Posted on 02/19/2023 3:28:49 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Thursday, Joe Biden signed an executive order embedding the tenets of Critical Race Theory into the operations of the federal government. EO 13985, Executive Order on Further Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through The Federal Government, requires the establishment of “Agency Equity Teams” to ensure that equal outcomes are imposed on federal programs.
(i) Each Agency Equity Team shall be led by a designated senior official (senior designee) charged with implementing my Administration’s equity initiatives, and shall include senior officials from the office of the agency head and the agency’s program, policy, civil rights, regulatory, science, technology, service delivery, financial assistance and grants, data, budget, procurement, public engagement, legal, and evaluation offices, as well as the agency’s Chief Diversity Officer, to the extent applicable. Agency Equity Teams shall include a combination of competitive service employees, as defined by 5 U.S.C. 2102(a), and appointees, as defined in Executive Order 13989 of January 20, 2021 (Ethics Commitments by Executive Branch Personnel), and, to the extent practicable, shall build upon and coordinate with the agency’s existing structures and processes, including with the agency’s environmental justice officer designated pursuant to Executive Order 14008 of January 27, 2021 (Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad), and with the senior agency official designated to coordinate with the Gender Policy Council pursuant to Executive Order 14020 of March 8, 2021 (Establishment of the White House Gender Policy Council).
(ii) The senior designee at each agency shall be responsible for delivering equitable outcomes, to the extent consistent with applicable law, and shall report to the agency head.
(iii) Each Agency Equity Team shall support continued equity training and equity leadership development for staff across all levels of the agency’s workforce.
According to the Associated Press:
Chiraag Bains, the president’s deputy assistant for racial justice and equity, said that the new order shows Biden is “doubling down” on the commitment he made on his first day as president “to put equity at the center of how this government operates.”
The order institutionalizes Biden’s pledge that government be open and accessible to all and “is a recognition that achieving equity is not a one- or a two-year project. It’s a generational commitment,” Bains told The Associated Press.
Federal agencies would need to improve the quality and frequency of their engagement with communities that have faced systemic discrimination. And it formalizes Biden’s goal of a 50% bump in federal procurement dollars that go to small and disadvantaged businesses by 2025.
Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity are now the policy of the federal government.
Even if you buy that diversity, for diversity’s sake, is a good policy (you’ll love living in Yugoslavia — wait, it doesn’t exist anymore — or Rwanda) and that inclusivity as an end makes sense, the notion of equity, which is that unequal outcomes are caused by systemic racism, should strike you as bizarre. Life isn’t equal. Half of the country has a below-average IQ. Not everyone can play pro sports. The bald-faced assertion that a lack of equal outcomes is due to “communities” (whatever the hell that means anymore) being “underserved” by the government is balderdash. “Communities” have different outcomes because they are different. The intellectual bankruptcy of the DIE stupidity lies in the fact that it sees 100% of all problems as racial.
As I posted yesterday, see Biden EPA Administrator’s Advice to Chemical Poisoning Victims in East Palestine, OH, Sounds Like Cruel Parody; there is no set of circumstances where a predominantly minority community would be treated the way East Palestine was treated. But because of the residents’ age, income, education, and race, the federal government could give a flying f*** if they all died. In fact, under DIE dogma, that is a privileged community and probably had this coming for all the advantages it has had.
To make things worse, Biden is bringing in Obama consigliere Susan Rice to lead the effort.
Establishment of the White House Steering Committee on Equity. There is hereby established a White House Steering Committee on Equity (Steering Committee), which shall be chaired by the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy.
Rice, you’ll recall, is the person who lied about Benghazi on five networks on the same Sunday (Susan Rice Beats Irony to Death and Drags Mangled Corpse Behind Her Moped). She was also the driving force behind using the FBI and intelligence community to spy on candidate Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign (Susan Rice Demanded Detailed Spreadsheets of Trump Campaign Surveillance).
As Stephen Miller of America First Legal points out on Twitter:
Without a single authorization or appropriation from Congress, Biden has weaponized the entire government of the United States to inflict on our whole nation what radicalized ultra-woke DEI departments have done to colleges & corporations — armed by the power of the state. (2/3)
pic.twitter.com/RDYLsCK7dd— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) February 18, 2023
The EO will have another deeply pernicious effect: workers who resent the DEI decree will start to leave/retire, workers who embrace it will be recruited/join, further radicalizing the Deep State.
The EO places Susan Rice is in charge.
AFL will be relentless in opposition.(3/3)
pic.twitter.com/q0Va7zimnH— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) February 18, 2023
The real purpose of this Executive Order and the racialist KGB it establishes is to transform the federal bureaucracy to ensure that the next president will have to contend with a wall of DIE/CRT fanatics embedded in the highest levels of the civil service.
Equity?
Does this mean whites and asians will now pay the same amount taxes, percentage or amount, as the average black?
Kind of like Obama’s reeducation retreats
Susan Rice? Guess NetFlix could not afford her.
Hey Brandon, I’ll take competence over diversity 24/7/365.
It’s a common belief among stupid people that they are really geniuses.
Yeah, that’s just tin foil.
Article V alteration of the Constitution could Never be stolen/corrupted right?
GOPe (turtle McConnell, Rhonna, Willard, amnesty Graham, Pence, Murky, Collins, deep Chaney, et al.) would NEVER allow that to happen !
-fJRoberts-
I got out just in time…
When is this nightmare going to end?
Thank you for sharing your emotions.
It's a WH ice cream order; just sign it.
OK Spock, where am I wrong ?
-fJroberts-
We ain’t voting our way out of this.
A group of fed workers need to take action together and fight this with an EEO complaint or something like that. uS law prevents denigrating people in the workforce on the basis of race. This needs to come from within the fed employment lists as it is a workforce issue. So employees time to grow some and defend yourself
DEI is the current name for the political officers every tyranny uses to terrorize its own citizens.
The only answer to this is Revival. Even the most depraved society can be ‘healed’ if there is a revival but, it is rare. Ninavah is an example of revival and repentence but it is also an example of how rarely it happens.
Joe Biden couldn’t pick his nose! He didn’t pick Rice. His Boss did, and he was probably told to do so by somebody else. The globalist cabal has its hands around Lady Liberty’s neck, and it won’t stop until she is dead. The “Biden Administration” is a farce. It doesn’t exist.
That’s the perfect summary of what is happening in the US today and what drives me to prepare accordingly. I work at it daily.
Followup: the irony is that DEI rewards incompetence and inaction. The people who get along well in the oppressive environment are do-nothings who mouth the ‘current thing’ duckspeakingly without the slightest interest in whether it makes sense or contradicts yesterday’s nonsense.
These people are, accordingly, massively incompetent at ... well, anything. Like the old Soviet factories; told the quota was 500 widgets, they dutifully produce 500 of something called widgets, but with the minimum of quality necessary to not get shot and 0% chance of producing 501 or any other number than “not get shot.”
So in the worst case scenario FedGov purges anyone capable of doing the work necessary to effect the change they want.
Of course we hope and must work for the better result of getting rid of this plague — the old USSR was a cluster**** but still nearly nuked the planet to death and lasted over 70 years, killing millions in the process. We can hopefully do better, God willing.
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