts' new deal. 1/
Thank you. Yes, bussing works! Our public school district created a real “choice system” where some schools have an emphasis (science, language immersion, creative arts, etc.), so most of the kids attend outside their neighborhood, resulting in more racially diverse schools—test scores went up!
All the way back to colonial times when they invented this tactic to divide poor European migrants and indentured servants from enslaved african and indigenous people because they got tired of them all getting together and killing the rich fucks in multiple revolts across the americas.
Dividing white indentured servants from enslaved Africans so they couldn't unite was a deliberate act on the part of their wealthy masters that began in the 1600s. Bacons's Rebellion scared the rich to death.
yeah! there's fascinating history in how low-class whites were economically depressed by slavery, because why hire a worker when you could just buy them. it made it easy to set them against free black americans, since after slavery that just swelled the population of the bottom rung of the workforce
yes truly measure their comfort and prosperity by how many types of people they outrank. this probably isn't uniquely white or uniquely american - a big factor in POC men voting R this time seems to have been outrage that America expects them to treat women and black people as equals and authorities
“You tell the lowest white man, that he’s still better than the greatest black man, he won’t even notice you picking his pockets. In fact, give him someone to look down on & he’ll empty his pockets for you in gratitude.”
-LBJ
Ironically, the unions didn’t really have a chance until *after* they started tearing down racial barriers in their own ranks. First between European ethnicities, then the colour barrier, finally gender. It’s only when ALL workers stand united that they can win.
We need to get people to buy into unions again. There is so much anti-union sentiment in the United States that it's frightening. The collapse of the middle class can be directly tied to the collapse of unions.
The desire to break unions is partly why all the manufacturing was sent to China. Capitalism doesn't care about the society that nurtured it, and shows no interest in contributing back to it.
As a lifelong union member, you need to get unions to believe in unions. Almost every union member I know voted for Donald Trump, women and minorities, too.
That's all I heard about from people who live at work for an extra 10k/yr in their pocket. I tried to tell them he actually meant that they wouldn't be paid an OT rate, which takes care of that additional tax. They're stupid, frankly.
I’m never been in a union, but almost every friend of mine that’s union is a trump voter. In spite of the Republican Party saying they flat out want to eliminate them.
I worked in Aerospace at Sikorsky, which is more than 3/4 republican voting for a party that hates their union.
If you watch FOX PROPAGANDA for a while, you'll understand why.
When white people realize it’s to their advantage to ally with people of color instead of letting the rich divide us, and unions are involved, that’s when rich people freak the fuck out and shit gets real
Which is the very reason DEI initiatives were one of the first targets of the fascists this time around. Those programs both threatened to make banal white men have to earn their jobs AND were teaching ppl to recognize implicit bias which risked breaking down the racist walls they need to survive.
Unions were weakened by “diversity” divisions. We need a working class unified by common economic experience, not people scoring identity points against their comrades
Keep an eye on Trump! In the back room, college kids and their mentor have illegal access to our private info and will stir up even more sh#t if they are not stopped! This is how governments are taken over… while the people are distractedly looking elsewhere! Keep your eye on the ball!
This post confuses me. Many unions *began* as segregationist institutions. I mean that was a huge part of the labor movement in the US that has been whitewashed. Unions were started to exclude black workers. All that stuff about weekends and 8 hour days were just part of it.
That may have been how and why they began, but that is not how they are today, and not how they have been for a long time. My husband is in a union and it isn’t while washed. But, it’s crazy how many union members are MAGA
I agree that the original anti-black impetus is gone, but now it’s aimed at foreigners. Unions are fundamentally about constricting the labor supply to boost wages and job security. Good working conditions (hours, safety) are covered by statute now, we don’t need unions. They’re just rent-seekers.
Bingo. Folks forget that Black workers had to establish their own unions (DRUM and others), because they were excluded from mainstream labor unions. It is also why Black laborers (Teamsters Black caucus) came out and endorsed Kamala Harris when major unions declined to endorse a candidate.
