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Orwellian! MSNBC Guest Claims DEI Discrimination Creates 'Level Playing Field'
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 02/26/2025 12:16:06 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

Somewhere, "1984" author George Orwell is smiling. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. And on MSNBC this morning: discrimination creates a "level playing field."

On Wednesday's edition of MSNBC's Way Too Early, host Ali Vitali invited Lauren Leader to discuss the vote by Apple shareholders not to abandon the company's DEI programs.

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Leader went Orwellian when at the end of the segment she said:

"Diversity is what this country was built on. And most Americans do understand that it should be a level playing field for all."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: apple; dei; georgeorwell; laurenleader; msnbc
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1 posted on 02/26/2025 12:16:06 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: patro; abb; SE Mom; HarleyLady27; connyankee; Behind Liberal Lines; KC_Lion; frank ballenger; ...

Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.


2 posted on 02/26/2025 12:16:47 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (Please ping or FReepmail me to be added to the Liberal Media Criticism ping list.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

please use more chinese slave labor to bring down the prices of your products./ sarc


3 posted on 02/26/2025 12:19:02 PM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The thinking goes, that because Bill Gates is a billionaire, all other whites need to be discriminated against to balance the books.


4 posted on 02/26/2025 12:19:14 PM PST by Jonty30 (Groundhogs don't falsify their predictions for grant money, whereas climate scientists do. )
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I own Apple stock and no one asked me to vote on DEI. If they say it was on the proxy ballot, I never got one.


5 posted on 02/26/2025 12:23:04 PM PST by econjack
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Someone needs to read Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron” and not treat it as an instructional guide.


6 posted on 02/26/2025 12:23:15 PM PST by mikey_hates_everything
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Tranny on the right.


7 posted on 02/26/2025 12:23:17 PM PST by Zathras
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

America was built on hard work, insight, desire for freedom and dreams. It was diverse as far as most colonial residents were of European descent.


8 posted on 02/26/2025 12:36:42 PM PST by Resolute Conservative
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

To have a level field is NOT the same as ‘leveling the players’ - what the bimbo wants is for some players to be knee capped and others to be allowed to use knives on players they don’t like.


9 posted on 02/26/2025 12:40:52 PM PST by GOPJ (Delta just Bud Lighted themselves - freeper dfwgator)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Newspeak translation = Establishing equitable conditions.


10 posted on 02/26/2025 12:45:54 PM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

“Diversity is what this country was built on.”

Only if diversity is another name for God, Guns, and Guts.


11 posted on 02/26/2025 12:46:20 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement What shtthoof fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Sorry lady the big glasses don't make you look any smarter and we didn't miss the blonde hair.


12 posted on 02/26/2025 12:49:20 PM PST by DAC21
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

It’s true, though, at least in the Ideal Socialist World. DEI means equality of results. So a hard-working competent person must get the same results as a barely-putting-out-effort person with far less skill. The poor worker coasts on the work of the good worker, at least until the good worker catches on to the scam. Then they both suffer in mediocre failure.

Oh, except the competent worker finds ways to work and get paid off the books. Welcome to the Soviet Union.


13 posted on 02/26/2025 12:51:08 PM PST by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

in liberal minds this makes since because liberals are KKK racists that believe that blacks are as a race inferior. So the only way to fix the inequalities that will result from their races inferiority is to practice DEI, race quotas and other forms of reverse discrimination to somewhat balance the field.


14 posted on 02/26/2025 12:57:19 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: GOPJ

didn’t some Olympic skater try that qwap on another Olympic skater but found out that won’t fly?


15 posted on 02/26/2025 1:04:04 PM PST by Qwapisking ("The left will rue the day they cheated Trump out of the 2020 election forever" L.Star )
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

DEI is the same as boys playing girl’s sports. Completely unfair. Whites and Asians are on the bottom of the DEI checklist for hiring and promotion. Not an even playing field.


16 posted on 02/26/2025 1:09:27 PM PST by DeplorablePaul
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To: econjack

I did vote against it by proxy, against the directors’ wishes. Many just click to approve all of the directors’ recommendations so it’s hard to change things.


17 posted on 02/26/2025 1:27:02 PM PST by hanamizu ( )
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Orwell would not be smiling. He was warning us. Goebells would be smiling.


18 posted on 02/26/2025 1:28:07 PM PST by webheart (We have to call them what they are: Communists. They are not liberal or progressive. Eed Plebnista. )
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To: hanamizu

I always go down the ballot because the things that matter are always last on the list.


19 posted on 02/26/2025 1:36:25 PM PST by econjack
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To: webheart

It was a mocking smile. :-)


20 posted on 02/26/2025 1:55:13 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (Please ping or FReepmail me to be added to the Liberal Media Criticism ping list.)
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