also. rural first generation and veteran is a category of its own. people who joined the military to get out of rural poverty and tried to use their GI bill etc to go to school and climb the class ladder.
I had to take a civil service exam to work the 2010 census. If I recall, it was fairly easy and basically a test to see if you can follow directions and read a map. I forget the specific numbers, but the test was like 30ish questions and you could only miss maybe 5 questions and still pass. If you were a veteran however, you got 10 bonus pts tacked onto your test. You could get a perfect score and a person that'd normally fail the test, but so long as they are a veteran, they would be ranked higher than you.
It’s a complex issue. The struggle for upward mobility affects many, but understanding these unique experiences is key!!
TL:DR Education (wisdom, knowledge and understanding) is key. Voting rights are the door. The SCOTUS 2013 Shelby County v. Holder decision effectively removed the "preclearance" requirement of the VRA, which meant that certain states and local governments no longer had to seek federal approval before changing their voting laws.
1789: U.S. Constitution Ratified The Constitution initially left the power to set voting requirements to individual states. Most states limited voting to white men over 21 who owned property.
1856: Property Ownership Eliminated (for white men) North Carolina was the last state to remove the property ownership requirement for white men.
1870: The 15th Amendment Granted African American men the right to vote by prohibiting the denial of suffrage based on "race, color, or previous condition of servitude".
1920: The 19th Amendment Extended the right to vote to women nationwide.
1924: Indian Citizenship Act Granted all Native Americans born in the U.S. citizenship and voting rights, regardless of tribal affiliation. However, some western states continued to bar them from voting until 1948.
1943: Magnuson Act Repealed the Chinese Exclusion Act, allowing Chinese immigrants the right to become naturalized citizens and vote.
1961: The 23rd Amendment Granted residents of Washington, D.C. the right to vote in presidential elections.
1964: The 24th Amendment Banned the use of poll taxes in federal elections, a tactic used to disenfranchise low-income voters, particularly African Americans in the South.
1965: The Voting Rights Act (VRA) Banned discriminatory voting practices, such as literacy tests, and established federal oversight in areas with a history of voting discrimination.
1971: The 26th Amendment Lowered the national minimum voting age from 21 to 18, largely in response to the Vietnam War, where young adults were drafted to fight but could not vote.
1975: VRA Amendments Extended the protections of the VRA to language minorities, requiring voting materials to be provided in other languages in certain jurisdictions.
1984: Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handicapped Act Required polling places in federal elections to be accessible for people with disabilities and the elderly.
1993: National Voter Registration Act Also known as the "motor voter" law, this made it easier to register to vote by allowing registration at DMV offices and other public assistance centers.
2013: Shelby County v. Holder The Supreme Court decision effectively removed the "preclearance" requirement of the VRA, which meant that certain states and local governments no longer had to seek federal approval before changing their voting laws. This has led to an increase in new state-level voting restrictions and ongoing legal challenges.
October 15, 2025, SCOTUS held a rare reargument in November 2025 to consider further constitutional questions
2026 A decision for Louisiana could make it much harder to create majority-minority districts in the future across the country. The core legal question before the Supreme Court is whether the VRA requires plaintiffs to prove both a discriminatory effect and a discriminatory intent by lawmakers to win a Section 2 case.
This is how my grandfather went to college. The myth is the family of poor white farmers rallied together to put him through. The reality is he was from a rural area, first generation, and joined the core of cadets (ROTC). He was a vet so both my father and uncle went to college and joined the core and military. No one in my family could have attended college without all of this DEI.
Lol. When I was taking Arabic I was told that most native speakers would misspell words especially in dialect cause it’s usually spoken. It’s a universal thing when you speak more than read/write
We don't even need to talk about how the veterans preferences in part exist because the rich people in the absence of a draft have to find a way to keep convincing the children of the poor to go to war for them. The military itself has become a class of its own with military members now being pulled from the ranks of those Born to military members
Mine back to at least WWI and probably the civil war. I was the one he broke the tradition. I was extremely religious as was everyone else but I could not morally comprehend killing for a government on a whim and potentially damning someone.
The rich planter class was not in a hurry to extend rights and privileges to the poor farmers and merchants. They were against everybody but themselves just to varying degrees. No pun intended
I knew white women whose daughters had children while unmarried. And their daughters and grandchildren were being treated and getting medical care free via at the state. And then they would discuss picking up the WIC. Yet the same women never seemed to put themselves and their grandchildren in the same category as other people receiving benefits.
I guess what I'm saying is that it feels as if some people Believe the preferences they are given are simply putting them back at their rightful position - where they should be. But other people receiving it are getting an unfair leg up.
It’s okay. They say college is for woke liberals. Also most of those racists couldn’t even get past high school, they likely wouldn’t make it to college if they tried. Unless nepotism in some cases ofc.
Maybe they meant the white household as she might be a mother, wife, daughter to a white man. Also I would like to see the numbers to see if canceling DEI really just affected white women vs all the other groups in category combined. I don’t know that DEI money was actually going to black brown workers. We are not including South aasian and Indian in DEI, correct?
Of course, trans people exist and considering they are anti trans. Whether you think about gender before or after transition you either have a white men before or after. So even that group includes white men.
If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.
It’s just selfish people in general but white people have a culture that promotes selfish action.
You can actually see it infecting Polynesia as well. Lots of lower class Polynesians are trying to stunt at church and community gatherings to prove they’re better than others and driving themselves poor to do so. They don’t care if they are poor as long as people don’t see them as poor. As long as people see them as better.
It’s a selfish narcissistic approach to life that is determined by others perception and it’s a backbone in white culture.
It’s just selfish people in general but white people have a culture that promotes selfish action.
They have been propagandized to death for 5+ decades. They all think they're superior to others based on their skin color. This admin is just ramping up that rhetoric.
Spoken by LBJ as a critique, not a manifesto. At this point in his life he had come a long way to grow past the racial prejudices he was raised with in the South.
Just to be clear, since I personally went years reading and misunderstanding this quote without that context.
I would say pretty much everyone here reads it as a critique, but now that you’ve pointed it out I can see how someone might take the extreme wrong lesson after reading that with no context.
I’m a white guy. I have a well…white trash…side of the family. I don’t see them often but they have this super odd sense of entitlement that’s difficult to describe but it’s very narcissistic. It’s like they think they’ve been anointed or something yet they live in complete squalor and are very much in need of help. Theres a sense of superiority yet victimhood. I’ve always seen it as difficult to be both of those things yet they’ve found to occupy both spaces at once.