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The funniest thing is these corrupt and incompetent people imagine they're superior based solely on their exteriors. Their insides are rotten to the core.
Tell me a time when white men weren't allowed to vote, own property, get an education, et cetera in this country. We are not in the same boat, not even in the same water.
We said that for the majority of the last century, and it took nearly 3/4 of it before they got tired of hearing it and capitulated. We've literally had about 50 years of the semblance of equality and we're heading right back there.
I think that the gop, is using the left’s penchant for nomenclature as weapon against us. “DEI” refers to specific programs in their public arguments but their ban is intended to be applied broadly and harshly against even historic diversity institutions and programs that have adopted the DEI handle
They are lumping in community programing, student cultural groups and historic clubs at elite institutions. This feels only a hop away from making public gatherings of “other” groups prohibited. I imagine they will go after protest and public assembly laws sooner than later
Oh yeah, with Elon Musk running the show yeah they’re gonna try and cut unions and cut every safety nets for unions and also anything that has to do with the safety net for whistleblowers!
"Let's gaslight all these idiots to think the reason they can't afford eggs is blacks, Mexicans, and whatever those other ones are... and women ...and trans....... and cripples; but definitely NOT us billionaires who totally are."
It IS old fashioned segregation -- with women included. "anti-diversity" is just a fantasy term for "white male rule." And Unions are not down with that!
Some of them are. Some of them aren't. And within unions, some locals are and some aren't. My last union (disabled & retired now, me) was for the people not the billionaires, but that was in the late nineties/early oughts.
Unions undermined themselves during the Mccarthy era. They've essentially capitulated virtually EVERY piece of anti-worker legislation, in addition to over compliance with the Taft-Hartley act.
Trump isn't against all unions. He wants the police and fire and teamsters and, if he can get them, the building trades all in his pocket. The rest he doesn't give a fuck about.
They’re a public sector union. So yeah they’ve been subject to the rights removed as other public sector unions. They also suffer the same issues as all unions with right to work issues and will suffer with the attack on the NLRB.
white villionaires: they are so fucking lazy. They want the white mom to raise the kids, make the meals and housework.all the while at work they want to profit from the black man or minority worker. They dont want to do any work so they try to blow up the system that holds them accountable. #resist
It's more than just racism. I know this because I'm lilly white but still losing my rights. It's racism, it's hate against the disabled, it's misogyny run wild. This regime is everything this country has fought since it started.
We need to do better and work together.
Riffing on trump's definition of DEI, let's flip the script and call them the "DEI patriots," not qualified to stand for democracy the way MLK, Jr. John Lewis, the Freedom Riders, the Greensboro Four, Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, Viola Liuzzo, Schwerner, Goodman, and Chaney and others did.
Sorry, if you actually worked, you would know the actual strength of a union, in the workplace, is that jobs are secured via seniority…the antithesis of DEI! Do you mean the old fashioned segregation enforced by Democrats?!!
It’s sad to see how many white Union members are upset right now. They don’t realize that republicans used their bigotry to destroy solidarity amongst the working class. They thought trump’s policies would only impact non-white people. Well, now they’re getting to FO
I mean...this is who they are trying to push into the role of America's public diplomacy. We don't have to read between the lines. It speaks for itself. And Rep. Jasmine Crockett was spot on in her analysis.
It’s worked for centuries- it started with Bacons Rebellion in colonial VA- poor, enslaved and indentured people rose up against the wealthy and were barely put down. What followed? A bunch of racist laws to divide and conquer the working classes.
This is the old playback with a bunch of OLD ass Racists we knew that racist irrogrant sociopath narcissistic criminal liar lying creepy idiot convict convicted felon trump he's trying to shut it down COUP!
Meanwhile, MAGA MAGGOTS criminals and Republicans are enabling both including..
