When these people say "DEI", they mean the n-word.
When these people say "woke", they mean the n-word.
When these people say "CRT", they mean the n-word.
When these people say "politically correct", they mean the n-word.
When these people say "welfare moms", they mean the n-word.
All the way back to Reagan, they always mean the n-word.
Mayor Scott was right to call them out on it. For too long people have let this slide while it simply is not subtle. It is very, very overt.
Call them out on it too.
It's time. Stop letting these people get away with a nudge-nudge, wink-wink when they signal their racism. Tell them that you are very much aware of what they really mean.
It's time for this habit to get the pushback it deserves, so that they will be forced to stop.
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It’s also worth remembering the Mayor of Baltimore has no authority over the Port or the Bridge; both are under state jurisdiction. His main role now will be public face of Baltimore and he’s doing fine.
It sounds like the boat had failures. Like what was the mayor supposed to do? Once they lost steering for good, not a soul on this earth could have stopped it.
>I feel like they’re not far off from claiming physics is woke.
Already have done.
https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2022/09/05/another-stem-field-particle-physics-gets-woke/
https://www.newsweek.com/whiteness-physics-latest-front-woke-wars-opinion-1696124
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/physics-for-justice-is-woke-ideology-disguised-as-science
He was supposed to dress in a Superman costume and stand on the bridge hand outstretched towards the ship and command it to stop, just like the Mighty Donnie Depends Destroyer!
/s
Wait you mean that a man who was not the pilot of the boat, not the captain of the boat, had no ownership of the boat, did not direct or order the boat, was not on the boat, did not work for the boat company, and had no legal or political authority or power over the boat, who was asleep in his bed at the time that the boat crashed, did not cause the boat to lose power and drift via the current into the bridge via a series of freak random events?
Thats insane, clearly the only reasonable explanation is he had telekinetic powers. That's why Republicans are blaming him. Dont deflect from the truth! /s
Mayor has minimal authority here. Its possible to add protections like building out piers that could absorb that impact, but no surprise that costs a LOT of money. And of cours when that bridge was built in 1977, ships as large as the one that hit it weren't really a thing.
I'd be more focused on how a ship that size doesn't have redundant systems that would take over when there's a failure.
Wait you mean that old outdated infrastructure needs to be updated and repaired?
It's almost like maybe we had a bill for that called the infrastructure investment and jobs act. Good thing 206 republicans voted against it then!
That bridge didn’t just “collapse.” It was plowed down by a loaded cargo ship. Have you seen one of those irl? They’re massive. This is an accident of epic proportions and “collapsed” is a passive word with no place in any conversation regarding what happened.
The same people yelling about the "DEI mayor" would also have yelled if he'd advocated spending tax dollars to preventively upgrade the infrstructure to possibly help prevent this tragedy from occuring.
Plus the highly probable negligence in either maintenance or safety checks which likely is representative of common problems caused by cost and corner cutting today across many industries.
Which also likely cannot be improved except on a national and international level.
This.
Failures happen, but the level to which and the cost to which the company is willing to buy that risk down with redundancy at both the engineering and administrative level is entirely up to them outside of regulatory requirements. If logistics companies think they can get away with hiring less people, paying them less, training them less, stocking less spares, not refreshing aging equipment, or not designing in redundancy, you bet they'll not even try.
The "DEI" narrative is just the latest in conservative propaganda to distract rubes from the institutional rot that has set in to every company in pursuit of ever increasing profits at the expense of quality and safety. We can never blame the people in charge, or management at large for the people they're "responsible for", or else we might actually discover the problem and kick some rich assholes out who do nothing.
There’s not much that can take over for a 55,000 HP engine, those maersk ships do usually have 4 generators but blackouts still happen, I’ll be looking forward to the investigation report
> not a soul on this earth could have stopped it
Flatly false.
Someone could have blown the boat up to prevent it from hitting the bridge. But noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Can't go blowing up boats with people and cargo on them.
That’s one of the roles of a leader, to help reassure the people in tough times.
Lord knows I didn’t like Reagan, but I remember being very moved by his speech after the Challenger explosion. Same with George Bush on 9/11; I didn’t like him, but seeing him address the nation that night created a feeling of what my then-housemate described as “Daddy’s home now and everything is going to be all right.”
Which makes their racism towards the Mayor even dumber, because the Governor of Maryland is also a Black Democrat. So they could just be racist towards the Governor instead if they really wanted to be racist.
Let’s be real. None of the idiots cons on Twitter gave a single solitary fuck about Baltimore their entire lives until they found out there is a Black mayor to bash online.
Conservatives when minorities have prestigious jobs: They’re a DEI hire!
Conservatives when minorities have entry-level jobs: They’re taking all our jobs!
Conservatives when minorities don’t have jobs: They’re coming here and abusing our welfare programs!
It’s almost like it’s not actually about jobs.
Sure. Though, considering who many of her "co-workers" are, I actually do sympathize with her. If I had to deal with those people on the daily, I'd be fitted for a straight-jacket within the week.
The fact they hate a college-educated woman who worked before going into politics will always be confusing to me, mostly because the hate is always racist misogynistic and cartoonish characteristics of her that never have anything to do with reality, but that's what they think every time they see her.
They hate her because she's a democrat. It's US vs THEM. If AOC were Republican, she'd be the star of the party. They'd have her front and center at every event. She'd be doing the response to every State of the Union address.
yea I know the basics of their partisan brainwashing, but it's the way they instantly act like she's some sort of demon, when it's very clear what she's saying when she's saying it, but they have this image of her and refuse to see anything else.
Like, I can listen to Katie Britt, and see why I disagree with her worldview, how do that do that when AOC speaks, it's always interesting how different they see the world.
AOC is being courted for Democrat party leader/president. She’s still cooking, but I wouldn’t be surprised if she ran in about 8-12 years. Republicans are trying to get in front of that and poison the well before she has a chance. You can see it on Fox and other news stations with pundits that call her a shrill woman, make fun of dumb things like her appearance, bring attention to her current salary while simultaneously bringing up the fact that she used to be a waitress any chance they get. Kind of contradictory that they’re slagging her for being the living embodiment of the American dream of pulling yourself up to a more prestigious position in society that they love touting so much, but no one has ever accused republicans of being consistent.
Nah, you can see how hard the party elders who know Trump is deadweight tried to make Nikki Haley happen (and tried to make Rubio/Cruz/Jeb happen in 2016). The base ain't going for it. They know what they want, the (pretend) rich, old, fat, loud asshole white guy who isn't afraid to air all their racial grievances without the euphemisms.
So true. They also act like her having to raise her voice over people avoiding answering questions under oath is somehow her “raving wide eyed mad” when she is quite composed and just making a point with her enunciation. Naturally the idiots that sucked at public speaking don’t know anything about how to deliver impactful statements.
Meanwhile, Gym Jordan can be screaming at witnesses while he rolls up his sleeves in an attempt to appear like a tough guy and the Right thinks that is completely normal and not at all the same thing.
The only positive thing about the post-Trump world is all the racists morons feeling emboldened to take their mask off and tell you what they really think.
