Posted on 07/31/2024 4:18:02 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
An insult uttered in schools and boardrooms about many marginalized people has a new high-profile target: Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.
“I think she’s one of the weakest candidates I’ve ever seen in the history of our country. I mean intellectually, just really kind of the bottom of the barrel. ... I think that she was a DEI hire,” Rep. Harriett Hageman, a Wyoming Republican, said of Harris.
For Black diversity, equity and inclusion professionals, the attacks on Harris as a “DEI hire” or a “DEI candidate” show the ways racial tropes can be used against Black people in power, despite their successes. Burchett and Hageman did not respond to requests for comment from NBC News.
DEI refers to workplace policies and practices designed to support people of various backgrounds and provide resources for them to thrive, while also identifying qualified candidates for jobs to close racial and gender disparities. But it has become the latest shorthand way to allege that success and power for some people of color or from other marginalized groups are unearned.
Harris is the highest-profile recipient of these attacks, which seem to be the result of a growing effort to undermine Black people in positions of power, say DEI professionals who spoke with NBC News.
Republican nominee Donald Trump has called Harris “dumb as a rock” and repeatedly — presumably intentionally — mispronounced her first name.
Steven Cheung, Trump’s communications director, doubled down: “Kamala Harris is, by all accounts, dumb as a rock. Even minorities like myself know that. She is weak, failed, and dangerously liberal,” he told NBC News.
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POTATUS. PUTATUS...
No Deep State on the planet hires the front office appearance types for brains, b@lls, or character.
Has nothing to do with sex, skin color.
It has everything to do with despots being paranoid.
And our Deep State’s paranoia is clearly off the charts.
DEI is brilliant insofar as it allows any criticism of protected people to be dismissed, regardless of any merit the criticism might contain.
She wasn’t a DEI hire. She was a SEX hire.
“...intellectually, just really kind of the bottom of the barrel...”
Not actually the bottom of the barell. Rather, they lifted the barrel and scraped around underneath, with all the nasty squiggly things crawling around down there.
worked for obama. They’re just recycling the playbook. And the “journo-list” mainstream media is running cover.
Looks like the theme for the day is “DEI”. That’s weird.
so now truth is an insult?
God can’t help those who choose repeatedly to remain focused on feelings and self delusion.
God will change any who ask with a sincere heart and willing to walk in new Life.
Kamala gives us the world’s 2 oldest professions for the price of one.
She’s a DEI hire because Biden said he would hire a black woman vice president. That automatically undermined her credibility. It is undermines anyone’s credibility who gets hired due to race. If a basketball coach says I’m looking for an Asian center… you would automatically assume it’s not about his ability to play center. That’s why you should hire someone on their ability alone, and not talk about their race or their gender or any of that crap. Sorry Dems. Own the atmosphere you’ve created.
wouldn’t that still fit at least one of the 3 parts of DEI?
It’s a really stupid title anyway.
Inclusion can mean any person at all.
Equity? compared to what?
Diversity? Height? weight? How many times you fell out of bed as a child?
Ohhhhhh, what a shame...SHE IS SUCH A NICE PERSON.
The Dims are making so many mistakes and I hope they never recover from them
What a bunch of losers.
I thought DEI was a good thing. Why is it an insult?
Biden also only considered black women. Which is pretty DEI.
“Looks like the theme for the day is “DEI”. That’s weird.”
Remember kids, you cannot spell “Weird” without DEI.
So if she should ever have a rally for Asian Americans,? would like to hear that accent
Looks like the “DEI hire” tactic is scoring some direct hits, by the way the targets are exploding.
There is the danger that cutting her up too bad will make her look sympathetic and Trump look like a bully.
None of this would ever have happened if Rush Limbaugh were still alive.
Live by DEI, DIE BY DEI!
“DEI refers to workplace policies and practices designed to support people of various backgrounds”
“Various backgrounds”?
When did DEI ever support a straight white competent christian conservative male?
NEVER!
DEI exists to foist leftist idiots to positions at which they will fail you.
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