What's the problem with diversity, equity, and inclusion?

[OAITW r.2.0]

Seems like this is what this country was founded on. The fact that they can use DEI as some sort of horrible acronym, pisses me off. If they don't believe in diversity, equality, and inclusion, what do they believe in?

[Prairie Gates]

1. Equity

Not equality

[biophile]

2. White supremacy

[brush]

34. Bingo. trump has always been a racist...see the Central Park Five and his...

exclusion of Black applicants to trump high rise aparment building all the way back in the '70s. And now add aparthied/Nazi Monk and Project 25 to the mix, it's clear what we're in for.

[live love laugh]

3. It's not divisive. Fascism, dick-taters, oligarchs need divisions to exist.

[Phoenix61]

4. They believe white men should run the world. nt

[WestMichRad]

16. Sadly, this is the reason.

[Ocelot II]

5. They *don't* believe in diversity, equity and inclusion.

They want to be sure that all advantages are offered to mediocre white men, just as it always was until about 50 years ago when uppity women and Black people started thinking they actually had rights.

[surfered]

6. Nothing is wrong with it and for those evangelicals opposing it, spoiler alert, Jesus was in favor of it.

[valleyrogue]

7. A larger share of the pie, even crumbs, is a threat to the white MALE power structure.

Women are the ultimate targets of this because they are half the human race, and many men think they aren't getting laid as much as they think they are entitled. They are trying to roll back ALL of women's gains.

[msongs]

8. fascist billionaires club cannot make any $$ off it? nt

[dgauss]

9. Made me think of this.

Elvis Costello (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding.

[RockRaven]

10. This country was founded on white men owning and running everything.

And these cretins want it like it was back then. THAT is why DEI are dirty words to them.

What they believe in is: "Me, me, me. Mine, mine, mine. Mine, not yours! Because I'm a very special boy."

[lastlib]

18. 1) Wealth for the wealthy;

2) Power for the powerful;
3) Comfort for the comfortable;
4) Poverty for the poor;
5) Weakness for the weak;
6) Affliction for the afflicted.

[everyonematters]

11. Recent polls show that at least a plurality of people support it. The right-wing media is pushing it for ratings to

their xenophobic viewers. This is an example to what is controlling the parties.

[usonian]

12. Play the suckers' racism, misogyny, xenophobia, and inferiority complex.

AND REAP

[OAITW r.2.0]

19. That pretty well sums it up.

50 years ago, I was excited about our potential as a country to lead the world. Today, not at all. And the rest of the world gave us a chance after 2020. We've lost any moral authority to lead the world after Trump,

[JustAnotherGen]

13. Mediocre White Men

Being handed everything on a silver platter.

That's just my opinion though.

[ZDU]

14. White Nationalism

and they believe in being sadistic bastards

[Diamond_Dog]

15. Aggrieved Entitlement

[underpants]

17. That's their N word

You cast a big net because it gives you a better chance

[dgauss]

23. That's a good point.

CRT was a little abstract and people had a hard time defining it and grabbing hold of it.

BLM was hard to deny and All Lives Matter was a weak counterpoint for the purpose of demonizing BLM.

DEI seemed to hit the sweet spot.

[Voltaire2]

20. Nothing, it makes us stronger.

However this country was founded on inequity, exclusion, and a very restricted view of who exactly had rights. Specifically it was only 'propertied' men, and generally that meant white men.

We are in a political struggle, again, about who has rights. The fascist Republican Party does not believe in universal rights. It isn't that they want to restrict rights to only citizens, which is bad enough as it denies due process and other legal protections to refugees, they appear to want to restrict rights to only white men, and effectively only wealthy white men. The DEI Panic is being propagated as the justification. To be not a cis white christian man is to be inferior. They have made that absolutely clear.

[Solly Mack]

21. America was not founded on diversity, equity, and inclusion.

And that's what they want to go back to: land-owning/wealthy white men in charge.

[OAITW r.2.0]

22. Of course you are correct.

But they did give us a governmental structure that could change over time. The Constitution was a changeable document and it did change, mainly for the good. But that required informed voters. Not sure there is a plurality of informed voters today. So off to Idiocracy we go!

[Solly Mack]

24. With perseverance and a desire for the fruition of promises made, America expanded and evolved but the

destructiveness of white supremacy never went away. Patriarchy never went away.

Those who desire both have kicked and screamed every step of the way, pulling down the country by trying to destroy all the progress made.