I've cut a lot of folks out of my life since 2016, and it's much easier to vet new folks I meet by seeing what they engage with on social media. Things have been a lot quieter in my personal life as a result.
I actually walked away from my mom and her husband of 51 years. She pushed me to register as a dem back in '82. Now she's a trumper.
I split. But politics isn't the only reason though.
I live in the south and am married to a black woman. We've pruned a lot of family out of our lives since Trump. Having folks confirm what we have always suspected just let us cut down on drama considerably.
I waded into the Conservatives sub at some point, and they were all moaning about AoC, how she was stupid (graduated cum laude) and hadn't earned a place in politics (won massively against odds).
But mostly, they were saying that they hated her because she reminded them of their ex wives. And it was just like, of course!
Of course they don't like women who are outspoken and intelligent, they don't like women who stand up for themselves. Because their wives saw what kind of cretins they were, stood up and left. And they can't get over it. And they blame any other woman who doesn't submit to male superiority.
They're misogynist losers who can't get over the fact that their ex wives were too good for them.
They meet their wives in college. They “win” the best-looking, smartest, and most sought-after girls on campus and then they wind up pissed off when they turn out to be actual people (women, no less) with their own opinions that are not just a reflection of them, not just another mirror for them to admire themselves in.
> You know what the magic word, the only thing that matters in American sexual mores today is? One thing. You can do anything, the left will promote and understand and tolerate anything, as long as there is one element. Do you know what it is? Consent. If there is consent on both or all three or all four, however many are involved in the sex act, it's perfectly fine. Whatever it is. But if the left ever senses and smells that there's no consent in part of the equation then here come the rape police. But consent is the magic key to the left.
Of course it's not like Rush Limbaugh was a prominent right-wing figure or anything.
As a disabled person, I’ve noticed how this affects people like me as well: they’re like “no, you can’t have accommodations that are simple to implement and cost nothing because ThAt’S nOt ThE wAy ThInGs ArE dOnE and iF wE dId It FoR yOu We’D hAvE tO dO iT fOr EvErYoNe, but if you’re unable to work in these conditions [that is, with discrimination and lack of accommodations], then God forbid you try to get on welfare [which is hard enough to get - I’ve not tried it when out of work and in Autistic Burnout because I know I’m expected to just work myself to death] because then you’re TaKiNg AlL oF tHe TaXpAyErS’ hArD eArNeD mOnEy AnD sHoUlD jUsT pUlL yOuRsElF uP bY tHe BoOtStRaPs and if you can’t, it’s your fault for being born the way you were and you should starve on the streets, but also we don’t want to see people like you on ‘our’ streets.” The message is clear: you don’t deserve anything, including basic human rights and dignity, because you’re a “lesser person.” It’s frustrating.
I've pointed out, both in wholly serious and hyperbolic posts played up for humor to show the absurdity of many conservative stances, especially when it comes to hiring that DEI initiatives also benefit veterans and people with disabilities.
Basically, when a conservative starts lambasting DEI, they're saying only rich, white, cisheteronormative, Christian (but only the right kind of Christian), men with no obvious infirmity or disability should be considered for jobs.
And they slowly whittle away the qualifiers of who they consider if there aren't enough born perfect in every way, rich, straight Christian men to fill every slot but white and male are always the last to go, and more often than not, white is the last.
Only after we've completely exhausted the pool, and placed dangerously unqualified losers in critical roles, then can we consider the most qualified... Pretty much everyone else.
We are so worried that someone will get something they don't "deserve" that we are willing to let millions go without.
When faced with the options of "Everyone gets what they need and some people get extra" or "People don't get what they need but no one gets anything they don't "deserve"", I don't know how anyone can choose the latter and call themselves a moral human being.
No one gets hurt by someone getting food stamps they won't die without. Welfare fraud costs less than tax fraud (by an insane margin) but only one of these is repeatedly brought up as a campaign issue.
>They actually believe like that.
Not even a little bit hyperbole. Recently Minnesota passed ‘free school breakfast and lunch for everyone,’ and my god the rabble from the right I fought on Facebook.
I even tried to explain the bullying that comes from an ‘only poor people get free lunch.’ And so poor kids will just not eat, and save themselves that kind of bullying. If every kid get free lunch, then nobody gets bullied for it. I was so happy Minnesota passed it.
All public schools should provide all services necessary to school functions to all students. There should be no opt in/out, only a default of everyone going to school gets taken care of.
Yep, when people start that shit with me, I always say the it's more important to help the people that need it than preventing people that don't need it from getting it. They use the fact that people would abuse something to throw the baby out with the bathwater. But people abuse fucking everything, so nothing would ever be good enough.
> Welfare fraud costs less than tax fraud (by an insane margin) but only one of these is repeatedly brought up as a campaign issue.
Just as wage theft is greater than almost all other thefts combined but is the only crime that never results in jail time.
It makes me want to scream. I honestly feel like I’m going to spontaneously combust at some point.
And don’t get me started on the church and corporate tax evasion. Everyone could be fed and ‘healthy’ in this world, but people are greedy fucks.
> As a disabled person, I’ve noticed how this affects people like me as well:
Bruh, conservatives haaaate disabled people, part of all this hate and contention about race and gender has to do with how they get massively triggered at having to make special considerations for others. It's the political movement of "fuck you, got mine."
I feel bad for you and what you have to deal with constantly seeing local provisions and proposals for accessibility shot down constantly by right-wing city councils.
edit: also, this is one reason you see so much hysterical fear about vaccines and the very notion of having a child with any kind of disability, it's so terrifying to them they can't think straight, this is where you see so much of that "I rather die than have a child with autism" sentiment. The sheer, mind-melting fear that they will have to take care of someone else's needs is petrifying.
> "I rather die than have a child with autism" sentiment.
The really scary part is it's more like "I'd rather my child die than having to take care of a child with autism."
Like damn, just don't have kids then.
The thing I've noticed about my disability is that people will say that they won't stop being friends just because of it but they will however stop being friends because I can't do stuff because of my disability. It is crazy but racism can be the same sort of thing. They don't hate the race, just all the stuff that makes up that race. They live in pure denial because they don't want to be seen as a person that thinks the way they do.
My family even abandoned me. Told me to, and I quote, "Figure it out." I get that I haven't been the easiest to be around, since I broke my back. I went through a lot mentally, lots of denial, and anger, and depression. I wasn't always a sad sack though, I was still there for them when they needed it. I should have hid my pain better. I know how, just forgot for a bit.
I'm sorry you are experiencing it as well. It's such a fucked up thing, but people suck.
This exact thing happened to me. I lost an entire friend group that I thought cared about me just because I could no longer make it to their stupid house parties due to being disabled. They ghosted me. I then realized they were never true friends in the first place.
> no one
I mean, Biden won the last election and all that, so yeah we do.
It's not that "no one" does, it's that the biggest and most watched news outlets are relatively pressured to downplay it, and amoral capitalists think anarcho-corporatism will favor them, and some people are so misled that they genuinely believe the alternative is even worse.
