Musings on the Terms "Woke" and "DEI" as applied to Vice President Kamala Harris

[bluebooger]

she literally only got the job because she's a black woman

its no different from Trump getting Pence as his VP to appeal to conservative christians

> I think it's wrong to try to hurl "DEI" as an insult. Really how can Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion not be a good thing?

because DEI has NEVER been about equality

DEI is "only white people can be racists"
this is because only white people have power
white people have all the power in America
therefore black people cannot be racist

all white people are racists even if they don't realize it because they participate in and benefit from the institutional racism that America is built on

https://medschool.duke.edu/sites/default...person.pdf

https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-abou.../whiteness

Whiteness (and its accepted normality) also exist as everyday microaggressions toward people of color. Acts of microaggressions include verbal, nonverbal, and environmental slights, snubs or insults toward nonwhites. Whether intentional or not, these attitudes communicate hostile, derogatory, or harmful messages.

https://www.aclrc.com/whiteness

white supremacy exists even when white people are not around

https://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2021...ted-states

The point I’ve made through all of those experiences is that anti-Asian racism has the same source as anti-Black racism: white supremacy. So when a Black person attacks an Asian person, the encounter is fueled perhaps by racism, but very specifically by white supremacy. White supremacy does not require a white person to perpetuate it.

DEI has NEVER been about equality
is some bullshit leftist, liberal nonsense about how evil white people are how and white people are the cause of the all the world's problems

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These terms are used as insults BECAUSE of Trump and his MAGA cult.  Jump off the Trump train… it’s headed for disaster. And it’s led by a crook.

you are 100% wrong

DEI is bullshit

MAGA is not a cult

it just wants to get rid of bullshit that democrats do

not enough minority students in gifted programs ?
maybe we should encourage learning, maybe we should make more after school programs and weekend programs to hep minority students succeed, maybe require parents to actually show up on parent teacher night, maybe actually enforce discipline in school so that those minority students that actually want to learn can

nah, a lot of that sounds like we're blaming the parents and students -- cant' do that -- that would be racist

let's just get rid of gifted programs

and while we're at it, let's get rid of tests for entrance into specialized highschools

NOW EVERYBODY'S EQUAL
SUCCESS 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/24/nyreg...lasio.html

Mr. de Blasio and others have argued that the only way to increase the number of black and Hispanic students in the schools is to eliminate the exam.

read that again

the ONLY way to increase the number of minority students is to ELIMINATE the exam
LOL

that's what Democrats think about minorities