Apparently it really is the case that anyone who isn’t white is somehow unqualified.

  • @RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works
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    81 month ago

    Why do people keep saying it’s because of “DEI”? Diversity, equity and inclusion aren’t driving this rather it’s garden variety racism.

    • @prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      It gives cover for the “normies” that think it’s fine to ignore politics because “it doesn’t affect them.”

      In reality, many of them are just racists and don’t want to admit it (or don’t want people to know).

  • @RymrgandsDaughter@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    251 month ago

    It’s crazy how DEI didn’t even exist then yet his base will agree that these types of move are ok. The DOD excuse is just going to be “we used AI”. That still has nothing to do with the fact that you’re erasing things that have nothing to do with DEI drop the A

  • @yarr@feddit.nl
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    41 month ago

    Let’s face it folks - those Navajo code talkers took jobs from hard-working Americans. It’s very un-American to promote people just because they couldn’t speak English. Now that the websites have been scrubbed the healing can begin. God Bless Trump and all hail America!

  • @Asetru@feddit.org
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    191 month ago

    Every single day it’s that fucker again. I’m from Europe, technically he shouldn’t have any direct impact on my life and be an occasional footnote about what’s going on on the other continent. And yet here we are, day after day wondering how much better the whole world could have been off if only one jerk had had slightly better aim.

    • @dryfter@lemm.ee
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      51 month ago

      As someone who is in most ways affect by Trump and Elon’s destroying of the federal government (on Social Security disability, on Medicaid, in HUD public housing – all federally funded) I HAVE to pay attention to this stuff thanks to my anxiety and not wanting to be surprised when I’m homeless or in some camp.

      My therapist has to constantly remind me to not spend so much time looking at news but god damn this is fucking frightening. I wish I had the option to be able to tune this craziness out.

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        My therapist has to constantly remind me to not spend so much time looking at news but god damn this is fucking frightening.

        I fucking hate this… I get that they really don’t have any response to, “my country is being dismantled by fascists in front of me and there is nothing I can do about it,” but burying your head in the sand is not the answer.

  • @corroded@lemmy.world
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    As an veteran, I’d just like to offer an emphatic “fuck you” to anyone who thinks this is a good idea. If you served your country with honor, you deserve the same recognition as any other member of the Armed Forces that served alongside you. I don’t care about your race, ethnicity, orientation, creed, religion, or anything else. We’re all part of the same team.

  • ssillyssadass
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    I bet that if the internet existed in the 1930s the Nazi party would have scrubbed their official websites of any heroes who were not 100% aryan.

        • @Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeOP
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          51 month ago

          Nope. He escaped the holocaust by an inch simply because he knew some people in the SS who were mildly sympathetic to him personally. He was exiled from Germany to Belgium and he managed to immigrate to the US just before the Germans invaded.

          He passed away in the early 1960s in San Diego. He was one of the fortunate ones. Being Hitler’s CO didn’t do him any favors.

          • queermunist she/her
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            It sounds like it did do him favors. He wasn’t just fortunate, his bootlicking is what allowed him to survive in exile and immigrate to the US.

            • @Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeOP
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              41 month ago

              I read his wiki. There wasn’t much bootlicking there. He was stripped of his citizenship right away along with everyone else and was harassed like all Jews were at the time. I don’t think Hitler gave a flying fuck about his old CO. It wasn’t like his family doctor who did his best to save Hitler’s mother (for free I might add) whom Hitler did personally intervene and allow to immigrate to the US.

    • They did burn books so I would assume scrubbed of anything jewish, modern art and music, “jewish” science (quantum mechanics, relativity, etc)

  • Monkey With A Shell
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    61 month ago

    As directed by the guy who can’t speak coherent English much less provide wartime comms.

  • circuitfarmer
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    451 month ago

    There is literally no way to define this anti-DEI craze except saying “anyone who wasn’t white and male never helped with anything”. There isn’t even a veneer on it. It’s pure racism, sexism… probably many other isms.