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Split Thread Diversity Equity and Inclusion and merit in employment etc

It’s official. DEI has been banned in the federal government. Trump has rescinded (on Day One, as promised) Biden’s two executive orders (EO13985 and 14095) that mandated DEI throughout the federal government. Trump further ordered that

The heads of each agency shall take immediate steps to end Federal implementation of unlawful and radical DEI ideology.​

All US science funding agencies (NSF, NIH, NASA, etc.) were subject to the aforementioned Biden executive orders, which meant that, as a requirement for funding, applicants had to demonstrate that their research would advance DEI ideology. The funding agencies themselves were required to advance DEI, which meant that they gave preference in funding to minority applicants.

With the stroke of a pen, all this is over. The funding of fundamental research that has no connection to DEI will no longer be threatened, and research proposals will be funded on the basis of their scientific merit without regard to the applicant’s skin color.
So they will be able to continue with lawful and non-radical DEI ideology?
 
Hooray for Trump!
This isn't the endorsement you two seem to think it is.

If Trump really did "ban" the bull ◊◊◊◊ straw version of DEI that you two promote, then that's a good thing. But that's not what happened. He actually banned diversity, equity and inclusion, and all things that can be described by those three words are now off limits.

And so we are back to this. Ban diversity and all you have is monoculture. Ban equity and you have inequity (which by the way is exactly what his billionaire oligarch friends want). Ban inclusion and you have exclusion.

This is the America that you two voted for. Congratulations.
 
You have to know that is false.
Arth has made a compelling case that he doesn't know what is and isn't false, in the American political landscape.

And that's fair. I have no idea what's really going on, politically, in King Charles' antipodian vassal state. Doesn't stop me from having opinions, though.
 
Are you kidding? It's false that he's doing exactly what he's been saying he's going to do for eight years?

Give me a break.
The persistence of your ignorance in light of the evidence you have been given is inexcusable.
 
When they say "we're destroying DEI and salting the earth underneath it" and then they repeal regulations that go back to 1965, they're not talking about corporate diversity trainings.

They're talking about civil rights.
 
When they say "we're destroying DEI and salting the earth underneath it" and then they repeal regulations that go back to 1965, they're not talking about corporate diversity trainings.

They're talking about civil rights.
Nothing got repealed. Rescinding an executive order that got superseded by legislation isn't repealing anything.
 

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