According to a memo obtained by NBC News, the Defense Intelligence Agency ordered a pause of all activities and events related to 11 “special observances” in compliance with President Donald Trump’s ban on DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) programs in the federal workplace.
In addition to Black History Month, the agency also ordered the suspension of events marking Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, National American Indian Heritage Month, LGBTQ Pride Month, Women’s History Month, Juneteenth, Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Holocaust Remembrance Day.
A lot of people do not share the same opinions or views or reality that I do. I try to put myself in their position, I try to not allow click bait and misinformation to cloud my efforts. I mean, a lot of the “news” in the past two weeks has been a bit exaggerated to spark fear and engagement. I can not overstate how massive the issue is around the media manipulation and the public’s lack of intelligence.
But holy fucking shit:
Look, if you want to remove DEI policies and hire and promote staff based solely on their merits, at its face, that’s not terribly difficult to agree with. The issue is that you continue to exert your racism over and over and enforce our belief that your belief that caucasians are superior to all other races and you just want to wipe out all other races that this nation was literally built on the backs of.
These people see diversity as a threat to their livelihoods. This country has given white people an inherited advantage since before its inception. “DEI” means they might have to work harder to prove their merit. Their advantages are being stripped away and their exceptionalism culture is being diluted.
For the life of me, I - a straight white American male - can not understand the desire to preserve your “whiteness”. That’s just me though. There are plenty of people in the US with lineage in Italy, Ireland, Mexico, Nigeria, China, etc who embrace their country of origin and family history. My favorite thing about this country is its diversity. We should be more inclusive of it all while not living in fear that someone’s going to take our job based on the color of their skin. The racism in this country goes so deep and we’re missing out on learning from each other.
These national holidays are supposed to promote the entire fucking point of this country - inclusion and diversity.
They’re attacking anything that isn’t promoting cishet white men because that’s the only accomplishment they’ve had in life. To sane fucking people, merit is based on performance and ideology rather than who your parents were.