The Nazi saluting sociopath narcissistic racist punk ass Putin asset (bitch) immigrate musk who's sending whatever to his boss in Russia as they reap hell on America Both are haters of America it shows my again who do they think they are I guess the deranged dimwitted deviant trump thinks his picks
Ah, the classics: pit workers against each other, then act shocked when wages stagnate and solidarity fractures. Segregation wasn’t just about water fountains ….
it was about who got to bargain and who got undercut.
What about the white male who’s been stocking boxes at the store for 10 years and really wants manager, he applies and the trans guy gets the job who’s been there for 3 months because why? It’s wrong. There is no excuse. The answer to discrimination is not MORE discrimination!
Stacking boxes is probably not a qualification for manager and if you’ve done it for ten years without trying to move up in that period…that’s not indicative of someone who wants to advance. Sorry.
Jesus… I was just making a fucking example. Put whatever job and time frame you want in there instead. DEI absolutely adversely affects strait white males and to claim it doesn’t is the most ridiculous shit I’ve ever heard in my life.
They just have to give someone like you a scapegoat. You are being played like a violin. They don’t want you to see that income and working conditions are not improving, they want you to be angry over these other issues that they put on repeat until it sticks. You fell for it.
That is the most deranged thing I've ever heard. You are describing diversity hires ... In retail. And a person that would put up with that sector for 10 fucking years in hope an additional $1 an hour (for longer hours many of which unpaid) and "manager" title? This is satire, right?
Insane woke far left radicals like you are literally the reason Trump won. You give the normal center liberals a bad name and who can blame them for thinking we’re all crazy. We let you loud obnoxious freaks hijack the party.
How is it satire? That is LITERALLY what DEI programs do, prioritize MANAGEMENT positions for minorities. Wtf are you even talking about. You sound like you started frothing at the mouth when you read my post.
They LITERALLY have DEI programs in retail all over the country. Walmart just ended theirs. I said for a management position but you prolly got triggered before you read that.
This is the tragedy of DEI. You cannot have these programs in place they are wrong. When you hire based on race or gender you are literally screwing over white people who in most cases don’t have this “privilege” you keep talking about.
You don't understand DEI. You're hiring DESPITE race or gender or disability or orientation, based on qualifications. Because being 'whyte' doesn’t automatically make one the best qualified
Me and my friends all grew up in the hood and never had any advantage against anyone. This victim mentality you people harbor is the reason you’re disadvantaged. You want a handout, a leg up cause of your “perceived” disadvantages. I see plenty of gay and minorities who make it.
And I never said being white makes someone more qualified. DEI has nothing to do with hiring the most qualified. If that was the case we ALREADY have anti-discrimination laws. DEI is intentionally looking past white people to hire supposed “marginalized” people. You don’t care that it hurts whites
That’s BS! Word play! What’s the difference? So what is the difference if you hire someone because they are “not white”, it’s still disadvantaging white people! Look up Concord, or dragon age veilgaurd. Those teams were 30% DEI hires and they made the most pathetic cringe propaganda.
They aren't hiring because someone isn't white. DEI means hiring the best PERSON for the job.
If you're white AND youre the best qualified, you get the job.
If you're not white & the best qualified, you get the job.
If you're not the best qualified & white, you don't get the job.
Elon Musk sees a country with AI robots following a human worker around a couple of days before replacing that worker. Union is powerless to remain relevant. The AI robot development is moving at astonishing pace, only 3-5 years away. DEI will include white workers in next few years .
Unions originally were created to keep Black People OUT of jobs. They faltered when the government required Equal Opportunity. NEVER let some white man tell you that it's about class. IT IS NOT. It's about the power of the white man to rule.
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Unions will need to organize, immediately, then go hard at MAGA reps while preparing to take Trump to court.
V.P Harris and Walz !
They tried to tell them , we did
too on deaf ears, but I still don't believe he won fairly
I call B.S. It's a fact that he suppresses Black folks' votes in the Red States and the popular vote. That's a sick, S.O.B, joke, haha !
@dearwhitestaffers.bsky.social
BTW there are NO Christian racists, bigots or antisemites. So much for the claims of the MAGA racist & bigoted mob's claims huh?
Hmmm interesting.
