BINGO!!!
1973
Posted on 10/02/2024 6:19:27 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Every nation has an operating ideology. In a country that hews faithfully to the principles embedded in its written constitution, that ideology is overt. In a tyrannical government, however, it is concealed, as the regime preaches one set of values in principle but pursues the opposite in practice.
Most Americans believe that our nation today lives up to its founding principle that all men are created equal. The letter of the law seems to provide for colorblind equality, according to which individuals are judged on their talents and virtues, rather than on their ancestry, religion, or place of origin.
This has not held true in practice, however. Most obviously, of course, was the long American history of slavery and disenfranchisement of African Americans. Since 1965, however, when Lyndon Johnson first implemented the policy of affirmative action in federal contracting, the United States has racially discriminated in favor of minority groups—maintaining discrimination, but changing the target.
The old rationale was that achieving equal rights for the previously disenfranchised required a short period of favoritism on their behalf, which would wither away. But the withering never happened. Instead, our institutions intensified their commitment to racial favoritism, right up to the present day, and most recently under the mandate for diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI.
One prominent proponent of that policy is Vice President Kamala Harris, who rose to power on the coattails of racial politics and, as vice president, has worked to entrench DEI into every aspect of the federal government.
This agenda was made explicit by her running mate. During the Democratic primary campaign in 2020, then-candidate Joe Biden committed to choosing a woman as vice president and to appointing an administration that “will look like the country,” a polite way of saying that he would consider identity first and merit second. The following month, he noted that among his list of potential VPs were “four black women,” and amid a pressure campaign to select one, eventually chose Harris, then senator from California.
Since then, both Biden and Harris have reinforced their commitment to racial preferences. “To me, the values of diversity, equality, inclusion are literally—and this is not kidding—the core strengths of America,” the president said earlier this year. The vice president, for her part, has denounced those who “say that it is a bad term to talk about DEI.”
Those commitments have since become federal policy. On his first day in the Oval Office, President Biden rescinded former president Donald Trump’s order to “combat offensive and anti-American race and sex stereotyping and scapegoating,” and replaced it with a new executive order on “racial equity,” which “charged the Federal Government with . . . addressing systemic racism in our Nation’s policies and programs” via “an ambitious, whole-of-government approach.”
A few months later, the president issued another executive order, directing the head of each agency to “establish a position of chief diversity officer,” to “take steps to implement or increase the availability and use of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility training programs,” and to issue annual DEI plans and reports to the president—all in the interest of advancing the administration’s “racial equity agenda.”
The key word here is “equity.” As Harris explained in a campaign video, an important distinction exists between “equity” and “equality.” Equity is about “giving people the resources and support they need, so that everyone can be on equal footing and then compete on equal footing.” The goal, as distinct from equality’s directive of equal standing in the law, is equal outcomes: “Equitable treatment means we all end up at the same place.”
In other words, Harris wanted to replace the equal treatment of all individuals with preferential treatment for certain racial groups. Her desire that all “end up at the same place” recalls the basic formula of Communism: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”
While these executive orders have drawn attention in the press, their real-world effects have remained mostly hidden—until now.
My team and I have spent months meticulously reviewing internal documents, contracts, budgets, and ideological material across a range of federal departments. Together, they paint a stunning portrait. The federal government not only punishes and rewards individuals based on racial identity but also has dispensed billions of dollars toward building a DEI regime spanning government, academia, medicine, and contracting.
The administration has abandoned the old notion of equality in favor of a pseudo-Marxist ideology that condemns the United States as a fundamentally racist country, an evil that can only be corrected through the forced equalization of outcomes.
Over the course of this month, we will publish a series of stories investigating these policies and their impact on science, foreign policy, finance, and government contracting. Together, they will underscore the need to dismantle DEI and to pursue the only real solution to America’s racial woes: the principle of colorblind equality.
DEI is an inseparable part of cultural marxism. What we need is a larger war on marxism.
What do we do about the IQ Gap?
When Kamala said:
“Equity is about “giving people the resources and support they need, “
The interviewer (and all thinking Americans) should have stopped her mid-explanation and asked her where those resources come from.
When Kamala responds they come from the community, the interviewer could have then pointed out that this grifter was simply trying to slide Communism by.
It’s not just the government. It’s pervaded into every level of the professional world as well. I submitted an abstract for consideration to present at my professional organization’s annual conference yesterday and in order to do so I had to check a box that said I was committed to DEI. This is an engineering organization.
Unbelievable.
equity makes the state primary
good bye individualism
good bye meritocracy
good bye freedom
equality is each person reaching their potential
we do not all have the same potential
“equity makes the state primary
good bye individualism
good bye meritocracy
good bye freedom”
Much of the public has been indoctrinated and would welcome this.
““To me, the values of diversity, equality, inclusion are literally—and this is not kidding—the core strengths of America,”” ~ Dummie in white house
He desperately wants his marks to think that. But he don’t believe that for one second. He has a tell. Whenever he says “no joke” or “not kidding” he’s lying.
He has a foolish and obvious tell like this because he is an idiot.
We should not have put up with what happened in 2020. Looking back, that is going to be our Solzhenitsyn moment.
I am weeks away from retirement and I have to watch a bunch of offensive videos of losers telling me how to behave. I am pretty much committed to DEI because I am going to enjoy watching woke corporate America implode over the next 20 years.
Congratulations. I wish I was. I’m considering just starting my own gig so I can focus on real work...let the idiots remove themselves from the competition
BINGO!!!
1973
Did you cross your fingers behind your back as you checked the box? /s
What?! Biden is gonna announce that if any of the illegal aliens vote they will be immediately deported?
I note that airline safety seems to have gone down in recent years with near misses in the air and at airports, planes not being adequately inspected and even manufacturers like Boeing turning out relatively shoddy planes. Could there be a correlation between this and hiring not based on merit, but DEI?
Ignore it ... now that American exceptionalism has been demonized
bkmk
That is what I think is happening.
The author is missing the larger point. The whole of government DEI plan is not because Biden/Harris and their ilk have an ideological love for their fellow man who happens to be “in need.” The point of the DEI whole of government, amoung other things, is to DESTROY AMERICA.
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