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Written by Jenny on 2025-01-30 at 20:58

@ai6yr Your post about DEI went away while I was drafting a reply! Here it is anyway:

Yes! It’s so important people understand what DEI is and isn’t. Rs co-opt, corrupt, and demonize anything that remotely tries to raise awareness and improve outcomes (remember CRT and SEL?). And the media is so complicit in allowing Rs to redefine it and push their narrative, it drives me mad…

In reality, every woman with a job is a “DEI hire”. Equal pay for equal work is a “DEI initiative”…

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Written by Jenny on 2025-01-30 at 20:59

@ai6yr

Accessibility ramps, doors, and parking spots are “DEI initiatives”. Special education is a “DEI program”. Child care promotes DEI. Freedom of religion (which Rs love to croon about) is a “DEI principle”.

DEI is not about hiring or promoting an unqualified candidate over a qualified one. DEI is about helping people overcome their innate biases that the ONLY qualified candidate is a white straight able-bodied* cisgender Christian man.

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Written by Jenny on 2025-01-30 at 21:03

@ai6yr

Wherever Rs blame DEI for whatever problem they’re facing that day, I wish the media would push back on it. Maybe follow-up with the concluding statement: “So based on your remarks, only white straight able-bodied* cisgender Christian men should be allowed to do this job/make this decision/etc. Got it.” Then let THAT be the story.

(*I don’t like this term but couldn’t think of how to say it a different way. Feedback is welcomed.)

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Written by AI6YR Ben on 2025-01-30 at 21:05

@tiamat271 Thanks.... it drives me crazy...

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