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

[BlooVooDoo]

… [After GOP Senators complained this was malicious over-compliance to make the directive look bad] The video has since been restored.

Ah, that’s it. The directive looks bad because of malicious over compliance.

 

[ZenMode]

If this were all the Trump anti-DEI policy meant, then it would be reasonable to debate but I think would be broadly popular:



Sadly, I think a lot of what is being described as anti-DEI is an obvious whitewashing policy to try to return the military and senior positions throughout government to a mostly conservative white male province.

Maybe we, the US, should only look at things like: quality of product vs price, ability to deliver on time and as promised, post sales support, etc and not how many non-white, non-male, non-cis, non-straight people work there?

Just a thought.

 

[superrific]

Maybe we, the US, should only look at things like: quality of product vs price, ability to deliver on time and as promised, post sales support, etc and not how many non-white, non-male, non-cis, non-straight people work there?

Just a thought.

That's what you said about Ketanji Brown Jackson. She's actually been amazing. Here's a thought: stop fetishizing DEI as some sort of incompetence program.

 

[finesse]

Maybe we, the US, should only look at things like: quality of product vs price, ability to deliver on time and as promised, post sales support, etc and not how many non-white, non-male, non-cis, non-straight people work there?

Just a thought.

I absolutely agree. Yet, that's exactly what the anti-DEI does. They focus on who and not what.

 

[Callatoroy]

Continued

“… Rich Hyatt, 65, a Snowflake, Ariz. resident who is Black, dismissed concerns over Trump’s comments about the plane crash, arguing he was merely saying the country needed more air-traffic controllers.

Hyatt said hiring people based on skills was critical in the three decades he spent as a firefighter. He said the one time physical entry exams were waived to recruit more women, it backfired because they wasted time in basic training and didn’t ultimately become firefighters. “They set up these people for failure,” he said.

Hyatt was optimistic about Trump using tariffs as a negotiating tool to bring down costs and get more help on dealing with immigration. “I don’t think that America is used to playing hardball like he does,” he said. …”

Mr. Hyatt is my kind of snowflake.

 

[ZenMode]

That's what you said about Ketanji Brown Jackson. She's actually been amazing. Here's a thought: stop fetishizing DEI as some sort of incompetence program.

What I said about the KBJ situation is that the president should select the best and most qualified person for SCOTUS, not limit his options to only black, females before the process even starts.

I'm only familiar with his KBJ's dissent in the affirmative action case and I thought it was completely misguided and goes against what is clearly laid out in the Constitution..

 

[nycfan]

 

[Mulberry Heel]

The ugly truth of this anti-DEI vendetta is out there for all to see, if they wish to open their eyes and look. Unfortunately, it would appear that a great many people are either openly cheering it on (white supremacy!), privately cheering it on (I don't really support all of this, really I don't), or have just stuck their heads in the sand and refuse to look because they support other parts of Trump 2.0 (Oh, this attacking DEI stuff is all minor, they won't actually change much. But I'm gonna get my tax cuts!)

 

[superrific]

What I said about the KBJ situation is that the president should select the best and most qualified person for SCOTUS, not limit his options to only black, females before the process even starts.

I'm only familiar with his KBJ's dissent in the affirmative action case and I thought it was completely misguided and goes against what is clearly laid out in the Constitution..

I don't think you read that dissent, considering that she barely even mentions the constitution.

 

[ZenMode]

I don't think you read that dissent, considering that she barely even mentions the constitution.

That's the problem. She talks about Ibram X. Kendi type of stuff. Stuff that should be largely meaningless to a SCOTUS justice who's focus is on Constitutionality.

 

[superrific]

That's the problem. She talks about Ibram X. Kendi type of stuff. Stuff that should be largely meaningless to a SCOTUS justice who's focus is on Constitutionality.

1. She very much does not talk about Kendi stuff.
2. That "stuff" was the basis for Brown v. Board of Education. Was that wrongly decided?
3. She joined Sotomayor's dissent, which focused more narrowly on the constitutional issues. But KBJ's dissent wasn't without constitutional significance when one realizes the the purpose of the 14th Amendment was to achieve equality among races. See, KBJ is something of an originalist. Except that she sees value in originalism as to ALL of the constitution, not just selectively like the right-wingers. Personally, I strongly dislike originalism in all its forms, so she and I don't see eye to eye on that. But if you're going to do it, it should be done more honestly than the right-wingers.
4. Here's one passage. Tell me what's wrong with it

For present purposes, it is significant that, in so excluding Black people, government policies affirmatively operated—one could say, affirmatively acted—to dole out preferences to those who, if nothing else, were not Black. Those past preferences carried forward and are reinforced today by (among other things) the benefits that flow to homeowners and to the holders of other forms of capital that are hard to obtain unless one already has assets.
Or this?

Imagine two college applicants from North Carolina,John and James. Both trace their family’s North Carolina roots to the year of UNC’s founding in 1789. Both love their State and want great things for its people. Both want to honor their family’s legacy by attending the State’s flagship educational institution. John, however, would be the seventh generation to graduate from UNC. He is White. James would be the first; he is Black. Does the race of these applicants properly play a role in UNC’s holistic merits based admissions process? [ . . . ]

We return to John and James now, with history in hand. It is hardly John’s fault that he is the seventh generation to graduate from UNC. UNC should permit him to honor that legacy. Neither, however, was it James’s (or his family’s)fault that he would be the first. And UNC ought to be able to consider why