I have a distant aunt who just rages about socialism yet her daughter’s teeth are crooked and she gets teased. They are so crooked they can’t properly be brushed and are therefore rotting. She needs a dentist but they can’t find a dentist who takes Medicaid. Yet they love trump who is making rural healthcare and by extension dental care more out of reach than it’s ever been. I feel really bad but they kinda shot themselves in the foot.
There’s a great book called Dying of Whiteness that argues that the sole contributing factor is racism. As long as people of color are suffering too, they are happy to endorse it.
Because they went to schools designed to make them disinterested in learning and never developed their ability to critically question the world around them.
For years these geniuses have been complaining about NYC billionaires, elitists who have too much power and influence who are more than happy to screw over the common worker. But then a black man became POTUS and that was that. They rather have that creature they knew they shouldn’t trust be in charge than another person of color near any position of power.
You are talking about the same lineage of people who denied themselves and their children of pools, healthcare, parks, schools and other public facilities they would use, just as long as Black people get nothing. SNAP and all these government programs were created to help poor rural white people but once black people started being able to benefit from it, it became a problem and (black) people on it became "welfare queens".
White supremacy is a 500+ year project, it's deeply ingrained and it will always come first to them.
Most of them are really really dumb when it comes to critcal / logical thinking. The bigger the stupid lie they hear, the more they believe it, and the more they repeat it.
From the revolutionary war to the civil war. It's always been wealthy landowners is who are favoured. Poor whites ain't never been who those in power cared about beyond securing their support.
Because many don't want to get it. They want to hate minorities. If racism and white supremacy were created by the uppers to control the lower classes, then why are there rich white supremacist uppers?
This is why I don't buy the class reductionism shit. You bring about anti-capitalists without also bringing about anti-racism and anti-homophobia, you're just going to get a (admittedly smaller) group and anti-capitalist racists and homophobes.
Same reason that most cities closed (and often filled in with concrete) their public pools after they had to be integrated, even though that meant that they either didn’t have access to a pool or had to pay more money to join a private one:
Racism.
It’s like a really fucked version of “I don’t need to win, I just need ____ to lose”; “I don’t care if my life gets worse, I just need theirs to get more worse.”
They had a manufactured image of what DEI means in their head. They’ve never had any idea what it actually was. It’s just like critical race theory, a bastardized buzzword that makes magas froth at the mouth
Same thing with "Obamacare". Folks hated "Obamacare" because "Grr black democrat" legislation. But they sure loved the cheap insurance they got with the affordable care act.
The manufactured controversy over Critical Race Theory has a verifiable origin to Christopher Rufo of the Manhattan Institute, another right wing propaganda factory ("think tank") bankrolled by wealthy trusts and funds.
“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”
This is actually my design. The less educated those white people are the more likely they will vote for Republicans. College/higher education has been shown time and again to be a "liberalizing" force. When low income rural white people have a chance to go to college they are exposed to ideas and people they would not regularly see in their rural life. Even more if they go to a college in a large city. It's why the GOP wants to cut these programs as much as possible and keep people poor and reliant on "religious schooling".
The hostility to DEI is definitely driven by racism (among other -isms), but you're right as far as the people who want to destroy DEI for racist reasons don't particularly care if by doing so they cause some incidental harm to lower-class white people as well.
You shouldn't. Making it harder to get into college lowers exposure to leftist views and interactions with people different than yourself. Sure, this is gonna hurt some conservatives but it's also gonna make a lot of them too.
Because they do not read “woke” literature like “dying of whiteness”. So they don’t understand how their anti minority stances actually hurt them (their demographic) as well.
They love to remind you how poor and Non privileged they are but fail to understand the social programs that helped a man born in rural whatever the fuck, to a green bean farmer, get into medial school.
Yep. They wanna gut medicaid and medicare while they're sitting there trying to pinch pennies in between their two teeth for their diabetes medicine. But 🤷🏾♀️🤷🏾♀️🤷🏾♀️
Yea when I travel through the rural south it just like..
During the shutdown SOOO many GoP voters crying cuz they have chronically ill children and a husband who’s a disabled vet. they’re losing all their social program money and don’t know how they’re gonna pay for meds their child needs
But let them tell it and universal healthcare is socialism 🙄
I'm from the south and I legit just had to move away. The hypocrisy and woe-is-me attitude from the poor whites down there was too much for me to handle. I'm too fucking old and I needed to protect my peace. I was fortunate enough to be financially privileged enough to do so though. My parents STILL don't understand why I'm not coming back though 🙄
Thats the hardest part for me, my "nirvana" would be a safe space for my whole family together that is remotely near the Equator, where our immune system is designed for. But to get away from rednecks I will have to create more distance from the family. Its a paradox.
Unfortunately I saw that frequently with many of my coworkers. Not all of them were like that, but many of them looked down on people receiving benefits while their very own daughters availed themselves of those to safely deliver their grandchildren and then feed them.
it actually hurts women the most. if you read the article the main framing is that around 60-70% of all college applicants are women but because of DEI campuses kept gender ratios about 50-50 so now that gender and race are both not being factored we should see college campuses become woman dominated
“See college campuses become women-dominated”? They’ve already been so for at least a decade now, this isn’t a new trend. The college I’m going to is 2/3rds female. Male students only make up about 34%
I mean i graduated in '10 and didn't clear $60k until a decade later
I'm still wealthier than my friends who stayed in my hometown
The math is crystal clear. For the vast majority you will clear hundreds of thousands more with a degree over the course of a career than not. GenZ needs to quit treating this marathon like a sprint.
It depends what you major in. Professional degrees with a clear career path are obviously still worth it but humanities degrees really might not be anymore
Nah even underwater basketweaving will be worth it. There's plenty of charts showing it. It has long felt to me that the narrative is comparing the upper ceiling of trades with the lowest ceiling of bachelors, and it's the biggest lie ever told.
I'm a guy with a polsci degree who hates the political industry, I'm never working in that field, and again I've already well cleared my friends who went into trades, and my earnings are primed to skyrocket as I enter prime earning years. Meanwhile half my trades buddies bodies are breaking down
I personally cannot find evidence to support that.
