The anti-DEI agenda (1 Viewer)

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I thought there was already a topic about DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) but I could not find it in search.
Anyway, it seems one of the main goals for republicans is to destroy anything (even if only vaguely) DEI related

The Anti-DEI Agenda Is Reprogramming America

President Trump’s anti-DEI playbook doesn’t just affect the makeup of America’s workplaces. It also impacts cultural production. Just ask Netflix’s former head of diversity.

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Arlington Cemetery website drops links for Black, Hispanic, and women veterans

The cemetery website unpublished links to lists of notable graves, walking tours and other material about Black, Hispanic and women veterans.

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Louisiana to join conservative higher education accrediting body • Louisiana Illuminator

Louisiana will join six other university systems in the South to form a new alternative accrediting body favored by conservatives

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Conservative politicians have taken issue with traditional accreditors at times because of their standards related to diversity, equity and inclusion and because accreditors require safeguards that are intended to limit the influence of external forces, including politicians, in public higher education.

 

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Louisiana to join conservative higher education accrediting body • Louisiana Illuminator

Louisiana will join six other university systems in the South to form a new alternative accrediting body favored by conservatives

lailluminator.com

Conservative politicians have taken issue with traditional accreditors at times because of their standards related to diversity, equity and inclusion and because accreditors require safeguards that are intended to limit the influence of external forces, including politicians, in public higher education.

Trump and Republicans fascist Project 2025 is in full implementation mode. This wasn't specifically in their playbook, but it's in full support and alignment with their agenda.

 

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Skydance Media needs the approval of President Donald Trump’s Federal Communications Commission in order to take over Paramount Global. It’s now promising to root out “bias” at CBS News in order to get it.

In a pair of letters filed Tuesday with the FCC, Skydance committed to a post-merger “comprehensive review of CBS,” including a promise to install an ombudsman to evaluate complaints of “bias or other concerns” at the news network and report their findings to the new Paramount’s president.

Skydance also committed to eliminating Paramount’s diversity, equity and inclusion practices at the entertainment giant once it takes over. The letters touted that Skydance does not and will not have any DEI programs in place.…..

Skydance pledges to Trump’s FCC it’ll eliminate DEI, install ‘ombudsman’ to root out ‘bias’ at CBS News | CNN Business

Skydance needs FCC approval in order to take over Paramount. It’s now promising to root out “bias” at CBS News in order to get it.

www.cnn.com

 

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Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a trio of executive orders that he vowed would turn the United States into an “AI export powerhouse”, including one targeting what the White House described as “woke” artificial intelligence models.

During remarks at an AI summit in Washington, Trump decried “woke Marxist lunacy in the AI models”, before signing the orders on stage at the Mellon Auditorium.

“Once and for all, we are getting rid of woke. Is that OK?” Trump said, drawing loud applause from the audience of AI industry leaders.

He then asserted that his predecessor, Joe Biden, had “established toxic diversity, equity and inclusion ideology as a guiding principle of American AI development”.

“So you immediately knew that was the end of your development,” he said, eliciting laughter.

The new order requires any artificial intelligence company receiving federal funding to maintain politically neutral AI models free of “ideological dogmas such as DEI” – putting pressure on an industry increasingly seeking to partner with government agencies.

It is part of the Trump administration’s broader anti-diversity campaign that has also targeted federal agencies, academic institutions and the military.…….

Trump signs executive orders targeting ‘woke’ AI models and regulation

Crackdown would streamline the building of datacentres and remove environmental protections

www.theguardian.com

 

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The organizers of an LGBTQ film festival in Phoenix have canceled the annual event “in direct response” to President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end diversity, equity and inclusion programs at publicly funded institutions.

The nonprofit Desperado LGBTQ+ Film Festival is hosted by a student organization at Paradise Valley Community College, which receives federal funds. The festival’s mission, according to its website, is to showcase quality films that are related to the experiences of the LGBTQ+ community.” The festival was first held in 2009, and the most recent edition — which included seven feature films and seven shorts — was in January.

“As a publicly funded institution, we must comply with these orders,” the festival’s organizers said in a statement on its website. “Failure to do so would jeopardize the district’s federal funding, including student financial aid and grants that support over 300 positions across our campuses. The loss of such funding would create a ripple effect, significantly affecting students, faculty, staff, the community, and the educational services we provide.”


Trump’s DEI-related executive order called for terminating diversity, equity and inclusion mandates, policies programs, preferences and activities in the federal government, describing such measures as “discriminatory.”

