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

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Ban on D.E.I. Language Sweeps Through the Sciences​

President Trump’s executive order is altering scientific exploration across a broad swath of fields, even beyond government agencies, researchers say.

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Ban on D.E.I. Language Sweeps Through the Sciences

President Trump’s executive order is altering scientific exploration across a broad swath of fields, even beyond government agencies, researchers say.
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According to a program director at the foundation, who asked not to be named for fear of retaliation, a software algorithm flagged grants that included words and phrases often associated with D.E.I., including “activism” and “equal opportunity.” Other words it searched for were more nebulous — “institutional,” “underappreciated” and “women” — or can mean something else in scientific research, like “bias” and “polarization.”

N.S.F. officials were instructed to manually review grants flagged by the algorithm. Some staff members, including the N.S.F. program director, made a point of removing the flag from most awards. “I’ll probably get in trouble for doing that,” she said. “But I’m not in the business of McCarthyism.”

… Several scientists expressed concern that organizations within the federal sphere seem to be overcomplying, prompting confusion and resentment.

“They’re obeying in advance, they’re going beyond what the executive order says,” said Christine Nattrass, a physicist at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, who conducts research at Brookhaven National Laboratory and emphasized that she was not speaking on behalf of her institutions.

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That sense of compliance appeared to extend beyond federal institutions. Two decades ago, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, or NASEM, helped to highlight the issue of racial disparities in health care, with a landmark reportrecommending that minorities be better represented in health professions. More recently, NASEM participated in an ambitious effort to root out the use of race in clinical algorithms that guide medical treatment.

The quick retreat this week from a core mission stunned many NASEM employees. “D.E.I. has been at the center of what the institution has focused on for the last decade,” said one staff member, who asked not to be identified for fear of retribution. “It shows up in everything we do.”

The Academies are privately operated, but they receive a majority of their support from government contracts. Fifty-eight percent of their program expenditures came from federal government contracts last year, according to Dana Korsen, a spokesperson for the institute. …”
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On January 22nd I had multiple NASA proposals removed and uninvited because they involved female biology and adaptation to spaceflight. The Trump bigotry and retribution tour did not waste any time.
 
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Kanye West shares vile swastika T-shirt and calls it his 'greatest art' in new tirade

Kanye West has shared a vile swastika T-shirt and labels it his 'greatest art' in new tirade.
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His latest outburst sees the Gold Digger star sharing a T-shirt with the swastika sign and calling it his ‘greatest performance art’. Showing off the white T-shirt shirt as he attached a photo to the post, he wrote: “I’ve wanted to make this tee shirt for years My greatest performance art piece thus far”. Kanye’s tirade also continued as he returned to using all caps as he added: “I DONT LIKE THAT I SAID SOCIAL EXPERIMENT I TWEETING EVERYTHING I FELT AND IM NOT FIXING NOTHING F**K EVERYONE”.
 
altmin said:
uk.news.yahoo.com

Kanye West shares vile swastika T-shirt and calls it his 'greatest art' in new tirade

Kanye West has shared a vile swastika T-shirt and labels it his 'greatest art' in new tirade.
uk.news.yahoo.com uk.news.yahoo.com

His latest outburst sees the Gold Digger star sharing a T-shirt with the swastika sign and calling it his ‘greatest performance art’. Showing off the white T-shirt shirt as he attached a photo to the post, he wrote: “I’ve wanted to make this tee shirt for years My greatest performance art piece thus far”. Kanye’s tirade also continued as he returned to using all caps as he added: “I DONT LIKE THAT I SAID SOCIAL EXPERIMENT I TWEETING EVERYTHING I FELT AND IM NOT FIXING NOTHING F**K EVERYONE”.
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Kanye isn’t interesting any longer, he’s just a guy who is obviously deep into mental health issues.

He still has the ability to make interesting music, but everything else about him is just a shitshow.
 
He is such an impossibly stupid fuck and un unfathomably small little man. The fact notwithstanding that we already have the strongest military in the world by leaps and bounds, I can assure that there is nothing "woke" or "leftist" about any of the governing bodies of any of the U.S. service academies. Service academy board of visitors are both presidential and congressional appointees, many of whom are Republican.

At some point, is Congress not going to get tired of being cuckholded by an obese 80-year-old slob? At what point are they going to find some damn pride and stop letting the executive branch render the legislative branch completely impotent?

