The attack on DEI shows why liberals should stop arguing about "strategic" use of language forever. DEI stands for three uncontroversial virtues that most every American accepts, and the right still turned it into a vile slur. It doesn't matter what you say - they will poison it because YOU said it.
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But the reality is "diversity," "equity," and "inclusion" are uncontroversial virtues while "DEI" is a corporate HR acronym not a virtue--and nobody enjoys being stuck defending a corp. HR acronym. (Source: 20+ years in corp HR)
The United States Senate is DEI. CANCEL THEM.
Look at all the reaching across the aisle Obama did. What did it get him?
We know that the literacy levels in the United States are very low, given that 23% of our population is functionally illiterate.... Means they can read but they don't necessarily comprehend.
But the language still works on them.
But they have their argument set up: they say it's not diversity they dislike, but that the programs do it *wrong*. They claim the programs don't pick people with "merit".
https://enddei.ed.gov
It would be a shame if people spammed it.
*Maggats hear DEI and immediately think black/brown people are taking our jobs! DEI bad!
*We seriously need to DUMB it down. Like “Diverse Merit” or something. Because they r that ignorant😖
I frame back to gun nuts:
"from my cold dead hands" the clarion call that says don't give up you gun. Give up you life. Gun important. Your life, not so much.
Bullets should be regulated like airplanes - recurrence training, medical, purpose for use.
Gun addiction is like a fire out of control. Need to set a control burn to put the fire out.
But I don't think the riots will be like the 60s now. Too many -trump
bc death is a likely outcome, pre-qualify not post-Q
Jon Stewart was just talking about how afraid he was to call Trump a fascist & some sloppy mention of "crying wolf."
Right to Know = forced procedures, viewing images, & listening to “heartbeats.”
Right to Work = weakens worker rights.
Defense of Marriage = outlawed rights for LGBTQ folks.
Small government = fucking Christians all up in your business.
Fuck conservatives & their lies.
you
you are racist garbage
rethink your life choices, trollboy
U.S. Dept of Education launched EndDEI.Ed.Gov, a public portal for parents, students, teachers, and the community to submit reports of Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion.
https://enddei.ed.gov/"DEI
Soon (if not immediately) the gop will be the fascist party and the dems will be what the gop was in the 1980 & 90s and we are seriously screwed.
Nobody cared about 3 trans girls who wanted to try out for the volleyball team until the RWNJ media ecosystem told them to be outraged. Back down and they'll just demonize someone else.
We finally showed up for gay people, so they took the exact same lines and campaigns, only with "homo" scratched out and "trans" written in over it.
and the media treated it like new sincere positions. Are still.
They were manufactured, told top-down to hate refugees this week, gay people the next, then Jews and now trans people.
They are remarkably swift and synchronous in adopting a new scapegoat.
The thing we're facing now is not hating others, it's pointing at specific minorities who arebsimultaniously an "untermensch" but also "the elite".
That's a systemic abuse. It's fascism.
Make them say it out loud.
Just keep doing it but call it something other than Diversity, Equity, or Inclusion and they simply won’t notice.
How about Opportunty?
We’re now giving everyone an opportunity.
Call it “the big O” most of them have never given anyone that.
Almost everyone strongly agrees with these things. i.e. DEI but in Republicanese...
What if, say, LGTBQIA+ people all decided not to be offended by one of the slurs most commonly used to cause them pain, and instead turned around and used that same word against their provocateurs?
slurs are used to degrade and marginalize the other
they are inherently punching down