Monday, February 10, 2025

Anti-DEI in Action

In the chaos and frenzy of the federal government response to Donald Trump’s order to eliminate all DEI policies, officials are taking extreme measures just to be on the safe side. In fact they are erasing any and all contributions made by women or people of color.

TCinLA reported Friday that the National Cryptological Museum at Fort Meade, Maryland, had taped sheets of brown paper over plaques celebrating women and people of color who had served in the National Security Agency.

During WWII the US Army Signals Intelligence Service had been trying for 18 months to break the Japanese code. Genevieve Grotjan, a mathematician working for the SIS, made a discovery in September 1940 that cracked the code and helped to win the war. Her plaque read in part “Genevieve Grotjan’s contribution to the Allied victory cannot be measured, especially in the number of lives saved”. This was one of the plaques covered over with brown paper.

Trump’s excuse for eliminating DEI policies is to reverse unfair hiring practices in the federal government that discriminate against white males. In practice it doesn’t look like that at all. It looks, at least to me, more like misogyny and racism in action.

I ran out of time today so this is a short post. TCinLA puts out 3 or 4 posts a day with 8 to 12 items in each. And he can’t keep up with the Firehose.

Source

https://tcinla757.substack.com/p/poking-around-at-the-end-of-year

 Update February 20

Here is a post by Thom Hartmann revealing the truth behind the DEI scam. Trump and his MAGA followers are spreading the lie that DEI results in workers of inferior ability being put in important jobs like pilots and armed forces personnel. Hartmann argues that by widening the pool of potential employees to include women, people of color, and where appropriate people with disabilities, the result is employees of higher qualifications, not lower. Hartmann concludes "Let’s just tell the truth. Trump’s anti-DEI policy is about white and male supremacy. Trump’s immigration deportation policy is about white supremacy."

https://hartmannreport.com/p/dei-exposes-the-myth-of-white-male-6d6

And another post today on anti-DEI by Carron J. Phllips published by the Contrarian. Phillips makes the case that acronyms and words like DEI, BLM and woke are dog whistles for Black Americans. He then quotes Van Lathan on a recent podcast: The belief that every single thing that goes wrong in American or world society is because white straight males aren’t in charge is a religious endeavor. It takes faith and belief and total capitulation to white supremacy to believe that.”

https://contrarian.substack.com/p/dei-means-black-but-african-americans

And one more, Jamelle Bouie makes a convincing argument that anti-DEI has nothing to do with merit.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/opinion/trump-dei-diversity-meritocracy.html


2 comments:

  1. Best suggestion yet. When Trump orders all DEI removed, go through the entire document and remove all ds, es, and is

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  2. Here is an article from the Guardian exposing the racist, specifically anti-Black, nature of the anti-DEI movement. In effect, DEI has become the new N-word.
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/11/dei-trump-republicans-racism

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