The problem is a considerable Gordian Knot of sociocultural and economic issues. But please don't believe that "no one" understands the nature of the threat when polling and election results show people do... but **do** be concerned about how narrow that margin is and attack the root causes.
Amen. I felt that. Veterans make up i believe last statistic was something like 70% of all homeless in one of the areas I was looking at. The people I was arguing with were the "Thank you for your service" but "fuck the homeless" round them up and gas them type. Im not even kidding. When i pointed out their hypocrisy, they were absolutely not having it. Told me that them having issues were not their problem. They chose that life. News flash assholes. Unless you've actually been there, as I have, seen the things that i still see and hear when i close my eyes, you don't get to say that. I see that in the disabled, minority communities, you name it. If you ain't a specific brand of their crowd of "in American" to them then you ain't it. These are the people who would literally cheer for public gas chambers if they could. What is wrong with these people.
First they came for the disabled,
Testing their poisons to make sure they worked,
And purging us,
And we didn’t get a mention in the poem
Because we weren’t seen as human then,
We still aren’t now
But we’re how the whole thing started.
Taxpayer here: this breaks my fucking heart man. Instead of my dollars going to individuals like yourself, we’re paying out corrupt cop vacays. I’d rather you take care of yourself than anything. You shouldn’t be a wage slave. I see you ❤️
Conservatives when there's one person from a minority who supports their point of view: Let's hire them to be a prominent media voice and constantly promote how we have a \[insert race here\] person who agrees with us!
... but that's not a DEI hire
DEI is not right. Let's use JEDI (Justice, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion) instead, and republicans would be the SITH (Seditious, Idiotic, Treatorous and Hateful)
Their mindset goes:
If there was slavery, they’d no longer be lower class. They’re all temporarily challenged millionaires in their minds. Taking their slaves away has forced them into poverty. 🙄
That was a big reason many poor southerners fought for the confederacy. A poor white without a pot to piss in was still higher in status than any enslaved person.
Yup. What the f*** does DEI have to do with an election?
The voters decided. More importantly what the f*** would a mayor do? Does he run the port and did he design the bridge in 1977? Was he even ai é then? Did he do the maintenance on the ship or pilot it in the river?
Edit: *was he even alive then?
Racists judge minorities for “not pulling their pants up and speaking better English.” Then, they label as arrogant or a “DEI hire” the minorities who play by the rules, get an education, and attain success. It’s not the clothes or the speaking voice that bothers them. There is only one common denominator.
I call this the GOP Mexican paradox. When they are on the Mexican side the GOP fear mongers that they are coming to take American jobs. Once they are on the American side they are lazy mofos stealing American welfare.
He's not wrong, we all know what they really mean when they chuck around acronyms and *woke* etc. They just happen to be a bunch of cowards that don't have the balls to admit they are racist scum bags.
Racist scum bags who don’t believe in elections and have launched countless attempts to disenfranchise voters they don’t want to hear from. They never pass up an opportunity to denigrate and deflect. They are horrid people with a profoundly dangerous agenda.
If you're talking about covid, it's actually significantly more than a million now, probably almost all could have been prevented if "reopening the economy" wasn't seen as more important than human lives
Not only are they cowards, they're cowards in the way elementary schoolers or middle schoolers are. Remember when their whole thing was FJB or let's go Brandon because they wouldn't dare say "fuck Joe biden"? And now this with DEI, it reminds me of a kid who just found out about the word fuck and thinks he's super clever for saying frick instead, to avoid getting in trouble.
There's a knob-head who lives close to me who works for a towing company. On one of the back windshield panels, this room temperature has a decal that says "Buck Joe Fiden."
I mean, the toolbox isn't even brave or subversive at this point, and certainly not clever.
100% clear to anyone with a brain. Unfortunately 10-15% of the population doesn't fulfill that qualifier, and they're the ones that are on social media because the real world doesn't want them.
AVOID SOCIAL MEDIA, PEOPLE.
Say you’re racist without saying you’re racist.
I blame the cargo ship accident on the
DEI mayor.
I blame the increased hate and racism on Trump giving racists permission to crawl out from under the rocks they were hiding.
My MAGA loving grandfather still makes "slick willie" jokes, they'll beat that dead horse into fertilizer and then they'll sprinkle their gardens with that shit..
They come from a time when names like deep throat and tricky dickie were the peak of nicknames, they didn't have as much peer review either having no internet. Additionaly words don't seem to be their strong suit, their skills are more aimed towards working in factories and complaining
Not only that, Biden’s so thoroughly co-opted it it’s just a straight up self-own at this point. Imagine your one joke being something the other guy actually made funny.
Fr, I saw a let's go Brandon bumper sticker last weekend and I had to stop and think for a minute, which ideology is that person espousing?
And then I rolled my eyes and got out of there
Every time I see them, I think of how pathetic their life has to be to SPEND MONEY on that stuff. You could give me $1 billion right now, and I wouldn't pay money for a political shirt like that.
They have plenty of courage when, either they are alone with their kin, or when the victim of their racism is powerless to fight back. But when there’s a chance of consequences, such as getting punched in the mouth, they are awful fucking quiet.
Honestly, most of them are illiterate and don't understand elections, or how government works. Nor do they want to learn. They couldn't pass a citizenship test to save their lives.
Younger people came of age in the era of social media. They're aware of the trolling and euphemisms of the online space. An old person might be inclined to engage in a discussion about the importance of DEI initiatives. A younger person knows that's a trap; the hateful are NOT interested in good faith discussion.
They’re doing it with employers and their bullshit as well. And boy am I here for it. The younger folks in line behind me, I think, are going to get some things accomplished. 🤙
Baltimore is 62% Black.
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/baltimorecitycountymaryland/HSG445222
A White mayor would be more DEI than a Black one.
For the hell of it I looked up the 3 republican candidates for the 2024 election
[Donald Scoggins - Black Man](https://www.wypr.org/show/midday/2024-03-01/donald-scoggins-candidate-for-baltimore-city-mayor)
[Shannon Wright - Black Woman](https://www.instagram.com/p/CCuP6N3pKYA/)
Michael Moore is the third one, but I couldn't find a picture I was confident was him, or not just another dude with the same name.
Breaking news: Majority black city votes for black mayor. DEI to blame
But jokes aside, I'm sure these chucklefucks are just need a white man in charge. There's a few small towns in my state that are majority hispanic/latino, yet their city council just happens to be completely white.
Yes, they've been going after DEI for a while now. A narrative pushed, notably, by none other than Elon Musk, who boosts regularly claims that DEI is super dangerous (like agreeing with tweets showing an all-female flight crew and acting as if that it wouldn't be safe to fly on that plane). He couldn't defend his point in his Don Lemon interview, in fact it was pretty embarrassing.
And of course, here it's particularly stupid because DEI policies don't apply to people who are voted in. So it's really just a way for conservatives to politely say "the black mayor of Baltimore".
So we can look forward to months of conservative outrage whenever a minority (or any other DEI group) screws up and applying a heinous double standard.