In its “Trump Accountability Tracker,” the LGBTQ advocacy organization GLAAD asserts that the DEI-related order is one of more than 300 anti-LGBTQ actions during the second Trump administration. Others on GLAAD’s list include the elimination of the 988 suicide hotline for LGBTQ youths, the removal of transgender service members from the military and the renaming of a Navy vessel named for gay civil rights leader Harvey Milk.................

LGBTQ festival canceled after 16 years due to Trump DEI order, organizers say

The Desperado LGBTQ+ Film Festival, which debuted in 2009, is hosted by a student club at Paradise Valley Community College, which receives federal funds.

www.nbcnews.com

 

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The Trump administration has ordered a review of several items at Philadelphia's Independence National Historical Park — the museum where the Liberty Bell is kept — because they fall outside of Donald Trump's anti-DEI rules, according to a new report.

The move is apparently part of a broader move to fight "corrosive ideology" at national parks, says the New York Times.

Independence Park is home not only to the Liberty Bell, but to Independence Hall, where both the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution were signed.

Back in March, Trump issued an order demanding the censoring of any information at federal parks, public monuments, or statues added since 2020 that "perpetuate a false reconstruction of American history."

Federal employees had until last week to flag any displays or materials that failed Trump's ideological purity test, according to the Times.

The "corrosive ideology" found at Independence Park reportedly includes a panel at the Liberty Bell describing its 1800s travel and which addresses the “systemic and violent racism and sexism that existed at the time.”

An outdoor exhibit at the President's House — where George Washington and John Adams lived and conducted business while in Philadelphia — notes nine of Washington's slaves and includes descriptions of the brutality that slaves faced. Under Trump's guidance, that must also be censored.

Independence Park also has displays noting the contentious relationship between the U.S. and Native American tribes. They have been flagged by federal staff.

The Trump administration also allowed the public a period of time to offer feedback on Independence Park and the wokeness or lack of wokeness in its exhibits. The U.S. Interior Department received fewer than 20 comments, according to Axios.

The deadline for federal workers to remove all the "inappropriate" content from federally managed land and monuments is September 17, according to the Times.

Trump may be especially eager to get the Philadelphia sites censored to his liking, considering the nation's upcoming 250th anniversary will be celebrated in the city of brotherly love..............

Trump’s orders brand Liberty Bell exhibits as ‘corrosive ideology’

One of the exhibit’s federal workers reportedly flagged mentions that George Washington had nine slaves

www.the-independent.com

 

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Artist Amy Sherald has decided to withdraw her upcoming show at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery over fears of censorship.

Sherald, who gained wider recognition after her portrait of Michelle Obama, was set to become the first contemporary Black artist to have an exhibition at the gallery.

According to the New York Times, her show American Sublime has now been cancelled after she was told her painting of a transgender Statue of Liberty might be removed over fears of offending Donald Trump.

“I entered into this collaboration in good faith, believing that the institution shared a commitment to presenting work that reflects the full, complex truth of American life,” Sherald wrote in a letter. “Unfortunately, it has become clear that the conditions no longer support the integrity of the work as conceived.’’

In a statement obtained by the Times, she added: “It’s clear that institutional fear shaped by a broader climate of political hostility toward trans lives played a role.”

Sherald claims that talks of removing the painting were followed by the proposal of a replacement, a video of people discussing both the painting and transgender issues at large. She said this decision would have “opened up for debate the value of trans visibility” which she rejected.

A statement from the Smithsonian claimed those at the institution were “disappointed” by Sherald’s decision..........

Artist Amy Sherald cancels Smithsonian show over censorship

Portraitist withdrew her National Portrait Gallery show over reports that a transgender Statue of Liberty painting could offend Trump

www.theguardian.com

 

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Slightly less than half of U.S. adults believe that Black people face “a great deal” or “quite a bit” of discrimination in the United States, according to a new poll.

That’s a decline from the solid majority, 60%, who thought Black Americans faced high levels of discrimination in the spring of 2021, months after racial reckoning protests in response to the police killing of George Floyd.

Significant numbers of Americans also think diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, also known as DEI, are backfiring against the groups they’re intended to help, according to the survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, including many people who belong to those groups.

The findings suggest Americans’ views on racial discrimination have shifted substantially since four years ago, when many companies launched efforts to promote diversity within their workforces and the products they sold.

Since then, many of those companies have reversed themselves and retreated from their diversity practices, a trend that’s accelerated this year under pressure from President Donald Trump, a Republican who has sought to withhold federal money from schools and companies that promote DEI.

