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Federal health workers are alarmed after the “DEI Watch List” website published names, photos, and salaries of employees, mainly Black, labeling them “targets” for involvement in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.

The conservative American Accountability Foundation runs the site, which has sparked fears of doxxing and intimidation.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently issued memos demanding an end to DEI-related work, escalating paranoia. Some staff have been placed on leave.

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[–] AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world 248 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Nothing like Hitler's rise to power. Both sides. Blah blah blah.

Clinton and Obama over saw two massive economic recoveries, and trump and Bush have birth to absolute dumpster fire economies... But sure vote for conservative "for the economy."

Every conservative in office is a nazi supporting piece of shit.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 18 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Also, things under Biden were at nearly record levels for so many indicators - in good directions.

There are just a lot of very stupid people.

And YES I'm blaming the voters. And a big fucking thanks to the "liberal media" that kept talking down the economy, FFS.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Unfortunately for Biden a healthy economy didn't translate to money in the pockets of people who needed it.

Giving subsidies to green energy and supporting our allies is good policy, but it doesn't fix the overinflated price of goods and human needs. And that's what Americans working like slaves care about.

[–] Zron@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

It’s almost like the economy doesn’t account for most Americans.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

When we judge our success off of GDP and the S&P, when the vast majority of stocks are owned by the rich and most Americans don't own businesses, then yeah, economic success has almost no correlation with median wealth or income.

[–] aaron@lemm.ee 59 points 1 day ago (3 children)

For anyone who isn't white for the next four(ty) years, I'm really sorry.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 10 points 21 hours ago

There are a lot of whites that are going to be harmed as well. Believe that.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 72 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Hey, plenty of white women and white poor people will get fucked as well.

[–] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Which is why my wife and I are desperately trying to move to Canada. I'm so sick of the US.

[–] aaron@lemm.ee 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Can you tell me how you're doing it? It seems really difficult.

[–] SolidShake@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago

It is difficult. Basically you have to apply. Prove you can contribute to their country/society . Apply and wait. It can take several months to get denied.

[–] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 17 points 1 day ago

Trying to apply for jobs and get sponsored for a work visa. I don't have a degree, so it's kind of my only option.

[–] aaron@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

True. Those aren't the 'pure' whites though.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

To be fair, non-white people will undoubtedly have it worse.

[–] aaron@lemm.ee 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Perhaps. White women aren't going to be happy. Poor white men are getting and are going to get fucked. Racial purity has more to do with status and wealth this time.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

White women will be in a utopia compared to black women, who are already at the bottom in American society.

[–] aaron@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As long as the neo-Nazis find you 'hot', you'll be as well off as the white women

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sure, just as well off... like all the women in concentration camps the original lot took as "mistresses" before murdering them anyway.

[–] aaron@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

White women will not have that level of worry until long after the black women are gone.

[–] aaron@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It means that white women have a lot less to worry about right now.

[–] aaron@lemm.ee -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Right now? What do black women have to worry about that white women don't? I don't mean to pick sides on a race argument, but I really don't know where you're coming from.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Easier to get a job if you're white whether male or female, easier to get a loan, a home, anything that requires someone to approve what you're doing. Also easier if you're a black man. If you're a black woman? Especially one with a "black" name? You're often fucked. Many studies have shown this.

And then there's the incarceration rate.

https://www.nbwji.org/post/extreme-sentences-disproportionately-impact-and-harm-black-women

[–] aaron@lemm.ee 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yeah, but don't risk taking power from women with misleading facts. The black stats are largely to do with poverty, not with being black. Actually all of the 'oh-god-help-me' stats are to do with being poor. Yes, it's well known that black people are mistreated in society. That has nothing to do with imminent fascism, it's just how fucked up society was in the first place. The incarceration rate is entirely due to blacks being relegated to poverty and re-enslaved by the system we all apparently supported before Trump. We'll agree it's fucking disgusting.

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

The incarceration rate is entirely due to blacks being relegated to poverty and re-enslaved by the system we all apparently supported before Trump.

The black stats are largely to do with poverty, not with being black.

Wait, so you understand that many black people are systemically relegated to poverty, but disagree that poor black people being incarcerated at higher rates is related to them being black? I can't quite follow your logic here.

If A (being black) leads to B (higher chance of poverty), and B leads to C (higher rates of incarceration), then A also leads to C.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If it were largely to do with poverty, it would not be so radically higher for black women.

[–] aaron@lemm.ee 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The incarceration rate? The thing you said had to do with poverty? Are you not reading your own posts?

[–] aaron@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah, black people are going to experience a equivalent amount more pain compared to what they already did before Trump fascism.

[–] aaron@lemm.ee -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The incarceration rate certainly doesn't show that black women are more incarcerated than black men

[–] aaron@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Certainly more than white women, for the reasons I already vomited

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We were talking about black women vs. white women, you're changing the subject from your own posts, and I think you're just trolling at this point.

[–] rayyy@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Poor white men are getting and are going to get fucked.

They will love it because it's their people fucking them. Hold the lube? No problem.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 1 points 15 hours ago

Naw, they'll complain that Republicans aren't hurting the right people

Anyone who isn’t a white able bodied straight man who is middle - upper class and isn’t a leftist.