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Western Media Suppresses Study That Reveals DEI Training Fuels Hatred Against Hindus

You Asians aren't having babies out of wedlock while shooting up heroin and stealing hubcabs.

That makes you "White Adjacent", and therefore bad, in their eyes.

Patrick says

In the latest blow to the DEI agenda, Southwest Airlines has reportedly agreed to ground and cancel its DEI employment practices following a federal civil rights complaint by America First Legal (AFL).

Never seen a black pilot on any of my flights with SW. Ever. Or female. I generally chat it up with them and the wife saves my seat. Sometimes they'll let the kids sit in the cockpit.

Flight attendants. Never see Asians, sometimes black and only Mexicans flying to countries where they speak Spanish which makes sense. They may have a DEI agenda, but it surely wasn't enforced at all. It's all white male pilots and perky or older aged white females. There are some gay men I suppose. 100+ flights. Has to be the baggage handlers and gate attendants, hence why they probably lost my snowboard on one flight. On the plane though no DEI with SW.

I like travel. I know flying is safe. But if I feel someone is incompetent I ain't getting on that tube. I'm sure I'm annoying when pilots are getting ready for a flight, but I don't care. The other thing is Southwest is 737 only. I know the mechanics know what they're doing. The pilots know what they're doing. It just feels safer.

I'm basically a flawless driver. I hate renting cars. Airlines like United, American and Delta scare me. They jump in a different car that they were certified in but may have not flow in a year. A SW pilot is jumping into a different model year of a Chevy Suburban. Minor changes, but you figure it out quickly.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/maple-leave-tuesday-january-7-2025

USA Today ran a flippant story yesterday headlined, “McDonald’s flip in DEI beef serves up another win for conservative critics.” Yesterday the fast food giant quietly dropped a statement dipping its basket of corporate DEI programs into the deep fryer. Sanity is back on the menu. ...

McDonald’s un-DEI statement credited the Supreme Court’s 2023 decision banning affirmative action in college admissions and the “evolving landscape around DEI.” (I’m not sure landscapes “evolve,” it seems like a mixed metaphor, but whatever. I’ll let it go.) But conservative anti-DEI activist and filmmaker Robby Starbuck promptly announced that he’d sent Mcdonald’s officials a private notice on Friday warning them that he was about to put the fast-food company in the DEI spotlight.

Here’s Robby’s version, in his own words:

https://x.com/robbystarbuck/status/1876375295218835908

Whether Robby was responsible, or even whether he just prompted McDonalds to do what it already planned to do except sooner, either way he’s done it again. Mucho props to Mr. Starbuck. They should give him free value meals for life.

One caveat: McDonalds did not completely capitulate. The firm vowed to keep the “I” while flushing the “DE” into the grease trap behind the store. But out of the list of promised changes, the single most important modification was that McDonalds promised to delete its DEI rules for suppliers. This lets companies who don’t follow DEI compete for McDonalds’ business again. The ripple effects could be even bigger than McDonalds’ concession.

Progress! But just wait, there’s more.

The Daily Mail reported a terrifically encouraging story that quietly snuck through the narrative’s cracks in November, headlined “Progressive duo in crime-ridden city are fired.” The news was much better than that headline suggested. In a record-smashing double-recall, Oakland, California residents kicked out both their Soros Mayor and their Soros DA in the same recall election on November 5th. ...

I guess even progressive people are ready for some “merit” and “ability” in their officials and not just box-checking intersectionality.

Oakland sits just to the east of San Fransisco, right over the iconic Bay Bridge. It enjoys a long-standing reputation as one of the most politically progressive cities in the United States. Oakland's voters overwhelmingly support Democrat candidates in national and state elections. They’re not just average Democrats; the city consistently votes for the most progressive candidates in their Democrat primaries. ...

If that’s what’s happening in far-left Oakland, imagine what’s happening across the rest of the country. No wonder Democrats were so quiet and helpful during yesterday’s certification.

https://ncofnas.com/p/wokism-is-just-beginning

I can't wait to see how DEI withers on the vine at my workplace. This company doesn't do anything woke unless there's a dollar attached to it. So far, no peeps out of the DEI cancerous growth within the company. Let's hope the complete cutoff of all DEI funds as well as the EO prohibiting DEI work their magic.

https://www.libsoftiktok.com/p/goverment-dei-websites-nuked-after

That’s great that DEI commies like Patricia Brown’s page is not found, but she must be fired as well, or she’ll just go on doing the same crap with a different title.

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https://www.wsj.com/finance/banking/big-banks-are-scrubbing-their-public-mentions-of-dei-efforts-ac6b0c33

Big Banks Are Scrubbing Their Public Mentions of DEI Efforts

Al_Sharpton_for_President says

That’s great that DEI commies like Patricia Brown’s page is not found, but she must be fired as well, or she’ll just go on doing the same crap with a different title.

Look for a LinkedIn profile to see if it's been updated.

Kathleen Kennedy is the postergirl for ingrate, and in her mind she's not ungrateful, but the GENIUS behind Lucasfilm Classics.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/the-new-abnormal-wednesday-march

In the “fake news detector” department, the New York Times ran a beautiful bit of emotionally manipulative journalistic malfeasance yesterday, headlined, “E.P.A. Plans to Close All Environmental Justice Offices.” Oh no! (Mr. Bill.) The Times resumed its default factory setting: triggered outrage. Let’s learn how to spot them. ...