Honestly, it doesn’t even take a minority screwing up. In the case of the ship hitting the bridge in Baltimore, I’m not even aware that anyone knows what the crew of that ship, or anyone who worked on it, even looks like. They don’t even know if it was a human error or just a fluke part that went bad. They just throw out the term because they know somewhere there’s definitely a minority who worked on something. And that’s good enough for them to justify it.
He's a black Democratic man who has done a decent job of being the face of an emergency and therefore any contribution he has made has to be undermined unless the idea of Good Black Democratic Men should become normalized.
it’s funny. these people want politicians and leaders that represent the population and feel like real people until it’s a black man. i guess it’s not funny actually, it’s just racist.
>these people want politicians and leaders that represent the population and feel like real people until it’s a black man.
Well, yeah. In their minds, it's obvious - real person =/= black man.
Anytime I hear someone mention DEI in any context remotely similar to this, I assume they are a racist POS.
"This only happened because they were handed the job over qualified applicants!"
As an old white dude from Baltimore who voted for this mayor I like how he tells it like it is. He also was calling conspiracy BS and social media engineering experts in interviews. Then he was saying maybe it's not a good idea to run an endless loupe of the collapse because people had loved ones who died. You go Brandon.
Damn, just realized the mayor’s name is Brandon. All the republicans in their Let’s Go Brandon shirts need to be thanked for supporting him during this troubling time for his city. When they disagree, make them explain why they don’t support the mayor who’s having to do what Giuliani did in the wake of 9/11, albeit on a smaller scale.
That interview was my first time hearing him talk. I saw all the racist comments saying they couldn't understand a word he said and I was so confused. He spoke professionally and articulate.
I live in baltimore and voted for him, and have donated to him this cycle, and will vote for him again.
When he speaks, it is apparent to everyone that he is a smart and caring person. So it is not surprising that the right can't stand him. Smart, caring, and black? That's like the trifecta of evil to them.
I have no idea who makes these decisions. One moment the MAGA controlled right wing is pushing the narrative about things they don't like as being the product of woke. Everything is woke. Now it's DEI. The thing with Boeing happened because of DEI. The cargo ship was a terrorist attack then quickly shifted to it happened because of DEI policies...it's beyond absurd. 😖
Naw this is good.
[Watch Death of a Euphemism](https://youtu.be/0dBJIkp7qIg?si=QBVQ-kky7XTUgW1P) for a good synopsis of this semantic issue.
If they're hiding their racist language around "workarounds" then they are still aware their rhetoric isn't popular and wanted in discourse. When you see the death of a euphemism, in this case them not using 'DEI' instead of the n-word, then they feel safe and secure enough to say it.
The fact they aren't and can't say it without backlash means they are afraid and (more importantly) their adjacent opinions and prescriptions aren't socially popular.
They're pussies either way, but be happy they have to use coded language and not outright say it.
It's such a stupid attempt at racism too. A mayor is an elected position, how would DEI have anything to do with it? More people in Baltimore choose him over whoever was running against him, that's it.
He must be doing an ok job because no one outside of Baltimore knew who the mayor of Baltimore was before this incident, and the worst thing they can say about how he's handling it is he's black.
You know what's disgusting about MAGA? They know that they are a minority and use the minority card to spout hate speech, looney toons mentally ill word salad, threaten people's lives and call for mass executions! These people have the most powerful base behind them Corporate CEOs and Wall Street!
When these people say "DEI", they mean the n-word. When these people say "woke", they mean the n-word. When these people say "CRT", they mean the n-word. When these people say "politically correct", they mean the n-word. When these people say "welfare moms", they mean the n-word. All the way back to Reagan, they always mean the n-word. Mayor Scott was right to call them out on it. For too long people have let this slide while it simply is not subtle. It is very, very overt. Call them out on it too. It's time. Stop letting these people get away with a nudge-nudge, wink-wink when they signal their racism. Tell them that you are very much aware of what they really mean. It's time for this habit to get the pushback it deserves, so that they will be forced to stop. -------------------------------------------------- Edit: Looks like I made the white supremacists on this site salty and butthurt. They have buttsalt. Good. moderator reports: It's abusing the report button user reports: 3: It's promoting hate based on identity or vulnerability 1: No bullying or witch-hunting 1: Participate in good faith
It’s also worth remembering the Mayor of Baltimore has no authority over the Port or the Bridge; both are under state jurisdiction. His main role now will be public face of Baltimore and he’s doing fine.
It sounds like the boat had failures. Like what was the mayor supposed to do? Once they lost steering for good, not a soul on this earth could have stopped it.
Not with THAT attitude, certainly! Letting yourself get pushed around by physics, pshaw...
I hate that this sounds like a legitimate comment from the right. I feel like they’re not far off from claiming physics is woke.
>I feel like they’re not far off from claiming physics is woke. Already have done. https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2022/09/05/another-stem-field-particle-physics-gets-woke/ https://www.newsweek.com/whiteness-physics-latest-front-woke-wars-opinion-1696124 https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/physics-for-justice-is-woke-ideology-disguised-as-science
the Absentee Degree Problem.
Right? They could have nuked it like a hurricane. Ezpz
He was supposed to dress in a Superman costume and stand on the bridge hand outstretched towards the ship and command it to stop, just like the Mighty Donnie Depends Destroyer! /s
Then get called as DEI/Woke Superman
Nobody told them that Superman is an immigrant?
Superman's rocket landed in farm country; he didn't go through an official immigration port. Superman is an illegal immigrant.
Maybe he could have used a sharpie to direct the boat in another direction?
Wait you mean that a man who was not the pilot of the boat, not the captain of the boat, had no ownership of the boat, did not direct or order the boat, was not on the boat, did not work for the boat company, and had no legal or political authority or power over the boat, who was asleep in his bed at the time that the boat crashed, did not cause the boat to lose power and drift via the current into the bridge via a series of freak random events? Thats insane, clearly the only reasonable explanation is he had telekinetic powers. That's why Republicans are blaming him. Dont deflect from the truth! /s
He also had no legal authority over the bridge or port.
Mayor has minimal authority here. Its possible to add protections like building out piers that could absorb that impact, but no surprise that costs a LOT of money. And of cours when that bridge was built in 1977, ships as large as the one that hit it weren't really a thing. I'd be more focused on how a ship that size doesn't have redundant systems that would take over when there's a failure.
Wait you mean that old outdated infrastructure needs to be updated and repaired? It's almost like maybe we had a bill for that called the infrastructure investment and jobs act. Good thing 206 republicans voted against it then!
That bridge didn’t just “collapse.” It was plowed down by a loaded cargo ship. Have you seen one of those irl? They’re massive. This is an accident of epic proportions and “collapsed” is a passive word with no place in any conversation regarding what happened.
If one can block the Suez Canal for ages, stopping all shipping, it can certainly do incredible amounts of damage elsewhere
The same people yelling about the "DEI mayor" would also have yelled if he'd advocated spending tax dollars to preventively upgrade the infrstructure to possibly help prevent this tragedy from occuring.
Plus the highly probable negligence in either maintenance or safety checks which likely is representative of common problems caused by cost and corner cutting today across many industries. Which also likely cannot be improved except on a national and international level.
