#DEI bullshit

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"What do you do, Jess?"

"I also work for an association with universities to help them diversify their faculties. You probably can't make fun of that."

"You underestimate how good I am at crowd work. I can't see you, but my guess is the way you said that, and the tone, are you a white woman? 'I think we should diversify every position except the one that I hold, if I'm gonna be... I think we should get more black people in here, except not my job, my job should be a white woman.'"

[sopranoentravesti]

Ugh I’m trying to build some readings on disability for a discussion I’m leading and I’m trying to figure out how to politely say that, yes, not being a dick matters, engage brain before asking people for private medical information or invasive questions or making stupid ass statements like “you’re so inspirational!”

I’ve explained why the person vs. identity first language thing is more complex and people should go with first community consensus and next check in with what the individual prefers.

I’ve also explained that IMO these are consequent to ableism literally built into the structure of our society through legal means like the Ugly Laws, as well as architectural and institutional (can’t integrate someone who’s been incarcerated institutionalized!)

Idk I am not really interested in focusing on language. Language matters, sure! I’ll hit someone with a crutch if they use the word r***** or imply we should all be sterilized. But hyperfocusing on inclusive language without actually facilitating access is useless. I want to disrupt the status quo.

[u3pxx]

seeing double

[3liza]

who put this reactionary crap on my timeline earlier yesterday. i started watching this after seeing the thumbnail float by on here and it turns out this dude makes a lot of fair points about bad art choices, then disclaims that he "never encourages hate or harassment", and then launches into a 20 minute lecture about how le wokeisme is ruining games including a bunch of media clips of various people describing the struggle of trying to get large companies to actually hire women or BIPOC people, framing this as a form of mind-controlling propaganda. cmon

[onlytiktoks]

[hardtobethebardbitch]

Hey, just in case not everyone knows, on Friday February 28 there’s a planned economic blackout-so no spending money that day anywhere to boycott greedy companies that have rolled back their equity diversity and inclusion efforts, along with President Donald Trump’s attempts to eliminate federal DEI programs. If you are to buy something, please try to use local stores. This is completely optional, but I thought I’d mention it.

[theinstagrahame]

Baby wake up. New Government Portal aimed at "eliminating DEI" that we can spam with useless fake reports just dropped.

But seriously, let's post a bunch of fake bullshit that wastes their resources and makes it unusable.

Plausible data that looks good but is fake is the most useful. Gets them to waste time filtering out the shit that's real.

[tacticalhimbo]

John Morales of NBC 6 South Florida discusses how, as a meteorologist of 34 years... He cannot accurately nor confidently predict storms this season.

This hurricane season, as reported by the NOAA staff that still exists, is expected to be the worst. A massively above-average season with a range of 13 to 19 total named storms, with 6-10 forecast to become hurricanes, and 3-5 to be major hurricanes (categories 3, 4, or 5). For reference:

Category 3

Wind speeds are measured between 111 and 129 miles per hour (mph), and considered extensive in terms of force. Home owners can expect major damage or removal of roof decking and gable ends. Trees of any variety may be snapped or uprooted, blocking numerous roads in the process.

Category 4

Wind speeds are measured between 130 and 156 miles per hour (mph), and considered extreme in terms of force. Home owners can expect severe damage with loss of most of the roof structure and/or some exterior walls. Trees of any variety may be snapped or uprooted in ways that isolate residential areas all together.

Category 5

Wind speeds are measured at 157+ miles per hour (mph), and considered catastrophic in terms of force. Home owners can expect total destruction of their residence with roof failure and wall collapse. Trees of any variety will be fallen in ways that isolate residential areas all together.

NOAA's confidence in this forecast? 70%.

South Florida is the most impacted part of the state every season. Storms almost exclusively land in the South and travel up the coast, often curving outward into the ocean or dying as they cut inland. South Florida is also where a vast majority of the state's non-white population lives.

For those who never experience this sort of weather, it's not as simple as "just evacuate", either.

Public transportation ceases. Storm shelters are largely inaccessible to the homeless, the disabled, and to families. Out of state evacuation is impacted by vicious price gouging. There is no public infrastructure for those in flood zones. Our prison system will evacuate its staff and shutter its doors, but leave the incarcerated; they don't do hurricane preparation (stocking good, water, medicine, sanitation supplies, etc).