Looks like people with bachelors degrees earn about $15k more than those with associates degrees (typical attainment of a tradesperson).
But, that includes people with degrees in finance or engineering, who probably make $30k more than a tradesperson. Wouldn’t shock me if liberal arts majors are about even.
It’s pretty difficult to find a good source that shows average salary by major. I used government statistics which typically only divide by educational attainment and not major. I don’t trust “bestcolleges.com” for example lol.
If you have a good source I’d be interested to see it. I’m definitely open minded on this.
Still, I’m glad I have a white collar job and am not destroying my body every day. That’s the real trade off nowadays, I think.
I mean you're doing the thing I said people do, you're looking for the worst examples of the bachelor's to use as the baseline and not an average, which by your own research is +$15k on average.
I'm sure you could run the numbers and find the cutoff line for which are "worth it" but again worth noting I'm making more than the mid career median on all but a few highly specialized trades, and I'm getting paid that to argue with you on reddit in a climate controlled office because it's the slow season. Slow season in the trades mean you don't work.
I mean, a significant part of this is due to selection of college.
I graduated from a state school that no one has heard of, with no significant athletic programs, but I got a very good education and minimal student debt.
Had I gone to a more prestigious school I would have had probably a slightly better education, a better professional network, but significantly more student debt.
Oddly enough the group doing the best in terms of college graduation is gay men. So its not even a men's issue, its specifically a straight men's issue.
This is true, at least in my experience. Highschool 4.0 GPA with stellar tech-oriented extracurriculars and rejected from most colleges I applied to when I said I was Asian. As soon as I changed it to "Do not wish to disclose" or "Other: mixed" I began getting acceptance letters. Affirmative action in college admissions fucks over otherwise overqualified Asian applicants.
I don't have numbers on this but my father (Taiwanese) got his Engineering degree on a diversity grant, and I know for a fact I've met other Asians who benefited from similar measures. The Asians whining over DEI are just salty rich boys lol
I mean, if we’re talking about affirmative action policies, then yeah, maybe. But affirmative action was declared illegal in the US in 2023, so before Republicans really started dogpiling on DEI.
The the thing is this: these people see DEI and immediately think Black. That is it. No further thought. DEI means Black. Affirmative action means Black. They truly do not have the range to understand that DEI includes everyone who is not a white man, including the same white women who benefited from it the most.
So they celebrate the removal of DEI as if it is some huge blow to us, while they are the ones who lose the most from it. It would be funny if it were not so predictable. And the sad part is that articles that explain this never reach them. They sit at home saying, look at what Trump did for us, while he is actually cutting off their own chances.
I love telling people that my mom's department's first DEI hire in 2020 was a white man. She works in admissions at a private school in a predominantly white area, and they realized that year that their entire team was female. They get way more applications from girls than boys, and so to attempt to appeal to more pre-teen/teen boys, they hired a young white guy hah.
People dont realize that inclusion includes economic inclusion, and that the only color in poverty is green. (Or whatever color you ascribe to this new digital token model of the exchange of value.) There is also disability, which cuts eveywhere.
So yeah. Veterans who come back with PTSD, there is a DEI program, perhaps a scholarship specifically for post service vets. Or something like a government funded program for soldiers to obtain degrees and favorable home loan...
Nah what am i talking about, thats crazy talk. And if they implemented such a system, surely every veteran would benefit equally and Black servicemen would have equal access to...no let me not even consider it. Too wild! Too DEI!
For years universities and colleges have been trying to keep the number of men and women on campuses evened out at a time when growing numbers of men have been choosing not to go to college. Some schools have tried to attract more men by adding football and other sports, promoting forestry and hunting programs and launching entrepreneurship competitions.
Nationwide, the number of women on campuses has surpassed the number of men for more than four decades, with nearly 40 percent more women than men enrolled in higher education, federal data show.
Efforts to admit applicants at higher rates based on gender are legal under a loophole in federal anti-discrimination law, one that’s used to keep the genders balanced on campuses.
The Trump administration has consistently included gender among the characteristics it says it does not want schools to consider for admissions or hiring, along with race, ethnicity, nationality, political views, sexual orientation, gender identity or religious associations. The White House has so far largely not succeeded in its campaign to press a handful of elite schools to agree to the terms and sign a wide-ranging Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education in exchange for priority consideration for federal funding.
“The racial parts have gotten a lot more attention, but I know from having spoken with practitioners who work in college admissions, they have read very clearly that it says ‘race and gender,’” in the administration’s pronouncements about ending preferences in admission, said Shaun Harper, founder and chief research scientist at the University of Southern California Race and Equity Center.
“What I think they don’t understand is that taking away the ability of colleges and universities to balance the gender composition of their incoming classes will ultimately have an impact on the college enrollment rates of white males,” Harper said. “It is likely to impact them the most, as a matter of fact.”
Rick Hess, director of education policy studies at the right-leaning think-tank the American Enterprise Institute, pointed out that similar predictions were made after the 2023 Supreme Court decision effectively ending affirmative action based on race.
At the time, he said, colleges spoke “in apocalyptic terms of the implications for the racial composition of student bodies.” But the number of Black and Hispanic students enrolled at universities and colleges the next year rose, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Then, said Hess, “there was a lot of, ‘Never mind.’”
you know what would be even better, if the focus was on trying to make it so EVERYONE that wanted to get a college education could get it, instead of having some get it and some not, that seems like it would be a much better way then even having decisions on who gets to go and who doesn't.
All men have been falling behind academically for decades, it's a problem that's been extensively written about and studied and society has no idea what to do about.
These are the same people who would fill a community swimming pool with concrete before letting black people swim in it. Great job idiot, now your wife and kids can't swim either.
Racist policies harm EVERYONE regardless of their race.
This is akin to how the group that most benefited from affirmative action in college admissions were white women. And looking at the demographic trends (educated white women reluctant/refusing to marry uneducated men), this will change the societal makeup in the next generation. The Economist had a great story on this last month
I don't think most white people realize that we would directly benefit from living in a society where everyone is educated, has their basic needs met, and has hopes and aspirations. That is a more pleasant and safer way to live, as opposed to always trying to crawl over the other crabs.
Is there a source beyond an image with a text one it? Everything I see when I search for it is that people are expecting this might happen but its still yet to actually be seen
They don’t want anyone educated. There’s been a right wing push towards trades over higher education for a long time. I support that everyone should have their own path and choose not to demonize one side over the other, but they don’t want educated citizens at all.
