cross-posted from: https://yall.theatl.social/post/3116914

From the Atlanta Daily World:

Photo: Getty Images A GOP lawmaker is facing backlash after referring to White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre as a “DEI hire.” On Tuesday (July 2), Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert ® suggested that Jean-Pierre was only hired to fill a diversity quota. “I couldn’t care less about what @PressSec has to say today,” Boebert tweeted. … Continued

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  • Pronell@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    So DEI now just means the job went to a non-white, non-GOP, not-male person.

    Convenient.

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      10 months ago

      They’ve been using “dei” instead of racial slurs for a while. It’s all a part of their toxic plan.

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      10 months ago

      Isn’t it amazing that the people advocating for a “STricT mERITocrACY” conspicuously ignore their meritocracy is very monochromatic?

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        10 months ago

        Are you denying she’s horrible at her job? She’s quite possibly the worst-spoken press secretary ever.

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          10 months ago

          I too would think that, had I just woken up from a coma and not known about the four press secretaries under Trump.

          Edit: oh wait, the felonious traitor had five:

          The Mooch, Spicer, Sarah “FuckTheCountry” Sanders, Stephanie “Never gave one press conference” Grisham and Kayleigh “My cross necklace proves how KKKhristian I am” McEnany.

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      “Politically correct” is old news, “woke” is losing steam, so now we move to “DEI”.

      Just like how it used to be “Shell shock”, then it was “Battle Fatigue”, and now its PTSD.

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      10 months ago

      That’s what it always has meant. It threatens the heteronormative Christian patriarchal power structure to have anyone but a white man in charge of anything. And it doesn’t matter that a woman is saying it because it’s a woman who doesn’t understand that the leopards will eat her face too.