No shit she's racist. She's a prominent member of the Racist Party.
Okay, cool. Shit heads can say “DEI” hire if other people get to call hiring a shit head cronyism or nepotism or bottom of the barrel hire. Like, we could have hired a talented person of color, but we’re racist so we just scraped the bottom to hire instead. Take your pick.
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) is getting called out on social media after she called out White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre a “DEI hire,” a term that many consider racist.
No, we don't consider it racist. It is in fact racist, and in this case both racist and sexist. That is the entire point Boebert said it. Why else would she have used the term, indeed.
and in this case both racist and sexist.
Why else would she have used the term
Jean-Pierre is also LGBT.
Cool? But DEI is used as a stand in for the n word, it's entirely about her race.
I assure you DEI is used as more than the n word
Some people might say that Boebert herself is a DEI hire, but that is not true. Uneducated, hate-filled dullards are not considered diverse candidates.
Wouldn't Boebert also fall under the DEI umbrella as a woman representing the trailer trash demographic?
No. She falls under the porn star demographic. Which isn't a protected class.
Sex workers contribute to society, unlike Borbert
For a long while she was reducing the effect of pedophilia on her local community. Then she divorced him...
Why is racist in qoutes?
Because if you don’t quote someone it sounds like you’re saying it and then you get sued
It's almost impossible for a public figure to win a defamation suit. Especially a politician.
Lawsuits are expensive as hell, especially for smaller publications
But she is a racist.
And that’s not a quote. That’s a “quote”
"Lauren Boebert" "called" ""Racist""
Truth is an absolute defense
It is a journalistic standard.
Person is called ""
The funny thing is that, despite Boebert being racist about it, if the Biden administration hired her due to a lack of diversity in White House press secretaries, that's a good thing.
Of course she doesn't see it as a good thing, she thinks all the information a president puts out should be said by a white person.
There is a fundamental assumption among anti-DEI conservatives that there is only one Best Candidate for any job, one who conveniently looks like them. Anyone who look different, then, obviously can't be the Best Candidate, so someone must have "tipped the scales" to get them in.
Diversity is important because it leads to better ideas, particularly in matters of public policy that affect everyone. I think it's perfectly appropriate for a PR team to use, as one of its hiring guidelines, a goal to assemble people from different backgrounds, which will make everything they produce more relatable to the public. But since Conservatives don't see the value in that at all, all they see is "They wanted to hire a black woman to tick a box", not realizing the value that particular candidate's lived experience brings to that team.
I don't even think it's that they don't understand that a black woman can bring a different perspective than a white man. They just don't think that perspective matters. Heteronormative white patriarchal Christian culture must be maintained at all costs.
They let other folks in now and then, as long as they play by the rules.
Just look at Clarence Thomas. By any measure, he is a smart man. Dude graduated from Yale Law school in the early 70's when there were very few black folks there. However, major law firms did the same thing back then that Boebert is doing now, and assumed he just got into Yale due to affirmative action, to "tick a box". Rather than blame the inherent racism at the time, he blamed Yale for admitting him in the first place. Which is bonkers, when you think about it.
Once he became a judge, he continued to work to dial back progress made in the 20th century, all because his fee-fees got hurt after law school. And the bribes, don't forget the bribes!
Only for that?
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