Seems like a lot of white liberals spent A LOT of time and energy..creating "safe spaces" for all minorities
Convincing them that it was a place of safety
Now..I've always wondered how black Americans don't see it as being talked into self segregation by white people
Trump and his cronies want to abolish unions and enslave black people again.
You see, black people are "lazy", even though most of this country was built BY black people who were enslaved.
Make that make sense...
like there was primitive racism, but scientific racism (which was the foundation of legalized racial oppression and persists to this day) was led by the same people who owned slaves.
“Family” is going off, getting a college education, and moving to the city, as people have been doing since the Industrial Revolution.
These are not anti-DEI lists. Or anti-DEI Executive Orders. There are racist lists and racist EOs.
Stop playing his game and tell it like it is.
No blacks = no Diversity.
No gays = no Equality.
No women = no Inclusion.
All white, straight, men = Solution?
This is a neofeudalist/fascist/national socialist (Nazi) dictatorship enabled by the christofascist SCOTUS supermajority. They are ruling accordingly.
The Dems MUST introduce articles of impeachment ASAP. Those articles MUST be read on the steps of the Capitol…
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After what those teachers unions did to our kids during Covid? They gotta go
Some unions (the trades) are great as they ensure safety training but some unions (teachers) are 100% self serving and protect mediocrity.
Good luck to them
In Asia, Africa and the Middle East white people are a minority and routinely discriminated against. Should we try to force DEI on them?.
Does anyone actually think they would have it?. Or is there a different set of rules for everyone else?...
From that, to holding back funds for construction projects & feeding inflation by imposing tariffs on our suppliers.
Trump spot on with banning that insanity.
Even the World Boxing Federation had banned that man from women's boxing after they tested him scientifically.
And jails far more minorities than any other nation
Had to stop reading Lepore's "These Truths" because I got disgusted reading how that happened over and over.
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Critical mass seems to be the criterion that makes change stick as well, a la French revolution, versus Roosevelts' new deal. 1/
this movie may be informative about how things were perceived in some places during this time
-LBJ
I live in North Carolina.
https://www.wral.com/story/raleigh-ranks-no-2-in-best-performing-cities-list-no-5-for-quality-of-life/21442798/
If you watch FOX PROPAGANDA for a while, you'll understand why.
Republicans don't believe in "Labor Laws" as a rule.
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Trying to convince anyone who will listen to fuck the economy. Considering getting a mossberg.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5130103-trump-national-prayer-breakfast-religious-discrimination-task-force-anti-christian-bias/
"Fine people" on both sides of the "jews will not replace us" crowd, but Christians face discrimination. 🙄
You can't make this up.
While the aristocracy broadcasts the spectacle of those who attempt to confront it as spectacle for entertainment and ratings
Cutting off their nose to spite their faces
If you are not one of *them* - the people actually seated in power
or a 1%er
Or a few select supporters
YOU WILL HAVE NO RIGHTS
NONE
ZERO
Vigilant and reactive where needed
We need to do better and work together.
Respectfully, I’m from Texas, they vote Republican’s. Unions are not, what you thought they were.
More importantly, they hate others. They reiterate, “Deepstates”, not all, but most. The south is racist!
This oligarchy wants to dismantle and destroy the institutions which help ensure the core values of a democratic America remain intact.
Meanwhile, MAGA MAGGOTS criminals and Republicans are enabling both including..
What a freaking shitshow!
Any divisive policy that can split workers, will have that effect.
Is there a way we can pivot this to destroy the police union? At least get some marshmallows out of this bonfire?
it was about who got to bargain and who got undercut.
Same playbook, new century.
#DivideAndExtract #LaborHistory
#StaySharp
You've seen their resume?
You can do it too, just takes more than stacking boxes.
If you're white AND youre the best qualified, you get the job.
If you're not white & the best qualified, you get the job.
If you're not the best qualified & white, you don't get the job.
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All humans are brothers, bound by our nature, not our ideals, appearance, or statehood. An idea that is easy to forget.