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.

www.wired.com

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The cemetery website unpublished links to lists of notable graves, walking tours and other material about Black, Hispanic and women veterans.

taskandpurpose.com

 

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I don’t think a Virginia parents’ group has any business complaining about Chicago public schools. That’s ridiculous.

but thats how it works now.

 

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It’s not stupidity, it’s racism. From the articl, emphasis partly mine.

Although “frustrated” by the unhealthy and inconvenient conditions, Burke said she doesn’t let it get her down. Human wastewater contaminating homes and yards in these rural parts of central Alabama “has become a way of life,” she said. The problem has existed so long and was so pervasive that a 2017 study determined 1 in every 3 adults in the county had the intestinal parasite hookworm.

The Biden administration investigated and allocated nearly $26 million to rebuild Lowndes County’s water infrastructure, with the Department of Justice declaring the majority-Black area was suffering from “environmental racism.”

Yep, DEI is just racism with a nicer name. Tell me how this has anything to do with so-called merit???

 

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A crackdown on diversity programs is reshaping college graduation ceremonies

Some colleges are canceling graduation ceremonies that recognize individual cultures or groups. The affinity commencement events are the latest casualties of state and federal policy rolling back diversity, equity and inclusion practices.

apnews.com

 

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They’re not just dog whistling now, they’ve put the hoods firmly back on.

 

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The Department of Education is investigating an Illinois school district for allegedly violating federal civil rights law through its diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, the Trump administration announced on Thursday, the latest sign of its opposition to such programs.

“After four long years of the Biden Administration’s tolerance for this kind of conduct, the American people returned President Trump to office to end this madness and enforce Title VI,” Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor wrotein a statement, referring to the law barring discrimination at federally funded institutions.

“This Department of Education will not allow districts that receive federal funding to become safe spaces for racial segregation or any other unlawful discriminatory practices,” he added.

The investigation stems from allegations from Dr. Stacy Deemar, a white drama teacher who filed a complaint with the department’s Office of Civil Rights

Deemar, with support from the Southeastern Legal Foundation, a conservative advocacy group, accuses the Evanston-Skokie School District 65 of a variety of instances of racism across teacher training and student activities.

These include the directing staff and students to engage in “privilege walk” exercises, in which participants step forward if they benefit from certain forms of identity-based privileges, as well as hosting specific discussion groups for staff and students with different racial and ethnic identities.

In an April complaint to the department from the foundation, Deemar said faculty had to undergo trainings when they were told that “white people tend to dominate conversation by setting the tone for how everyone must talk and which words should be used,” and “white educators who actively disengage from conversations about improving the achievement of students of color and indigenous students are racist.”

The teacher also took issue with the district’s Black Lives Matter-inspired curriculum and events, in which teachers were allegedly guided to teach students to “understand that our country has a racist history that is grounded in white privilege,” while others were told to read elementary school students Not My Idea: A Book about Whiteness by Anastasia Higginbotham, which features an illustration comparing whiteness to a deal with the devil giving participants “stolen land, stolen riches, [and] special favors.”

The district did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Deemar previously accused the district of misconduct in 2019, prompting the first Trump administration to recognize her claims as valid, findings that were “hastily suspended” under the Biden administration, according to an April complaint from Southeastern Legal Foundation sent to the Department of Education.……….

Trump is probing Illinois school district for discrimination over ‘privilege walks’

Allegations were subject of civil rights complaint from same teacher under first Trump administration

www.independent.co.uk

 

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The Department of Education is investigating an Illinois school district for allegedly violating federal civil rights law through its diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, the Trump administration announced on Thursday, the latest sign of its opposition to such programs.

“After four long years of the Biden Administration’s tolerance for this kind of conduct, the American people returned President Trump to office to end this madness and enforce Title VI,” Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor wrotein a statement, referring to the law barring discrimination at federally funded institutions.

“This Department of Education will not allow districts that receive federal funding to become safe spaces for racial segregation or any other unlawful discriminatory practices,” he added.

The investigation stems from allegations from Dr. Stacy Deemar, a white drama teacher who filed a complaint with the department’s Office of Civil Rights

Deemar, with support from the Southeastern Legal Foundation, a conservative advocacy group, accuses the Evanston-Skokie School District 65 of a variety of instances of racism across teacher training and student activities.

These include the directing staff and students to engage in “privilege walk” exercises, in which participants step forward if they benefit from certain forms of identity-based privileges, as well as hosting specific discussion groups for staff and students with different racial and ethnic identities.

In an April complaint to the department from the foundation, Deemar said faculty had to undergo trainings when they were told that “white people tend to dominate conversation by setting the tone for how everyone must talk and which words should be used,” and “white educators who actively disengage from conversations about improving the achievement of students of color and indigenous students are racist.”

The teacher also took issue with the district’s Black Lives Matter-inspired curriculum and events, in which teachers were allegedly guided to teach students to “understand that our country has a racist history that is grounded in white privilege,” while others were told to read elementary school students Not My Idea: A Book about Whiteness by Anastasia Higginbotham, which features an illustration comparing whiteness to a deal with the devil giving participants “stolen land, stolen riches, [and] special favors.”

The district did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Deemar previously accused the district of misconduct in 2019, prompting the first Trump administration to recognize her claims as valid, findings that were “hastily suspended” under the Biden administration, according to an April complaint from Southeastern Legal Foundation sent to the Department of Education.……….

Trump is probing Illinois school district for discrimination over ‘privilege walks’

Allegations were subject of civil rights complaint from same teacher under first Trump administration

www.independent.co.uk

How very Orwellian of Trump’s soon to be defunct Department of Education.