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submitted 2 years ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

Summary

Federal employees have been directed to report colleagues in diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) roles within 10 days or face unspecified "adverse consequences."

The directive follows a Trump executive order eliminating DEIA programs in federal agencies, which the administration claims "divided Americans by race."

Employees were warned about disguised DEIA roles using "coded or imprecise language.”

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[-] lath@lemmy.world 109 points 2 years ago

Good ol "communist" tactics. Snitch on your neighbours, snitch on your family. Loyalty to the party.

A certain expression comes to mind: "They hate us cuz they ain't us".

Starting to make sense nowadays...

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago

Well, actually, the Nazis called it "Machtergreifung" and this is exactly the playbook Trump follows.

[-] Coreidan@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

They hate you because you’re poor

[-] lath@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

They'll hate me even if I was rich, instead they'll love my money.

[-] SoupBrick@yiffit.net 102 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Bro, they don't even know who they are angry with. Isn't the whole idea that DEI hires underperform.

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 40 points 2 years ago

That's just to cover up their obvious racism. If you interrogate them the right way, they eventually spit it out, although in a less coded way.

[-] normalexit@lemmy.world 93 points 2 years ago

My favorite part is the US government, with its massive intelligence agencies, is trying to shake down its employees to discover their own org chart.

[-] hansolo@lemm.ee 82 points 2 years ago

You're missing that this is a loyalty test.

It's not about finding out this info. It's about finding out who is willing to be the Reek in all the new House Bolton-style fiefdoms. That's why people only have 10 days to rat out colleagues, they want lists of trustworthy loyalists by the time mid-tier appointees get into the office.

[-] normalexit@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago
[-] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 8 points 2 years ago

what the fuck is a deia contract. Do they just want a list of scapegoats they can be racist, sexist, and bigoted to?

[-] DerArzt@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Didn't you get the memo?

Let me print that off for ya real quick.

[-] hansolo@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

And every agency got this, not just NASA. It's high visibility politics saying "guys, we're in charge here."

Politically, it's their only real quick, easy win, to say "we ended wokeness in the Deep State" by sidelining at most a couple hundred staff and a few million in funding.

[-] EtnaAtsume@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Says a bit about the potency of those intelligence agencies, maybe? Or the vigor with which these policies will be pursued - or lack thereof. I dunno.

[-] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 years ago

Don't be naive and think this is actually about getting information and not a way to find out who's willing to fuck over their coworkers and kiss Der Furher 's ass-ring

[-] EtnaAtsume@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

True, got a point.

[-] b3an@lemmy.world 81 points 2 years ago

This screams illegal to me too. Like hey email to this weird government email the names of ‘collaborators’ so we can punish them. Tell us first and you’re good. Hide it and we’re coming after you.

Sounds like Germany 1939 or something.

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 2 years ago

Or like the US in the 50s and 60s...

[-] b3an@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

True! Wait. This guys a COMMUNIST! Where my list…

[-] Allonzee@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's only illegal if they don't have the courts on their side.

The SCOTUS can "interpret" a challenged Jay walking law as "well this clearly says the President can order the killing of all the minorities with abandon" and that's it, no recourse short of physically fighting and dying to them.

And that's where we're at. The Federalist Society that began under Reagan was a slow moving coup.

The framers slept in on Checks on the Judicial day. An impossibly high senate impeachment bar. For that reason and more, our constitution needs to collapse and we need a new one, one that treats practiced greed, ie pursuing many times more than what your fellow citizens live on, as the central threat to society that it is.

[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 72 points 2 years ago
[-] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago

Just use it to sign up for as many shit spam newsletters as possible. Maybe considering disabling that adblocker (or maybe spin up a vm) and enter it into all the ad popups you can find.

[-] HejMedDig@feddit.dk 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

In unrelated news: if you want to test how good a spamfilter you have set up for your self, you can test it with https://mailbait.info/

[-] Bumblefumble@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago

Of course according to their ToS you can only use your own email address, which I'm sure everyone will follow for sure.

[-] podperson@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

Godspeed to all of the new accounts created on ultra-questionable porn sites with this email address.

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 65 points 2 years ago

Did you see something? No you didn't.

[-] Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

Just tell them you're colorblind

[-] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 42 points 2 years ago

apparently there some person named donald trump, whose trying to use DEI policies to turn me into a woman. we should probably report him

[-] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Wrong. U libs always mishear what trump wrote. She didn't turn us all into woman. She signed a executive order that all men are trans men. U have been a women all along. I swear libruls can't read anything anymore.

How'd I do? Convincing as a trump apologist?

[-] _lilith@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago

fuckin make me

[-] blakenong@lemmings.world 24 points 2 years ago

Joke’s on the republican’s because I’m a gay man and use the men’s room all the time. I know what republican men do in there.

[-] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

He just had a wide stance!

[-] blakenong@lemmings.world 6 points 2 years ago

Heh heh heh. Awww yeah. Memories.

[-] Voyajer@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

Hmm... "My department is fortunate that we didn't need to make any DEI hires" Seems an easy enough response when questioned.

[-] TootSweet@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Is this about DEI hires or workers whose jobs are to ensure their hiring practices promote diversity, equality, and inclucivity? I took it to mean that if Susie in HR has a job description that includes anything about diversity in hiring, federal workers are supposed to rat on Susie or face consequences. Not on the folks who maybe arguably were hired because their presence increase diversity, equality, and/or inclucivity.

[-] Eezyville@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 years ago
[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago
[-] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Ah I found a mistake

(b) Telegraph

(1) Delay the transmission and delivery of telegrams to enemy destinations.

(2) Garble telegrams to enemy destinations so that another telegram will have to be sent or a long distance call will have to be made. Sometimes it will be possible to do this by changing a single letter in a word—for example, changing “minimum” to “maximum,” so that the person receiving the telegram will not know whether “minimum” or “maximum” is meant.

Surely the intended word is "manimum" because it's one letter from minimum and one letter from maximum.

[-] callouscomic@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

I'll begin reporting people who work for Dale Earnhardt Inc (DEI). They have a neat museum in North Carolina.

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago

They'll just start firing minorities next. In fact, they'll start now, I'm guessing. This is what the idiots and biggots voted for.

[-] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

How would they even know? Isn’t that protected information?

[-] solarvector@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago
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