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Conservatives rage against DEI initiatives as cause of L.A. fires
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | January 10, 2025 | By Joe Garofoli

Posted on 01/12/2025 9:50:44 AM PST by artichokegrower

Southern California officials are investigating whether the raging wildfires in Los Angeles County were ignited by power lines, a tossed cigarette or any other of the myriad ways that people or infrastructure ignite blazes. Nowhere on the list: diversity and inclusion policies. But that hasn’t stopped the conservative media echo chamber from politicizing — and dehumanizing — the loss of human life, homes and business by attributing the tragedy to DEI policies.

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Liberal state the cause of the LA fires:

Bernie Sanders Blames Raging California Wildfires on Climate Change Barbra Streisand: Winds Pushing Los Angeles Wildfires Are ‘Due to Climate Change’ Hollywood director Jim Jarmusch blame the raging fires on “climate deniers,” demanding that people stop viewing “woke” as “a negative thing.” Note: Is it not interesting that PC “woke” requires DEMS to follow their handlers regarding the imagined “climate change?” Democrat Pramila Jayapal Blames Fires on Corporations Ignoring ‘Reality of Climate Change’

1 posted on 01/12/2025 9:50:44 AM PST by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

Republicans pounce !


2 posted on 01/12/2025 9:52:14 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: artichokegrower

Yes, Satan’s minions, known as leftist Democrats, are to blame.


3 posted on 01/12/2025 9:54:12 AM PST by twister881
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To: artichokegrower

Guy with a blowtorch driven crazy by the climate? Doesn’t help that we listen to envirowhackos and can’t get rid of the underbrush.


4 posted on 01/12/2025 9:56:30 AM PST by Rastus
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To: artichokegrower

Here’s my problem:

A shrewd media person - at the national level, ala Trump cabinet - would see this for what it is:

An opportunity to compel the dems to circle the wagons and therein suffer the crossfire (fratricide).

It’s already starting, but gop and Conservatives alike at the national level should refrain from entering the fray and - rather than getting burned themselves - should be shrewd enough to pour fuel on the fire currently consuming the bulk of the progressive left’s agenda.


5 posted on 01/12/2025 9:57:26 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: artichokegrower
He who smelt it dealt it.


6 posted on 01/12/2025 9:58:02 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: artichokegrower

Yeah the dry fire hydrants were because of climate change.


7 posted on 01/12/2025 9:58:11 AM PST by iamgalt
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To: artichokegrower

“Conservative media echo chamber.” Ever heard that term applied to leftist demonrats? No


8 posted on 01/12/2025 9:58:43 AM PST by Fungi
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I’m conservative and I’m not raging. When people beg for a totalitarian state and then get it, I won’t rage about that. I’ll do my best to avoid feeling great satisfaction over such a great tragedy, but I won’t rage about it. Hey, they asked for it, they got it.


9 posted on 01/12/2025 10:00:01 AM 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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They are so STUPID!!! The main thing is that, no matter how the fires started, TPTB WERE NOT PREPARED! Not only were they not prepared, they had actively thwarted policies and actions that would’ve mitigated the catastrophe.


10 posted on 01/12/2025 10:00:58 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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Newsome is an ultra libtard moron hetersexual cracker, not so “DEI”. I would drop the DEI bellering and concentrate on the lack of planning (forestry management, water planning, evacuation planning, etc.) and wasteful spending.

There’s not a single thing that the “climate change” screamers would have done that would have changed this nightmare.

This all assumes that we don’t discover it was a planned terrorist action - a distinct possibility.


11 posted on 01/12/2025 10:03:08 AM PST by budj (Combat vet, 2nd of 3 generations.)
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To: Cincinnatus.45-70

“they asked for it, they got it.”

I am hopeful that we don’t end up paying for it. As Trump told Newscum in 2019 in a tweet, don’t be comin’ around asking for federal money to bail out your sorry asses when you refuse to take proper action. (Paraphrased, of course.)


12 posted on 01/12/2025 10:03:17 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: iamgalt

But that hasn’t stopped the conservative media echo chamber from politicizing — and dehumanizing — the loss of human life, homes and business by attributing the tragedy to DEI policies.

They just cant help themselves with thier lies and mental illness can they
ITS YOUR FAULT PERIOD


13 posted on 01/12/2025 10:04:12 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: artichokegrower

But that hasn’t stopped the conservative media echo chamber from politicizing — and dehumanizing — the loss of human life, homes and business by attributing the tragedy to DEI policies.


Because it’s TRUE!


14 posted on 01/12/2025 10:06:23 AM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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Hate = the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

It will hurt the feelings of many folks—so according to the mass media it is necessary to lie 24/7.


15 posted on 01/12/2025 10:10:31 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: artichokegrower

Liberals like this don’t get it because they don’t want to get it.

It’s not that blacks, women, or even sexual deviants cannot be effective at their jobs, it’s that these categories do not contribute to them being effective. Therefore, job hiring should be based on ability and not diversity, “equity”, and inclusion.

There is nothing particularly bad about DEI if it happens organically because the best people for the job are from diverse backgrounds.

If you want this objective, try helping diverse people become more qualified instead of illegally discriminating against candidates for their skin color, religion, or biological sex in the name of DEI.

The way DEI is implemented results in amplifying an already known glitch in the Matrix of promoting to the level of incompetence. In other words, DEI produces incompetence at the highest levels (such as the presidency and vice presidency).

No amount of pontification will change this reality. Just take the red pill and face it. Stop attacking those who already have. You will lose.


16 posted on 01/12/2025 10:42:58 AM PST by unlearner (Still not tired of winning.)
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“Conservatives rage against DEI initiatives as cause of L.A. fires”

I have seen zero conservatives saying that DEI was the CAUSE of the fires. Standard leftist straw-man tactics.


17 posted on 01/12/2025 10:58:53 AM PST by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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You just get here?
3 lezbo fire chiefs!
An America hating commie mayor!
A fish, regulations and hair spray loving governor!


18 posted on 01/12/2025 11:24:23 AM PST by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: artichokegrower

It was sheer incompetence on every level of the State and County governments.


19 posted on 01/12/2025 11:29:25 AM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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It was sheer incompetence on every level of the State and County governments.

It was literally a perfect storm.

But it was bound to happen.

There is simply no way that a competent person is going to be in power in the State of California.

20 posted on 01/12/2025 11:30:42 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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