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[–] [email protected] 442 points 6 days ago (8 children)

DEI is bad! Treat everyone based on their merits! Remove the bio pages for anyone not white and male!

... ?

[–] [email protected] 211 points 6 days ago

Diversity, equity, and inclusion get in the way of their nepotism and cronyism hiring. If they were hiring based on merit alone there would be no problem being transparent and publishing their hiring decisions.

[–] [email protected] 138 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (6 children)

It’s been said better by other people but the general understanding of the right’s use of “DEI” is as a convenient blanket slur.

It’s typically used against Black and Hispanic people the most, followed by trans people, but any/all women are convenient extra padding under the bus tires of their bigotry and insecurity.

Remember that their fascism is based in feelings of superiority in addition to fear. Use that against the cowardly bastards. They can’t stand to see someone “undeserving” do as well as or better than them, so they try to mow it down.

Fuck ‘em.

EDIT: It seems like Rose Ferreira is of Hispanic descent, hailing initially from the Dominican Republic then moved to NY and eventually secured an internship at NASA, and is now an astronomer and aerospace engineer. It seems like her NASA page got reinstated, maybe after backlash. She’s awesome. Hell yeah for the Streisand effect.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Oh absolutely. Anyone who rails against "DEI" is by definition a white supremacist.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Not necessarily. They might be a misogynist, a militant christian or some other form of bigot as well. That's the beauty of it, you can be "against DEI" as well as a woman or someone with more melanin than the "default" and you get to imagine they don't hate you, just all those other people.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Just because you're not white doesn't mean you can't be a white supremacist.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 days ago

just like women can be enforcers of patriarchy, and the poor engines of capitalism

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 days ago (6 children)

Everyone seems to forget that DEI as a name for these programs started during the first Trump admin.

DEI has always been a ruse.

They "embraced" these concepts to get all of the existing programs to label themselves as such.

They let Biden "extend" these programs so that anything supporting non-white-males would group together under the same banner.

Now they are "extinguishing" the whole lot of them now that it's nice and easy and their targets have huddled together and identified themselves.

There was a complex network of programs doing these jobs before DEI existed. DEI was a ruse to centralize them so they could be extinguished.

They built the barrel, then used fascist rhetoric to get all the fish to group together in the barrel. Now they're shooting the fish in the barrel.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The current admin cabinet hires are completely based on DEI. What other companies would hire such a diverse cadre of alcoholics, rapists, and idiots, while most companies tend to hire on merit.

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 5 days ago (9 children)

I thought my dad would have come around by now with everything going on. Last night he was gloating about how much work is getting done in the White House and how everything’s about to get a lot cheaper.

Insanity.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Then, you should challenge him and make him set a deadline for when everything is supposed to be a lot cheaper. When people starts to get sidetracked from thinking critically, that's when you need to make them set an ultimatum that either forces them to think critically, or make them set their own limit that you can then point back to later.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 days ago

That only works for people who haven't taught themselves to ignore constant cognitive dissonance.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I mean, that's the real trump derangement syndrome. People who are outside of reality because of their support of the man.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Ask your dad why the GOP needs to raise the Debt Ceiling by $4 Trillion in their budget bill, and how many of the now dozens of lawsuits Trump might win based on his performance in 2020 when he lost almost every single court case, even when Trump appointed the judges himself.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Same with my Mom. I told her "yeah, Mussolini did a good job making the trains run on time". She never responded.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (3 children)

(Beside the point, but Mussolini totally did not run an efficient train network, it was a cluster fuck like everything else he did)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

I can't wait to talk to my parents. Lifelong republicans (though not specifically trump fans, just voting R), so it's extremely likely they voted for this.

I'm a federal employee. They voted to put my job (and my wife's job) in jeopardy. They voted for this. They voted to hurt us.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

His only concern is himself, he thinks he'll benefit so everyone else can suffer as far as he is concerned. This is the broad motivation of the entire movement. As if America first didn't make it obvious enough, it was really "me first". What they don't understand is how the me in that is entirely relative and they quickly become expendable.

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[–] [email protected] 180 points 5 days ago (40 children)

So how much longer before we get pissed enough to start doing something about it? I’m a white CIS heterosexual male and this is infuriating to me. This isn’t correction of DEI policies. This is blatant sexism and racism. Fuck these nazis.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (13 children)

If someone starts a revolution I'd join the fight. "And just because he's a worker, no class can free him but his own. The emancipation of the working class is the task of the worker alone."

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They want something not that different from the Taliban. Subservient women existing only to make and raise kids.

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[–] [email protected] 96 points 5 days ago

While all this is going on, I'd also like to point out that grants are being flagged for being "woke" by this anti-DEI nonsense. Grants that have to do with cancer, physics, eclipses, and so on.

DEI is just a dogwhistle.

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/13/nx-s1-5295043/sen-ted-cruzs-list-of-woke-science-includes-self-driving-cars-solar-eclipses

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Https://2025realitycheck.com - please review, and if you're able go to the GitHub link at the bottom and help me fill everything out!

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 days ago

I will feel mad as fuck for you and use this as evidence when people say these EOs aren't hurting anyone other than illegal immigrants.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The 1950s boom was built on two things. Subsidizing a middle class instead of corporate (awesome). And the notion that a mediocre white male was more valuable in any job role than a woman or a non-white male.

The 1950s was, in part, built on the backs of women sent home from jobs after the war to have those jobs taken by folks who may or may not have been less qualified, as it was based entirely on gender, and to lesser extent, color.

Woman’s minds were squandered. I encourage you to ask about grandma back in the day. How mean was she? How mentally I’ll was she? How many suicides or addictions occurred? The mean stories abound at this time for a reason. Alternatively there’s the paper thin personality-less woman who avoids anything even remotely confrontational.

Ask your family.

Equality before the law is introduced and a subset of men who don’t have coping skills for not having power over other human beings, lack capacity to stand as an individual, lose their collective shit.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 days ago

Completely unrelated, book burnings

[–] [email protected] 62 points 6 days ago

Never Compromise With Fascists

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I'm sure threads won't remove your posts

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 days ago (35 children)

It happened to me in October 2018 and again in April 2024. Erasure by DEI programs and of the people supported by them kills a part of you.

You never really know how to feel. You just get increasingly dead inside.

At least I have two weeks of food left.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Who is following these orders. They are collaborators. Take their names.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 days ago (6 children)

You should feel like erasing the people that tried to erase you.

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