cross-posted from: https://yall.theatl.social/post/3116914
From the Atlanta Daily World:
Photo: Getty Images A GOP lawmaker is facing backlash after referring to White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre as a “DEI hire.” On Tuesday (July 2), Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert ® suggested that Jean-Pierre was only hired to fill a diversity quota. “I couldn’t care less about what @PressSec has to say today,” Boebert tweeted. … Continued
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Is a DEI hire bad? I don’t think so. All those letters stand for good things.
I think the implication is that they’re not being chosen solely on their qualifications. So that would imply a lower bar and lower performance.
Of course that’s the spin this psychotic cunt is putting on it, but DEI hires are a real thing, and they don’t have to have a bad implication - let’s not let them own this phrase.
Which, of course, ignores the fact that there are likely multiple people from various races, ethnicities, genders and other identities which are all about equally qualified and getting a black woman in an administration run by a white man could bring needed perspective.
That’s certainly one possibility. I think it’s the other possibilities that folks have strong feelings about.
Yes. People have strong feelings about the possibility that a drag queen will groom their child into becoming trans.
They’re also wrong.
Why you think strong feelings are the same as reality, I don’t know. Are you a Trump voter?
Very far from a Trump voter and I’m disappointed to see presumptive and confrontational behavior from you. You’re normally levelheaded.
Then why does it matter what people feel strongly about as opposed to what the reality is?
I don’t know what to say to that. I didn’t say it matters, and I was trying to participate in the discussion thread.
My opinion is that the spirit of DEI is good, but sometimes I have personally witnessed first hand a decline in performance standards. I’ve worked for years with/near the federal government and I’ve seen what appears to be a particularly blatant DEI push at the cost of performance.
And an Asian colleague recounted to me that a school he was trying to send his child to had recently come under pressure to “loosen” their admittance test requirements because white and Asian folks were overrepresented. I’m sure you’re aware of the similar controversies at universities over the last decades.
When it comes to DEI, I’m not against any people or class of people, but it’d be intellectually dishonest to not recognize the inherent conflict here when you start considering people’s race as an admittance factor. Maybe the intention is to only give the minority an edge when performance with a white peer is exactly the same, but that’s not precisely what happens every time. It’s not something that makes me angry, and it may even be the right thing to do, at least in some cases. I only recognize it.
Cheers.
Well, thankfully we had a highly qualified white guy added to the Supreme Court, right?
/s for the delusional.
“Slammed…”
“Ohhhh, You’re tough now, aren’t you motherfucker… HE’S A DEI!!! A DEI, DEI, DEI!!! Get his DEI ass out of here!!!”
-transcript from inside the gop’s cavernous heads, rolling around next to the guilt for never actually reading the bible and the last 5 grindr messages they responded to
lol. Brutal.
SLAAAAAAAAAAAAMMED
Edit: forgot an m
It doesn’t matter how many times I see Boebert in the news - she still seems to me to be a particularly gross and nasty tweaked-out cam girl who’s inexplicably been allowed to pretend to be a politician.
I’d smoke meth with that granny.
Maybe we could go to a dark theatre after.
“It’s funny cuz it’s true”
She got her GED so she could run for congress…
BARELY got her GED and had to take the test FOUR times.
First “gop lawmaker” is REALLY a far too generous stretch for a boebert descriptor. “gop participant and known public handjob aficionado” maybe…
Second, the gop always DESPERATELY needs an acronym to funnel their implant hate through - seems clear that the emerging favorite these days is DEI with a hard “R”. Fucking cowards.
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anything Lauren Boebert says is comedy gold
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if it’s the ginger pistol I saw giving the press a verbal shellacking a while back, there’s nothing DEI about her hire unless we count the fact she’s like 91% angry viking barely restrained by some hard manners … so, Norwegian-Canadian immigrant?
2b. Nah, I could watch her school press flacks all.freakin.day. She was on fire.
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S L A M M E D
Right Wingers continue to just take terms and turn them into placeholders until they crank the hard R.
Thug —+ Woke -----> DEI
Ted Cruz’s former prostitute and abortion kompromat vessel called someone else DEI? That’s too rich.
So DEI now just means the job went to a non-white, non-GOP, not-male person.
Convenient.
Anto-DEI has always been a dog whistle for racism and sexism. Conservatives will screech DEI if a woman or person of color does literally anything.
That’s what it always has meant. It threatens the heteronormative Christian patriarchal power structure to have anyone but a white man in charge of anything. And it doesn’t matter that a woman is saying it because it’s a woman who doesn’t understand that the leopards will eat her face too.
“Politically correct” is old news, “woke” is losing steam, so now we move to “DEI”.
Just like how it used to be “Shell shock”, then it was “Battle Fatigue”, and now its PTSD.
🐶🌬️
They’ve been using “dei” instead of racial slurs for a while. It’s all a part of their toxic plan.
It’s not even a new idea. It’s just the same weathered and worn “a minority couldn’t possibly have the proper education to do this job,” from uneducated idiots who… *checks notes… definitely don’t have the education to do the same job and spend all their time trying to reduce access to education to minorities.
It’s still the slaveowners attitude of purposefully keeping them uneducated and then judging them for their… lack of education. It’s what stupid selfish controlling people have done to others for centuries, kick them down, and then berate them for having been kicked down. They don’t like smart people who can talk back to them so they try to make sure they are the smarted person in the room by purposefully keeping everyone else dumb.