Right now, those people are in charge at the federal level, with many state governments friendly to the same white supremacist cause.

I don't know what is going to happen, but I do know we have to fight.

[OAITW r.2.0]

31. I'm an older white male who hasn't gotten laid in years, I'm OK with that.

Also-

I'm OK with the 2 lesbians GP's who handled the births of my 2 kids.
I'm OK with my Urologist being from Lebanon and keeping me alive.
I'm OK with my PCP being a female and pushing me to my urologist.

JFC, are we really this stupid as a Country?

[Solly Mack]

32. Ignorance is the tool of the oppressor.

And ignorance is abundant.

[Morbius]

25. Before they were bitching about DEI (and "woke")

...it was "political correctness." Before that, we were "bleeding heart liberals." I'm sure there was something before that, too.

Their problem with DEI is that it does not recognize white male superiority, which they consider obvious. I mean after all, their God is a white guy, their savior is a white guy. Clearly nature intends white guys should be acknowledged as superior.

(Do I need to invoke a sarcasm smilie?)

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

33. And their Santa has to be white too. Very white!

(although this one is yellow!)

[choie]

26. The poor white boys' feelings and egos will be hurt.

And their members will shrivel up.

[Cirsium]

27. White nationalism

It's an ongoing project.

[KS Toronado]

42. hello

[FullySupportDems]

28. Weak minded bigots who need double standards for everybody

As if Archie Bunker was right about everything. And even that character was a much better human than the Maga loyalists

[Hassler]

29. Abusive pale male drunks like Hegseth

Would be out of work. Can't have that

[Bluethroughu]

30. Not for the White Supremacy party.

[Tweedy]

35. The GOP, based on the current crop of nominees,

Believes in whomever lies the most with the most viciousness while being the least competent to fill any position.

The GOP also prioritizes whiners wearing enormous chips on their shoulders because someone dared tell them they erred, when in fact, they were erring. The GOP also prefers nihilistic types who will say or do any old horrible thing in order to worship at the feet of their dear leader and his unelected shadow.

They also want types who spout Pinochet economic nonsense even though that never works anywhere and anytime.

Evidence based knowledge and expertise is right out. No brainiac need ever apply.

[OAITW r.2.0]

36. They elevate people with known skeletons in the closet.

Financial crimes, sex crimes...it don't mattter...as long as their vote is assured. People really need to understand the Republican Party that infects our Congress today. It's an Organized Crime Party. I made this post before 2015, I think, on DU.

[Tweedy]

37. They nominate people

wholly unqualified to do the job because they neither understand squat nor have any desire to fill their vast ignorance.

It still shocks me that one of these dimwitted tools actually said his aim was! to terrorize federal workers in the same week we have a collision over DC. I don’t like the idea of a terrorized air traffic controller, do you?

May God help the families who lost their loved ones. Our president will, no doubt, be absent without leave.

[OAITW r.2.0]

38. The accidents will increase, more bad food will get eaten, more scams will happen.

Soon, the country will get cored out.

[Tweedy]

39. Nah. The gop goons will try

But just like Los Angeles is enormous, the United States is too. Our strengths and our riches as so vast that these dimwitted fools will only scratch the surface. They will round on one another too. That is inevitable. You cannot play with Stalinism and not find Beria staring at you hatefully from the corner. Robespierre always gets guillotined by his fellow travelers. It is the way these things wicked always go, even for Quadifi and Saddam.

Have hope and stay the course. Democracy, to paraphrase Churchill, is the worst form of government except for every other type humans have invented.

Good news for presidents Hoover and Buchanan though. Nobody will remember them after this.

[OAITW r.2.0]

40. I will never lose hope on the America I believe in.

I just reject Trump's vision of America.

[KT2000]

43. Thank You!

It is used now as a dog whistle for the racist republicans. They don't know what is really says. They think it is a quota system.

[Hitorque]

44. It's just a MAGA smokescreen

They don't want to give the game away by saying out loud that they hate black folks and Latinos...

[KS Toronado]

45. Welcome to DU !

[Hitorque]

47. Cheers!

[iemanja]

46. The country was founded on slavery and white male rule

I find it bizarre you would think it was founded on equity and inclusion. The 3/5 clause? The entire constitutional convention was negotiated around slavery.

[OAITW r.2.0]

48. Yeah, I clarified my thoughts in post 22.