I was a white, veteran, single father who got a DEI admission to the University of Virginia. I graduated 254 out of 440 in my high school class and had to admit in my admissions essay that, quote, "In high school, I was a complete dumbass." I guarantee had it not been for DEI, I would have been overlooked in favor of a legacy whose parents could donate $250k to the Virginia Athletics Foundation.
But that's the entire point of getting rid of DEI, isn't it?
Yep. My ex (a white man) was SO turnt about the removal of DEI because he thought it would hurt my husband (a Latino man) and my ex’s fondest wish in life is to see bad things happen to my husband.
My ex lost his job immediately and literally cannot get a job now.
As told to me by an elderly Black man when I was growing up; “You can’t keep someone down unless you stay down there with them to make sure they stay down.”
I try so hard to explain to people the DEI/Affirmative Action is not about hiring unqualified people instead of white men, it’s about pursuing more diverse recruitment opportunities.
Something I pointed out at the time that no one seemed to listen to was that one of the biggest groups that benefitted from DEI policies were veterans. 75% of veterans are still white men, even if that's changing slowly over time
Luckily I got into college right before the election. My college saw that I'm such a broke ass bitch that they "promised" to give me four years completely for free. I'm worried that promise may be undone given that a lot of that funding comes from Pell grants, which this administration is keen to defund for more tax cuts to the rich. However, they haven't issued me any notices of money due, so hopefully I'll be good.
I swear, millisecond I graduate I am immigrating elsewhere lol.
Which is why one of those idiots changed a department's fonts from Calibri to Times New Roman, calling Calibri DEI. Because it's easier to read, and we can't have our public records easy to read.
Common DEI practice where I work: when I'm on a hiring panel I don't see anyone's name, age, location, school names, none of that shit. All I see is experience and qualifications. It's amazing how fucking stupid republicans are.
Welp….any fucking way 🤪 this same thing happened with the main groups cheering the end of affirmative action seeing the steepest declines in college admissions to Ivy League schools while Black student admission remained relatively stable.
I hate to be a contrarian on this but I think part of the decline might be due to them choosing trade schools or other career paths instead of college. For some reason, the red hats have turned the idea of college into a bad thing. Black folks started getting degrees and now they’re suddenly invaluable.
The rage and confusion on my coworker's face when I informed him that he as a disabled veteran is a DEI hire after he did laps celebrating that bullshit is priceless.
When this whole anti-DEI campaign started, I pointed out this very thing. Part of the goal of DEI was to uplift people who were economically disadvantaged regardless of race, creed, color or gender. There were programs in all 50 states that were designed to help people... period.
There is definitely a part of me that is chuckling at the self-inflicted wound here. I am outraged, too, but I'd be lying if I didn't acknowledge the schadenfreude.
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I’m so confused by this: “white women” is a category that includes white men?
rural. veterans. first generation college students
also. rural first generation and veteran is a category of its own. people who joined the military to get out of rural poverty and tried to use their GI bill etc to go to school and climb the class ladder.
I had to take a civil service exam to work the 2010 census. If I recall, it was fairly easy and basically a test to see if you can follow directions and read a map. I forget the specific numbers, but the test was like 30ish questions and you could only miss maybe 5 questions and still pass. If you were a veteran however, you got 10 bonus pts tacked onto your test. You could get a perfect score and a person that'd normally fail the test, but so long as they are a veteran, they would be ranked higher than you.
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The haves always try to make it about race at the faintest wiff of class solidarity.
And the failure to recognize this and to think racial solidarity would trump economic reslity is how many people voted against their own interests.
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Agreed. Like what was this? Literally doesn’t say anything, Just responding
There are many different or unique ways to respond to comments and be creative! It’s a super fun way to get your voice heard!
my point was to agree that the wealthy have multiple categories of people they give no cares about.
It’s a complex issue. The struggle for upward mobility affects many, but understanding these unique experiences is key!!
TL:DR Education (wisdom, knowledge and understanding) is key. Voting rights are the door. The SCOTUS 2013 Shelby County v. Holder decision effectively removed the "preclearance" requirement of the VRA, which meant that certain states and local governments no longer had to seek federal approval before changing their voting laws.
1789: U.S. Constitution Ratified The Constitution initially left the power to set voting requirements to individual states. Most states limited voting to white men over 21 who owned property.
1856: Property Ownership Eliminated (for white men) North Carolina was the last state to remove the property ownership requirement for white men.
1870: The 15th Amendment Granted African American men the right to vote by prohibiting the denial of suffrage based on "race, color, or previous condition of servitude".
1920: The 19th Amendment Extended the right to vote to women nationwide.
1924: Indian Citizenship Act Granted all Native Americans born in the U.S. citizenship and voting rights, regardless of tribal affiliation. However, some western states continued to bar them from voting until 1948.
1943: Magnuson Act Repealed the Chinese Exclusion Act, allowing Chinese immigrants the right to become naturalized citizens and vote.
1961: The 23rd Amendment Granted residents of Washington, D.C. the right to vote in presidential elections.
1964: The 24th Amendment Banned the use of poll taxes in federal elections, a tactic used to disenfranchise low-income voters, particularly African Americans in the South.
1965: The Voting Rights Act (VRA) Banned discriminatory voting practices, such as literacy tests, and established federal oversight in areas with a history of voting discrimination.
1971: The 26th Amendment Lowered the national minimum voting age from 21 to 18, largely in response to the Vietnam War, where young adults were drafted to fight but could not vote.
1975: VRA Amendments Extended the protections of the VRA to language minorities, requiring voting materials to be provided in other languages in certain jurisdictions.
1984: Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handicapped Act Required polling places in federal elections to be accessible for people with disabilities and the elderly.
1993: National Voter Registration Act Also known as the "motor voter" law, this made it easier to register to vote by allowing registration at DMV offices and other public assistance centers.
2013: Shelby County v. Holder The Supreme Court decision effectively removed the "preclearance" requirement of the VRA, which meant that certain states and local governments no longer had to seek federal approval before changing their voting laws. This has led to an increase in new state-level voting restrictions and ongoing legal challenges.
October 15, 2025, SCOTUS held a rare reargument in November 2025 to consider further constitutional questions
2026 A decision for Louisiana could make it much harder to create majority-minority districts in the future across the country. The core legal question before the Supreme Court is whether the VRA requires plaintiffs to prove both a discriminatory effect and a discriminatory intent by lawmakers to win a Section 2 case.