When everyone in a political party is vying to be the smartest person in the room by controlling information and making everyone else dumber, you end up with a joke shitshow like the US Republican party, which stands for nothing other than bullying and willful ignorance.
Isn’t it amazing that the people advocating for a “STricT mERITocrACY” conspicuously ignore their meritocracy is very monochromatic?
Are you denying she’s horrible at her job? She’s quite possibly the worst-spoken press secretary ever.
I too would think that, had I just woken up from a coma and not known about the four press secretaries under Trump.
The mooch was just perfect casting. He’s the guy you expect a person like trump to have as a spokesperson.
Too bad he lasted less than Liz truss.
The Mooch was easily my fav press secretary from that shit show.
FYI , if you haven’t seen it yet, he’s one of the whales on “Killer Whales”, that crypto Shark Tank knock off. The show is wild, everyone talking shit about the products, but still saying they’d support it. And the prize isn’t actually any sort of money for the schemes, just a mentorship with the whales. It’s absolutely great to watch with a bag of popcorn.
A clock shaped like a pile of rancid garbage is still right twice a day, as harsh as it is.
Karine Jean-Pierre is not a very good press secretary, And while I don’t know what the candidate pool was or what the vetting process was like, I think you’d be hard pressed to say that her being a black, LGBT, woman didn’t at all factor into her getting picked for the job. And while that’s not a bad thing, let’s not clutch our pearls and pretend calling her a DEI hire is some unhinged claim.
Ask yourself this, do DEI hires exist? Yes, they often do. Does KJP tick literally all the boxes for a DEI hire? She absolutely does.
Do you say she’s not very good because you think she’s unqualified?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karine_Jean-Pierre
It seems to me she has a well-developed resumé, she has held several key posts in Democratic campaigns before landing the Press Secretary gig. She appears to be objectively qualified for her job. Much more so than
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_Boebert
Who owned a bunch of restaurants before running for office. Her main qualification semes to be that she talked some shit to an ex-member of the Cult of the Dead Cow. But the only vetting process she went through was an election.
I’m saying she’s not very good because of her many gaffs and avoidance of questions.
And why compare her to Boebert? Boebert is a shit stain who’s unqualified to work at a fruit stand, let alone be a congresswoman. You bring up her qualifications like you think it’s some new info.
I don’t understand how people think this type of deflection is worth anything. “You think this person is bad, well what about this other person who’s WORSE?!” Yea, that doesn’t make the first person better. This isn’t a fucking grade school popularity contest.
Boebert is the one calling her a DEI hire, meanwhile Jean-Pierre has a Masters degree from Columbia and years of relevant experience.
I know people with PhDs and decades of experience that are still shit at their jobs.
I haven’t watched any of the White House press events so I don’t know how good she is at her job, but just having a nice resume doesn’t mean shit.
So you haven’t observed any of her work as White House press Secretary, and the only argument that you can make against her is to invalidate her credentials and education? But hey, if they hired a woman that means that there must have been someone more qualified that they overlooked. There’s absolutely no way or any reason a black queer woman could ever get into that position on merit /s
That being said, I’m not saying that she shouldn’t be subject to criticism, but why not compare her performance to that of previous Democrat administrations?
I am not arguing against her. As I said, I’m not familiar with her performance. I have no opinion on that matter.
This isn’t a fucking grade school popularity contest.
You seem to be treating it like it is.
I’m saying she’s not very good because of her many gaffs and avoidance of questions.
Yeah, totally unlike this very qualified white lady.
o_0
Hey, that very qualified white lady went on to be a shitty governor of a state at the bottom of countrywide education rankings
In this context, calling her “a DEI hire” means she’s not qualified. You’re saying she’s not qualified? Hey y’know who wasn’t a very good press secretary at all? Sean Spicer. Remember when he jumped in the bushes? He wasn’t a DEI hire was he? Nooooo. White men don’t need no steenking badges.
It doesn’t mean she’s unqualified, it just means more qualified candidates may have been passed over in favor of her because she’s more diverse. And considering how bad of a job she’s doing, if you are trying to make the claim that she WASN’T a DEI hire and she was hired solely because she was the best candidate, then you are making the claim that Biden and his cabinet are so incompetent that they can’t attract anyone talented who wants to work for them.
And don’t deflect with “well the horrible people during Trump were worse!” Yea, no shit. It was the Trump presidency. That changes absolutely nothing about KJP and why she was hired.
it just means more qualified candidates may have been passed over in favor of her because she’s more diverse.
You’re taking this statement from Lauren Boebert and assuming there’s some validity to it. I just wanted you to know that.
it just means more qualified candidates may have been passed over in favor of her because she’s more diverse.
You must have the list of potential candidates then.
Post it here.
I’ll wait.
How do you think DEI hiring works? Not a rhetorical question, I’m interested in your thoughts.
So you don’t think DEI serves any useful purpose. That whenever you see people of color who aren’t good at their jobs they got those jobs just because they weren’t white. Or, just in this one, very-specific, very high-profile instance.
Hey, I get it. I know a lot of people who think like that. They don’t mean to be - y’know - dismissive of DEI (of course in Ye Olden Tymes it was called Affirmative Action). Well . . some of them did. Oh man, some of them really did, y’know. But they were struggling with their own things, and it was the style at the time.
I will take a hundred KJPs over one Scaramucci.