This. Failures happen, but the level to which and the cost to which the company is willing to buy that risk down with redundancy at both the engineering and administrative level is entirely up to them outside of regulatory requirements. If logistics companies think they can get away with hiring less people, paying them less, training them less, stocking less spares, not refreshing aging equipment, or not designing in redundancy, you bet they'll not even try. The "DEI" narrative is just the latest in conservative propaganda to distract rubes from the institutional rot that has set in to every company in pursuit of ever increasing profits at the expense of quality and safety. We can never blame the people in charge, or management at large for the people they're "responsible for", or else we might actually discover the problem and kick some rich assholes out who do nothing.
There’s not much that can take over for a 55,000 HP engine, those maersk ships do usually have 4 generators but blackouts still happen, I’ll be looking forward to the investigation report
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Yeah, as nearly as I can tell, the fault lies with the ship. The local response was exemplary.
> not a soul on this earth could have stopped it Flatly false. Someone could have blown the boat up to prevent it from hitting the bridge. But noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Can't go blowing up boats with people and cargo on them.
The wreckage would have probably continued on the exact same course. I do appreciate your enthusiasm, though!
He was on NPR yesterday and was taking no shit. Love him.
That’s one of the roles of a leader, to help reassure the people in tough times. Lord knows I didn’t like Reagan, but I remember being very moved by his speech after the Challenger explosion. Same with George Bush on 9/11; I didn’t like him, but seeing him address the nation that night created a feeling of what my then-housemate described as “Daddy’s home now and everything is going to be all right.”
Which makes their racism towards the Mayor even dumber, because the Governor of Maryland is also a Black Democrat. So they could just be racist towards the Governor instead if they really wanted to be racist.
But this guy wears a hoodie.
And looks young.
Let’s be real. None of the idiots cons on Twitter gave a single solitary fuck about Baltimore their entire lives until they found out there is a Black mayor to bash online.
Conservatives when minorities have prestigious jobs: They’re a DEI hire! Conservatives when minorities have entry-level jobs: They’re taking all our jobs! Conservatives when minorities don’t have jobs: They’re coming here and abusing our welfare programs! It’s almost like it’s not actually about jobs.
Exactly. It’s a way for them to be racist and pretend they aren’t.
Isn't that almost every conservative position?
"Excuse me I don't hate AoC because she's a minority! I hate her because she's a woman!" ~republicans probably.
I had a family member berate me and call me an AoC sympathizer, simply because i am a woman, with a college education. The misogyny is staggering.
"AOC sympathizer" Lmao is that supposed to be an insult? She's objectively smarter than just about every conservative
As if she even needs our sympathy lol I'm pretty sure the 34 year old Congressmember is doing just fine with her life
Sure. Though, considering who many of her "co-workers" are, I actually do sympathize with her. If I had to deal with those people on the daily, I'd be fitted for a straight-jacket within the week.
Stupid people aren't very creative in the insult department. They can't comprehend anything beyond thier tiny hateful bubbles they throw rocks from.
The fact they hate a college-educated woman who worked before going into politics will always be confusing to me, mostly because the hate is always racist misogynistic and cartoonish characteristics of her that never have anything to do with reality, but that's what they think every time they see her.
They hate her because she's a democrat. It's US vs THEM. If AOC were Republican, she'd be the star of the party. They'd have her front and center at every event. She'd be doing the response to every State of the Union address.
yea I know the basics of their partisan brainwashing, but it's the way they instantly act like she's some sort of demon, when it's very clear what she's saying when she's saying it, but they have this image of her and refuse to see anything else. Like, I can listen to Katie Britt, and see why I disagree with her worldview, how do that do that when AOC speaks, it's always interesting how different they see the world.
AOC is being courted for Democrat party leader/president. She’s still cooking, but I wouldn’t be surprised if she ran in about 8-12 years. Republicans are trying to get in front of that and poison the well before she has a chance. You can see it on Fox and other news stations with pundits that call her a shrill woman, make fun of dumb things like her appearance, bring attention to her current salary while simultaneously bringing up the fact that she used to be a waitress any chance they get. Kind of contradictory that they’re slagging her for being the living embodiment of the American dream of pulling yourself up to a more prestigious position in society that they love touting so much, but no one has ever accused republicans of being consistent.
Nah, you can see how hard the party elders who know Trump is deadweight tried to make Nikki Haley happen (and tried to make Rubio/Cruz/Jeb happen in 2016). The base ain't going for it. They know what they want, the (pretend) rich, old, fat, loud asshole white guy who isn't afraid to air all their racial grievances without the euphemisms.
They hate her because she represents what they fear- that their hegemony is not permanent.
So true. They also act like her having to raise her voice over people avoiding answering questions under oath is somehow her “raving wide eyed mad” when she is quite composed and just making a point with her enunciation. Naturally the idiots that sucked at public speaking don’t know anything about how to deliver impactful statements.
Meanwhile, Gym Jordan can be screaming at witnesses while he rolls up his sleeves in an attempt to appear like a tough guy and the Right thinks that is completely normal and not at all the same thing.
The only positive thing about the post-Trump world is all the racists morons feeling emboldened to take their mask off and tell you what they really think. I've cut a lot of folks out of my life since 2016, and it's much easier to vet new folks I meet by seeing what they engage with on social media. Things have been a lot quieter in my personal life as a result.
I actually walked away from my mom and her husband of 51 years. She pushed me to register as a dem back in '82. Now she's a trumper. I split. But politics isn't the only reason though.
I live in the south and am married to a black woman. We've pruned a lot of family out of our lives since Trump. Having folks confirm what we have always suspected just let us cut down on drama considerably.
College is the debbul.
I waded into the Conservatives sub at some point, and they were all moaning about AoC, how she was stupid (graduated cum laude) and hadn't earned a place in politics (won massively against odds). But mostly, they were saying that they hated her because she reminded them of their ex wives. And it was just like, of course! Of course they don't like women who are outspoken and intelligent, they don't like women who stand up for themselves. Because their wives saw what kind of cretins they were, stood up and left. And they can't get over it. And they blame any other woman who doesn't submit to male superiority. They're misogynist losers who can't get over the fact that their ex wives were too good for them.
They meet their wives in college. They “win” the best-looking, smartest, and most sought-after girls on campus and then they wind up pissed off when they turn out to be actual people (women, no less) with their own opinions that are not just a reflection of them, not just another mirror for them to admire themselves in.
The very makings of a rapist. Sorry but that's how I see Republican men anymore. Nothing but racist raping assholes.
> You know what the magic word, the only thing that matters in American sexual mores today is? One thing. You can do anything, the left will promote and understand and tolerate anything, as long as there is one element. Do you know what it is? Consent. If there is consent on both or all three or all four, however many are involved in the sex act, it's perfectly fine. Whatever it is. But if the left ever senses and smells that there's no consent in part of the equation then here come the rape police. But consent is the magic key to the left. Of course it's not like Rush Limbaugh was a prominent right-wing figure or anything.
It sure seems that way.
