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[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 88 points 10 months ago (7 children)

DEI is the new N word. It's a racist dog whistle.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Hold up.

It's also sexist.

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago
[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

It’s literally all forms of bigotry, because anyone of any disadvantaged group could be called “DEI.”

The only group it doesn’t apply to is rich, white, able-bodied, straight, cis, Christian, never-jailed, well -educated men*.

I might have missed an adjective, but you get the idea.

[–] PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Tim Scott is their DEI bitch, but no one said anything about that.

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

The reason is probably pretty awful and has to do exactly with what @MapleEngineer@lemmy.world was referring to.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 7 points 10 months ago

It's like the N-word and the C-word had a baby, and that baby was raised by all the bad words for Jews.

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

This use is a racist fog horn, but otherwise I agree.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Starting to feel it's gone beyond a dog whistle. Most of those are far more low-key, like "thug" or "urban" or "welfare queen". And this one is more clearly defined by facts and usage than "woke".

They might as well come out and say, "This is what comes from hiring n*****s and women!"

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

They're pathetic fucking cowards who won't just say what they mean because they know they can't win running as open racists.

[–] QuantumEyetanglement 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

OOL... Can someone explain the acronym and the context? 🙈

[–] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Diversity Equality Inclusivity

DEI initiatives have been popular in organizations in the past decade to increase diversity. This angers fascists, so they mock and attack it.

[–] QuantumEyetanglement 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

The E stands for "equity", not "equality".

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 32 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A mediocre politician from a gerrymandered district thinks someone else got an unfair advantage? That's cute.

[–] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

The GOP, as always, are hypocrites

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 31 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Attacking her for her race and gender is just lazy.

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

Agreed. It just means they have nothing else to attack her with.

[–] Pringles@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Attacking her on something else would require a modicum of expert knowledge, which is clearly too much to ask of any GOP member.

[–] return2ozma@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It begins... The levels of racism/sexism we are going to see from the GOP over the next few months is going to be wild.

Edit: look at the misogyny already on full display... https://www.instagram.com/p/C9vYle9hpqw/

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

That didn't take long.

[–] retrospectology@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

And so it begins, lol.

These idiots can't help themselves, and they don't understand that they're hurting their own chances. Their brains simply aren't wired to comprehend that normal human beings don't respond positively to this stuff.

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[–] ChillPenguin@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

FUCK, this asshole. Honestly. It's been what... Barely 24 hours and they're already starting with the racist bullshit? It's sickening.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Right out there in the open. No shame at all. Racist fucks.

Edit: also, crazy eyes.

[–] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

GOP keeping it classy

[–] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 8 points 10 months ago

He looks like a nepo-baby with no discernable skills to me.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Okay. Feel free to run with that, Republicans. If you vote against DEI, you are going to suffer if you don't look like any of these people in the photo below:

trump and co.

If you are a white woman, you still won't be treated fairly.

[–] nick@midwest.social 6 points 10 months ago

That didn’t take long

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

I wonder how much of Congress is there on top of white privilege hires from rich mommy and daddy. Not to mention the sausage fest that is the presidency. Yeah, I'm sure that's almost all white men by merit alone. /s

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

Now THAT is a punchable face.

[–] sunzu@kbin.run 5 points 10 months ago

limp dick no name cuck feels butthurt

for context:

He is a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Burchett

These guys never get any less pathetic as we age haha

[–] ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

lol, no. Biden was the DEI vice president.

[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Meanwhile Biden's vice president was chosen based on?