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That describes JD Vance lol
This is how my grandfather went to college. The myth is the family of poor white farmers rallied together to put him through. The reality is he was from a rural area, first generation, and joined the core of cadets (ROTC). He was a vet so both my father and uncle went to college and joined the core and military. No one in my family could have attended college without all of this DEI.
Not to be an ass but it’s corps
I’ve been saying it wrong my entire life…
Nah. It’s pronounced like core. It’s just spelled different. But the root is French. So it has a different spelling
lol I guess those French classes did not pay off for me. At least I am half right I guess.
Lol. When I was taking Arabic I was told that most native speakers would misspell words especially in dialect cause it’s usually spoken. It’s a universal thing when you speak more than read/write
Yeah, but English basically does it to you on purpose.
Shit like "of", "rural", "iron", "laugh" are basically invented to shit on you after you learned how to "sound it out" in first grade.
It's funny because you NEVER seen a non-native speaker make the "should of" mistake.
Oh, it’s pronounced core. But it’s spelled Corps.
English is terrible. This is not your fault.
We don't even need to talk about how the veterans preferences in part exist because the rich people in the absence of a draft have to find a way to keep convincing the children of the poor to go to war for them. The military itself has become a class of its own with military members now being pulled from the ranks of those Born to military members
Mine back to at least WWI and probably the civil war. I was the one he broke the tradition. I was extremely religious as was everyone else but I could not morally comprehend killing for a government on a whim and potentially damning someone.
The rich planter class was not in a hurry to extend rights and privileges to the poor farmers and merchants. They were against everybody but themselves just to varying degrees. No pun intended
Battlestar Galactica.
So say we all.
It’s almost like the goal of equity is to be inclusive.
I knew white women whose daughters had children while unmarried. And their daughters and grandchildren were being treated and getting medical care free via at the state. And then they would discuss picking up the WIC. Yet the same women never seemed to put themselves and their grandchildren in the same category as other people receiving benefits. I guess what I'm saying is that it feels as if some people Believe the preferences they are given are simply putting them back at their rightful position - where they should be. But other people receiving it are getting an unfair leg up.
It’s okay. They say college is for woke liberals. Also most of those racists couldn’t even get past high school, they likely wouldn’t make it to college if they tried. Unless nepotism in some cases ofc.
Grandfather clauses. I think that is what many would like. The good old –did your father go here test.
Got em right in the intersectionality
Also, as the person you're replying to stated, they explicitly state:
It's awfully worded.
"all categories"
It's just a poorly written sentence. Remove white women from that list and it makes sense.
"Remove part of the sentence and it makes sense"
Sure, but the point is that the sentence doesn't make sense as written
No shit
How dare you
Trans inclusive white supremacy
This is legitimately the only way I can make sense of this sentence with the way it’s written lol
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TERF vs TIWS cage match when
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and white mothers!
That wouldn’t mean the category includes them lol. It would just mean the category affects them.
Do they though???
Technically correct: “White men” is included in “White Women”
Maybe not include directly, but their mothers, sisters, cousins, and partners
The white women could be pregnant with white male children that will benefit from a parent with a degree.
Add "and" after that last comma.
Trans inclusive
white women are the demographic that benefits the most from DEI
That's affirmative action. White men benefitted the most from dei, which is why they're seeing the biggest drop off.
Maybe they meant the white household as she might be a mother, wife, daughter to a white man. Also I would like to see the numbers to see if canceling DEI really just affected white women vs all the other groups in category combined. I don’t know that DEI money was actually going to black brown workers. We are not including South aasian and Indian in DEI, correct?
Of course, trans people exist and considering they are anti trans. Whether you think about gender before or after transition you either have a white men before or after. So even that group includes white men.
I think they mean ur mom.
Caitlyn Jenner catching strays...
White men sometimes marry white women. For a lot of people, spousal income is a factor in their lives. That's how I would interpret it.
There is a class war. They don’t care about those white people either.
And I don’t understand why poor white people dont get this. He wasn’t talking to youuuuuuu.
Lyndon B Johnson
It’s just selfish people in general but white people have a culture that promotes selfish action.
You can actually see it infecting Polynesia as well. Lots of lower class Polynesians are trying to stunt at church and community gatherings to prove they’re better than others and driving themselves poor to do so. They don’t care if they are poor as long as people don’t see them as poor. As long as people see them as better.
It’s a selfish narcissistic approach to life that is determined by others perception and it’s a backbone in white culture.
It’s just capitalism. Society is setup like a giant battle royal with the cruelest accumulating the most resources.
It’s a uncivilized way of life and it warps people.
im jumping out the battle bus at
twintilted towers!People were stunting on their tribe members since before currency lmao
They have been propagandized to death for 5+ decades. They all think they're superior to others based on their skin color. This admin is just ramping up that rhetoric.
Spoken by LBJ as a critique, not a manifesto. At this point in his life he had come a long way to grow past the racial prejudices he was raised with in the South.
Just to be clear, since I personally went years reading and misunderstanding this quote without that context.
I would say pretty much everyone here reads it as a critique, but now that you’ve pointed it out I can see how someone might take the extreme wrong lesson after reading that with no context.
That part!
I’m assuming it’s the same reason why white passing Latinos thought he was talking to them and not about them. 🙃
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As someone who lives in a highly Hispanic State with ICE coming through like the mafia, this part has me really shook up.
I’m a white guy. I have a well…white trash…side of the family. I don’t see them often but they have this super odd sense of entitlement that’s difficult to describe but it’s very narcissistic. It’s like they think they’ve been anointed or something yet they live in complete squalor and are very much in need of help. Theres a sense of superiority yet victimhood. I’ve always seen it as difficult to be both of those things yet they’ve found to occupy both spaces at once.
I have a distant aunt who just rages about socialism yet her daughter’s teeth are crooked and she gets teased. They are so crooked they can’t properly be brushed and are therefore rotting. She needs a dentist but they can’t find a dentist who takes Medicaid. Yet they love trump who is making rural healthcare and by extension dental care more out of reach than it’s ever been. I feel really bad but they kinda shot themselves in the foot.
There’s a great book called Dying of Whiteness that argues that the sole contributing factor is racism. As long as people of color are suffering too, they are happy to endorse it.
