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

[RaiGuy]

My wife is an SLP professor at a UNC school and they just got an email saying that all required courses must no longer have DEI components (lessons, assignments, seminars, classes, internships, etc...). That is ridiculous because nearly everything in that field could be considered under DEI.

 

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[superrific]

My wife is an SLP professor at a UNC school and they just got an email saying that all required courses must no longer have DEI components (lessons, assignments, seminars, classes, internships, etc...). That is ridiculous because nearly everything in that field could be considered under DEI.

SLP? Speech language?

 

[RaiGuy]

SLP? Speech language?

Correct, Speech Language Pathology. Basically, the whole field is about disorders and then there are sections about bilingualism and other cultural aspects. I told her that they can argue that those are core elements of the subject field and were not added in for DEI purposes.

 

[superrific]

Correct, Speech Language Pathology. Basically, the whole field is about disorders and then there are sections about bilingualism and other cultural aspects. I told her that they can argue that those are core elements of the subject field and were not added in for DEI purposes.

What department is that? Or should I say, under what aegis? Psychology? Medicine?

She can argue that all she wants (correctly), but these fools are dug in like Grover in A Monster At The End Of This Book, except they shot the reader turning pages. I doubt that will go anywhere.

 

[superrific]

So let the lawsuits begin.

 

[RaiGuy]

What department is that? Or should I say, under what aegis? Psychology? Medicine?

She can argue that all she wants (correctly), but these fools are dug in like Grover in A Monster At The End Of This Book, except they shot the reader turning pages. I doubt that will go anywhere.

It's under the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

 

[superrific]

It's under the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

Interesting. Thanks. That's a bit more under the radar. One imagines the experts might still call some shots in that field.

 

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[nycfan]

Hegseth Uses His First Town Hall to Attack Diversity​

The defense secretary, speaking to the Pentagon work force, defended his “unconventional approaches” to an audience that included women and people of color.

Hegseth Uses His First Town Hall to Attack Diversity

The defense secretary, speaking to the Pentagon work force, defended his “unconventional approaches” to an audience that included women and people of color.

www.nytimes.com

“…
Speaking to a room filled with African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos and white Americans, both men and women, he offered a full-throated attack on the military’s decades-long efforts to diversify.

“I think the single dumbest phrase in military history is ‘our diversity is our strength,’” said Mr. Hegseth, who served in the U.S. Army National Guard from 2001 to 2021 and is a former Fox News host.

He later added that he dismantled diversity, equity and inclusion policies at the Pentagon because they “served a purpose of dividing the force as opposed to uniting the force.”

… In recent years, the Pentagon has sought to increase the numbers of women and racial minorities in the military’s officer corps, so that it could become more representative of the enlisted force it leads. Mr. Hegseth has said such policies are unfair. …”

 

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Revealed: how a shadowy group of far-right donors is funding federal employee watchlists

Project 2025 architects are among those behind the American Accountability Foundation and their blacklists targeting people of color

www.theguardian.com

A rightwing non-profit group that has published a “DEI Watch List” identifying federal employees allegedly “driving radical Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives” is bankrolled by wealthy family foundations and rightwing groups whose origins are often cloaked in a web of financial arrangements that obscure the original donors.

One recent list created by the American Accountability Foundation (AAF) includes the names of mostly Black people with roles in government health alleged to have some ties to diversity initiatives. Another targets education department employees, and another calls out the “most subversive immigration bureaucrats”.


The lists come amid turmoil in the US government as Donald Trump’s incoming administration, aided by Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has sought to fire huge swathes of the federal government and purge it of DEI and other initiatives – such as tackling climate change – that Trump has dubbed “woke”.

While the publication of the personal details of government workers – whom the website describes as “targets” – has reportedly “terrified” many in federal departments, the Guardian has discovered that some current and former employees of AAF have taken pains to conceal their affiliations with the group on LinkedIn and other public websites.

One of the donors to the AAF is the Heritage Foundation, the architects of Project 2025, which has been a driving ideological force behind Trump’s re-election and first weeks in government.

Heidi Beirich, chief strategy officer of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE), said: “It’s not surprising to find a vile project such as this backed by Project 2025 entities and far-right donors who have it out for public employees.”

