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GOP Lawmaker Slammed For Calling White House Press Secretary ‘DEI Hire’ (atlantadailyworld.com)

submitted 4 months ago by homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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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 (R) 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

The post GOP Lawmaker Slammed For Calling White House Press Secretary ‘DEI Hire’ appeared first on Atlanta Daily World.

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[–] Pronell@lemmy.world 107 points 4 months ago (6 children)

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

Convenient.

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 46 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It's not even a new idea. It's just the same weathered and worn "a minority couldn't possibly have the proper education to do this job," from uneducated idiots who... *checks notes... definitely don't have the education to do the same job and spend all their time trying to reduce access to education to minorities.

It's still the slaveowners attitude of purposefully keeping them uneducated and then judging them for their... lack of education. It's what stupid selfish controlling people have done to others for centuries, kick them down, and then berate them for having been kicked down. They don't like smart people who can talk back to them so they try to make sure they are the smartest person in the room by purposefully keeping everyone else dumb.

When everyone in a political party is vying to be the smartest person in the room by controlling information and making everyone else dumber, you end up with a joke shitshow like the US Republican party, which stands for nothing other than bullying and willful ignorance.

[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago (4 children)

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

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[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 4 months ago

Anto-DEI has always been a dog whistle for racism and sexism. Conservatives will screech DEI if a woman or person of color does literally anything.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 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.

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

"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.

[–] Coach@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

🐶🌬️

[–] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 41 points 4 months ago (3 children)

It doesn't matter how many times I see Boebert in the news - she still seems to me to be a particularly gross and nasty tweaked-out cam girl who's inexplicably been allowed to pretend to be a politician.

[–] AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

She got her GED so she could run for congress...

[–] MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

BARELY got her GED and had to take the test FOUR times.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 3 points 4 months ago

"It's funny cuz it's true"

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I’d smoke meth with that granny.

Maybe we could go to a dark theatre after.

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 14 points 4 months ago

"Slammed…"

[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

S L A M M E D

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

First "gop lawmaker" is REALLY a far too generous stretch for a boebert descriptor. "gop participant and known public handjob aficionado" maybe...

Second, the gop always DESPERATELY needs an acronym to funnel their implant hate through - seems clear that the emerging favorite these days is DEI with a hard "R". Fucking cowards.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Is a DEI hire bad? I don't think so. All those letters stand for good things.

[–] RazorsLedge@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I think the implication is that they're not being chosen solely on their qualifications. So that would imply a lower bar and lower performance.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

Of course that's the spin this psychotic cunt is putting on it, but DEI hires are a real thing, and they don't have to have a bad implication - let's not let them own this phrase.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Which, of course, ignores the fact that there are likely multiple people from various races, ethnicities, genders and other identities which are all about equally qualified and getting a black woman in an administration run by a white man could bring needed perspective.

[–] RazorsLedge@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

That's certainly one possibility. I think it's the other possibilities that folks have strong feelings about.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Well, thankfully we had a highly qualified white guy added to the Supreme Court, right?

/s for the delusional.

[–] RazorsLedge@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah, sad times.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yes. People have strong feelings about the possibility that a drag queen will groom their child into becoming trans.

They're also wrong.

Why you think strong feelings are the same as reality, I don't know. Are you a Trump voter?

[–] RazorsLedge@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Very far from a Trump voter and I'm disappointed to see presumptive and confrontational behavior from you. You're normally levelheaded.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Then why does it matter what people feel strongly about as opposed to what the reality is?

[–] RazorsLedge@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I don't know what to say to that. I didn't say it matters, and I was trying to participate in the discussion thread.

My opinion is that the spirit of DEI is good, but sometimes I have personally witnessed first hand a decline in performance standards. I've worked for years with/near the federal government and I've seen what appears to be a particularly blatant DEI push at the cost of performance.

And an Asian colleague recounted to me that a school he was trying to send his child to had recently come under pressure to "loosen" their admittance test requirements because white and Asian folks were overrepresented. I'm sure you're aware of the similar controversies at universities over the last decades.

When it comes to DEI, I'm not against any people or class of people, but it'd be intellectually dishonest to not recognize the inherent conflict here when you start considering people's race as an admittance factor. Maybe the intention is to only give the minority an edge when performance with a white peer is exactly the same, but that's not precisely what happens every time. It's not something that makes me angry, and it may even be the right thing to do, at least in some cases. I only recognize it.

Cheers.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

When it comes to DEI, I’m not against any people or class of people, but it’d be intellectually dishonest to not recognize the inherent conflict here when you start considering people’s race as an admittance factor.

...ignoring the fact that for over a century, whiteness has been the easiest way to get a job when there's an equally qualified black person.

That is even true now.

https://nationalfund.org/racial-bias-in-hiring-practices-widens-the-black-white-wealth-disparity/

[–] RazorsLedge@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Indeed, that's often true too.

[–] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Right Wingers continue to just take terms and turn them into placeholders until they crank the hard R.

Thug ---+ Woke -----> DEI

[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago

Ted Cruz’s former prostitute and abortion kompromat vessel called someone else DEI? That’s too rich.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 months ago

anything Lauren Boebert says is comedy gold
if it's the ginger pistol I saw giving the press a verbal shellacking a while back, there's nothing DEI about her hire unless we count the fact she's like 91% angry viking barely restrained by some hard manners .... so, Norwegian-Canadian immigrant?

2b. Nah, I could watch her school press flacks all.freakin.day. She was on fire.

[–] Twattymctwatterson@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

SLAAAAAAAAAAAAMMED

Edit: forgot an m

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"Ohhhh, You're tough now, aren't you motherfucker... HE'S A DEI!!!! A DEI, DEI, DEI!!!! Get his DEI ass out of here!!!"

-transcript from inside the gop's cavernous heads, rolling around next to the guilt for never actually reading the bible and the last 5 grindr messages they responded to

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

lol. Brutal.

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