Because they went to schools designed to make them disinterested in learning and never developed their ability to critically question the world around them.
For years these geniuses have been complaining about NYC billionaires, elitists who have too much power and influence who are more than happy to screw over the common worker. But then a black man became POTUS and that was that. They rather have that creature they knew they shouldn’t trust be in charge than another person of color near any position of power.
You are talking about the same lineage of people who denied themselves and their children of pools, healthcare, parks, schools and other public facilities they would use, just as long as Black people get nothing. SNAP and all these government programs were created to help poor rural white people but once black people started being able to benefit from it, it became a problem and (black) people on it became "welfare queens". White supremacy is a 500+ year project, it's deeply ingrained and it will always come first to them.
At some point, all poor, uneducated, disenfranchised, folks are each just a squirrel in a world full of nuts, winter bearing down.
Hard to think straight in those conditions. People who can, we call them “hero.”
That’s an armchair explanation not an excuse
But to be fair, “winter” in this analogy is an organized, monied, machinery that has fine-tuned its methodologies of class warfare for centuries.
Time for that LBJ quote.
Why not just poor people, lots of poc vote against their own interests stupidly too
Most of them are really really dumb when it comes to critcal / logical thinking. The bigger the stupid lie they hear, the more they believe it, and the more they repeat it.
From the revolutionary war to the civil war. It's always been wealthy landowners is who are favoured. Poor whites ain't never been who those in power cared about beyond securing their support.
Because many don't want to get it. They want to hate minorities. If racism and white supremacy were created by the uppers to control the lower classes, then why are there rich white supremacist uppers?
This is why I don't buy the class reductionism shit. You bring about anti-capitalists without also bringing about anti-racism and anti-homophobia, you're just going to get a (admittedly smaller) group and anti-capitalist racists and homophobes.
Same reason that most cities closed (and often filled in with concrete) their public pools after they had to be integrated, even though that meant that they either didn’t have access to a pool or had to pay more money to join a private one:
Racism.
It’s like a really fucked version of “I don’t need to win, I just need ____ to lose”; “I don’t care if my life gets worse, I just need theirs to get more worse.”
They had a manufactured image of what DEI means in their head. They’ve never had any idea what it actually was. It’s just like critical race theory, a bastardized buzzword that makes magas froth at the mouth
Same thing with "Obamacare". Folks hated "Obamacare" because "Grr black democrat" legislation. But they sure loved the cheap insurance they got with the affordable care act.
/r/leopardsatemyfacs
The manufactured controversy over Critical Race Theory has a verifiable origin to Christopher Rufo of the Manhattan Institute, another right wing propaganda factory ("think tank") bankrolled by wealthy trusts and funds.
I forget most of the boogeymen in between ebonics and DEI, but I smell a theme.
Just like the SNAP cuts. More whites on the rolls than anyone else and it's not close.
Was created solely for them until the 60's.
White, (formerly) rural poor here.
LBJ has been saying
“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”
Me? I rode DEI to the top
This is actually my design. The less educated those white people are the more likely they will vote for Republicans. College/higher education has been shown time and again to be a "liberalizing" force. When low income rural white people have a chance to go to college they are exposed to ideas and people they would not regularly see in their rural life. Even more if they go to a college in a large city. It's why the GOP wants to cut these programs as much as possible and keep people poor and reliant on "religious schooling".
A poor white man, and poor white woman will empty their pockets for you. Type shit.
The people working the hardest to keep us out of the party weren’t invited either and don’t even know it.
The hostility to DEI is definitely driven by racism (among other -isms), but you're right as far as the people who want to destroy DEI for racist reasons don't particularly care if by doing so they cause some incidental harm to lower-class white people as well.
which is why they had to give them preferences
I love this for them.
🥰
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You shouldn't. Making it harder to get into college lowers exposure to leftist views and interactions with people different than yourself. Sure, this is gonna hurt some conservatives but it's also gonna make a lot of them too.
Not as much as I love this for them!
So, just to be clear, you want MORE uneducated white men in the US?
Because they do not read “woke” literature like “dying of whiteness”. So they don’t understand how their anti minority stances actually hurt them (their demographic) as well.
They love to remind you how poor and Non privileged they are but fail to understand the social programs that helped a man born in rural whatever the fuck, to a green bean farmer, get into medial school.
Edit; Spelling and grammar
Yep. They wanna gut medicaid and medicare while they're sitting there trying to pinch pennies in between their two teeth for their diabetes medicine. But 🤷🏾♀️🤷🏾♀️🤷🏾♀️
Yea when I travel through the rural south it just like..
During the shutdown SOOO many GoP voters crying cuz they have chronically ill children and a husband who’s a disabled vet. they’re losing all their social program money and don’t know how they’re gonna pay for meds their child needs
But let them tell it and universal healthcare is socialism 🙄
I'm from the south and I legit just had to move away. The hypocrisy and woe-is-me attitude from the poor whites down there was too much for me to handle. I'm too fucking old and I needed to protect my peace. I was fortunate enough to be financially privileged enough to do so though. My parents STILL don't understand why I'm not coming back though 🙄
Thats the hardest part for me, my "nirvana" would be a safe space for my whole family together that is remotely near the Equator, where our immune system is designed for. But to get away from rednecks I will have to create more distance from the family. Its a paradox.
Two teeth has me on the floooorrrr 🤣
Unfortunately I saw that frequently with many of my coworkers. Not all of them were like that, but many of them looked down on people receiving benefits while their very own daughters availed themselves of those to safely deliver their grandchildren and then feed them.
Dying of whiteness was one of the craziest books I ever read. The focus groups section was so confusing.
Hahaha fuck em
Don't worry, they fuck themselves regularly. Same idiots that think Methany somehow lost her job to an immigrant Dr. Patel.
No, Methany, you were never going to be a fucking doctor.
But they make it EVERYBODY’S problem when they do fuck themselves. We all suffer their stupidity.
This is the main issue. Mind you, I've been feeling very...French lately. Maybe it's time to deal with it the way they've successfully done.
Don’t worry, we’re all getting fucked together. True DEI is the friends we make along the way.
