'You Don't Have to Apologize for Being White Anymore!' JD Vance Declares Trump Killed DEI
Source: MEDIAite
Dec 21st, 2025, 2:50 pm
Vice President JD Vance declared one of President Donald Trump’s big wins since returning to office has been gutting federal diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) laws that discriminated against white and Asian Americans.
Vance made the comment during a speech at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest 2025 in Phoenix, Arizona on Sunday. The vice president said DEI is antithetical to American values and a meritocratic society — which made it an easy target for the second Trump Administration.
“We don’t treat anybody different because of their race or their sex,” Vance told the crowd. “So we have relegated DEI to the dustbin of history, which is exactly where it belongs.”
That comment drew a big roar from the crowd.
Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/politics/you-dont-have-to-apologize-for-being-white-anymore-jd-vance-declares-trump-killed-dei/
"Price of eggs", "Kitchen table issues", "Working class".
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Deuxcents
(25,333 posts)Your party and their supporters are the sole reason for DEI and it’ll never be a thing of the past as long as you cannot treat people equally in society.
PurgedVoter
(2,669 posts)All races got bad and good, but Krasnov and Vance are peak bad and pretty obvious about it.
walkingman
(10,254 posts)Not sure what planet you have lived on during your life?
ChicagoTeamster
(365 posts)
RussBLib
(10,401 posts)MAGA will eat it up. I see Vance is working on his lying. Gotta try to be like "America's Hitler," right Couchfucker?
https://russblib.blogspot.com
PSPS
(15,190 posts)Did they french each other on stage again at this HateFest? I see a budding Tammy Faye in Erika.
It's sardonically funny that Vance considers himself the heir apparent to the GOP nomination in '28. He doesn't realize that cults of personality don't work that way. His perpetual scowl and trump-inspired petulant behavior might garner maybe 5% support.
IronLionZion
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RazorbackExpat
(879 posts)IronLionZion
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kimbutgar
(26,664 posts)I was working my senior move job and one of the men that worked in the building as a maintenance man came into the apartment of a senior white man to fix a broken railing and the old bigot called him the N word. The maintenance apologized to the man saying he was the only one available. Our crew called our boss and the three of us, myself, and the other two co workers who are gay walked off the job. Luckily, we were there only 1 hour and took the moving materials.
We apologized to the maintenance man for his being treated so rudely.
OldBaldy1701E
(9,959 posts)Now, as to certain aspects of the legacy of the white race here in the US... well...
I have allowed a certain humility in that regard. Doubly so given my family shame which is tied up in that legacy. My mother thinks I am crazy for feeling anything about our ancestral involvement in those events. Well, I do, lady. We should not have been involved at all. As far as I can tell, 'we' did not even own any enslaved people ourselves, so why were we even supporting that side, ya know?
Conversely (and hypocritically, I suppose), I am acquainted with the direct line descendant of a major historical Confederate figure, who was a pre-teen child when I was around him. I always felt very bad for him as I was well aware of the potential public blowback should he be caught out in public and have his lineage revealed. I made sure to never bring it up around him (although I had a few conversations with his parents about it), and he was a bright, and smart kind whose best friends were an African American and a Mexican American. He did not seem to know or care about his 'family'. I always hoped that he stayed that way.
There are times when being defined by one's family is a good thing.
Then, there are times when it is most certainly not.
mahina
(20,316 posts)I have never heard that in my life either. But people should still have to apologize and repent from being racists, which he left inferred. Ugh.
kimbutgar
(26,664 posts)When seniors decide to move to senior communities we go in and help them downsize and pack the stuff they want to move to their new residence. Then we go back in and haul away trash and old furniture and donate anything that could be reused and we make sure they get the donation receipts for their taxes.
Sometimes we get difficult clients like the guy I mentioned, a snobby rich person who thinks they know everything and are bossy and the best seniors who are grateful for our service and happy after we pack them and unpack in their new homes. The pay is good and sometimes the seniors give us tips. This past week I had a two day job where I packed a lady’s stuff she wanted to take ( usually more kitchen stuff or massive book collections) the physical movers come and transported the furniture and boxes we packed of their items and we unpack them at their new residences. I got $100 tip! And one lady I worked with a week before that was a snob, had more stuff then she needed to move and was very difficult gave me a massive $20 tip ! As we’re unpacking we usually know the stuff we put away will never be used again! But I get they need their stuff !
Scarlet Begalas
(71 posts)I've never heard anyone apologize for beinh white either. Rethugs are so good at "solving" problems that don't exist. Just like how "nobody was allowed to say Merry Christmas." They love playing victim.
Gore1FL
(22,811 posts)
wolfie001
(6,932 posts)
eppur_se_muova
(40,846 posts)
Red Mountain
(2,244 posts)They seem to have rediscovered racial profiling.
Mz Pip
(28,334 posts)Why should anyone apologize for something they have no control over? Apologize for behavior you can control, like being an asshole, like Vance is.
LymphocyteLover
(9,286 posts)
Skittles
(169,214 posts)meaning, it's made-up bullshit fed to the ignorant repuke base
OC375
(399 posts)twodogsbarking
(17,460 posts)Tears.
