Trump Delivers on His Promise to Dismantle DEI

Wall St Journal ^ | Jason Riley

[RoosterRedux]

Surprisingly, the comments at the WSJ are overwhelmingly supportive of Trump. That may change as the day progresses.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Why do we need DEI when we’ve already have affirmative actions, EO, and all kinds of other racist crap offices all over the place. Their tantrums get old.

[jpl]

And he kept his promise to free Ross Ulbricht! I’m very proud of my President and my country today. President Trump has done more good for America in less than two days than some presidents do in an entire year.

[albie]

And don’t forget the one sided “hate crimes” legislation

[dangus]

Honest truth: I knew precisely how quotas were implemented, but I didn’t know they were still legal requirements of U.S. administrative law.

Any federal contractor or funding recipient (so yes, that includes schools) that has less than a proportional representation of the U.S. population can face a presumed-guilty audit of their hiring practices for failure to take “affirmative action” to achieve that representation. That proportional representation; that’s your quota.

This could be the biggest policy overhaul of gee, ever?

[lurk]

This is all fine, but his order on DEI was yesterday. What about TODAY?

[ComputerGuy]

Merit-based hiring and advancement are an anathema to much of DC.

[RoosterRedux]

It’s just 8:19 am. I can’t tell you about today...yet.;-)

[GOPJ]

The evidence has been piling up that the country wants to move past race in ways that the political left continues to resist. The Supreme Court’s landmark 2023 ruling against racial preferences in college admissions didn’t go over well with liberals, but polls show that a large majority of Americans, including most blacks, view the decision favorably.

Everyone except white liberal 'elites' are sick of WOKE and DEI crap... Trump's keeping his word to all the rest of us.

[PGalt]

HOORAY President Trump! Shatter clown world delusions.

[suthener]

“including most blacks”

We will have achieved racial unity in this country when that phrase is wiped from the lexicon.

[Not_Who_U_Think]

I’ve seen many changes during my work life, beginning with Affirmative Action. It started just as I was graduating college and entering the workforce. And yes, I didn’t get the second tier and management jobs because I was told directly that I wasn’t the color they were looking for. I worked in a regulated industry so quotas had to be met or exceeded.

Then, in 1995, my computer hobby paid off as Windows 95 took off. If you could spell “computer” there was a job for you. It was definitely a skill driven industry - most programming shops were small and people worked as contractors or partners.

For five years, it was an amazing time to be in the IT world. Not only was the pay great, but as the “guy who fixes it” you treated like an asset, the consultant from out of town, if you know what I mean. Y2K brought another golden opportunity for old skills to shine.

And then, in the early 2000’s, the H1Bs began. not only did they work cheap, but the first waves were highly talented.

For the last 20 years, there has been an obvious bias against native white males. Ahh, the good old days.

[rlmorel]

What the Left fails to understand is just how corrosive and destructive DEI and Affirmative Action are to the very people those things are supposed (in their minds) to aid.

In my mind, the very worst (to them) is that if someone of one of those groups holds a position of any kind, they will always have the sword of "Affirmative Action Hire" hanging over their head either justifiably or unjustifiably.

When you see disaster occur to a place like Los Angeles due to extremely poor mismanagement or malmanagement and you find that the three most important positions bearing on the disaster are all lesbians, hired by people whose goal was not to manage the threat of fire, but to have more "representation" in positions of authority such as these three:

Then it isn't homophobia, racism, or sexism that causes people to think that people were hired not primarily on their suitability, aptitude, or competence at a given job, but for the various checkboxes that were checked in the hiring process.

If people are being chosen to perform a task that they fail at, and they are all chosen on the basis of something other than competency (such as skin color, gender, sexual preference, or, in the case of the doctored image above, moles on the right side of their faces) then normal, sensible, thinking people are going to rightly conclude that they were all chosen because they had moles on the right side of their face rather than their ability to manage the threat of fire.

And that damage that does to women who are good at their jobs who make occasional mistakes (as we all do) or blacks who occasionally have bad outcomes at tasks (as happens to all of us) or lesbians who make poor choices at managing the threat of fire (as administrators in the firefighting field sometimes do) is unfairly heaped on competent people who make mistakes as well as rightly heaped on the three female lesbians above.

To. parallel Freeper suthner who states in the post at #12...that we will have achieved racial unity in this country when phrases like "including most blacks" are wiped from the lexicon, we will be closer to achieving racial unity when DEI and Affirmative Action are removed from the destructive toolbox of government.

[cgbg]

Government agencies need to find those rainbow flags in their warehouses and publicly burn them.

Symbolism matters.

[rlmorel]

I agree with you 100%.

Absolutely. There are a lot of things worse than flying a rainbow flag, but when the government flies a rainbow flag over embassies and facilities in this country or especially, overseas, it really burns me.

[PGalt]

Yes

[House Atreides]

AS YOU READ THIS THREAD many hundreds of DEI federal employees are packing up ALL personal belongings they have at their federal office to be gone by Trump’s 5:00pm deadline for them to be gone and on administrative leave.

Tomorrow they’ll begin their search for their future employment. Actually most will simply go on unemployment insurance after their upcoming termination of employment.

I have to wonder how many will try to “burrow in” to other federal positions. Hopefully Trump’s staffers will take steps to minimize this.

[dfwgator]

I flipped the bird at our Embassy in Warsaw when they were flying the Rainbow Flag, it was obvious they were doing it, because Poland is still a somewhat conservative country.

[House Atreides]

“ This is all fine, but his order on DEI was yesterday. What about TODAY?”
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See post 18 up thread.