I wonder why everyone seems to comply. be it administrative staff, military, university leaders, journalists or whoever owns the media, politicians. So many people seem to comply.. I know this is not the whole picture, but most of what we see is compliance. They want content removed? Let them do it.
I made a joke that segregated drinking fountains were making a comeback. It appears that KKK Donald wants to make that so. The GOP wants a world that never existed, a world of Ozzie and Harriet or Father Knows Best
I'm pretty sure it's ALWAYS meant racist and sexist. Not to mention homophobic, transphobic, and against every religion that isn't their specific version of Christianity, including atheism.
Right, but when did it ever mean anything else? See the 60 Minutes story on Trump cutting concert program for young Black and brown musicians with the Marine Band. The cruelty is always the point.
I understand the American media has either been bought or is too cowardly to challenge this ethnic cleansing of history, but are all the generals and admirals bent or cowards too?
As with all these things, find the drones who actually did this, interview them, have them explain why the removed soldiers do not deserve recognition in their eyes. Do not let them hide behind phrases.
Destroy their career.
Born 1920, Major Nancy Leftenant-Colon was the first Black nurse in the regular U.S. armed forces, later a flight nurse as an Air Force officer & the only woman elected national president of the Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. She served in both Korea & Vietnam.
It’s time we broadcast their names. Judith Richtsmeier, a VERY early Vietnam nurse serving in Pleiku. Look her up on Arlington Cemetery’s website. RIP my dear cousin. No one can take your deeds away.
No, no I am aware of the original story and source of the (original) image - your remix/take on it was like a punch in the gut in its effectiveness of the revised message.
I feel like we could use a quick reassertion of reality:
DEI = *Merit-based* + not being blinded by “otherness”
In addition to its moral validity, it is supported by those who want to eg, hire the *best* people (vs nepo-baby legacy-admission C-students who look/act a certain way).
Definitely seems that herr drumpf wants everything to be a straight, white, english-speaking male world, just like hitler wanted his blonde-haired, blue-eyed aryan race...
If white males are displayed then anyone else should also be given equal footing. Didn't any of these people even say the pledge of allegiance?
George Takei has it 100% right. This has nothing to do with DEI, which was always partly a practice of driving down the cost of labor for big business.
Don’t forget Christian. Straight, married, Christian, with a wife at home (theoretically white unless you’re in govt; then immigrants are ok)… and lots of kids who will only learn what the Bible says.
Anti-DEI is what they say because it's not yet normalized for them to shout the hard r and do a collective Sieg Heil. Give MAGAts an inch, they'll wrench a mile from your hands. MAGAts are nothing more than fascists, Nazis, Klansmen, and the lowest of the low.
They're eradicating all evidence of contributions by women, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ and all people who check more of these boxes to society (science, defense etc.). They want to be able to say that white heterosexual cis men built this world. But the world is watching. I am.
I am fairly certain that the folks scrubbing the sites of "DEI" content are deliberately misinterpreting the orders from on high in the most damaging way possible.
"What do you mean, 'why did I remove pictures of the Enola Gay'? You said, & I quote, 'get all that gay shit off the web'. So I did."
Everyone should be outraged. In 2020/21 when monuments to racists and the names of public spaces were being removed, there was outcries from the right that we were "erasing history" but silent now. Because it never was about the erase of history.
And anti-woke means pro-prejudice — but WE already knew that 😔 It’s just so disheartening that racism, sexism, transphobia, homophobia and more are not just encouraged but LEGISLATED INTO LAW
Anti-DEI is just covering 'white male fragility', but more directly it is all about expressing white supremacy, while supporting Christian nationalism to keep minorities and women in a subordinate role to ... [see first line] white (weak ass) men.
Every one of us need to be sharing this kind of information with family and friends currently serving in the military, telling them this is how the Trump administration is treating both their legacy and their comrades-in-ams.
This is so disgusting. Come and die for your/our country but the country sees you and your contribution as unworthy of recognition and gratitude. What has the US stooped to?
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Destroy their career.
But then again, it's the Republican Party doing it, so I'm being redundant.
Born 1920, Major Nancy Leftenant-Colon was the first Black nurse in the regular U.S. armed forces, later a flight nurse as an Air Force officer & the only woman elected national president of the Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. She served in both Korea & Vietnam.
(but you're not wrong)
This is the original:
DEI = *Merit-based* + not being blinded by “otherness”
In addition to its moral validity, it is supported by those who want to eg, hire the *best* people (vs nepo-baby legacy-admission C-students who look/act a certain way).
(Edited 10:34 AM via @skeetsapp.com)
George Takei has it 100% right. This has nothing to do with DEI, which was always partly a practice of driving down the cost of labor for big business.
They've moved on from "thugs" during the pandemic.
Their "anti-woke" messaging is simply shorthand for they give zero shits about anyone that's not in their MAGA tribe
that's all it ever meant
https://bsky.app/profile/cheshiremuser.bsky.social/post/3lkpbzgwuvs27
"What do you mean, 'why did I remove pictures of the Enola Gay'? You said, & I quote, 'get all that gay shit off the web'. So I did."
I say let the US become isolated
No country to engage with them
They're unwilling to accept that any "others" could have a positive role in historical or present-day leadership roles.
This is both insane and undemocratic.