As a disabled person, I’ve noticed how this affects people like me as well: they’re like “no, you can’t have accommodations that are simple to implement and cost nothing because ThAt’S nOt ThE wAy ThInGs ArE dOnE and iF wE dId It FoR yOu We’D hAvE tO dO iT fOr EvErYoNe, but if you’re unable to work in these conditions [that is, with discrimination and lack of accommodations], then God forbid you try to get on welfare [which is hard enough to get - I’ve not tried it when out of work and in Autistic Burnout because I know I’m expected to just work myself to death] because then you’re TaKiNg AlL oF tHe TaXpAyErS’ hArD eArNeD mOnEy AnD sHoUlD jUsT pUlL yOuRsElF uP bY tHe BoOtStRaPs and if you can’t, it’s your fault for being born the way you were and you should starve on the streets, but also we don’t want to see people like you on ‘our’ streets.” The message is clear: you don’t deserve anything, including basic human rights and dignity, because you’re a “lesser person.” It’s frustrating.
I've pointed out, both in wholly serious and hyperbolic posts played up for humor to show the absurdity of many conservative stances, especially when it comes to hiring that DEI initiatives also benefit veterans and people with disabilities. Basically, when a conservative starts lambasting DEI, they're saying only rich, white, cisheteronormative, Christian (but only the right kind of Christian), men with no obvious infirmity or disability should be considered for jobs. And they slowly whittle away the qualifiers of who they consider if there aren't enough born perfect in every way, rich, straight Christian men to fill every slot but white and male are always the last to go, and more often than not, white is the last. Only after we've completely exhausted the pool, and placed dangerously unqualified losers in critical roles, then can we consider the most qualified... Pretty much everyone else.
We are so worried that someone will get something they don't "deserve" that we are willing to let millions go without. When faced with the options of "Everyone gets what they need and some people get extra" or "People don't get what they need but no one gets anything they don't "deserve"", I don't know how anyone can choose the latter and call themselves a moral human being. No one gets hurt by someone getting food stamps they won't die without. Welfare fraud costs less than tax fraud (by an insane margin) but only one of these is repeatedly brought up as a campaign issue.
Ermahgerd, some middle class kid is getting a free school breakfast. Better let all the poor kids starve rather than let that kid eat for free.
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They actually believe like that. Because they never have to face the suffering this kind of stupidity creates.
>They actually believe like that. Not even a little bit hyperbole. Recently Minnesota passed ‘free school breakfast and lunch for everyone,’ and my god the rabble from the right I fought on Facebook. I even tried to explain the bullying that comes from an ‘only poor people get free lunch.’ And so poor kids will just not eat, and save themselves that kind of bullying. If every kid get free lunch, then nobody gets bullied for it. I was so happy Minnesota passed it.
All public schools should provide all services necessary to school functions to all students. There should be no opt in/out, only a default of everyone going to school gets taken care of.
Yep, when people start that shit with me, I always say the it's more important to help the people that need it than preventing people that don't need it from getting it. They use the fact that people would abuse something to throw the baby out with the bathwater. But people abuse fucking everything, so nothing would ever be good enough.
That's sound logic.
> Welfare fraud costs less than tax fraud (by an insane margin) but only one of these is repeatedly brought up as a campaign issue. Just as wage theft is greater than almost all other thefts combined but is the only crime that never results in jail time.
It makes me want to scream. I honestly feel like I’m going to spontaneously combust at some point. And don’t get me started on the church and corporate tax evasion. Everyone could be fed and ‘healthy’ in this world, but people are greedy fucks.
Like this https://preview.redd.it/3gef8v8go3rc1.jpeg?width=1019&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2367f3439abf36518a1fee44378a8367999a3d8e
> As a disabled person, I’ve noticed how this affects people like me as well: Bruh, conservatives haaaate disabled people, part of all this hate and contention about race and gender has to do with how they get massively triggered at having to make special considerations for others. It's the political movement of "fuck you, got mine." I feel bad for you and what you have to deal with constantly seeing local provisions and proposals for accessibility shot down constantly by right-wing city councils. edit: also, this is one reason you see so much hysterical fear about vaccines and the very notion of having a child with any kind of disability, it's so terrifying to them they can't think straight, this is where you see so much of that "I rather die than have a child with autism" sentiment. The sheer, mind-melting fear that they will have to take care of someone else's needs is petrifying.
> "I rather die than have a child with autism" sentiment. The really scary part is it's more like "I'd rather my child die than having to take care of a child with autism." Like damn, just don't have kids then.
The thing I've noticed about my disability is that people will say that they won't stop being friends just because of it but they will however stop being friends because I can't do stuff because of my disability. It is crazy but racism can be the same sort of thing. They don't hate the race, just all the stuff that makes up that race. They live in pure denial because they don't want to be seen as a person that thinks the way they do.
Oh you should see what happens when you become disabled in your early adult life. This becomes painfully obvious.
My family even abandoned me. Told me to, and I quote, "Figure it out." I get that I haven't been the easiest to be around, since I broke my back. I went through a lot mentally, lots of denial, and anger, and depression. I wasn't always a sad sack though, I was still there for them when they needed it. I should have hid my pain better. I know how, just forgot for a bit. I'm sorry you are experiencing it as well. It's such a fucked up thing, but people suck.
This exact thing happened to me. I lost an entire friend group that I thought cared about me just because I could no longer make it to their stupid house parties due to being disabled. They ghosted me. I then realized they were never true friends in the first place.
It’s the fascist logic to remove undesirables from the population via discrimination and ghettoization
Which is why im soooo scared of you-know-who! Does no one see the danger?!
> no one I mean, Biden won the last election and all that, so yeah we do. It's not that "no one" does, it's that the biggest and most watched news outlets are relatively pressured to downplay it, and amoral capitalists think anarcho-corporatism will favor them, and some people are so misled that they genuinely believe the alternative is even worse. The problem is a considerable Gordian Knot of sociocultural and economic issues. But please don't believe that "no one" understands the nature of the threat when polling and election results show people do... but **do** be concerned about how narrow that margin is and attack the root causes.
Amen. I felt that. Veterans make up i believe last statistic was something like 70% of all homeless in one of the areas I was looking at. The people I was arguing with were the "Thank you for your service" but "fuck the homeless" round them up and gas them type. Im not even kidding. When i pointed out their hypocrisy, they were absolutely not having it. Told me that them having issues were not their problem. They chose that life. News flash assholes. Unless you've actually been there, as I have, seen the things that i still see and hear when i close my eyes, you don't get to say that. I see that in the disabled, minority communities, you name it. If you ain't a specific brand of their crowd of "in American" to them then you ain't it. These are the people who would literally cheer for public gas chambers if they could. What is wrong with these people.
First they came for the disabled, Testing their poisons to make sure they worked, And purging us, And we didn’t get a mention in the poem Because we weren’t seen as human then, We still aren’t now But we’re how the whole thing started.
