this is from a new report on a “third way” on DEI and it is unbelievably naive, which in my view is emblematic of the author, rich kahlenberg, whose willingness to extend good faith to obvious bad faith actors borders on gullibility https://www.progressivepolicy.org/a-way-out-of-the-dei-wars/
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White guys being hired because of their race is called "Every day in America". It is certainly not new or ironic.
there really is something different happening, even though of course the root are old (and in many ways it is a reversion to a very dark past).
Trump picked Vance because he was white. Obama picked Biden because he was white.
Nobody questions it when a white guy gets a job because of his race and gender, but you just starting to notice doesn't make it new.
but i think there is also value in pointing out the irony and hypocrisy, and in attacking the hypocrisy from multiple angles, especially to people who like to pretend that DEI means something different.
A: Liberals want to hire unqualified people, for dumb reasons.
B: U want to hire unqualified people [too]! Gotcha
B didn't mean "too," of course, but also didn't exclude it.
Sorry if I sound cynical.
Speaking as a Federal worker whose own project for vets was killed by the anti-DEI efforts: The regime is not acting in good faith. (Duh.)
Also Random nazi salute
One could have issues with DEI and *still* see the racism. If one really thought that DEI practices potentially installed unqualified people, I'd review their fucking qualifications.
Makes sense that you would want to criticize the individual instead of the institution. imo. 😀
'colorblindness" means only capable of seeing white
The segregationist are the cause of the disparity!
“People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.”
― James Baldwin
Nah, at this point I have to assume he agrees with them.
Or, more like, complicity.
Failing to understand how small a fig leaf "DEI" is requires that you willfully ignore how the term is used.
https://bsky.app/profile/joelcawley.bsky.social/post/3lhuebjvza22o
As inferior to mediocre white men. What a clown. Can he actually believe that is Trump's motive here? Really?
https://myferretsatepepethefrog.blogspot.com/2025/02/downsizing-left-behind-is-lie-v-eight.html
Of course, some people are just naive. But I am not. So I'm pretty sure this is complicity masquerading as naivete.
Extending good faith to a white-nationalist nazi regime is nothing short of accepting it, and thus being culpable in their hatred and intolerance.
Musk is a dick.
If a schlub lawyer can see what Trump is about, a Harvard educated lecturer can too.
Resistance isn't futile.
Revolution is necessary.
🌊🇺🇸🇺🇦🌈🟧🌍💙
https://refusefascism.org
One of the board members dryly observed that in the case study he was talking about a plausible explanation was, "after a decade of pricing minorities out of the community, white people started supporting public education"
Look for Apple shareholders to tell anti-DEI activists to take a hike — just as Costco shareholders did by a margin of 98-2 percent. Because DEI is good.
Like West Marine (zero-DEI) (all white crew at every store I've been in) paints their stores Blue to appear all liberal friendly.
Vett at every level...
And then proceeds with his sweeping anti-DEI arguments? Is he even reading his own words?
fuck OFFFFFFF
[rereads today’s article about changes at the Joint Chiefs]
Perfectly embodies the time we are in.
no, that's not gullibility or misguided benefit of the doubt
that is deliberate
mf is an opp, plain and simple
There's no difference between the ppl putting up the 'whites only' sign & the folks who are making excuses for the ppl putting up the 'whites only' sign.
Rich should do some soul searching ASAP.
Are sieg heil salutes at CPAC over the top or
When will we all acknowledge that black, white, or brown people are not separate "races"? We're all one race. This is bigotry due to thinking that black and brown people are different from and inferior to white people
The primary slogan in the Fourteen Words is,
We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children,[1][5][6][7]
Followed by the secondary slogan,
because the beauty of the White Aryan woman must not perish from the Earth.
Their claim that the world's population is shrinking means not enough white people exist to re-populate the world. Non-white people do not count as humans.
Thank Vance, Thiel, Musk, Yarvin, Andreessen.
So….
lets talk about the problems of DEI
“When both sides in the DEI wars suppress free speech and try to police how citizens think, what is the way out?”
The TrumpMusk Regime is all in on reversing diversity in America.
We're going backwards 100 years!
The TrumpMusk Regime must be stopped.
NOW!
We need to throw these people out of their roles guiding the Democratic Party, their brains are not equipped for a world filled with right-wing propaganda.
https://www.progressivepolicy.org/people/
You are being kind when you say Naive
Follow the rules for 3-4 generations and then let’s see.
protesters in the black and white photograph,
yelling at Ruby Bridges?" If a Black person suggested asking school children this, Trump would cut federal funds.
Over the top is Hegseth stating in his own unambiguous words that Brown was probably hired because he is black and that he uses the race card.
And then there are people like MAGATS who are just Nazi klanner fucks.
“White supremacy” is easily discredited by simply strolling through a rural Missouri Walmart. Master race my ass.