Disclosure documents show that the AAF has been closely involved in training Republican staffers in collaboration with the affiliated Conservative Partnership Institute, in sessions that promise to train rightwing operatives in skills including “open source research” and “working with outside groups”.

 

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Nothing could go wrong with right wing groups making lists of non-white people, could it?

 

[wmheel1287]

Fantastic post and I agree with all of it. Well done.

I find this reply to be entirely in bad faith. You acknowledge that you vote with the social majority on pretty much any issue when it pits that social majority against a minority group. You do so even when it is a single issue vote designed to strip said minority group of rights. Furthermore, even when you ostensibly change your personal opinion about those singular issues down the road, you neither regret nor disavow your previous position. Finally, you continue to vote for leadership that does hold and press for the previous positions you supposedly no longer support.

Explain to me how that pattern is someone who agrees in:

1. Not singling out groups
2. Uplifting all of society for equal treatment

Thinking that Democrats should be more quiet on minority treatment because it allows them to achieve an ultimate goal of electibility is NOT the same thing as thinking they should be more quiet just because you personally don't want to hear it.

 

[HeelYeah2012]

I find this reply to be entirely in bad faith. You acknowledge that you vote with the social majority on pretty much any issue when it pits that social majority against a minority group. You do so even when it is a single issue vote designed to strip said minority group of rights. Furthermore, even when you ostensibly change your personal opinion about those singular issues down the road, you neither regret nor disavow your previous position. Finally, you continue to vote for leadership that does hold and press for the previous positions you supposedly no longer support.

Explain to me how that pattern is someone who agrees in:

1. Not singling out groups
2. Uplifting all of society for equal treatment

Thinking that Democrats should be more quiet on minority treatment because it allows them to achieve an ultimate goal of electibility is NOT the same thing as thinking they should be more quiet just because you personally don't want to hear it.

Which minority group are you talking about here that I am so opposed to? I assume you are talking about transgender people, but I’m not sure I would say I am “opposed” to them even if I think it’s silly. Frankly I don’t care how they live their life or what they believe in their own mind, I just disagree with trying to force the rest of society to play along with the idea of it in various ways.

The thing Paine said that is on the money is an important lesson for many here. The Democrats have left working class whites behind with all their culture wars. All the Democrats want to talk about is prosperity for certain genders or races instead of having a message about uplifting all of society.

I’ve made similar points in the past about how the politicians on both sides make sure the poor whites and poor blacks are always divided. Because as long as those folks are divided, no real meaningful change will happen and the status quo will remain in tact for the elites from both parties.

 

[superrific]

The Democrats have left working class whites behind with all their culture wars.

Please stop. This administration consists of outright white supremacist racist pieces of shit. No administration post Civil War has been more openly and viciously racist as this one. That you think it's the Dems who started the culture wars says so much about you that you don't realize. You blame Dems because you think Pubs are the norm.

 

[Duke Mu]

We ain't got time for that now.

This ain't no party. This ain't no disco.

 

[Calheel]

Which minority group are you talking about here that I am so opposed to? I assume you are talking about transgender people, but I’m not sure I would say I am “opposed” to them even if I think it’s silly. Frankly I don’t care how they live their life or what they believe in their own mind, I just disagree with trying to force the rest of society to play along with the idea of it in various ways.

The thing Paine said that is on the money is an important lesson for many here. The Democrats have left working class whites behind with all their culture wars. All the Democrats want to talk about is prosperity for certain genders or races instead of having a message about uplifting all of society.

I’ve made similar points in the past about how the politicians on both sides make sure the poor whites and poor blacks are always divided. Because as long as those folks are divided, no real meaningful change will happen and the status quo will remain in tact for the elites from both parties.

So you are ok dividing people by class, just not race? Got it. No wonder you like Paine.

 

[wmheel1287]

So you are ok dividing people by class, just not race? Got it. No wonder you like Paine.

HY doesn't "like" Paine or his ideas. He likes that Paine gets in the face of the rest of us from time to time. He likes any criticism of Democrats. If Paine were running for office, HY would label him Mao or Stalin before the sun set.

 

[superrific]

So you are ok dividing people by class, just not race? Got it. No wonder you like Paine.

Not fair to Paine.