So-called Anti-Woke, Anti-DEI policy catch-all

[ZenMode]

GIFT LINK —> The Great Resegregation

“… Since taking office, Trump has rescinded decades-old orders ensuring equal opportunity in government contracts and vowed to purge DEI from the federal government, intending to lay off any federal worker whose job they associate with DEI.

Yesterday evening, Trump fired the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Charles Q Brown, and replaced him with a lower ranking white official, a retired three-star Air Force officer named Dan Caine. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth had previously attacked Brown as an unqualified diversity hire based on the fact that he is Black.

Trump’s Department of Justice has implied that it will prosecute or sue companies that engage in diversity outreach. Elon Musk’s DOGE is attempting to purge federal workers “that protect employees’ civil rights and others that investigate complaints of employment discrimination in the federal workplace,” the Washington Post reported.

Colleges and universities are being threatened with defunding for any programming related to DEI, which the free-speech organization PEN America has noted could include “everything from a panel on the Civil Rights Movement to a Lunar New Year celebration.”

Trump has also signed executive orders that threaten government funding for scientific research on inequality or on health issues that disproportionately affect nonwhite ethnic groups, and has imposed censorious gag orders that could block discussion of race or sex discrimination in American classrooms.

During her confirmation hearing, Trump’s education-secretary nominee, Linda McMahon, said she did not know if schools could lose funding for teaching Black-history classes under the order. The legality of the order over K–12 curricula is unclear, but the chilling effects are real nonetheless.

… If the Great Resegregation proves successful, it will restore an America past where racial and ethnic minorities were the occasional token presence in an otherwise white-dominated landscape.

It would repeal the gains of the civil-rights era in their entirety.

What its advocates want is not a restoration of explicit Jim Crow segregation—that would shatter the illusion that their own achievements are based in a color-blind meritocracy.

They want an arrangement that perpetuates racial inequality indefinitely while retaining some plausible deniability, a rigged system that maintains a mirage of equal opportunity while maintaining an unofficial racial hierarchy.

Like elections in authoritarian countries where the autocrat is always reelected in a landslide, they want a system in which they never risk losing but can still pretend they won fairly. …”

"That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”

Discrimination is already illegal. DEI isn't anti-discrimination - it IS discrimination. It is an initiative to intentionally consider race, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation.

 

[MOUNTAINH33L]

Discrimination is already illegal.

It used to be.

 

[finesse]

"That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”

Discrimination is already illegal. DEI isn't anti-discrimination - it IS discrimination. It is an initiative to intentionally consider race, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation.

Just like white males have done forever, huh?

 

[Tarheeljoe]

Here's something interesting. The Trump Media & Technology Group ( Home )operates Truth Social. If you go to their Corporate Governance/Governance Documents page and click the Corporate Governance Guidelines link, you will find this on the last page of the document. Now perhaps they just have not updated their documents to reflect their distaste for DEI but it seems odd. Apologies if this was already posted.

 

[nycfan]

Here's something interesting. The Trump Media & Technology Group ( Home )operates Truth Social. If you go to their Corporate Governance/Governance Documents page and click the Corporate Governance Guidelines link, you will find this on the last page of the document. Now perhaps they just have not updated their documents to reflect their distaste for DEI but it seems odd. Apologies if this was already posted.

Trump’s media company defends its ‘diversity and inclusion’ policies as his administration dismantles DEI​

Trump’s media company defends its ‘diversity and inclusion’ policies as his administration dismantles DEI | CNN Politics

Donald Trump has made purging the government of diversity, equity and inclusion programs a top priority of his new administration, calling them “illegal” and “immoral.” But throughout his career Trump has espoused the opposite view and has often highlighted the importance of such initiatives in...

amp.cnn.com

“… Trump’s business books have also championed diversity in hiring, including his 2000 book, “The America We Deserve,” in which he wrote that one of the president’s most important jobs was to “induce a greater tolerance for diversity.”

Trump, who was considering a presidential run at the time, claimed in his book that through his friendship with Black celebrities such as rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs and baseball player Sammy Sosa, he’d “had the chance to learn firsthand about the diversity of American culture, and it has left me with little appetite for those who hate or preach intolerance.”

“Anyone who really knows me knows that I hate intolerance and bigotry,” Trump added.

… In response to CNN’s reporting, a Trump Media & Technology Group spokesperson dismissed the significance of the diversity and inclusion statement in the company’s corporate governance, implying that it was merely legal language to comply with anti-discrimination laws.

“CNN’s focus on legal language that is obviously intended to ban discrimination and ensure compliance with all applicable regulations is a textbook example of CNN preferring frivolous, partisan ‘gotcha’ stories to meaningful news that affects people’s lives,” the spokesperson said.

The White House also weighed in, attacking DEI policies more broadly.

… But legal experts CNN spoke with said that Trump Media’s claim that the diversity statement is just boilerplate legal language doesn’t hold up.

CNN legal analyst Elie Honig said that while companies must comply with anti-discrimination laws, they are not required to make public statements affirming diversity commitments.

“There is no law requiring an affirmative public statement,” Honig said.

