The so-called destruction of DEI programs is really just an attack on the idea that anybody can work for the government who isn’t a cis, straight white man. It’s an attempt not just to change hiring practices but push current civil servants out of the federal government.
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Long before DEI became a “thing,” Black women flocked to federal civil service jobs in DC and elsewhere because the government didn’t discriminate against them. There’s really no such thing as the “deep state” conservative fantasy, but there is a class of civil service workers who make things work.
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Without these people (again, overwhelmingly Black women who’ve navigated the Byzantine application requirements for federal jobs, who’ve bought in to the meritocratic dream of credentials and government work), everything grinds to a halt. Good luck getting anything done without them.
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@tim grinding everything to a halt is the point, it would seem
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