Iris
(16,827 posts)The work will continue. And it's documented. There's way to purge it all.
Evolve Dammit
(21,410 posts)Botany
(76,213 posts)Not one good thing about him.
paleotn
(21,382 posts)DEI MAKES it a true meritocracy, i.e., don't discount someone based on their skin color, ethnicity or gender. I'm old enough to have seen exactly that. Jethro and his pasty followers want to make it a white male only club again. Mainly because they know they're weak, dumb and uncompetitive.
Zelda_Orchid
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PatSeg
(51,941 posts)And for that, they still need to apologize.
tavernier
(14,203 posts)How lucky we are not to have to make those decisions. And once President Piggy croaks, JD will be honored to load his bags with all the gold in the Oval. … oops… Dollar Tree doesn’t return used plastic crap.
dlk
(13,096 posts)White men never have. Some of them are just dead set against treating those who are not white men fairly. They don’t like to share.
Figarosmom
(9,618 posts)Or had the right education" so they screwed the white poor o er big time. And the idiots who have no idea what DEI is are cheering JDs proclamation.
Iris
(16,827 posts)On college campuses
2na fisherman
(216 posts)Usha and their kids must be very disappointed in his daily disrespect of them by his white supremacy pandering for importance in the party. But he doesn't realize that ICE would also not apologize to Usha if they deported her just for being brown. What he doesn't understand is that he's boasting about wanting the last letter in DEI to have its opposite meaning, exclusion of The Other. And he also doesn't understand he will have little Maga support for future political office because those bigots will not see him as white enough because he has a wife of Indian descent.
Callie1979
(1,083 posts)Maybe there HAVE been some to do it as a stunt, but ok boomer.
J_William_Ryan
(3,272 posts)Ignorant, racist nonsense.
No one has ever suggested that white people must ‘apologize,’ whatever that’s supposed to mean.
And DEI never had anything to do with white people ‘apologizing.’
Last, DEI is not dead – Vance’s racist comment demonstrates that; that racism among the right is alive and well.
Escape
(366 posts)by the Vice President of the United States.
PittBlue
(4,696 posts)I hate him.
Wiz Imp
(8,697 posts)you rather than criticize you.
People who think they had or have to apologize for being white in reality wanted to be openly racist 24/7 without any blowback. If someone criticizes them for being racist, they think that means they have to apologize for being white.
Aussie105
(7,536 posts)We all know that white skin surpasses darker shades any day, and DEI makes it unfair!
Appealing to the lowest common denominator racist human trash thinking there.
Sounding desperate there, Mikey boy!
Sneederbunk
(17,197 posts)slightlv
(7,376 posts)I never felt the need to apologize for being white because I did my damndest to meet and treat everybody for who they were. I csnt say with absolute assurance I always acted correctly... but I always tried.
And through the years, white or not I never took home a paycheck equal to the guy working next to me who was taking my direction. Thus my SS doesn't approach my male coworkets... and I took a lot more crap from coworkers than they did... especially since it was the beginning of the Info Age.
All I ever wanted was commiserate pay and recognition. The only chance I came close to was while in the military and Fed service. And now they've stripped that from 2/3s of the American people. I have news for Vance... thats not something to shout with pride. It's a darkness for which he should be utterly ashamed... if he were a normal human being.
Evil seems to triumph in the short run... but in the long run, people want peace, opportunity, friendship and cooperation. These "always the victim magas" will eventually be dealt with. And they definitely are not going to like it.
Mblaze
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liberal N proud
(61,164 posts)But this involves their desire to be openly racist
appmanga
(1,372 posts)turbinetree
(26,892 posts)to see how woman were treated as second class...........here is reminder..............if you can read...........
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/19th-amendment-explained
Fichefinder
(394 posts)liberal N proud
(61,164 posts)I can’t remember the last time I had to apologize for being white.
But many should be ashamed of their racism, but no I guess they are okay
electric_blue68
(25,577 posts)“We don’t treat anybody different because of their race or their sex,” Vance told the crowd."
Pfffftttttttt...Plenty of racists, and sexism out there. You either support it, or ignore it, bastard.
BBbats
(278 posts)Frustrated white people who can't cut the mustard.
People who just can't stand to see a different race or ethnic group make something of themselves & become more successful then they are. They think special breaks & handouts were given to everyone but their lazy white butts. They don't think Blacks had to "work for it" The MAGA movement is made up of these people.
This is exactly what appeals to them. The chance to wear their racism proudly!
thought crime
(1,131 posts)And what we're doing to the rest of the world.
Figarosmom
(9,618 posts)THAT WAS ON THEM. Nobody was telling them to do that. Nobody was demanding they do that. It was all on them. Evidently they felt guilty about it all on their own.
betsuni
(28,640 posts)Liberals/Democrats take everything and give it to THEM in exchange for votes. They're the REAL racists and sexists, they're the intolerant ones (my nutty right-wing mother used to say that all the time).
Yes, nothing to do with prices and kitchen table issues and working class, it's not "economic anxiety" whether they know it or not. Anybody still going around blaming Democrats for "ignoring the working class" and being controlled by oligarchs is a gigantic brainless gasbag helping Republicans whether they know it or not.
wolfie001
(6,932 posts)