I think DEI initiatives for colleges and universities tend to hurt Asians the most. White men tend to be helped relative to them.
it actually hurts women the most. if you read the article the main framing is that around 60-70% of all college applicants are women but because of DEI campuses kept gender ratios about 50-50 so now that gender and race are both not being factored we should see college campuses become woman dominated
“See college campuses become women-dominated”? They’ve already been so for at least a decade now, this isn’t a new trend. The college I’m going to is 2/3rds female. Male students only make up about 34%
Funniest shit to me that the manosphere has convinced a generation of boys that going to college is for sissies
Meanwhile the men who didn't fall for that crap are all but guaranteed to get paid and get laid, lol congrats boys real manly shit there
Tell that to all the college grads who cant find work in their field and are drowning in loan debt.
I mean i graduated in '10 and didn't clear $60k until a decade later
I'm still wealthier than my friends who stayed in my hometown
The math is crystal clear. For the vast majority you will clear hundreds of thousands more with a degree over the course of a career than not. GenZ needs to quit treating this marathon like a sprint.
It depends what you major in. Professional degrees with a clear career path are obviously still worth it but humanities degrees really might not be anymore
Nah even underwater basketweaving will be worth it. There's plenty of charts showing it. It has long felt to me that the narrative is comparing the upper ceiling of trades with the lowest ceiling of bachelors, and it's the biggest lie ever told.
I'm a guy with a polsci degree who hates the political industry, I'm never working in that field, and again I've already well cleared my friends who went into trades, and my earnings are primed to skyrocket as I enter prime earning years. Meanwhile half my trades buddies bodies are breaking down
I personally cannot find evidence to support that.
Looks like people with bachelors degrees earn about $15k more than those with associates degrees (typical attainment of a tradesperson).
But, that includes people with degrees in finance or engineering, who probably make $30k more than a tradesperson. Wouldn’t shock me if liberal arts majors are about even.
It’s pretty difficult to find a good source that shows average salary by major. I used government statistics which typically only divide by educational attainment and not major. I don’t trust “bestcolleges.com” for example lol.
If you have a good source I’d be interested to see it. I’m definitely open minded on this.
Still, I’m glad I have a white collar job and am not destroying my body every day. That’s the real trade off nowadays, I think.
I mean you're doing the thing I said people do, you're looking for the worst examples of the bachelor's to use as the baseline and not an average, which by your own research is +$15k on average.
Visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-salaries-college-degrees
Tradecareerpath.com/guides/national-trade-salaries
I'm sure you could run the numbers and find the cutoff line for which are "worth it" but again worth noting I'm making more than the mid career median on all but a few highly specialized trades, and I'm getting paid that to argue with you on reddit in a climate controlled office because it's the slow season. Slow season in the trades mean you don't work.
I mean, a significant part of this is due to selection of college.
I graduated from a state school that no one has heard of, with no significant athletic programs, but I got a very good education and minimal student debt.
Had I gone to a more prestigious school I would have had probably a slightly better education, a better professional network, but significantly more student debt.
Shush don't tell them!
Which is why college is seen as feminine now and men don’t want to go. Once something becomes female dominated men stop doing it.
"Male flight"
Oddly enough the group doing the best in terms of college graduation is gay men. So its not even a men's issue, its specifically a straight men's issue.
Well those guys are going to need to enroll to get their MR degree
Most colleges already have majority female enrollment right now in fact
White women are helped the most.
You're commenting on an article that says differently.
This is true, at least in my experience. Highschool 4.0 GPA with stellar tech-oriented extracurriculars and rejected from most colleges I applied to when I said I was Asian. As soon as I changed it to "Do not wish to disclose" or "Other: mixed" I began getting acceptance letters. Affirmative action in college admissions fucks over otherwise overqualified Asian applicants.
I don't have numbers on this but my father (Taiwanese) got his Engineering degree on a diversity grant, and I know for a fact I've met other Asians who benefited from similar measures. The Asians whining over DEI are just salty rich boys lol
I mean, if we’re talking about affirmative action policies, then yeah, maybe. But affirmative action was declared illegal in the US in 2023, so before Republicans really started dogpiling on DEI.
The the thing is this: these people see DEI and immediately think Black. That is it. No further thought. DEI means Black. Affirmative action means Black. They truly do not have the range to understand that DEI includes everyone who is not a white man, including the same white women who benefited from it the most.
So they celebrate the removal of DEI as if it is some huge blow to us, while they are the ones who lose the most from it. It would be funny if it were not so predictable. And the sad part is that articles that explain this never reach them. They sit at home saying, look at what Trump did for us, while he is actually cutting off their own chances.
DEI does include white men tho.
I love telling people that my mom's department's first DEI hire in 2020 was a white man. She works in admissions at a private school in a predominantly white area, and they realized that year that their entire team was female. They get way more applications from girls than boys, and so to attempt to appeal to more pre-teen/teen boys, they hired a young white guy hah.
Dei also includes white men.
Oh shit wait, are we ALL DEI HIRES? Did we just fire ourselves? The HR lady is gone too.... they're all gone
People dont realize that inclusion includes economic inclusion, and that the only color in poverty is green. (Or whatever color you ascribe to this new digital token model of the exchange of value.) There is also disability, which cuts eveywhere.
So yeah. Veterans who come back with PTSD, there is a DEI program, perhaps a scholarship specifically for post service vets. Or something like a government funded program for soldiers to obtain degrees and favorable home loan...
Nah what am i talking about, thats crazy talk. And if they implemented such a system, surely every veteran would benefit equally and Black servicemen would have equal access to...no let me not even consider it. Too wild! Too DEI!
They always forget the "economic" in socioeconomic.
The entire administration is DEI hires, expect it stands for "Devoid of Empathy, and Incompetent."
For years universities and colleges have been trying to keep the number of men and women on campuses evened out at a time when growing numbers of men have been choosing not to go to college. Some schools have tried to attract more men by adding football and other sports, promoting forestry and hunting programs and launching entrepreneurship competitions.
Nationwide, the number of women on campuses has surpassed the number of men for more than four decades, with nearly 40 percent more women than men enrolled in higher education, federal data show.
Efforts to admit applicants at higher rates based on gender are legal under a loophole in federal anti-discrimination law, one that’s used to keep the genders balanced on campuses.
The Trump administration has consistently included gender among the characteristics it says it does not want schools to consider for admissions or hiring, along with race, ethnicity, nationality, political views, sexual orientation, gender identity or religious associations. The White House has so far largely not succeeded in its campaign to press a handful of elite schools to agree to the terms and sign a wide-ranging Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education in exchange for priority consideration for federal funding.