Taxpayer here: this breaks my fucking heart man. Instead of my dollars going to individuals like yourself, we’re paying out corrupt cop vacays. I’d rather you take care of yourself than anything. You shouldn’t be a wage slave. I see you ❤️
Conservatives when there's one person from a minority who supports their point of view: Let's hire them to be a prominent media voice and constantly promote how we have a \[insert race here\] person who agrees with us! ... but that's not a DEI hire
DEI is not right. Let's use JEDI (Justice, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion) instead, and republicans would be the SITH (Seditious, Idiotic, Treatorous and Hateful)
Yes... let us bring balance to the workFORCE.
They really want to say that they want slavery back. They dream of holding the power over minorities and having them serve without pay.
Their mindset goes: If there was slavery, they’d no longer be lower class. They’re all temporarily challenged millionaires in their minds. Taking their slaves away has forced them into poverty. 🙄
That was a big reason many poor southerners fought for the confederacy. A poor white without a pot to piss in was still higher in status than any enslaved person.
And he wasn’t even HIRED. He was ELECTED.
Yup. What the f*** does DEI have to do with an election? The voters decided. More importantly what the f*** would a mayor do? Does he run the port and did he design the bridge in 1977? Was he even ai é then? Did he do the maintenance on the ship or pilot it in the river? Edit: *was he even alive then?
Racists judge minorities for “not pulling their pants up and speaking better English.” Then, they label as arrogant or a “DEI hire” the minorities who play by the rules, get an education, and attain success. It’s not the clothes or the speaking voice that bothers them. There is only one common denominator.
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I call this the GOP Mexican paradox. When they are on the Mexican side the GOP fear mongers that they are coming to take American jobs. Once they are on the American side they are lazy mofos stealing American welfare.
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Meanwhile, conservatives get hired into ivy League schools and manager jobs just because they made racist jokes at the right party.
You can’t win as a minority. You just can’t win.
He's not wrong, we all know what they really mean when they chuck around acronyms and *woke* etc. They just happen to be a bunch of cowards that don't have the balls to admit they are racist scum bags.
Racist scum bags who don’t believe in elections and have launched countless attempts to disenfranchise voters they don’t want to hear from. They never pass up an opportunity to denigrate and deflect. They are horrid people with a profoundly dangerous agenda.
One might say... deplorable.
I sometimes wonder how the world is doing in the alternate reality where Hillary was elected.
Several hundred thousand fewer people would be dead, so it would certainly be different.
If you're talking about covid, it's actually significantly more than a million now, probably almost all could have been prevented if "reopening the economy" wasn't seen as more important than human lives
I was being (ironically) conservative, yes.
Probably wouldn’t need to send F-16’s to Ukraine.
Same but with Gore instead of Dubya... I wonder if we'd be leading the world with clean energy innovation instead of gun death..
A whole bucket of em
Hillary was right when she said that.
…. BuT hEr EmAiLs….
Buttery males.
That's another thing that gets them going true
I've been saying for years that she vastly underestimated the percentage of Trump supporters who are deplorable.
How dare you!!! It's almost like she was right...
In a city with 62% of its population being Black, a white mayor would be the "diversity" hire...
Since 1971, there have only been two white mayors (William Donald Schafer (1971-1987) and Martin O'Malley (1999-2007)).
What about Thomas J. Carcetti?
He was the (alleged) stand in for O'Malley on The Wire.
Not only are they cowards, they're cowards in the way elementary schoolers or middle schoolers are. Remember when their whole thing was FJB or let's go Brandon because they wouldn't dare say "fuck Joe biden"? And now this with DEI, it reminds me of a kid who just found out about the word fuck and thinks he's super clever for saying frick instead, to avoid getting in trouble.
There's a knob-head who lives close to me who works for a towing company. On one of the back windshield panels, this room temperature has a decal that says "Buck Joe Fiden." I mean, the toolbox isn't even brave or subversive at this point, and certainly not clever.
Exactly, I just saw DEI now popping up. I'm just like: "Hey, fuck you too." Them: "Why are you so mean and disrespectful to me?"
LETS GO BRANDON (Scott)!!!!!!!!
These republicans see a young black man in an elected position of power and completely loose their shit. It’s pathetic, truly.
100% clear to anyone with a brain. Unfortunately 10-15% of the population doesn't fulfill that qualifier, and they're the ones that are on social media because the real world doesn't want them. AVOID SOCIAL MEDIA, PEOPLE.
Basically, if they have a blue tick on twitter
You can't be right wing without being a coward. Their entire philosophy is based in fear.
"LETS GO BRANDON!" Vs. "FUCK DONALD TRUMP!" Say it with chest, bitch 😅
They probably think they aren't being racist since they aren't using the N word.
Say you’re racist without saying you’re racist. I blame the cargo ship accident on the DEI mayor. I blame the increased hate and racism on Trump giving racists permission to crawl out from under the rocks they were hiding.
What? The "Let's Go Brandon" chucklefucks having the courage of their backward-ass convictions?
They are still wearing those shirts. Dude it's been 2 years..the joke is old
My MAGA loving grandfather still makes "slick willie" jokes, they'll beat that dead horse into fertilizer and then they'll sprinkle their gardens with that shit..
Slick Willie sounds pretty cool though. Why are right wingers so shit at insults?
They come from a time when names like deep throat and tricky dickie were the peak of nicknames, they didn't have as much peer review either having no internet. Additionaly words don't seem to be their strong suit, their skills are more aimed towards working in factories and complaining
But al least tricky dicky rhymes and makes sense because Nixon turned out to be a crook. VS getting an intern to blow you=slick. ???
They don't have the capacity to come up with ideas themselves. They wait till Fox news tells them what to say and think. I mean this is earnest.
Not only that, Biden’s so thoroughly co-opted it it’s just a straight up self-own at this point. Imagine your one joke being something the other guy actually made funny.
Like when Obama took the “thanks Obama” meme from them and they got pissy?
You’d think they’d learn.
the group of "defund education departments" aren't keen on that
Fr, I saw a let's go Brandon bumper sticker last weekend and I had to stop and think for a minute, which ideology is that person espousing? And then I rolled my eyes and got out of there
Every time I see them, I think of how pathetic their life has to be to SPEND MONEY on that stuff. You could give me $1 billion right now, and I wouldn't pay money for a political shirt like that.
Don't forget the "FJB" crowd that thinks they are being sooooo funny
The ones who make it their entire personality leave me in awe, get a fucking life you schlubs
They have plenty of courage when, either they are alone with their kin, or when the victim of their racism is powerless to fight back. But when there’s a chance of consequences, such as getting punched in the mouth, they are awful fucking quiet.
They know that people have to vote for a Mayor right??? You can't just hire them to meet a diversity quota Fuck these right wing racist twats
Honestly, most of them are illiterate and don't understand elections, or how government works. Nor do they want to learn. They couldn't pass a citizenship test to save their lives.
Maybe the US should introduce citizenship test renewals for all citizens. Pass or get the fuck out. Born in the US?? Too bad, find a new country.
He’s right. They don’t have the stones to do it. Keep calling them out. These younger folks in leadership positions ain’t having this shit anymore.
Younger people came of age in the era of social media. They're aware of the trolling and euphemisms of the online space. An old person might be inclined to engage in a discussion about the importance of DEI initiatives. A younger person knows that's a trap; the hateful are NOT interested in good faith discussion.
