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When They Say 'Harris Is A DEI Hire,' They Mean 'Only White Men Are Qualified'
Just like when they claim it causes collapsing bridges and airplane malfunction.
www.wonkette.com
For the last year or so, Republicans and their “conservative” press have been blaming every single thing that has gone wrong in the country or in their own personal lives on “DEI” — Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives. Did a bridge collapse? DEI is to blame! Did a student beat up a girl who severely bullied her? Obviously DEI! Trump was almost assassinated? Gotta be DEI! Airplane malfunction? DEI! Crowdstrike outage? Well, that’s definitely DEI. Bad hair day? Hangnail? Probably also DEI, somehow.
But let’s be real. “DEI” in this context is just the latest in a never-ending parade of terms Republicans don’t fully understand but use to rile up their base. Previously, they’ve done it with woke, critical race theory, cultural Marxism, Affirmative Action — I could go on. Every time one loses their punch, they come up with another. This one is particularly insidious, however, because the core of the argument is very specifically “Horrible things happen when you hire women and people of color instead of white men.”
In reality, DEI just refers to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion practices and training in education and workplaces, with the goal of making these spaces more fair and more pleasant for all involved (also, let’s be real, to avoid lawsuits). In the conservative imagination, however, they are nefarious schemes in which fabulously qualified straight white men are rejected in favor of “mediocre” women and men from marginalized communities — for no reason other than a desire to pander to the Left.
One would think that if giant corporations were so eager to pander to us that they’d be willing to lose money, they’d pay their workers more fairly — but I guess things just don’t work that way!
Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee is one of the many Republicans currently trying to make “Kamala Harris is a DEI hire” a thing.