Now, it’s clear that views are changing as well as company policies.

Claudine Brider, a 48-year-old Black Democrat in Compton, California, says the concept of DEI has made the workplace difficult for Black people and women in new ways.

“Anytime they’re in a space that they’re not expected to be, like seeing a Black girl in an engineering course ... they are seen as only getting there because of those factors,” Brider said. “It’s all negated by someone saying, ‘You’re only here to meet a quota.’” ……..

The poll indicates that less than half of Americans think DEI has a benefit for the people it’s intended to help.

About 4 in 10 U.S. adults say DEI reduces discrimination against Black people, while about one-third say this about Hispanic people, women and Asian people. Many — between 33% and 41% — don’t think DEI makes a difference either way. About one-quarter of U.S. adults believe that DEI actually increases discrimination against these groups.

Black and Hispanic people are more likely than white people to think DEI efforts end up increasing discrimination against people like them.

About 4 in 10 Black adults and about one-third of Hispanic adults say DEI increases discrimination against Black people, compared with about one-quarter of white adults.

There is a similar split between white adults and Black and Hispanic adults on assessments of discrimination against Hispanic people.

Among white people, it’s mostly Democrats who think DEI efforts reduce discrimination against Black and Hispanic people. Only about one-quarter of white independents and Republicans say the same……..

How Americans' views of racial discrimination have shifted since 2021, according to AP-NORC polling

A new poll finds less than half of U.S. adults believe Black people face “a great deal” or “quite a bit” of discrimination.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Slightly less than half of U.S. adults believe that Black people face “a great deal” or “quite a bit” of discrimination in the United States, according to a new poll.

That’s a decline from the solid majority, 60%, who thought Black Americans faced high levels of discrimination in the spring of 2021, months after racial reckoning protests in response to the police killing of George Floyd.

Significant numbers of Americans also think diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, also known as DEI, are backfiring against the groups they’re intended to help, according to the survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, including many people who belong to those groups.

The findings suggest Americans’ views on racial discrimination have shifted substantially since four years ago, when many companies launched efforts to promote diversity within their workforces and the products they sold.

Since then, many of those companies have reversed themselves and retreated from their diversity practices, a trend that’s accelerated this year under pressure from President Donald Trump, a Republican who has sought to withhold federal money from schools and companies that promote DEI.

Now, it’s clear that views are changing as well as company policies.

Claudine Brider, a 48-year-old Black Democrat in Compton, California, says the concept of DEI has made the workplace difficult for Black people and women in new ways.

“Anytime they’re in a space that they’re not expected to be, like seeing a Black girl in an engineering course ... they are seen as only getting there because of those factors,” Brider said. “It’s all negated by someone saying, ‘You’re only here to meet a quota.’” ……..

The poll indicates that less than half of Americans think DEI has a benefit for the people it’s intended to help.

About 4 in 10 U.S. adults say DEI reduces discrimination against Black people, while about one-third say this about Hispanic people, women and Asian people. Many — between 33% and 41% — don’t think DEI makes a difference either way. About one-quarter of U.S. adults believe that DEI actually increases discrimination against these groups.

Black and Hispanic people are more likely than white people to think DEI efforts end up increasing discrimination against people like them.

About 4 in 10 Black adults and about one-third of Hispanic adults say DEI increases discrimination against Black people, compared with about one-quarter of white adults.

There is a similar split between white adults and Black and Hispanic adults on assessments of discrimination against Hispanic people.

Among white people, it’s mostly Democrats who think DEI efforts reduce discrimination against Black and Hispanic people. Only about one-quarter of white independents and Republicans say the same……..

How Americans' views of racial discrimination have shifted since 2021, according to AP-NORC polling

A new poll finds less than half of U.S. adults believe Black people face “a great deal” or “quite a bit” of discrimination.

apnews.com

Sooo…white people think that only they are competent to be in certain professions.

Thanks a lot “Western Civilization” for planting racism.

 

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Sooo…white people think that only they are competent to be in certain professions.

Thanks a lot “Western Civilization” for planting racism.

As a white person, today I weep, tomorrow I fight again for kind, fair and equitable treatment for all.

 

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Senate confirms anti-DEI stalwart Andrea Lucas to second term at top workplace civil rights agency

The Senate confirmed Andrea Lucas to another term as commissioner of the country’s workplace civil rights agency, demonstrating firm Republican support for her efforts to root out diversity programs, roll back protections for transgender workers and prioritize religious rights in the workplace.

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