Interior secretary questioned importance of diversity: report

The Hill ^ | March 26, 2018 | Miranda Green

[yoe]

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke downplayed the importance of diversity in the workforce and at his department on multiple occasions, CNN reported Monday.

[yoe]

Secretary Zinke believes in Meritocracy regardless of race, color, or sex. I would describe that is as diverse as one can get....there is nothing wrong with hiring those who qualify for a job. This nation's government waste is criminal because of the wrong approach to diversity...up to now no one has had to be qualified as long as he/she was warm, had two eye-balls and was a minority.

Bravo Secretary Zinke for hiring qualified people for government work!

CNN is an example of how unqualified diverse people can dismantle news beyond recognition.

[SoFloFreeper]

Good.

[Zeppo]

Thoughtcrime alert: Cabinet member speaks truthfully.

Call the Thought Police!

[43north]

I believe he is a former Navy SEAL. He has been trained to operate in REALITY, not a leftist world of make-believe.

[rlmorel]

They say this like it’s a bad thing.

[HereInTheHeartland]

He doesn’t believe in having a quota of hiring a certain number gender fluid left handed Bolivian jugglers?

[clee1]

Good! Diversity is fine, but useless in and of itself.

[thoughtomator]

“Diversity” means eliminating white people, men, Christians, Jews, and heterosexuals.

It should be treated with the same level of contempt as antisemitism, Communism, Nazism, human sacrifice and cannibalism.

[Freee-dame]

How about BEST qualified, instead of minimally qualified?

[SoConPubbie]

Oh the Humanity!!!!

[PSUGOP]

More diversity in the NBA. Yeah, that’s the ticket.

These people are amazingly stupid

[Midwesterner53]

Shame on him for wanting the best employees regardless of what they look like! What was he thinking?????

[pepsi_junkie]

Astonishing! Why, doesn’t he know that we could have never won WWII without a fully diverse workforce in the War Department! Or put a man on the moon if NASA hadn’t “looked like America”. Oh, wait ... Hmmm. maybe quotas doesn’t make us “better” after all.

[grania]

“Diversity” and “Affirmative Action” are at the core of destroying this nation. Instead of striving to find the most qualified employees, hiring becomes based on congeniality and quotas. It lowers the standard and expectations for all employees, not just the ones who got jobs they didn’t deserve.

[ArcadeQuarters]

> downplayed the importance of diversity

Oh dear! I’m going to faint!

[LeonardFMason]

If you needed complicated brain surgery would you want a surgeon picked to for diversity OR the BEST SURGEON TO DO THE JOB?

[ltc8k6]

https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2018/03/26/no-bias-to-see-here-could-cnns-attempt-to-smear-ryan-zinke-be-any-more-shameless/

‘No bias to see HERE!’ Could CNN’s attempt to smear Ryan Zinke be any more SHAMELESS?

[moovova]

Secretary Zinke has diversity of thought.

[The Toll]

The Church of Diversity isn’t science ya dumbasses.

[Sergio]

How many organizations that say that they do not discriminate based on sex, color, ethnicity, or religion when hiring, also have “diversity” hiring policies.

H.R. people get into fits when I tell them that you can have nondiscriminatory hiring practices or you can have diversity hire priorities, but you can't have both.

Our slogan should be “Diversity hiring is discriminatory!”