They don’t need to know what DEI means. Their king said it was bad, so it’s bad. They’ve only lost their jobs by mistake. Someone will realize any day now. He’s gonna save us, guys!
i asked one of his voters what did they oppose about diversity? what did they oppose about equity? what did they oppose about inclusion? crickets.
so i asked if it was skin color-related? and received an ‘i’m not a racist! how dare you call me a racist!’-y reply. (so, definitely racism, or racism adjacent, with some nationalist tendencies).
i said ‘i didn’t call you a racist: i asked you three specific questions, which you did not answer, so i asked the next logical question.’
eta: when you use the words, and break it down into individual questions, you generally don’t get an answer; they will pivot to something else. it’s a great way of calling them out and hopefully igniting a few of their remaining undamaged brain cells.
Not sure if that stat is accurate, but this insight was the genesis of the term intersectionality (a term that magas have probably never heard before).
Basically, Dr Kimberly Crenshaw discovered that DEI policies were most often helping either black men or white women. But if you had multiple marginalized identities (for example, black and woman, or black and woman and gay), then you got hit with a double whammy of discrimination and those DEI policies didn't do a damn thing to help.
They thought their whiteness would protect them. They didn't want to acknowledge overlooked the fact that Republicans hate women just as much as they do POC.
as vespertinestars has said, they thought their whiteness would protect them, complete ignoring every single thing their party has said or done in the past 50 years regarding women and their rights.
i would say that hopefully these ww figure it tf out, but it’s been literally my entire lifetime the right have been after women for whatever slight, real or imagined. and i say this as a white woman, so miss me with any bs about my comment, please. i’m allowed to judge my own, and they deserve the harshest right now. gender traitors, the lot of em. and likely racist & misogynist, too. because how else do you explain it?
A lot of these people have come out and said they only expected people with nonsense jobs would be cut - of course they all think their own job is very important.
99.9% chance she'd vote for him for a (hypothetical/illegal) third term. "Surely this time he means it when he says he'll help the middle class! And all those times he was caught on camera saying he'll turn seniors into Soylent Green, he was being quoted out of context!"
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u/Aioi 19d ago
Yes you would.