According to a memo obtained by NBC News, the Defense Intelligence Agency ordered a pause of all activities and events related to 11 “special observances” in compliance with President Donald Trump’s ban on DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) programs in the federal workplace.
In addition to Black History Month, the agency also ordered the suspension of events marking Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, National American Indian Heritage Month, LGBTQ Pride Month, Women’s History Month, Juneteenth, Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Black people helped built the U.S., what a fucking disgrace to the atrocities their ancestors suffered.
Oh FFS, how long before the grand wizard or whatever the head of the klan is called is declared an official cabinet post? Not even a month in and the amount of BS thrown into the public’s face has to exceed some sort of methane pollution limit.
Not even a month in and the amount of BS thrown into the public’s face has to exceed some sort of methane pollution limit.
It did, but they undid the limits on that too, probably.
Pete Hegseth wasn’t elected, Trump made him head of The Department of Defense, within days a US Army Blackhawk helicopter, for the first time in recorded history, flew directly into the descending flight path of a commercial American airplane, killing 67 people, over American soil, in Washington DC.
Tulsi fucking Gabbard, a Russian/Alawite/Iranian stooge, is about to be installed as the US Director of National Intelligence.
Everything is being broken. With no way to stop it.
This is all a source of mockery, except for the families and loved ones of the 67 people blown out of the sky last week, they’re a little pissed off at the moment. I’d guess the family and loved ones of the more than a million who died bad, chocking on their own fluids, many unable to see or touch their own loved ones as they passed, due to Trump’s bungled and purposefully inept global pandemic response the last time he was president.
And the true fuckery hasn’t even begun in earnest yet. This DEI stuff is bait, it’s frustrating and upsetting, but it’s not going to cost lives in the short term, his Cabinet picks absolutely will (and already have), Trump is doing this so Liberals spend their energy fighting the fight he wants them to.
Tulsi Gabbard is also in a cult.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_of_Identity_Foundation
A lot of people do not share the same opinions or views or reality that I do. I try to put myself in their position, I try to not allow click bait and misinformation to cloud my efforts. I mean, a lot of the “news” in the past two weeks has been a bit exaggerated to spark fear and engagement. I can not overstate how massive the issue is around the media manipulation and the public’s lack of intelligence.
But holy fucking shit:
In addition to Black History Month, the agency also ordered the suspension of events marking Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, National American Indian Heritage Month, LGBTQ Pride Month, Women’s History Month, Juneteenth, Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Look, if you want to remove DEI policies and hire and promote staff based solely on their merits, at its face, that’s not terribly difficult to agree with. The issue is that you continue to exert your racism over and over and enforce our belief that your belief that caucasians are superior to all other races and you just want to wipe out all other races that this nation was literally built on the backs of.
These people see diversity as a threat to their livelihoods. This country has given white people an inherited advantage since before its inception. “DEI” means they might have to work harder to prove their merit. Their advantages are being stripped away and their exceptionalism culture is being diluted.
For the life of me, I - a straight white American male - can not understand the desire to preserve your “whiteness”. That’s just me though. There are plenty of people in the US with lineage in Italy, Ireland, Mexico, Nigeria, China, etc who embrace their country of origin and family history. My favorite thing about this country is its diversity. We should be more inclusive of it all while not living in fear that someone’s going to take our job based on the color of their skin. The racism in this country goes so deep and we’re missing out on learning from each other.
These national holidays are supposed to promote the entire fucking point of this country - inclusion and diversity.
They’re attacking anything that isn’t promoting cishet white men because that’s the only accomplishment they’ve had in life. To sane fucking people, merit is based on performance and ideology rather than who your parents were.
Why would the pentagon have any say in this? Or is it just within the defense agency? Either way, this feels like a waste of taxpayer money for them to be fighting about this instead of, well I dunno, maybe focusing on national defense…
It seems to apply to the Department of Defense. That’s the entire military infrastructure; Army, Navy, etc. That’s 2.1 million employees.
Fuck off, I’m gonna celebrate the whole goddammit month.
Can anyone clue me in as to how this helps average Americans?
The goal is to distract from the main points of their anti-regulation onslaught
It’s culture war bullshit. I assure you, a statistically significant portion of the right believes wholeheartedly that this is a good thing. It’s exactly what they voted for.
It’s not supposed to.
It distracts us from the class war? 🙃
