a dear friend of mine describes sexual violence as a core value of this current admin. she says she finds it critically important to point this out to her because growing up in post soviet eastern europe, that was the key marker of corrupt governments. it was easy to see the greed of access to power through violence as being about money, but it runs so much deeper than that. the money is means. sex, violence, and sexual violence is the end
DEI-opponents often say things like "there's more to a job than the skill directly related to it", and then call being white a "merit of trustworthiness". At least their anti-disabled excuse "what if a big object needs to be moved?" is less obvious, other times they just think every invisible disability is "severe intellectual disability" (that's why they're thinking about autistic people).
As an addict myself I don’t like the heroin addict jab. Many of us seen fucked up shit that lead us to self medicate and by some miracle made it out.
Most of us come out of that with more empathy than before because we can relate to a lot of people. It’s just a few that turn out to be crackpots or sociopaths.
But I think it is relevant here as it communicates immense privilege.
By virtue of being from a well known political family he is able to shake the baggage of his prior drug use off easily. He's even spoken openly on the fact he used it to self medicate.
But most persons who have suffered addiction do not have that privilege and carry this baggage lifelong.
Its important to call out the hypocrisy of the ruling class. They will simultaneously ignore drug use among their contemporaries while murdering and imprisoning 'lessers' involved in the trade or consumption of drugs.
The empire that birthed this nation formally flooded the Chinese market with opium to enrich themselves and went to war twice when they met resistance. The rich and powerful are always talking out of both sides of their mouths.
This is why the moral outrage around drugs, coming from the ruling class, as a justification for dehumanization, must be questioned. Especially when they seek to use drug addiction, a universal and timeless human hardship, as a tool to justify violence upon 'outgroups' on behalf of the 'ingroup'.
I totally get how it made you feel. I have a feeling that mentionning that had more to do with how it is often used to justify racism towards colored people. Because in that guy's case it does not seem to matter to republicans, but it was enough of a reason to justify George Floyd's death. I may give too much credit to OOP though, it is still tone deaf.
Just yesterday I elongated my face into the shape of a wolf and let out a loud whistle until my ears steamed and my head flapped open like a vent and she said "I have a boyfriend", the nerve of the female.
The fundamental problem conservatives have with DEI is that it highlights how comically nepotistic and corrupt the system has grown under white exclusive administration.
The people getting fired under anti-DEI provisions are inevitably some of the most qualified members of the organization.
Yeah, true. It just didn’t feel like the post had anything to do with race, until that comment.
Might have been more impactful if it started with one of the million comments these people have made about DEI along with all the firings of fully qualified people
The post is about DEI. The first part is to get you to understand the facts without the context of DEI and the DEI comment at the end takes those facts and points them in the intended direction. It paints a quick and clear picture and gets the point across. It’s a social media post, not an essay, get over it.
Yeah, true. It just didn’t feel like the post had anything to do with race, until that comment.
Might have been more impactful if it started with one of the million comments these people have made about DEI along with all the firings of fully qualified people
This has nothing to do with them being white people.
I wish that were true. But if RFK Jr had been from a poor black family, do you really think he'd be leading HHS? Do you think he'd be a free man, even? Or alive?
After all the shit he's done to himself - serial substance abuse, reckless engagement, multiple self-inflicted life threatening medical conditions, sexual assault of numerous young women - who honestly believes he wouldn't have gotten the Rodney King/Eric Garland treatment with any other surname or complexion?
Same with Trump. Ffs, Sean Combs is actually in jail right now. The parallels are undeniably. This is entirely about race.
I bet he wishes he could have left race out of it as well.
Sadly until the day racism is no longer an issue, it will have to be brought up by people who suffer from the racism (and also us who don't, we can't just be silent).
yet another criticism of the right based on wrong assumptions. their problem with DEI is not about qualifications. they just don't want minorities around.
OP does not seem to get that it is precisely BECAUSE of all these criminals and incompetents that Black People and DEI are in jeapoardy. This was the literal strategy.
I don't really disagree with you but I believe the point of the post is that no black person would be able to occupy those offices with such condemnable offenses.
It's "shut up about DEI" because there is clearly already preferential selection of white people.
But yeah, small-scale righteousness has done lots of harm to the left. Especially in policing what is politically correct. Sure, somebody might be "in the wrong", but it's better to have that person on your side than against you.
