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Ten Problems with DEI That Frighten the Public

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Posted By: Moritz55, 2/3/2025 8:56:53 AM

The diversity, equity, and inclusion project, often seen as a major element of the so-called “woke” creed along with green fanaticism, keeps popping up as a possible subtext in a variety of recent tragedies. In the case of the Los Angeles fires, Mayor Karen Bass, who cut the fire department budget, was warned of the mounting fire dangers of the Santa Anna winds and parched brush on surrounding hillsides. No matter—she junketed in Uganda. When furor followed, on cue, her defenders decried a racialist attack on “a black woman.”

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Reply 1 - Posted by: NorthernDog 2/3/2025 9:19:07 AM (No. 1888073)
VDH makes a good point in that the DEI mindset never goes away once someone is employed on that basis. That explains why Karen Bass is taken aback when she was expected to step up and actually do something during a crisis. How dare she suddenly be judged on competence!
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Strike3 2/3/2025 9:25:27 AM (No. 1888081)
DEI did not bring us out of the Stone Age so how does the Left expect it to work now?
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Highlander 2/3/2025 9:27:32 AM (No. 1888083)
DEI is akin to all the parasitic lifeforms in that it is of no benefit to its host. It must be rooted out and burned, never to come back!
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Encore 2/3/2025 9:45:27 AM (No. 1888098)
So, as my wife and I age into the years we’ll be thinking about long term healthcare, I cringe at the thought of who or what will be providing such care. Doesn’t matter the color or the gender, I just want them to actually KNOW what they’re doing…to have earned their place.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Jesuslover54 2/3/2025 10:09:53 AM (No. 1888115)
As Dizzy Gillespie used to say, "It'll all come out in the wash, baby."
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Reply 6 - Posted by: voxpopuli 2/3/2025 10:14:52 AM (No. 1888120)
and.. companies who have embraced dei will be sued for LARGE numbers..
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Reply 7 - Posted by: enemyofthestate 2/3/2025 10:18:38 AM (No. 1888124)
Mistakes--- in the first paragraph, no less--- like "Santa Anna winds" and "junketed in Uganda" destroy the credibility of the writer. It's Santa Ana winds, and she junketed in Ghana. I am surprised the mistakes got through on a VDH piece. Wouldn't he have a good ediitor?
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Strike3 2/3/2025 10:47:22 AM (No. 1888145)
Your concerns are justified, #4. The medical industry has refused to publish the performance records of doctors for decades before DEI, i.e. how many successes vs how many deaths in their area of specialty. Imagine how bad it is now.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: janjan 2/3/2025 11:27:09 AM (No. 1888175)
Corporations that are rapidly dropping DEI hiring practices are not doing so due to public pressure. They are reaping the results of a downgraded workforce, as is the government. Their fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders trumps their desire to appease social justice warriors. Public pressure gives them cover. The Executive Branch of the Federal Government, on the other hand, can end this with a swipe of the pen, which is exactly what happened.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: bighambone 2/3/2025 11:35:05 AM (No. 1888182)
No doubt the leftist and progressive Democrats intend to use mass uncontrolled illegal immigration to further expand the DEI beneficiaries as just about all the untold millions of Third World origin illegal aliens (migrants) who the Biden-Harris Administration has allowed to unlawfully gain entry to the USA, just about all fit within the minority groups defined through Democrat identity politics. The first partisan Democrat benefits that the Democrats expect will occur after the untold millions of illegal aliens are counted in the next US Census, especially throughout the so-called sanctuary cities and other Democrat controlled areas, causing the redistricting of a yet undetermined number of congressional districts to be moved from their current locations into the Democrat controlled so-called Sanctuary Cities and other Democrat controlled areas where leftist and progressive Democrat politicians are bound to win the resulting redistricting caused elections in those new congressional districts. Of course with the motive of giving the leftist and progressive Democrats permanent control of the Congressional House of Representatives. Once the leftist and progressive Democrats control the Congress in the years ahead, they intend through Democrat so-called “comprehensive immigration reform” to include a massive amnesty for just about all of the illegal aliens in the USA, that would also carry on to cover future millions of illegal aliens who the Democrats would continue to allow to enter the USA in the years ahead, place all on a Democrat “path to citizenship” thus transforming today’s illegal alien population into tomorrow’s massive increase in leftist and progressive Democrat supporters and voters. That would be part of the leftist and progressive Democrat long term plan to transform the USA through demographic population change into a minority-majority country where a vast coalition of leftist and progressive Democrat supporters and voters, deemed to be members of defined domestic and foreign origin minority groups through the leftist and progressive Democrats permanently control the future politics of the USA as they go about transforming today’s USA into some sort of socialist utopia. Do the wimpy Republicans even have a clue!
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Reply 11 - Posted by: bpl40 2/3/2025 11:50:44 AM (No. 1888199)
What is most wrong with DEI is that it is virulently anti-American. This country was created as a refuge from the feudal privilege based society of medieval Europe. Ability to rise on basis of merit and results is the heart of the American culture and ethos. Replacing equality with equity is a mortal blow. And that is exactly why it has been chosen by those who wish to destroy us.
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