Getting rid of affirmative action has long been on the GOP agenda. Is the DEI the new racist dog whistle? DEI is the personnel policy reflecting diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout government. So it appears it is not only a code for a racist dog whistle to appeal to the racist elements of the Trump base, now with Kamala Harris, the adversary, it is also an encompassing of both racism and misogyny to be part of the MAGA campaign for the next 100 days. If you hear Trmp or a GOP candidate use the term as an evil to be stamped out, you know the audience they are reaching.
DEI...I had to look it up because I first ran into it in reading Project 2025. Now we have it. Here is how I interpret it. All people of color and women are inferior to white males, and the only way they can get ahead and/or get to par is to give them extra points. They were not discriminated against that needs to be offset by inclusion; they were just inferior. They refer to not only people of color but women, too. Project 2025 iDEI is racist and discriminatory against their base and explains the incompetence they believe is in the current regime.'s administration. It turns the concept of affirmative action to mean the opposite of anti-racism because it puts white males at a disadvantage.
I have run into that attitude in a discussion with a Trumpist recently, claiming the reason 'the "military is so weak" (which I asked to provide evidence since I saw the military is strong), and there was no response). I also had it inferred from another source. The only difference between Trump and Biden I could see about the military is the color of the brass in the Biden administration. If there is a snafu, it was because of DEI and a diverse racial military. https://www.militaryonesource.mil/leaders-service-providers/diversity-equity-inclusion/#:~:text=Diversity%2C%20Equity%20and%20Inclusion,-The%20Defense%20Department&text=A%20military%20that%20reflects%20the,critical%20to%20total%20force%20readiness.
From the New York Times, " D.E.I. — the diversity, equity and inclusion infrastructure erected throughout the federal government " https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/29/opinion/project-2025-trump-administration.html
and in Project 2025 it says it is racist and discriminatory against their base and explains incompetence they believe is in the current regime.'s administration.
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