Posted on 02/11/2025 6:27:53 PM PST by texas booster
Why did President Barack Obama start using words like “diversity, equity, and inclusion” instead of the typical "affirmative action"?
Affirmative action was created to right the historic wrongs imposed on African Americans during the Jim Crow era, which included about 10% of the U.S. population. Obama used DEI to expand the terminology to anyone who isn’t white. Why?
Victor Davis Hanson argues in this edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” that it was to dramatically increase the size of the historically marginalized constituency, allowing the Obama administration to implement its expansive woke agenda:
“Affirmative action was created during the civil rights era, 1964 and '65, and then, now, it has been with us almost 60 years. But remember what it was originally designed for—to address the historic racism and oppression of black Americans through slavery and Jim Crow, de facto segregation in some of the Northern states, but de jure segregation in the South.
"And it said that because of that African Americans had not been given equality of opportunity. Statute never said anything about quotas or equality result ...
00:00 Introduction to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Controversy
00:06 Historical Context of Affirmative Action
01:40 Challenges and Changes in Affirmative Action
02:16 The Obama Administration's Shift to DEI
02:53 Issues with the DEI Framework
03:59 Economic and Social Implications of DEI
05:44 Political Reactions and the Trump Era
06:20 Conclusion and Final Thoughts
FR Index of his articles: Victor Davis Hanson on FR
Town Hall: Victor Davis Hanson on Town Hall
American Greatness: Victor Davis Hanson on American Greatness
His website: Victor Davis Hanson
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The Stupid seem to have made great strides, thanks to Obama.
Its all the work of that fly-infested demonic Obama creature.
All the bad things happening in the USA with all the power and workings of Satan with every lying sign and wonder.
“To Define The Terms Is to Win the Argument:”
BTTT
DemocRATS and DemoKKKrats
Sew Division Inc
Don’t forget the Clintons.
May he burn forever!
Satan hand-picked a fine specimen in
Democrat Barack Hussein Obama ——
—— to wreak havoc and chaos upon
the United States of America
[All the bad things happening in the USA with all the power and workings of Satan with every lying sign and wonder.]
You are 100% correct
BHO is one of the Evilest creatures to have lived on this earth.
I think Obama did what proud leftist always do when they make a name such as ‘Affirmative Action” or “Liberal(and now Progressive)” so toxic that comes to represent harm; they simply rebrand to the next descriptive term until they make that toxic also.
A close godless kin to foul wicked Obama, have a look at false prophet wannabe Yuval Noah Harari,the World Economic Forums new reprobate evil mouthpiece.
You’re right.
Any buzzwords the left uses, the opposite is going to happen.
Liberals like to play with their word games....but facts? Not so much
Another negative off shoot of Obama’s DEI was that there weren’t enough racist incidents. Race crimes hoaxes popped up everywhere - Jussie being the most famous - to keep the grift going. Race crime hoaxers were rewarded with the coveted status on the left of being a victim.
Obama solidified the “sliding scale of victimhood” where the more boxes of supposed disadvantages a person checks earns them more steps up the Reward Ladder - competence be damned.
Pushing this too far during his 3rd Term (Biden) has thankfully resulted in a backlash.
But how much damage did it leave in it’s wake?
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