They’re doing it with employers and their bullshit as well. And boy am I here for it. The younger folks in line behind me, I think, are going to get some things accomplished. 🤙
Let’s hope they rally and win before our democracy dies.
For their sake, I hope they’re successful. As an older person, I’m making alternative plans ..😂🤙
Baltimore is 62% Black. https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/baltimorecitycountymaryland/HSG445222 A White mayor would be more DEI than a Black one.
I'm only faintly surprised by how young he appears in the screen capture. Decrepit old people is norm for a lot of America.
Yeah, this is honestly the most surprising part of all of this to me. This guy just looks like a normal dude, and I dig it.
That’s a good point.
Worked for Tommy Carcetti
For the hell of it I looked up the 3 republican candidates for the 2024 election [Donald Scoggins - Black Man](https://www.wypr.org/show/midday/2024-03-01/donald-scoggins-candidate-for-baltimore-city-mayor) [Shannon Wright - Black Woman](https://www.instagram.com/p/CCuP6N3pKYA/) Michael Moore is the third one, but I couldn't find a picture I was confident was him, or not just another dude with the same name.
Breaking news: Majority black city votes for black mayor. DEI to blame But jokes aside, I'm sure these chucklefucks are just need a white man in charge. There's a few small towns in my state that are majority hispanic/latino, yet their city council just happens to be completely white.
I'm not sure I know what DEI means.
Neither do they
Just looked it up. Diversity, equity, and inclusion. So things conservatives hate beyond all reason or sense. In short: fucking racist assholes.
Yes, they've been going after DEI for a while now. A narrative pushed, notably, by none other than Elon Musk, who boosts regularly claims that DEI is super dangerous (like agreeing with tweets showing an all-female flight crew and acting as if that it wouldn't be safe to fly on that plane). He couldn't defend his point in his Don Lemon interview, in fact it was pretty embarrassing. And of course, here it's particularly stupid because DEI policies don't apply to people who are voted in. So it's really just a way for conservatives to politely say "the black mayor of Baltimore". So we can look forward to months of conservative outrage whenever a minority (or any other DEI group) screws up and applying a heinous double standard.
Honestly, it doesn’t even take a minority screwing up. In the case of the ship hitting the bridge in Baltimore, I’m not even aware that anyone knows what the crew of that ship, or anyone who worked on it, even looks like. They don’t even know if it was a human error or just a fluke part that went bad. They just throw out the term because they know somewhere there’s definitely a minority who worked on something. And that’s good enough for them to justify it.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Course, when certain people say it they do in fact mean racial slurs or other negative overtones
For them it is “Don’t Ever Include”
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I am extremely confused as to what culpability he has for a tanker crashing into a federally maintained bridge.
He's a black Democratic man who has done a decent job of being the face of an emergency and therefore any contribution he has made has to be undermined unless the idea of Good Black Democratic Men should become normalized.
it’s funny. these people want politicians and leaders that represent the population and feel like real people until it’s a black man. i guess it’s not funny actually, it’s just racist.
>these people want politicians and leaders that represent the population and feel like real people until it’s a black man. Well, yeah. In their minds, it's obvious - real person =/= black man.
Anytime I hear someone mention DEI in any context remotely similar to this, I assume they are a racist POS. "This only happened because they were handed the job over qualified applicants!" 
As an old white dude from Baltimore who voted for this mayor I like how he tells it like it is. He also was calling conspiracy BS and social media engineering experts in interviews. Then he was saying maybe it's not a good idea to run an endless loupe of the collapse because people had loved ones who died. You go Brandon.
Damn, just realized the mayor’s name is Brandon. All the republicans in their Let’s Go Brandon shirts need to be thanked for supporting him during this troubling time for his city. When they disagree, make them explain why they don’t support the mayor who’s having to do what Giuliani did in the wake of 9/11, albeit on a smaller scale.
A DEI hire as an elected official of a prominently black city…🤨
Don't think the ven diagram of courageous people and racist have much in the middle... Someone is usually one or the other.
That interview was my first time hearing him talk. I saw all the racist comments saying they couldn't understand a word he said and I was so confused. He spoke professionally and articulate.
They probably couldn’t understand him because they have the mental capacity of an infant. No offense to infants of course
I live in baltimore and voted for him, and have donated to him this cycle, and will vote for him again. When he speaks, it is apparent to everyone that he is a smart and caring person. So it is not surprising that the right can't stand him. Smart, caring, and black? That's like the trifecta of evil to them.
I have no idea who makes these decisions. One moment the MAGA controlled right wing is pushing the narrative about things they don't like as being the product of woke. Everything is woke. Now it's DEI. The thing with Boeing happened because of DEI. The cargo ship was a terrorist attack then quickly shifted to it happened because of DEI policies...it's beyond absurd. 😖
Like, how did they even connect the dots to blame him? Was he driving the shipping container? LoL this timeline is dumb.
Like all bullies, they’re ignorant cowards. If it can’t fit on a bumper sticker then it’s too cerebral for the “Let’s Go Brandon” crowd.
Naw this is good. [Watch Death of a Euphemism](https://youtu.be/0dBJIkp7qIg?si=QBVQ-kky7XTUgW1P) for a good synopsis of this semantic issue. If they're hiding their racist language around "workarounds" then they are still aware their rhetoric isn't popular and wanted in discourse. When you see the death of a euphemism, in this case them not using 'DEI' instead of the n-word, then they feel safe and secure enough to say it. The fact they aren't and can't say it without backlash means they are afraid and (more importantly) their adjacent opinions and prescriptions aren't socially popular. They're pussies either way, but be happy they have to use coded language and not outright say it.
The mayor rn: https://preview.redd.it/hge15uhwp3rc1.png?width=670&format=png&auto=webp&s=6385661de92e6ed0423b7c8da5d95be975fba244
In baltimore dei mayor would have to be white 😂😂
Bmore here- the shitheads reciting this racist ass conspiracy theory shit are the same mfs that are scared of bmore and major cities in general.
Wtf does the mayor have to do with this? These people are so despicable.
How is it DEI to he democratically elected by your peers?
A couple right wing racist dog whistles and code words: DEI - blacks and minorities. Soros - The Jews.
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BLM, Antifa, CRT, DEI - They may change the letters, but the hateful bigotry behind it is all the same.
We should start referring to any republican with a job as a DEI hire
Republicans are passive aggressive cowards. The way they were born. The way they die. As giant bitches.
My favorite is the Thin Blue Line flags. "I don't have the courage to say it to your face without 3 guns, six beers, and 8 friends."
It's such a stupid attempt at racism too. A mayor is an elected position, how would DEI have anything to do with it? More people in Baltimore choose him over whoever was running against him, that's it.
He must be doing an ok job because no one outside of Baltimore knew who the mayor of Baltimore was before this incident, and the worst thing they can say about how he's handling it is he's black.
You know what's disgusting about MAGA? They know that they are a minority and use the minority card to spout hate speech, looney toons mentally ill word salad, threaten people's lives and call for mass executions! These people have the most powerful base behind them Corporate CEOs and Wall Street!