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A Department of Homeland Security unit eliminated policies prohibiting personnel from conducting intelligence activities based solely on a person’s gender identity or sexual orientation.
The Office of Intelligence and Analysis posted an updated policy manual late last week that removes references to those characteristics in sections that set guardrails on gathering intelligence.
The revisions follow President Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 directive to scrap policies and protections focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion across federal agencies.
Anyone trying to pretend this government isn’t pulling straight up Nazi shit has no excuse anymore.
There is absolutely no justification for this, unless your long term plan is attacking people just for being trans, or queer. This is the precursor to the precursor to concentration camps. Whether or not it ever gets to concentration camps, it simply has no other conceivable long term goal.
This is a fascist administration. They have made their goals absolutely clear and they will do whatever it takes to get there.
Yea they will go after LGBTQ folks first but everyone has an orientation and an identity so pretty much anyone can be subject to surveillance without any real cause or justification.