New York University constitutional law professor Kenji Yoshino noted that the statement explicitly describes diversity as a factor in hiring and board nominations – something that goes beyond non-discrimination. …”

 

[finesse]

Give him credit. He has put a very diverse group of felons, liars, traitors and fools in government that no one else would have. Mission completed.

 

[donbosco]

I guess this goes right here...

"NC university’s first response to DEI ban? Striking use of ‘race,’ ‘equality,’ ‘white’
Like all educational institutions receiving federal dollars, High Point University had two weeks to respond to a Trump administration edict last month that it cease diversity, equality and inclusion efforts.

A week later the private university distributed a list of 49 banned words or terms, including “equality,” “gender,” “black and latinx,” “white” and “white supremacy” to be removed from all “documents, events and presentations.” Course descriptions, student handbooks, class syllabi and webpages were among the university publications listed for censoring.

A spokesman for the American Association of University Professors, which represents faculty across the country, said it was among the most extreme responses to a letter from the U.S. Department of Education that he was aware of.

After The News & Observer contacted High Point Provost Daniel Erb on Sunday about the list, Erb emailed text from an email he said he sent to deans that day backing off from the word ban.

“(O)ur legal counsel has helped clarify that our priority should be on ensuring all our program qualifications and requirements do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, religious beliefs, etc.,” the text said. “Therefore, the concern about the language that is used is no longer a focus.

“You no longer need to conduct audits regarding the list of words that were originally identified as words that might lead to an audit by the federal government. There are no terms or words that you are required to change,” it stated.

The N&O reached out to numerous High Point faculty on Sunday, the last day of their week-long spring break, about the word ban. One faculty member was willing to comment but did not want to be identified, fearing retaliation.

“It gave me a sense of anxiety, and this is like ‘1984,” the professor said, referring to George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel about a “big brother” government that resorts to censorship, fabrication and surveillance to keep its citizens under control.

The ban list also included a prohibition on faculty providing pronoun preferences in their email correspondence. University spokesman Alex Abrams said the university has had a policy for at least a year limiting “email signatures” to “name, title, academic credentials and contact information.”

Battle over DEI initiatives​

The aggressive efforts by President Donald Trump’s administration to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programming from the federal government and beyond has drawn praise from his supporters. It’s also drawn lawsuits and harsh criticism.

The AAUP and other groups recently won a preliminary injunction from a federal judge stopping parts of two Trump executive orders banning DEI efforts that are included in a “Dear Colleague” letter dated Feb. 14 that the U.S. Education Department sent out.

Kelly Benjamin, an AAUP spokesman, said High Point’s list of temporarily banned words is among the most extreme responses he’s seen to the letter. He, too, referenced “1984.”

“That is a very Orwellian list of censored terms that should be concerning for anybody who cares about higher education, and to have that kind of guidance from an administration is incredibly troubling,” he said.

Craig Trainor, the acting assistant secretary for civil rights within the U.S. Department of Education, sent the letter to schools, universities and colleges directing them to remove all DEI programs or risk the loss of federal funding for research and student grants.

Trainor cited the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard — a case that included UNC-Chapel Hill as a defendant — that struck down race-based admissions.

Erb, in his email Sunday to the deans retracting the word ban, said the federal letter left the university in a quandary.

“As you know, universities were given just 14 days to comply with the Dear Colleague letter mandates in order to maintain federal funding, and my initial communication with you came after the termination of several national Department of Education grants for local educators, of which our School of Education was a recipient,” he said. “None of us want to see our students or university lose funding.”

THERE IS MORE AT THE LINK...

https://amp.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article301340334.html

 

[donbosco]

Make history White again

Anti-DEI laws are an attempt to control the national narrative.

open.substack.com

 

[Batt Boy]

impacts everywhere

HUD Rejects Helene Relief Grant for Asheville Due to DEI Program Mention

President Trump's U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has rejected a $225 million relief plan for the city of Asheville, North Carolina, due

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[ChileG]

impacts everywhere

HUD Rejects Helene Relief Grant for Asheville Due to DEI Program Mention

President Trump's U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has rejected a $225 million relief plan for the city of Asheville, North Carolina, due

www.insurancejournal.com

Thanks to all who voted for Trump.

 

[MOUNTAINH33L]

impacts everywhere

HUD Rejects Helene Relief Grant for Asheville Due to DEI Program Mention

President Trump's U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has rejected a $225 million relief plan for the city of Asheville, North Carolina, due

www.insurancejournal.com

President Trump’s U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has rejected a $225 million relief plan for the city of Asheville, North Carolina, due to its inclusion of funding for minority and women-owned businesses.



“Once again, let me be clear DEI is dead at HUD. We will not provide funding to any program or grantee that does not comply with President Trump’s executive orders,” Turner said in a news release.



Thanks, MAGA. Fucking ghouls.

 

[gtyellowjacket]

President Trump’s U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has rejected a $225 million relief plan for the city of Asheville, North Carolina, due to its inclusion of funding for minority and women-owned businesses.



“Once again, let me be clear DEI is dead at HUD. We will not provide funding to any program or grantee that does not comply with President Trump’s executive orders,” Turner said in a news release.



Thanks, MAGA. Fucking ghouls.