For us who have to stay in Florida… we don't receive help, either. We either can't get home insurance, or the companies that operate here scam people:

You CANNOT say your home was flooded. If you use the word "flood" to describe your water damage, you will not get emergency relief (and may not even have policy coverage to begin with). They will deny you. You HAVE to tell your insurance company the damage was caused by "Hurricane and Wind Driven Rain".

And even if you use the language… Carriers will falsify paperwork and report inaccurate information so that they do not have to pay for you.

Any other relief, too, has been VOTED AGAINST. Representatives blamed immigrants for the lack of FEMA funding. They will continue to do so, especially as they get away with human trafficking legal US citizens to death camps.

This should piss you off; should inspire you to actually give a shit about community. I'll be sharing resources as much as possible this season, and I will be calling out every fucking leftist on this site who says we "deserve" it.

IF YOU REBLOG OR ADD COMMENTARY STATING THAT RED STATES DESERVE THIS, YOU DO NOT CARE FOR THE MARGINALZED YOU ONLY CARE FOR THE PRIVILEGED. YOU WILL BE BLOCKED AND SHAMED ♡

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Joseph Simonson

Published: Jun 12, 2024

In 2021, the Biden administration pledged it would build 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations by 2030. So far, it’s built seven.

Last month, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg—who administers the funds apportioned for EV charger construction in the $1.2 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Act—said Americans should not be surprised at the time it takes to stand up "a new category of federal investment."

"It’s more than just plunking a small device into the ground," Buttigieg said in an interview with CBS’s Face the Nation.

But internal memos from the Department of Transportation obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, as well as interviews with those who are responsible for overseeing the implementation of the electric vehicle charging station project, say the delay is in large part a result of the White House’s diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.

"These requirements are screwing everything up," said one senior Department of Transportation staffer who spoke on the condition of anonymity. "It’s all a mess."

President Joe Biden has reportedly expressed frustration with the pace at which his much-touted infrastructure projects are getting built. A "close ally" of the White House told CNN last December that Biden "wants this stuff now," and a White House spokesman added that the president "constantly pushes his team to ensure we are moving as quickly as possible."

But Biden may only have himself to blame.

Shortly after taking office, the president signed an executive order mandating that the beneficiaries of 40 percent of all federal climate and environmental programs should come from "underserved communities." The order also established the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council, which monitors agencies such as the Department of Transportation to ensure the "voices, perspectives, and lived realities of communities with environmental justice concerns are heard in the White House and reflected in federal policies, investments, and decisions."

In order to qualify for a grant, applicants must "demonstrate how meaningful public involvement, inclusive of disadvantaged communities, will occur throughout a project’s life cycle." What "public involvement" means is unclear. But the Department of Transportation notes it should involve "intentional outreach to underserved communities."

That outreach, the Department of Transportation states, can take the form of "games and contests," "visual preference surveys," or "neighborhood block parties" so long as the grant recipient provides "multilingual staff or interpreters to interact with community members who use languages other than English."

"This all just slows down construction," says Jim Meigs, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute who focuses on federal regulation.

"These ‘public involvement’ requirements are impossible to quantify and even open builders up to lawsuits by members of the community where an electric vehicle charging station is set to be constructed."

How these equity requirements are relevant to the construction of a single electric vehicle charging station is unclear, Meigs said. But all applicants for federal funding must in many cases submit reports that can total hundreds of pages about how they will pursue "equity" every step along the way.

This leads to delays and increases costs throughout the construction process, one senior Department of Transportation official told the Free Beacon. "Highly Qualified" applications, internal memos state, must "promote local inclusive economic development and entrepreneurship such as the use of minority-owned businesses."

That can take the form of funding "support services to help train, place, and retain people in good-paying jobs or registered apprenticeships, with a focus on women, people of color, and others that are underrepresented in infrastructure jobs." A firm’s "workplace culture" should "promote the entry and retention of underrepresented populations."

"These onerous diversity, equity, and inclusion requirements handcuff professionals from making proper evaluations and prevent the government/public from funding the most deserving projects, instead funneling money towards less qualified applicants," the senior Department of Transportation official said.

Those regulations are visible throughout more than 500 federal initiatives across 19 agencies, according to the White House’s chief environmental justice officer Jalonne White-Newsome, who spoke during a White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council meeting on Wednesday. The Free Beacon accessed that meeting, which took place over Zoom and included more than 15 speakers from various federal agencies.

