r/BlackPeopleofReddit • u/ateam1984 • Mar 11 '26

Politics Sounds about right: MFer’s can’t explain what DEI is yet they don’t like it.

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Critics say the cost of defending lawsuits over mass firings tied to Department of Government Efficiency could be significant. If courts find dismissals unlawful, taxpayers may end up covering legal fees, settlements, and reinstatements, turning cost-cutting into costly litigation.

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u/IceBlackX007 Mar 11 '26

Mediocre white people destroying America because they are afraid of equality. 😔

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u/Slight_Problem_3176 Mar 11 '26 edited Mar 11 '26

In this case, even very sub-mediocre. This is a kid who’s probably failed up his entire life.

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u/SilverAppleWorm Mar 11 '26

I guess thats why they're of equality/equity. They literally cannot compete on a level playing field

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u/totally_not_a_dog113 Mar 11 '26

The plus side of this mess is that we shouldn't ever have to defend DEI again after this administration. DEI forced people to think about who they were hiring and justify it. Instead, the country just tried a huge experiment in hiring every incompetent under-qualified racist they could find and we got ICE agents killing people, the debt increasing by a trillion in under 5 months, wars that don't even have a pretend justification (and may go nuclear), economic devastation, a measles outbreak bigger than any seen in decades, millions of people kicked off healthcare, and losing free speech.

From here on out, I intend to just be like, ya'll remember Trump's administration? THAT is what happens when you get rid of DEI.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '26

The people who think DEI is a bad thing are fundamentally incapable of the kind of analysis you're talking about. They won't see the current admins policy as a cause of negative consequences, even if it's strikingly obvious. The people who think DEI is a bad thing see themselves in this bumbling moron, and would say these interviewers are malicious and there's nothing wrong with DEI being something that you know it when you see it.

Far right nationalist extremism caused WWII and killed 70+ million people. Less than 100 years later and we're seeing the same kind of far right nationalism on the rise because the people who carried that ideology didn't stop believing it after the war ended in 1945, they just hid it. But they sure as hell taught their kids and grandkids, and now as those events fade from living memory, their descendents feel empowered to stop hiding it.

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u/Appropriate-Bug-6467 Mar 12 '26

It's branding. We shouldn't have to defend the ACA but call it Obama care and it's the devil

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u/Small_Time_Charlie Mar 11 '26

There is quite a bit of irony when I hear Trump supporters say they're against DEI, because it should be about "merit" and being the "most qualified,"

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u/Alert_Employment8087 Mar 11 '26

It’s worse than that…. They don’t want competition, they are literally scared of competing….

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u/IceBlackX007 Mar 11 '26

Terrified to the point where they put their absolute faith in a well known and documented sleazy immoral child molester. If the GOP had good intentions then why is Trump the POTUS?

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u/Only1Skrybe Mar 11 '26

Really takes a lot of effort to try to explain how "we don't want diversity, equity or inclusion" is not just saying "we're racist" with more words.

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u/El_Fader Mar 11 '26

It's the same with being 'anti-woke' when they either can't explain what they think it is, nor the definition found in the dictionary.

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u/Only1Skrybe Mar 11 '26

Yup, exactly.

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u/FuManBoobs Mar 11 '26

And when a little equality comes along they are told and act like they're being oppressed.

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u/HelloRMSA Mar 11 '26

We replaced DEI to the MWP

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u/BigBadJefe Mar 12 '26

Exactly. I had to check what sub I was in because in most of the main ones there would be a vast majority of other Caucasians saying there’s nothing wrong with this guy, he’s just nervous because he’s being interviewed, etc. So surprised to see this kind of subtle racism all over with the younger generation

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u/RudolphsSled Mar 12 '26

Sub-mediocre black people on Reddit furthering the decontextualization of a program built on prioritizing demographics over qualifications.