I think the point is not about black people and DEI but what issues are being discussed. Americans are currently focused on DEI instead of focusing on the corrupt government itself.
It's of course very obvious that the government needs to create a bigger enemy than themselves so they can remain in power and gain more power.
I do have a lot of shit to deal with. I have all you racist wankers to deal with. I mean, how many fucking times have you read racists attaching the actions of a few to whole, and you think "Wow, what a bunch of pricks!". And yet, here you lot are. Linking being rich and a cunt to being white. Do you also link being poor and a drug dealer to being black? Bet you dont, cos that would be racist.
Its not "MEN", its not "WHITE", its not "STRAIGHT". Its that these cunts, are cunts. Thats it. Thats the end of the list. Being white doesnt matter. They could be black, they could be women, they could be gay. But that wouldnt make being a black, gay woman part of the fucking problem, you spoon eating prat.
The only person who should be running the DNC is some mythical person that doesn’t exist but I deem them left enough not like that right-wing sellout AOC.
I'm sure there's countless people who are qualified to run such an organization who aren't ultra-religious and promote discrimination. It's a pretty low bar.
This is a racist title. Racism is wrong, whether it's against black, hispanic, asian you name it. Or white people. White people being racist in the past doesn't mean it's suddenly ok to be racist towards white people today. Sins of the fathers, etc.
This whole post is incredibly inappropriate. But I support free speech. So I'm leaving this comment using my own.
Anyone focusing on race/gender/sexuality/etc. when this is 100% a distraction tactic is making themselves into a useful idiot in the service of the wealthy psychopaths who think they own us all. I'm tired of talking about DEI, immigrants, or what bathroom people are using; I want to talk about roofs over our head, food in our bellies, healthcare and education, unionization etc..
Right now, anything else is either bad prioritization or wrecker shit.
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A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 97 pts · 317d
I know all these things (and more) but to read them concentrated like that is still shocking.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net · 70 pts · 317d
a dear friend of mine describes sexual violence as a core value of this current admin. she says she finds it critically important to point this out to her because growing up in post soviet eastern europe, that was the key marker of corrupt governments. it was easy to see the greed of access to power through violence as being about money, but it runs so much deeper than that. the money is means. sex, violence, and sexual violence is the end
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de · 20 pts · 317d
Eliot Weinberger did a few essays in this style for the London Review of Books in the first term. It’s exhausting.
This is from 2024, before he took office: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n24/eliot-weinberger/incoming
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 317d
It’s like DEI actually prevents people from being hired solely based on (being white) race.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 317d
DEI-opponents often say things like "there's more to a job than the skill directly related to it", and then call being white a "merit of trustworthiness". At least their anti-disabled excuse "what if a big object needs to be moved?" is less obvious, other times they just think every invisible disability is "severe intellectual disability" (that's why they're thinking about autistic people).
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de · 39 pts · 317d
As an addict myself I don’t like the heroin addict jab. Many of us seen fucked up shit that lead us to self medicate and by some miracle made it out.
Most of us come out of that with more empathy than before because we can relate to a lot of people. It’s just a few that turn out to be crackpots or sociopaths.
shawn1122@sh.itjust.works · 35 pts · 317d
Definitely hear where you're coming from.
But I think it is relevant here as it communicates immense privilege.
By virtue of being from a well known political family he is able to shake the baggage of his prior drug use off easily. He's even spoken openly on the fact he used it to self medicate.
But most persons who have suffered addiction do not have that privilege and carry this baggage lifelong.
Its important to call out the hypocrisy of the ruling class. They will simultaneously ignore drug use among their contemporaries while murdering and imprisoning 'lessers' involved in the trade or consumption of drugs.
The empire that birthed this nation formally flooded the Chinese market with opium to enrich themselves and went to war twice when they met resistance. The rich and powerful are always talking out of both sides of their mouths.
This is why the moral outrage around drugs, coming from the ruling class, as a justification for dehumanization, must be questioned. Especially when they seek to use drug addiction, a universal and timeless human hardship, as a tool to justify violence upon 'outgroups' on behalf of the 'ingroup'.
CyanideShotInjection@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 317d
I totally get how it made you feel. I have a feeling that mentionning that had more to do with how it is often used to justify racism towards colored people. Because in that guy's case it does not seem to matter to republicans, but it was enough of a reason to justify George Floyd's death. I may give too much credit to OOP though, it is still tone deaf.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 317d
He's also got the sexual assault, fwiw
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de · 10 pts · 317d
Yeah and a massive dose of dunning Kruger.
