Have they not been paying attention to the last 10 years? Hell, the last 20 years? This is what the Tea Party wanted, too. I guess they thought they could control the monster they created.
The only sensible solution to any of this is to take all the motherfuckers responsible for this shit, people like Bari Weiss, and put them in a long line that terminates on a raised platform with a machine invented by the French in 1789.
It’s not just minorities. Women, including white women, are being attacked as dei hires.
No 1 is safe except straight white males. It’s used as a catch all- every non white straight male is questionable & unqualified. While musk makes a 19 yr old named Big Balls a senior advisor at the state dept.
The problem was that DEI programs really did go too far and now because of the current climate We are getting a massive backlash. The Free Press is responsible for helping to make it seem like it was the issue, but practitioners are responsible for not policing their own excesses.
Just go read some of Michael Hobbes’ extensive breakdowns of why DEI is a moral panic and not a real thing, you are misinformed and do not know what you are talking about
DEI is the phrase used by mediocre losers that can't get the position on their own merits so they have to use their societal privilege.
Bari Weiss is a perfect case in point- failed at being a real journalist so became a grifter plying the grievance trade.
I get that the world is a complicated place but the radical centrist belief that the needle of principles can be threaded just right ignores the reality that rights affect real ppl in the real world. If you think you can sacrifice certain rights to secure others, you’re already losing to bad actors.
A bunch of overprivileged jerks are getting a crash course in what it feels like to have your privilege taken away by a jackboot stomping on your face. Yay for your personal growth, you bunch of creeps.
DEI began as the much more justified Affirmative Action before morphing into the divisive & unmoored beast of today. The pushback was deserved. TFP advocating for that, then holding the correction in check, is solid journalism - not the dunk you think it is.
Give me a break. “Affirmative action”, “CRT”, “DEI”, etc. are all different ways of stating the notion that straight white guys derive an unearned benefit from being presumed competent and deserving of their status, while others are deemed suspect until said straight white guys decide otherwise.
No please, you give everyone else a break. Who believes a straight white male is automatically competent?? I don’t. You clearly don’t. Let’s stop peddling the lie used to spread divisive hate and just evaluate based on merit. Why is that so hard?
Trump has made “dismantling DEI” a clear focal point of his admin yet he has first female chief of staff, first female DNI, first openly gay Sec treasury, first female Sec DHS, first IndianAmer Dir. FBI. Wait where’s all the straight white men automatically shoved in?
This exchange became more contentious than need be. I don’t deny there are bigots-there are and it remains a serious problem. I just argue that what started has good natured & virtuous has become divisive and counter productive in many instances. And imo there are more nuanced & measured approaches
With DEI, white men say no to minorities and by women, thus limiting the selection pool to 25%of the total selection pool. Sounds like Magas want what they accuse the left of doing—limiting the pool to their group. DEI is code for only white men should get the good jobs.
The left claimed the Emperor had no clothes—an obvious exaggeration—but a naked man is now standing at my front door.
Don’t prove them right by letting him sit on my sofa!
Anyone still reading the Free Press and NOT reading it out of hate, spite, or a deeply ingrained loathing, should be considered an enemy of democracy and a critical threat to human decency.
“Don’t prove them right” as though the worst thing that could happen is the left being correct about something and not that racist bias is destroying careers and lives.
Yup. And it’s like, obviously, we all know that’s *exactly* what it is— a euphemism for bigotry. They don’t want to admit that outright.
I’m a woman in a technical role, there have been so many nobodies that say I must be a “DEI hire” without knowing me, my actual job, or my level of expertise.
I honestly think they see anyone who isn't a white man as inferior and can't imagine that anyone who isn't white and male could get anywhere on their merits. Don't underestimate how much undeserved self-esteem they possess.
They have covered the faces off female awards winners at various science agencies so they don’t publicize the accomplishments lest it contradict the narrative
I appreciate that you recognize this exactly for what it is.
All of that is true. It takes a lot more effort for people like myself to get into a technical role. There are so many prejudices and biases you have to overcome and prove and reprove yourself over and over.
Well yeah if the left & allied coalition was right all along it means these people personally have been spewing bullshit for years so... as usual with these types all about the "me me me".
I really have such a deep dislike of these losers that it is difficult to put into words.
This is a not very subtle attempt to try and not have the leopards eat their face, now that face eating has commenced, that they have continuously promoted.
May their comeuppance be as painful for them as it will be satisfying for me. Those utter, abject, pathetic bootlickers. Those shitty little hall monitor narcs. I hope they scream and cry all the way down so I can at least enjoy that.