Couldn't they take that part out, reapply for the grant, and provide the funding to business owners without regard to their sex or their ethnicity? I say that pretending to know what the grant process is like. It's probably a year or two before there's another chance for that money.

Edit: I guess I should have read the article: "The city has already revised its plan for the Helene-relief grant money, removing mention of the existing small business/minority business funding, local news sites reported Wednesday. The mayor said the changes are likely to be accepted by HUD, and Asheville is not in danger of losing the grant funding."

 

[nycfan]

 

[mpaer]

I have a young friend in NC govt. Her job is cleary in a DEI category-giving HBCU students internships in Govt to encourage them to stick around as employees after graduation. Federally funded
She has an employee meeting this morning
Pretty sure we all know she is gonna lose her job
Fortunately the Dems run State HR and likely such laid off folks will get top priority for other openings

 

[ZenMode]

Trump’s media company defends its ‘diversity and inclusion’ policies as his administration dismantles DEI​

Trump’s media company defends its ‘diversity and inclusion’ policies as his administration dismantles DEI | CNN Politics

Donald Trump has made purging the government of diversity, equity and inclusion programs a top priority of his new administration, calling them “illegal” and “immoral.” But throughout his career Trump has espoused the opposite view and has often highlighted the importance of such initiatives in...

amp.cnn.com

“… Trump’s business books have also championed diversity in hiring, including his 2000 book, “The America We Deserve,” in which he wrote that one of the president’s most important jobs was to “induce a greater tolerance for diversity.”

Trump, who was considering a presidential run at the time, claimed in his book that through his friendship with Black celebrities such as rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs and baseball player Sammy Sosa, he’d “had the chance to learn firsthand about the diversity of American culture, and it has left me with little appetite for those who hate or preach intolerance.”

“Anyone who really knows me knows that I hate intolerance and bigotry,” Trump added.

… In response to CNN’s reporting, a Trump Media & Technology Group spokesperson dismissed the significance of the diversity and inclusion statement in the company’s corporate governance, implying that it was merely legal language to comply with anti-discrimination laws.

“CNN’s focus on legal language that is obviously intended to ban discrimination and ensure compliance with all applicable regulations is a textbook example of CNN preferring frivolous, partisan ‘gotcha’ stories to meaningful news that affects people’s lives,” the spokesperson said.

The White House also weighed in, attacking DEI policies more broadly.

… But legal experts CNN spoke with said that Trump Media’s claim that the diversity statement is just boilerplate legal language doesn’t hold up.

CNN legal analyst Elie Honig said that while companies must comply with anti-discrimination laws, they are not required to make public statements affirming diversity commitments.

“There is no law requiring an affirmative public statement,” Honig said.

New York University constitutional law professor Kenji Yoshino noted that the statement explicitly describes diversity as a factor in hiring and board nominations – something that goes beyond non-discrimination. …”

Here's where the divide seems to exist between Democrats and Republicans, even including MAGA....

Being not only tolerant, but accepting of all races/nationalities, religions, sexes, etc is not the same as having policies that are actively discriminatory by prioritizing non-white, non-male, non-cis, non-straight people.

 

[lawtig02]

Here's where the divide seems to exist between Democrats and Republicans, even including MAGA....

Being not only tolerant, but accepting of all races/nationalities, religions, sexes, etc is not the same as having policies that are actively discriminatory by prioritizing non-white, non-male, non-cis, non-straight people.

The divide is that MAGAs don’t understand DEI policies and programs don’t do that.

 

[ZenMode]

The divide is that MAGAs don’t understand DEI policies and programs don’t do that.

All? No, I'm sure not all, but when Biden calls his shot about putting a black woman on SCOTUS, and then putting a black woman on SCOTUS, that is the discriminatory DEI I'm talking about.

 

[lawtig02]

All? No, I'm sure not all, but when Biden calls his shot about putting a black woman on SCOTUS, and then putting a black woman on SCOTUS, that is the discriminatory DEI I'm talking about.

Which might be a point if that was DEI. But it wasn’t. It was a president exercising his constitutional prerogative to nominate a qualified judge of his choosing to sit on the Supreme Court, if the Senate found her to be acceptably qualified.

 

[ZenMode]

Which might be a point if that was DEI. But it wasn’t. It was a president exercising his constitutional prerogative to nominate a qualified judge of his choosing to sit on the Supreme Court, if the Senate found her to be acceptably qualified.

I'm not saying he can't put a black woman on SCOTUS. Clearly he can. It's making race and sex a criteria, which is ignorant, discriminatory and irrelevant as far as qualifications go.

If Trump said he was going to put a white male on scotus, and then put a white male on scotus, you would get what I'm saying.

 

[1moretimeagain]

All? No, I'm sure not all, but when Biden calls his shot about putting a black woman on SCOTUS, and then putting a black woman on SCOTUS, that is the discriminatory DEI I'm talking about.

That makes Amy Coney Barrett another discriminatory DEI Justice on the Supreme Court, as was Sandra Day O’Connor. I suppose it was just a coincidence, rather than discriminatory DEI, that resulted in Clarence Thomas replacing Thurgood Marshall.