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The Right had been using this since Trump's first stay in the Awful Office. Every accident or incident that had happened since 2018 had been blamed on DEI. This is a problem. The Far Right and White Supremacist corrupted DEI as they have Woke, Antifa, Liberal, CRT and a Woman in a man's job. The Republicans and Far Right are masters at corrupting words.

I'll tell you one thing, I got my start in working in a man's job as a Pipefitter on Submarines in 1972. The abuse I and the other 2 women out of 40,000 men took from the boys there and their associated women was not pretty and often dangerous, a lot of threats. Sometimes I had to have an escort to the Sub or anywhere in the yard because of a threat the upper echelon took seriously. The women outside the yard hated us, often because they were insecure.

It was the older experienced men in the yard that had our backs. They didn't care who was doing the job as long as a person could do the job. The boys that started at the same time, were whiny and didn't want to work. They didn't think they had to or had to prove themselves capable. They thought White privilege would see them through.

My brother owns a painting business in CA and hired Latino's, legal or not. He thought at one point that he was being to judgemental of white boys and hired some. Same thing, they thought that should start at a higher pay rate and didn't need to do a good job... White privilege again. Of course, they quit, as the ones that started with me in 1972 did, because my brother wanted the same from them as the Latino's.

Anyway, this is where the White men want the country to go. It's not about meritocracy at all. It's about getting rid of competition. Their kind of country would underperform in quality and efficiency, not better.

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