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Ah, that’s it. The directive looks bad because of malicious over compliance.… [After GOP Senators complained this was malicious over-compliance to make the directive look bad] The video has since been restored.
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.
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.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.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.
Mr. Hyatt is my kind of snowflake.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. …”
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.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.
I don't think you read that dissent, considering that she barely even mentions the constitution.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..
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.I don't think you read that dissent, considering that she barely even mentions the constitution.
1. She very much does not talk about Kendi stuff.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.
So, we obviously can't do anything about past injustices. If we are trying to apply the Constitution today, how does her anecdote, and everything else she said, fit into that?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
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. …”