DEFUND
Posted on 02/11/2025 11:02:14 AM PST by Red Badger
PBS fired two diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) executives and scrapped the department after Bari Weiss’ online publication Free Press was tipped off that the broadcaster was ignoring President Trump’s executive order eliminating the controversial initiative.
On Monday, PBS CEO Paula Kerger informed staff that it was parting ways with Cecilia Loving, senior vice president of DEI, and Gina Leow, director of DEI.
In the email, Kerger explained that the departures were necessary in order to adhere to Trump’s executive order from Jan. 20, which mandates the elimination of DEI-focused positions and funding in federally supported organizations.
“I know you join me in wishing them well in their future endeavors,” Kerger wrote.
She assured employees that the matter would be discussed further in an upcoming all-staff meeting on Wednesday.
Earlier in the day, PBS had been contacted by the Free Press regarding a tip from a senior network executive who claimed that PBS had originally planned to reassign Loving and Leow to the station services department in an attempt to bypass the executive order.
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There will be no future endeavors. Being a "Diversity Executive" at PBS qualifies one for nothing whatsoever.
OPB World seems extra-down on whitey, of late. Probably because it’s black hysteria month, or something.
DEFUND
Doesn’t seem to be a strong demand for “Diversity Executive” on Monster.com.................
Oh...NOW. 😏
They can thank the Obama Cabal for all of this. This DEI crap is a Biden legacy.
Let them write code.
It’s BS they rename and move the chairs. Kill all PBS funding, all of it
You can’t get more woke than Gin Leow: “Gina Leow is an inclusion and belonging thought leader, teacher, and restorative circle keeper”
And guess what: “She has certifications in Diversity and Inclusion from Cornell”; which means some Marxit profs at Cornell made sure she was well indoctrinated it what she was supposed to go out and enforce on society.
Yes, those people will have hard time now.
I bet, they have a lot of savings from the past heydays.
Some of their programming is acceptable.
Why not sell off their network to the private sector and apply the proceeds to the deficit?
Me thinks that a lot of white liberals out there are quietly thankful for Trump’s DEI E.O. because it solves a problem for them. Now NPR can simply say “Sorry, we have to let you go, all b/c of that mean ole Trump guy.” Now NPR can go back to its roots and hire virtually all white liberals, with a token here and a token there. Same thing with the NCAA—”Sorry, can’t have the “woman” with the package playing in women’s sports, but it’s not my fault, its Trump’s”!
I wonder how Bari’s feeling about being on our side these days. Such strange times...
She’s still a Liberal just not suffering from TDS now. She has issues that she agrees with us I’ll take it!
“PBS had been contacted by the Free Press regarding a tip from a senior network executive who claimed that PBS had originally planned to reassign Loving and Leow to the station services department”
Me thinks CEO Paula Kerger is next.
Bari is a Jew. She got kicked off the DEI intersectional totem poll at the NYT. Not to mention a victim of anti Semitic left. She was treated like us MAGA folks.
PBS CEO Paula Kerger is the one who needs to be fired. She is a Woke radical.
There is still a call for equity traders.
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