"Since the President took office, the number of publicly available charging ports has grown by over 90 percent, with more than 184,000 publicly-available EV charging ports operational today and 1,000 more coming online each week," a Department of Transportation spokesperson said. "There are currently projects underway in partnership with states and local grantees for 14,000 federally-funded EV charging ports across the country under the NEVI and CFI programs that will build on the 184,000 chargers operational today."

The first electric vehicle charging station funded by the bipartisan infrastructure bill opened last December in a small Ohio town, and no one used the station within the first hours of its opening. Ohio has some of the lowest electric vehicle adoption in the country, with just 0.33 percent of all vehicles in the state operating on battery power, according to Nasdaq.

But the propensity for a local population to actually use an electric vehicle charging station appears to be an afterthought for the Biden administration, Meigs said. Instead the various regulations seem to serve more as a way to pay off Democratic constituencies—in the form of minority-focused contracting and hiring—at the expense of completing any projects in a timely or cost-effective manner.

"At a certain point you have to ask, is the point of these programs to reduce emissions or is the point to spread taxpayer money around and support groups that vote for the Democratic Party?"

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Make merit matter.

[possum-apologist]

oh my GOD I fucking HATE IT HERE. "corporate wokeness"???? are you fucking kidding me?????

[sunshinesalmon]

i was just getting lunch and there were these two older white dudes a table over and one of the guys was yapping away like the entire time i was there about his ~hot takes~ on society or whatever and i wasn’t paying attention to most of it but as i got up to leave i heard “-and now it’s like‚ women are just ganging up on the men‚ you know‚ just- [missed a bit here] -when i was there and i looked around and realized i was the only white man there 🥺” and i just. have to laugh. oh you were the only white man in the room?? you felt alone? unrepresented? the only of your demographic in the group? perhaps you felt as though your voice wouldn’t be heard? you felt ganged up on? Sad. So Sad. cry a bit more i want to remember this

[evitcani-writes]

Psst. The department of education opened a form to report “divisive ideologies”

Please make sure to submit all your math hot takes!

https://enddei.ed.gov/

The strategy is to flood them with dumb shit so they have a worthless foundation for their claims.

[haldanare]

rewatching snippets of naruto shippuden is just a long montage of me cheering as the akatsuki beat people up

[political-skyes]

[lokiinmediasideblog]

I love the vindication from studies proving kinds of bio-essentialism (e.g. racial or gender) wrong. Existence would be so depressing otherwise, and I don't know how bio-essentialists can live with themselves with such beliefs when they don't fall in the "superior" demographic. I hate the idea of being inherently inferior due to my chromosomes/genome.

There was a time I briefly believed that bullshit, and boy was I pissed off about it! I was so reluctant to say I thought they were right because I just HATED IT SO MUCH! I didn't like thinking about it. I was burning myself out dead-set on proving I was better than others like me (and in that there was arrogance in me). I refused to be childish as a teenager to show how smart I was, and I had to catch up in some ways in adulthood.

Then I learned how easily people misinterpret studies and the importance of experimental design and confounding factors, and it gave me so much peace to learn they were fucking lying all along! And they make bad analogies and don't interpret data correctly! I was angered that I felt all that inferiority for nothing, but in that anger, there was freedom.

[dynamicity-keysmash]

I think that, generously, 95% of people have no clue how DEI or affirmative action work. That includes most people who support those ideas. That's okay though, we don't need to be experts on every issue in our society. However, it becomes a problem when a general lack of understanding allows people with nefarious intent to capture the narrative and control an issue's framing.

Conservatives have somehow convinced most Americans that DEI involves giving preference to marginalized applicants in job selection processes. It does not; that is extremely illegal. That is only possible through narrowly defined, strictly temporary, USUALLY court-ordered affirmative action programs.

Quite to the contrary, the only instance in which is it legal for most employers to cause adverse impact against a protected class through their selection process is if they have proven in court that their adversely-impactful selection tests are needed to assess Bonafide Occupational Qualifications (abilities deemed necessary to basic job performance). This usually affects marginalized groups, nearly never dominant groups. An example of this is the fact that the physical ability tests used to hire firefighters tend to cause adverse impact against applicants who are physically disabled, female, or elderly.

I could write a book about this but tried to keep it short, so don't @ me over the numerous exceptions to my sweeping generalizations.