And for the record, I disagreed with Biden in Sept. 2021 for moving to dismiss the BOV members at service academies whom Trump appointed in November and December 2020.
 
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The Minority Voters Who Love Trump’s Dismantling of DEI​

The president has found support from nonwhite voters who feel the nation has become too woke​


“… The Journal interviewed several nonwhite voters who backed Trump who said they are, at times, uncomfortable with the way he has talked about diversity. In particular, some cited how he blamed diversity hiring efforts for the recent deadly airplane-helicopter collision near Washington, D.C. And some said they were disturbed by the wide scope of deportations of migrants in the country illegally, which Trump had promised to step up.

… Ramos, a 24-year-old Rochester, N.Y., resident, said Trump’s comments were “yellow flags” but said she didn’t regret backing him—as of now. Ramos voted for Biden in 2020 in part because of what she said was increased awareness of racism, sexism and antigay views following a year of protests, including those for George Floyd, a Black man killed by police.

But by the end of Biden’s presidency, Ramos, who is Latina, felt the country had gone too far and “it became anything you said was racist, or homophobic or sexist or bigoted.” More important to her, the cost of living had increased, and she was dejected as she watched illegal immigration surge. She started giving her struggling grandfather about a fourth of her monthly take-home pay of $2,400 from her work at a call center, and switched her vote Republican.

… For Ramos and others the Journal spoke to, Trump’s comments about race could be put aside if he is able to come through on other campaign promises, particularly his vow to lower prices. Ramos’s support of the president was contingent on him bringing her cost of living down. She gave him a few months to use tariffs as a negotiating tool but needed to see lower prices before summer. …”
 
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“… 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. …”
 


“…Until this week, Army Recruiting Command had a long-standing public partnership with the Black Engineer of the Year Awards, or BEYA, an annual conference that draws students, academics and professionals in science, technology, engineering and math, also known as STEM.

The event, which takes place in Baltimore, has historically been a key venue for the Pentagon to recruit talent, including awarding Reserve Officers' Training Corps scholarships and pitching military service to rising engineers. Past BEYA events have included the Army chief of staff and the defense secretary.

… The services cited concerns that participation in the predominantly Black event could run afoul of Trump's orders and the Pentagon's intensifying push to erase diversity efforts in the military, according to multiple sources familiar with the decision.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Jan. 31 ordered that Black History Month, Women's History Month and others were officially "dead" and that the military would no longer mark them.

…The Navy, Air Force and Space Force are also pulling out of the event and forbidding officials from attending in an official capacity or in uniform. It was unclear Monday whether the Marines were still participating.

Additional recruiting events tied to specific racial or gender groups are also likely to be scrapped, two defense officials told Military.com. That includes other conferences and career fairs with thousands of participants. …”

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The armed forces have a shortage of quality recruits and they do this?
 
nycfan said:

The Minority Voters Who Love Trump’s Dismantling of DEI​

The president has found support from nonwhite voters who feel the nation has become too woke​


“… The Journal interviewed several nonwhite voters who backed Trump who said they are, at times, uncomfortable with the way he has talked about diversity. In particular, some cited how he blamed diversity hiring efforts for the recent deadly airplane-helicopter collision near Washington, D.C. And some said they were disturbed by the wide scope of deportations of migrants in the country illegally, which Trump had promised to step up.

… Ramos, a 24-year-old Rochester, N.Y., resident, said Trump’s comments were “yellow flags” but said she didn’t regret backing him—as of now. Ramos voted for Biden in 2020 in part because of what she said was increased awareness of racism, sexism and antigay views following a year of protests, including those for George Floyd, a Black man killed by police.

But by the end of Biden’s presidency, Ramos, who is Latina, felt the country had gone too far and “it became anything you said was racist, or homophobic or sexist or bigoted.” More important to her, the cost of living had increased, and she was dejected as she watched illegal immigration surge. She started giving her struggling grandfather about a fourth of her monthly take-home pay of $2,400 from her work at a call center, and switched her vote Republican.

… For Ramos and others the Journal spoke to, Trump’s comments about race could be put aside if he is able to come through on other campaign promises, particularly his vow to lower prices. Ramos’s support of the president was contingent on him bringing her cost of living down. She gave him a few months to use tariffs as a negotiating tool but needed to see lower prices before summer. …”
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People like this I want to suffer consequences the most.
 
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