Mirshe@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 316d
And may or may not be directly connected to at least one murder.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 317d
pepsi_not_coke@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 317d
Because straight-edge Donald Trump is better?
Give me an ex-addict who's lived a life as a human any day thanks.
sundray@lemmus.org · 36 pts · 317d
All hired by a president who was voted in by (amongst other groups) men who say things like, "You can't even give a woman a COMPLIMENT anymore!"
pepsi_not_coke@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 317d
It's true though.
Just yesterday I elongated my face into the shape of a wolf and let out a loud whistle until my ears steamed and my head flapped open like a vent and she said "I have a boyfriend", the nerve of the female.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 317d
The "compliment" in question: a literal rape threat.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 317d
The fundamental problem conservatives have with DEI is that it highlights how comically nepotistic and corrupt the system has grown under white exclusive administration.
The people getting fired under anti-DEI provisions are inevitably some of the most qualified members of the organization.
danc4498@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 317d
I kinda wish they left race out of this post. This has nothing to do with them being white people.
shawn1122@sh.itjust.works · 22 pts · 317d
Well yes and no.
It felt a bit shoehorned in at the end. But I see their point.
Do you think black Trump gets elected? I'm gonna hit doubt on that one.
I'd argue the fact that they're white is central to why they are where they are today. They just happen to also be really really shitty people too.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 317d
We don't even really have to ask. Herman Cain ran and lost.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 317d
At least he'll be remembered for the award named after him
danc4498@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 317d
Yeah, true. It just didn’t feel like the post had anything to do with race, until that comment.
Might have been more impactful if it started with one of the million comments these people have made about DEI along with all the firings of fully qualified people
Soup@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 317d
The post is about DEI. The first part is to get you to understand the facts without the context of DEI and the DEI comment at the end takes those facts and points them in the intended direction. It paints a quick and clear picture and gets the point across. It’s a social media post, not an essay, get over it.
danc4498@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 317d
Yeah, true. It just didn’t feel like the post had anything to do with race, until that comment.
Might have been more impactful if it started with one of the million comments these people have made about DEI along with all the firings of fully qualified people
Soup@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 316d
The whole point is that it doesn’t give it up right away.
danc4498@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 316d
Worked for you, not for me
Soup@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 316d
Fine, doesn’t make it the author’s fault or anyone’s problem but yours.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 317d
I wish that were true. But if RFK Jr had been from a poor black family, do you really think he'd be leading HHS? Do you think he'd be a free man, even? Or alive?
After all the shit he's done to himself - serial substance abuse, reckless engagement, multiple self-inflicted life threatening medical conditions, sexual assault of numerous young women - who honestly believes he wouldn't have gotten the Rodney King/Eric Garland treatment with any other surname or complexion?
Same with Trump. Ffs, Sean Combs is actually in jail right now. The parallels are undeniably. This is entirely about race.
danc4498@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 317d
Yeah, they are definitely only there cause they’re white men.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 316d
Rich white men, sure
Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 316d
Youre a racist, Harry...
prex@aussie.zone · 10 pts · 317d
I believe Anita Hill
pepsi_not_coke@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 317d
I bet he wishes he could have left race out of it as well.
Sadly until the day racism is no longer an issue, it will have to be brought up by people who suffer from the racism (and also us who don't, we can't just be silent).
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 316d
American political posts feel so weird because of this
softwarist@programming.dev · 1 pts · 317d
Arguably it has everything to do with their whiteness; Trump is the country's first white president.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 16 pts · 317d
The word is "kakistocracy"
Rooster326@programming.dev · 6 pts · 316d
In case anyone else had to look it up.
Bz1sen@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 316d
And people are wondering why the Epstein files are not released... Because they are ALL in it. 😅
pyre@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 316d
yet another criticism of the right based on wrong assumptions. their problem with DEI is not about qualifications. they just don't want minorities around.
SirSamuel@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 317d
But what if Eric Adams was part of the administration?
(It's not white ppl it's people in power abusing their power but yes they're mostly white)
wowwoweowza@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 316d
OP does not seem to get that it is precisely BECAUSE of all these criminals and incompetents that Black People and DEI are in jeapoardy. This was the literal strategy.
Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 316d
What does being white have to do with it? Can you cunts not see how you keep on managing to alienate people that should be on your side? FFS.
isyasad@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 316d
I don't really disagree with you but I believe the point of the post is that no black person would be able to occupy those offices with such condemnable offenses.
It's "shut up about DEI" because there is clearly already preferential selection of white people.
But yeah, small-scale righteousness has done lots of harm to the left. Especially in policing what is politically correct. Sure, somebody might be "in the wrong", but it's better to have that person on your side than against you.
x00z@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 316d
I think the point is not about black people and DEI but what issues are being discussed. Americans are currently focused on DEI instead of focusing on the corrupt government itself.
It's of course very obvious that the government needs to create a bigger enemy than themselves so they can remain in power and gain more power.
Son_of_Macha@lemmy.cafe · -1 pts · 316d
If that alienates you then you have a lot of shit to deal with
MalBad@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 316d
I mean, fuck any race we don’t like, right?! As long as enough people say it it isn’t racism. /s
Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 316d
I do have a lot of shit to deal with. I have all you racist wankers to deal with. I mean, how many fucking times have you read racists attaching the actions of a few to whole, and you think "Wow, what a bunch of pricks!". And yet, here you lot are. Linking being rich and a cunt to being white. Do you also link being poor and a drug dealer to being black? Bet you dont, cos that would be racist.
Its not "MEN", its not "WHITE", its not "STRAIGHT". Its that these cunts, are cunts. Thats it. Thats the end of the list. Being white doesnt matter. They could be black, they could be women, they could be gay. But that wouldnt make being a black, gay woman part of the fucking problem, you spoon eating prat.
manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml · -1 pts · 317d
Heroin use and sexual assault are not even close to equivalent, what a gross thing to suggest
hateisreality@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 317d
The hell are you talking about‽...they didn't compare them, RFK jr was guilty of both
contracode@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 317d
Substance use disorder is not something that should carry a stigma. That mentality prevents users from seeking help.
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 317d
It’s about his hypocrisy
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 317d
This guy should be running the DNC
Deceptichum@quokk.au · 4 pts · 317d
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 317d
Oh man now I’m double-secret supporting this random twitter guy I care nothing about.
HA! Looks like your little plan backfired spectacularly!
Deceptichum@quokk.au · 0 pts · 317d
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 317d
Bigly. As all right-thinking, good-hearted, big-bottomed people of the Überland do.
Nah, jk. Lighten up, Francis.
Deceptichum@quokk.au · 1 pts · 317d
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 317d
Gonna be a long three more years, mate.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 2 pts · 317d
The only person who should be running the DNC is some mythical person that doesn’t exist but I deem them left enough not like that right-wing sellout AOC.
Quokka@quokk.au · 4 pts · 317d
How low are your standards that even in a hypothetical scenario, you still defend choosing a bad choice? That's weird.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 0 pts · 317d
Quite low.
Who would you like to see running the DNC?
Quokka@quokk.au · 3 pts · 317d
I don't know, I don't have all the answers.
I'm sure there's countless people who are qualified to run such an organization who aren't ultra-religious and promote discrimination. It's a pretty low bar.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 2 pts · 317d
Which is worst?
Defending a bad choice or not being able to make one at all?
Quokka@quokk.au · 3 pts · 317d
Which is worse?
Defending a bad choice or refusing to make a different choice at all?
Because I can make a different choice, I said I don't know who I would pick right this second without researching and informing myself.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 3 pts · 317d
Yeah and progressives can run as candidates in primaries and non-voters can decide to vote this time.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 317d
Geez if Ken Martin is AI, that explains a lot.
Econgrad@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 316d
This is a racist title. Racism is wrong, whether it's against black, hispanic, asian you name it. Or white people. White people being racist in the past doesn't mean it's suddenly ok to be racist towards white people today. Sins of the fathers, etc.
This whole post is incredibly inappropriate. But I support free speech. So I'm leaving this comment using my own.
CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works · -1 pts · 316d
Anyone focusing on race/gender/sexuality/etc. when this is 100% a distraction tactic is making themselves into a useful idiot in the service of the wealthy psychopaths who think they own us all. I'm tired of talking about DEI, immigrants, or what bathroom people are using; I want to talk about roofs over our head, food in our bellies, healthcare and education, unionization etc..
Right now, anything else is either bad prioritization or wrecker shit.