They're only the smartest ones in the room when they're homeschooling their kids to hate everyone that tries to teach them anything about reality. They will slip deeper into hate and darkness embracing more evil lies and superstition, only seeing the truth when their bedroom becomes 1945 Berlin
The new dei...
The hire has to be your buddy.. Don't worry if he ain't qualified, neither are we...
But here we are!!
That goofy Patel guy for FBI director...
Prime example lmfao
It’s the rest of them that don’t get DEI that is disappointing. I grew up in my career, fighting the “good old boy” network. And I was a damn good employee. I did make it up that proverbial ladder, but I worked my ass off while lazy, meritless white men climbed the ladder, too.
The more I reread German history, the more complete the parallel becomes. The current version of the solution is less visible as modern smokescreens can distract and hide the intent. But the intent has always been there.
Bari Weiss should pat herself on the back for all her hard work in service to a madman. And when Repubs overturn Obergefell, and her marriage is nullified, she should recognize that she helped them dehumanize LGBTQ Americans again, and drive them out of society. This is Bari Weiss’ dumb legacy.
ahhh they found the block on funding that’s going to “cause real damage” and not say the pause on scientific research. this is such an unserious country
"This isn't like all those other budgets being illegally cut; our money actually matters" is some real "first they came for the socialists and I said nothing" shit.
"soft power you say...could cause real damage." Hell, where's the Endowment for Democracy when you need it? Nowhere to be seen around here, defending democracy against a fascist. Don't tell me they were all just MAGA grifters, now getting grifted themselves.
It hands me a laugh every time I see this nameplate “Free Press.” Weiss et al are hired guns for a billionaire. It’s always “a free press” if ur spouting the views of the ultrarich and powerful
Respectfully, would you prefer that they not speak up in defense of this organization? Despite The Free Press's hard-right pivot over the past few years, they're getting it right on this one. "Oh, so NOW you agree" doesn't seem a helpful response.
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Their hands are all over our government
Whoopsie!
There is something deeply, darkly funny about the Free Press spending months fomenting exactly this before being concerned about going too far.
They literally have an “investigative report” on their fucking website now about NPR “hiding” DEI hired from Trump!!
They didn't complain of "too far" in Germany - just like MAGA is all for "Trump rocking the boat", until they are rocked off the boat
No 1 is safe except straight white males. It’s used as a catch all- every non white straight male is questionable & unqualified. While musk makes a 19 yr old named Big Balls a senior advisor at the state dept.
I will never ever forget that.
https://crypto.news/university-of-austin-bets-on-bitcoin-with-a-5m-long-term-investment-fund/
You just have bad opinions.
You are gleefully accepting hard right winger framing of DEI entirely without any evidence
Just go read some of Michael Hobbes’ extensive breakdowns of why DEI is a moral panic and not a real thing, you are misinformed and do not know what you are talking about
Bari Weiss is a perfect case in point- failed at being a real journalist so became a grifter plying the grievance trade.
Wow. If only many, many people, not to mention all of history had warned her about that!
There's the sound bite. Time to amplify it.
Don’t prove them right by letting him sit on my sofa!
Make America Racist Again
I’m a woman in a technical role, there have been so many nobodies that say I must be a “DEI hire” without knowing me, my actual job, or my level of expertise.
Because that sexist (or racist) “DEI beneficiary” mentality is pervasive, a barrier to have to constantly overcome to have landed in that seat
All of that is true. It takes a lot more effort for people like myself to get into a technical role. There are so many prejudices and biases you have to overcome and prove and reprove yourself over and over.
Won’t be very funny
This is a not very subtle attempt to try and not have the leopards eat their face, now that face eating has commenced, that they have continuously promoted.
Do not let her squirm out of it.
Also, protest Shadow King Musk.
The hire has to be your buddy.. Don't worry if he ain't qualified, neither are we...
But here we are!!
That goofy Patel guy for FBI director...
Prime example lmfao
https://www.vox.com/on-the-right-newsletter/399352/marko-elez-elon-musk-jd-vance-richard-rorty
It’s not just anti equality of minorities and the disabled in the workplace, it’s anti equality of women in the workplace.
But hey, let’s have more white men in the workplace again. That’s what anti-DEI is.
More face eating in store.
or that gravy train from the VC dirtbags might stop too
Leopard bellies will be full
Just absolute stain upon society, pumping out propaganda and calling it intellectually rigorous conversation.