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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAre you as sick as I am at MAGATs incessantly bleating about DEI?
I've found a way that, so far at least, tends to shut them right up:
"Sorry, dumbass, but DEI actually stands for Don Jr., Eric, and Ivanka ... three worthless trust fund brats who never accomplished a fucking thing on their own, and owe everything they possess to the circumstances of their birth. Now piss off."
As I said, so far not a single MAGAT has had a word to say in response.
Bernardo de La Paz
(52,222 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(52,222 posts)calimary
(85,086 posts)ZDU
(139 posts)LeftinOH
(5,444 posts)That's what MAGAts mean when they gripe about DEI.
B.See
(4,267 posts)I'm not sick of it because each time they DO they confirm themselves to be exactly who and WHAT I always knew they were: a bunch of pos racists and bigots.
So take note, you 18-20 percent Black male Trump voters who in essence, endorsed and helped ENABLED THIS S----.
DSandra
(1,377 posts)As well as many other privileges and assistances because they were white.
thebigidea
(13,448 posts)Look how scared they have made corporate America of the initials DEI!
Maybe we should try incessant, on-message whiny bleating now and then?
CrispyQ
(38,930 posts)She thinks Harris lost because "the democrats only talk about trans issues & DEI." I wrote back, "Excuse me, but that's the right only talking about those issues." I wasted time explaining that Harris had actual policies & that it was Trump & Trump pacs that spent half their advertising on anti-trans ads but to no avail. I wish she'd never expressed that, cuz now I don't want to write to her anymore.
usonian
(15,525 posts)Anti-immigrants: racism
Sex fetish: inner questions
Racism: self-doubt about unearned privilege.
Every accusation is a confession.
Well played by the puppet masters.
The shadow of apartheid South Africa in America.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219696928
William Seger
(11,264 posts)... since, in his mind, you'd have to lower your standards to hire anything but a white male. How ironic that it's that exact ignorant prejudice that makes DEI initiatives necessary, if we want to claim to be a just society.
barbtries
(30,126 posts)but they may as well just say "I"m a fucking racist xenophobe" if they do.
I'm past the point of letting it slide.
kimbutgar
(23,984 posts)They are insinuating that only white men are the most intellectual and qualified! And that is the biggest bs.
LakeArenal
(29,934 posts)I realize if they did they would still complain about it.
NotHardly
(1,553 posts)maxsolomon
(35,664 posts)Was it to a person's face, or just from a keyboard?
11 Bravo
(24,084 posts)maxsolomon
(35,664 posts)DEI has made my workplace better.
Ohioboy
(3,558 posts)yardwork
(65,230 posts)In the 1980s it was "welfare queens" and then it became "the gays demand special rights" and there was always "abortion on demand!" Also, "communism!" And "terrorism!" work well.
It's just the latest non-issue the Republicans dream up to get people emotional so they'll vote against their own interests.
While Americans have run around angrily decrying the latest liberal atrocity, over the past four decades the Republicans shifted most of the middle class's wealth to themselves. Then, they wrap back and blame that on Democrats too.
It's cleverly done and people fall for it. This election is a great example of how effective it is.
Demovictory9
(34,256 posts)And using fox news and talk radio as the drum beat, repetitive, nonstop blaring of the message
yardwork
(65,230 posts)This year it was "prices are too high" and "immigrants are invading" and "trans people scary!"
There's always a tiny germ of truth in the talking point, but it's twisted to be the opposite of the truth.
Prices are too high - compared to salaries, which have lost ground compared to prices. Also, COVID. A very complicated issue. But easy to blame on Biden.
There's a humanitarian crisis on the border because people are fleeing crime and economic chaos in Latin American countries - many of those issues exacerbated by U.S. policies. Again, a complicated issue, reduced to "Kamala bad!"
Etc.
JI7
(91,242 posts)the non whites that support it also have resentment against other groups. And it's just about them hoping others are harmed so they don't have to compete with them.
harumph
(2,488 posts)Demovictory9
(34,256 posts)ThePartyThatListens
(340 posts)It works w/so many white Americans.
Old Crank
(5,170 posts)Even Senior is a trust fund baby.
W_HAMILTON
(8,657 posts)If you want to go viral by combatting this anti-DEI bullshit, next time you are on CNN or someplace that loves to put you against a MAGA moron, read Lee Atwater's infamous quote, word for word -- if you don't know which one I'm referring to, here: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/ -- and then point out how they've simply updated the terms to CRT, now DEI, etc.
And end by dropping the mic by plainly pointing out that when they rail against these things, it is just their code for "I hate black people."
NNadir
(35,043 posts)Dave Bowman
(4,418 posts)DoBW
(2,225 posts)Keepthesoulalive
(982 posts)The media is going along with it, they are complicit.
SheltieLover
(61,779 posts)TBA
(842 posts)I could spend hours talking about the shitty ways I was treated because of my gender.
I remember the very first interview I went to out of school (very very high grades mind you). The guy literally started laughing when I announced I wanted to apply for his opening as an Apple Computer tech.
And it went on and on.
Skittles
(161,403 posts)OMG I have a load of stories too......
Klarkashton
(2,753 posts)Can't compete in this world and want to blame 'them". its the Joe Rogan fan club "victims".
regnaD kciN
(26,711 posts)a kennedy
(32,653 posts)Gonna use it, thanks .oh, and love it.
msfiddlestix
(7,966 posts)period. you can catch the headlines in DU's LBN and all the rest of the outrage in headlines on GD
So it's not like you'll be uninformed. Just filter the noise to signal is going to be exceedingly helpful one's mental and emotional health.
Dem4life1234
(2,317 posts)When they are the ones being discriminatory against qualified black people.