The tearful Times received a leaked memorandum from new EPA Director Lee Zeldin (who is crushing it), that directed reorganizing and eliminating the EPA’s “offices of environmental justice” at all 10 regional headquarters plus Washington. These “environmental justice” sub-departments are exactly what you’d expect — a DEI staffing bonanza — featuring a mission the credulous Times described as “trying to ease the burden of pollution on poor and minority communities.”

Trying.

From the Times’ skeptical perspective, the memo was the worst thing that has ever happened in human history, including the Black Death, the Battle of Aguincourt, or even the final episode of Lost. ...

Even worse, Zeldin also canceled hundreds of EPA grants this week (it was running a miniature USAID). The Times said many of the grants were “designated for environmental justice.” I call it a good start. But not to the Grey Lady’s editors. Closing these silly, useless offices proved “this administration gives not a single damn for the people of the United States,” said former E.P.A. official Matthew Tejada, who now receives a generous salary from a progressive NGO. Of course.

Yikes! That doesn’t sound like an overreaction at all. They don’t care about us! Not one little bit! And this proves it!

The obvious implication was that Trump and Zeldin are racist and are cutting crucial and effective environmental justice offices, putting poor people in a pickle, or tossing them into radioactive sludge or something.

But if you read critically, you can spot the trick. It’s not hard.

The Times’ article never actually cited a single concrete example of the EPA’s “justice” offices ever accomplishing anything. Instead, it leaned on fuzzy generalizations (“three decades of work”), appeals to authority (quoting former officials and activist groups), and heated emotional rhetoric (suggesting the closures disregard human lives). The only semi-specific claim — a lawsuit against a petrochemical plant located near a black neighborhood, now dismissed — was filed by the Biden administration, not any of the crack team of EPA’s “environmental justice” employees.

So, the first fake news flag was the article’s framing as about Zeldin — but it never explained the Director’s argument, or even quoted him explaining his decision. The reporters described nothing that EPA critics complain about. Even though the lack of any identifiable accomplishments strongly suggested utter uselessness, the Times studiously avoided mentioning it at all.

There was a second giant fake news flag: the article never quoted anyone who supports the decision to close the EPA’s environmental justice offices, even though it quoted multiple critics at length. Many of those were anonymous, like unnamed EPA employees “bracing for firings” and DOJ employees framed as reluctantly complying with Zeldin’s orders to drop the petro-plant lawsuit.

Modern definitions of propaganda include: persuasion through careful curation of true information, selective omissions, hamhanded emotional appeals instead of evidence, ‘framing’ to shape perception, appeals to cherry-picked authorities, and diligent suppression of counter-narratives.

You can every one of those propaganda elements used in this short NYT article that is ostensibly just about a memo.

In a sense, there was a poetic kind of ‘justice.’ Like the wasteful EPA, the Times wasted 1,200 words wailing over offices it couldn’t even claim had ever done anything helpful except for “trying.”

Wait! I have an idea: Maybe they should apply for an EPA grant.

The real outrage wasn’t Zeldin’s memo—it was that the Times thinks we’re dumb enough to keep falling for its manipulative jiggery-pokery. Read critically.

A family member is worried about his South Korean wife. She is a DEI hire at a major law firm (female, I guess). Many of her friends are also worried who work there (fuckers). Plus, she is not a US citizen, preferring to remain a South Korean citizen for the benefits like free healthcare. Apparently South Korea does no allow dual citizenship. The wife makes frequent social media posts complaining about Trump and US policies, so they are afraid she won’t be allowed back into the country if she leaves (paranoia?).

The relative, a white male, is worried that his wife’s well-paying job may be at risk, as apparently she was not hired based on merit. It is ironic, as he has been the frequent victim of DEI when applying for jobs.

I didn’t know what to say when he was telling me this. Frankly, I was shocked to learn that his wife was a DEI hire.

Al_Sharpton_for_President says

I didn’t know what to say when he was telling me this.

Tell them that you are very happy to see useless DEI hires getting canned, and it's even better when they get deported. Do this while wearing Trump attire and fully erect.

Al_Sharpton_for_President says

A family member is worried about his South Korean wife. She is a DEI hire at a major law firm (female, I guess). Many of her friends are also worried who work there (fuckers). Plus, she is not a US citizen, preferring to remain a South Korean citizen for the benefits like free healthcare. Apparently South Korea does no allow dual citizenship. The wife makes frequent social media posts complaining about Trump and US policies, so they are afraid she won’t be allowed back into the country if she leaves (paranoia?).

The relative, a white male, is worried that his wife’s well-paying job may be at risk, as apparently she was not hired based on merit. It is ironic, as he has been the frequent victim of DEI when applying for jobs.

I didn’t know what to say when he was telling me this. Frankly, I was shocked to learn that his wife was a DEI hire.

Uhuh. By the end of the year, she'll be sucking on some prepper's cock at his armed homestead out in the Nevada desert. MAGA.

Hasn't the EPA been re-named the Bribe and Laundering Protection Agency aka BLPA?

AmericanKulak says

Kathleen Kennedy is the postergirl for ingrate, and in her mind she's not ungrateful, but the GENIUS behind Lucasfilm Classics.

Nothing worse than getting hit in the face by globs of floating menstrual blood in zero gravity. They never mention THAT in all of the buffed lesbian epics.