DEI

About

DEI is an acronym for "diversity, equity, and inclusion". It is sometimes given as DEIA^A in order to include "accessibility".

In 2025, DEI programs in government and business came under fire from the Trump-Vance administration as the latest target-language (overlapping somewhat with their war on "woke") for their efforts to demonize and subjugate everyone who isn't a white straight cisgender male. Much of this targeting was, of course, completely illegal.

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• 2025/03/05 10:30 UTC [L..T] A 40-day Target boycott starts today. It couldn't come at a worse time for the company «Target is facing a 40-day consumer boycott starting Wednesday over the company's shift away from diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies. [/] "We're asking people to divest from Target because they have turned their back on our community," Rev. Jamal Bryant, a prominent Atlanta-area megachurch pastor who started the boycott, said in an interview with CNN.»
• 2025/02/27 05:17 UTC [L..T] 'Duke, don't comply': Duke, Durham community members protest to demand University stand up to Trump, end PPD policy «Around 200 Duke community members and Durham residents protested Wednesday afternoon to demand that Duke not comply with the Trump administration's efforts to end diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives[1] and target undocumented communities. [/] Many participants also condemned the University's Pickets, Protests and Demonstrations policy as "prohibitive" of free speech, saying it allows for student activists to be "target[ed]." [/] The protest was attended by various local groups, including the Duke Graduate Student Union, Jewish Voice for Peace, Socialist Alternative, Duke Respects Durham and Duke Academics and Staff for Justice in Palestine. Organizers and participants gathered at 5 p.m. at Trinity Park before marching around East Campus.»
• 2025/02/07 20:59 UTC [L..T] AG Bondi to Criminally Prosecute Private Entities for DEIA «This week a contact at the DOJ sent me a dozen memos just been issued by new US Attorney General Pam Bondi. The memos, among a range of instructions, informed DOJ employees that the Department will criminally prosecute private entities that implement Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEI/DEIA) policies. This is Project 2025 in action. This is fascism, plain and simple.»
• 2025/01/31 13:56 UTC [L..T] What to know about the suit against FAA diversity policies critics blame for crash «Scrutiny on the Federal Aviation Administration after a deadly midair collision in Washington, D.C. has brought renewed attention to a class-action lawsuit alleging that the agency committed racial discrimination in hiring policies. / The lawsuit was originally filed on Dec. 30, 2015, in Washington, D.C., federal court during the Obama administration. The complaint argues the FAA denied jobs to upward of 1,000 qualified applicants to meet diversity hiring targets, a policy critics suggest played a role in the staffing crisis in air traffic control.»
• 2025/01/28 03:54 UTC [L..T] [US:EO] Restoring America’s Fighting Force «The Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall abolish every DEI office within the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security with regard to the USCG, respectively, including any vestiges of DEI offices, such as sub-offices, programs, elements, or initiatives established to promote a race-based preferences system that subverts meritocracy, perpetuates unconstitutional discrimination, and promotes divisive concepts or gender ideology.» Increasing military readiness is a reasonable goal, but then why did he ban trans people from serving? (shorter Trump: [kicks a bunch of people out] "We need more people!")
• 2025/01/28 03:47 UTC [L..T] [US:EO] Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness This order forces the military to observe birth-assigned gender and denies gender-affirming medical care of any kind, apparently on the theory that transgender soldiers are somehow less tough than cis soldiers. This will result in a large number of trans military personnel leaving the military, reducing readiness.
• 2024/04/26 01:51 UTC [L..T] FAA lawsuit claims agency discriminated against air traffic controller applicants on the basis of race «The FAA allegedly added a question rewarding applicants for doing poorly on test, to get more African American air traffic controller applicants» (Wow @ subhead author: tell me you're a racist without telling me.)