Trump falls!! Hurt too

[Derec]

Also, when you make comments like “DEI hire,” we all know what that is. It’s the politically correct code phrase among the alt-right to make a blatantly racist comment. Because we all know what it means. ANY black man or woman or person of color who is hired for ANYTHING automatically is characterized as a “DEI hire.”

You can't praise DEI with one side of your mouth and then disparage those who point out that you are engaging in hiring by race and gender rather than merit.

Take Kamala Harris. Biden pledged early on that he will only consider female candidates for his running mate. Then, due to George Floyd riots, he was pressured to pick a black woman. KH was very obviously a DEI pick. You lefties loudly praise and support DEI.
Then why do you so vociferously object to DEI picks being referred to as DEI picks?

Example:
Opinion: Calling Kamala Harris a ‘DEI hire’ is what bigotry looks like
This is from CNN, but similar articles were published by MSNBC and others. It's nonsense. If you support DEI, don't call people bigots for pointing that out. If Dems don't want to be called out for picking people for powerful positions based on race and gender, they should not do that.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

Let the soapbox standing commence!

 

[pood]

Also, when you make comments like “DEI hire,” we all know what that is. It’s the politically correct code phrase among the alt-right to make a blatantly racist comment. Because we all know what it means. ANY black man or woman or person of color who is hired for ANYTHING automatically is characterized as a “DEI hire.”

You can't praise DEI with one side of your mouth and then disparage those who point out that you are engaging in hiring by race and gender rather than merit.

Utter and total bullshit. What makes you think Kamala Harris is without merit, other than the fact that she is black and a woman?

Take Kamala Harris. Biden pledged early on that he will only consider female candidates for his running mate.

And there are tons of qualified women and so that was a good thing he did, since women, people of color, gays, and other minorities have been systematically excluded from positions of responsibility and authority since the founding of the republic.

Then, due to George Floyd riots, he was pressured to pick a black woman. KH was very obviously a DEI pick.

She was very obviously a QUALIFIED pick who happens to be black and a woman.

You lefties loudly praise and support DEI.

You betcha, MAGA hat wearer.

Then why do you so vociferously object to DEI picks being referred to as DEI picks?

Because they are QUALIFIED. That’s your game — to dismiss ALL minorities who are hired as DEI. The implicit thesis is manifest — white, male, cisgendered heterosexuals are SUPERIOR.

Example:
Opinion: Calling Kamala Harris a ‘DEI hire’ is what bigotry looks like
This is from CNN, but similar articles were published by MSNBC and others. It's nonsense.

It is spot on.

 

[laughing dog]

Also, when you make comments like “DEI hire,” we all know what that is. It’s the politically correct code phrase among the alt-right to make a blatantly racist comment. Because we all know what it means. ANY black man or woman or person of color who is hired for ANYTHING automatically is characterized as a “DEI hire.”

You can't praise DEI with one side of your mouth and then disparage those who point out that you are engaging in hiring by race and gender rather than merit.

Take Kamala Harris. Biden pledged early on that he will only consider female candidates for his running mate. Then, due to George Floyd riots, he was pressured to pick a black woman. KH was very obviously a DEI pick. You lefties loudly praise and support DEI.
Then why do you so vociferously object to DEI picks being referred to as DEI picks?

Example:
Opinion: Calling Kamala Harris a ‘DEI hire’ is what bigotry looks like
This is from CNN, but similar articles were published by MSNBC and others. It's nonsense. If you support DEI, don't call people bigots for pointing that out. If Dems don't want to be called out for picking people for powerful positions based on race and gender, they should not do that.

If the person is qualified, there is no reason to point out they were a “dei” pick. So the pointing out the chosen is the result of “ dei” in the absence of a compelling argument about the lack of qualifications can reasonably construed as sloppy or stupid or mean- spirited in general or racist or misogynist depending on the context. In the context of Ms Harris, racist snd misogynist is a reasonable conclusion in the absence of a compelling argument, even if turns out to be in error.

 

[pood]

Let’s be clear: The REAL meaning of. “DEI hire,” properly construed without the obvious racist content of MAGAts, is that a QUALIFIED person of color, woman, gay, trans, what have you, is able to compete and get hired on equal footing with white, hetero, cisgendered men. MAGAts have repurposed the meaning to their own bigotry, as I pointed out, because their message is THAT THERE ARE NO QUALIFIED MINORITIES.

 

[abaddon]

MAGAts have repurposed the meaning to their own bigotry

And after doing that, they imagine their sophistry can be used to shame others.

 

[pood]

MAGAts have repurposed the meaning to their own bigotry

And after doing that, they imagine their sophistry can be used to shame others.

Precisely. We are seeing that odious tactic on this board.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

Meanwhile, in the real world, the vast majority of the agents, and especially the police were white males, one of whom backed down from the shooter instead of going in there with his gun drawn while calling it in.

The shooter was also a white male conservative.

This is all about white males, not women and Blacks. And gun culture.

The white male conservative's father was a white male Libertarian who owned 20 guns. And the shooter was a member of a gun club and failed to get on the rifle team at his school. He was an angry white male conservative outcast who was bullied and had access to 20 guns and bomb-making material.

 

[Jarhyn]

Meanwhile, in the real world, the vast majority of the agents, and especially the police were white males, one of whom backed down from the shooter instead of going in there with his gun drawn while calling it in.

The shooter was also a white male conservative.

This is all about white males, not women and Blacks. And gun culture.

The white male conservative's father was a white male Libertarian who owned 20 guns. And the shooter was a member of a gun club and failed to get on the rifle team at his school. He was an angry white male conservative outcast who was bullied and had access to 20 guns and bomb-making material.

Thats actually a good message. Campaign against the gun culture that attacked Trump.

 

[Jarhyn]

Meanwhile, in the real world, the vast majority of the agents, and especially the police were white males, one of whom backed down from the shooter instead of going in there with his gun drawn while calling it in.

The shooter was also a white male conservative.

This is all about white males, not women and Blacks. And gun culture.

The white male conservative's father was a white male Libertarian who owned 20 guns. And the shooter was a member of a gun club and failed to get on the rifle team at his school. He was an angry white male conservative outcast who was bullied and had access to 20 guns and bomb-making material.

Thats actually a good message. Campaign against the gun culture that attacked Trump.

Sadly I believe it more likely that Trump will side with these folks initially, instead trying to turn such shooters as a faction over to his side.

The police have demonstrated incompetence against them, which is not a good look for anyone.

 

[Politesse]

I appreciated Steve Shive's rant at the end here. I am not very optimistic that the "Left" is going to be as sensible as he hopes it will be, though.