“The racial parts have gotten a lot more attention, but I know from having spoken with practitioners who work in college admissions, they have read very clearly that it says ‘race and gender,’” in the administration’s pronouncements about ending preferences in admission, said Shaun Harper, founder and chief research scientist at the University of Southern California Race and Equity Center.
“What I think they don’t understand is that taking away the ability of colleges and universities to balance the gender composition of their incoming classes will ultimately have an impact on the college enrollment rates of white males,” Harper said. “It is likely to impact them the most, as a matter of fact.”
Rick Hess, director of education policy studies at the right-leaning think-tank the American Enterprise Institute, pointed out that similar predictions were made after the 2023 Supreme Court decision effectively ending affirmative action based on race.
At the time, he said, colleges spoke “in apocalyptic terms of the implications for the racial composition of student bodies.” But the number of Black and Hispanic students enrolled at universities and colleges the next year rose, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Then, said Hess, “there was a lot of, ‘Never mind.’”
you know what would be even better, if the focus was on trying to make it so EVERYONE that wanted to get a college education could get it, instead of having some get it and some not, that seems like it would be a much better way then even having decisions on who gets to go and who doesn't.
All men have been falling behind academically for decades, it's a problem that's been extensively written about and studied and society has no idea what to do about.
These are the same people who would fill a community swimming pool with concrete before letting black people swim in it. Great job idiot, now your wife and kids can't swim either.
Racist policies harm EVERYONE regardless of their race.
Ok I don’t comment here cause I’m white and I prefer to read and learn, but I got a quick story y’all might enjoy relating to this.
My MAGA mother has been on that racist anti-DEI shit. She is a high level tech support person for Fortune 500 company.
She got passed over for a huge promotion and the guy they did promote is a wildly incompetent white man family member of an even higher up person.
I thought I heard the slam of a rotary phone when she hung up on me after I told her she got what she voted for and supports with anti-DEI shit.
This is akin to how the group that most benefited from affirmative action in college admissions were white women. And looking at the demographic trends (educated white women reluctant/refusing to marry uneducated men), this will change the societal makeup in the next generation. The Economist had a great story on this last month
Just like SNAP. Their cruelty is so overwhelming it blinds them to what they actually end up doing
Ahahaha chickens come home to roost
I don't think most white people realize that we would directly benefit from living in a society where everyone is educated, has their basic needs met, and has hopes and aspirations. That is a more pleasant and safer way to live, as opposed to always trying to crawl over the other crabs.
Who could have guessed that Civil Rights and Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion was something that affected everyone in the 99%?
White racism in America
Simply excluding DEI access isn't a magic pill to make MAGA smarter
Nah, need that Limitless pill
Is there a source beyond an image with a text one it? Everything I see when I search for it is that people are expecting this might happen but its still yet to actually be seen
If I'm recalling correctly the original article ran in The Washington Post about a week or so ago
They don’t want anyone educated. There’s been a right wing push towards trades over higher education for a long time. I support that everyone should have their own path and choose not to demonize one side over the other, but they don’t want educated citizens at all.
I was a white, veteran, single father who got a DEI admission to the University of Virginia. I graduated 254 out of 440 in my high school class and had to admit in my admissions essay that, quote, "In high school, I was a complete dumbass." I guarantee had it not been for DEI, I would have been overlooked in favor of a legacy whose parents could donate $250k to the Virginia Athletics Foundation.
But that's the entire point of getting rid of DEI, isn't it?
only a surprise if you uncritically buy right wing grifter narratives I guess
I won’t pretend this information isn’t amusing. Blinded by hate, hurting their own damn selves.
When you do wrong, wrong does you right back.
Racism has hurt itself in its confusion
DEI has always been a tool to protect white positions of power within organizations.
I can't even read this because it's not in Times New Roman. Sans serif fonts are DEI.
Yep. My ex (a white man) was SO turnt about the removal of DEI because he thought it would hurt my husband (a Latino man) and my ex’s fondest wish in life is to see bad things happen to my husband.
My ex lost his job immediately and literally cannot get a job now.
As told to me by an elderly Black man when I was growing up; “You can’t keep someone down unless you stay down there with them to make sure they stay down.”
I try so hard to explain to people the DEI/Affirmative Action is not about hiring unqualified people instead of white men, it’s about pursuing more diverse recruitment opportunities.
Something I pointed out at the time that no one seemed to listen to was that one of the biggest groups that benefitted from DEI policies were veterans. 75% of veterans are still white men, even if that's changing slowly over time
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Source?
See this comment: https://old.reddit.com/r/BlackPeopleTwitter/comments/1pk5dps/you_dont_know_what_you_got_till_its_gone/ntj9tjx/
TL;DR: Brown University/Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/12/04/trump-dei-ban-college-men/
Luckily I got into college right before the election. My college saw that I'm such a broke ass bitch that they "promised" to give me four years completely for free. I'm worried that promise may be undone given that a lot of that funding comes from Pell grants, which this administration is keen to defund for more tax cuts to the rich. However, they haven't issued me any notices of money due, so hopefully I'll be good.
I swear, millisecond I graduate I am immigrating elsewhere lol.
MAGA learning via the FAFO method is not the big story....i just wanna know why they used my school as the thumbnail for this shit.
Anyone got a link yo the article, i wanna send it to someone
Which is why one of those idiots changed a department's fonts from Calibri to Times New Roman, calling Calibri DEI. Because it's easier to read, and we can't have our public records easy to read.
This is an endless nightmare of irrationality.
Common DEI practice where I work: when I'm on a hiring panel I don't see anyone's name, age, location, school names, none of that shit. All I see is experience and qualifications. It's amazing how fucking stupid republicans are.
Welp….any fucking way 🤪 this same thing happened with the main groups cheering the end of affirmative action seeing the steepest declines in college admissions to Ivy League schools while Black student admission remained relatively stable.
I hate to be a contrarian on this but I think part of the decline might be due to them choosing trade schools or other career paths instead of college. For some reason, the red hats have turned the idea of college into a bad thing. Black folks started getting degrees and now they’re suddenly invaluable.
The rage and confusion on my coworker's face when I informed him that he as a disabled veteran is a DEI hire after he did laps celebrating that bullshit is priceless.
Imagine being a broke white man in this country with the 400 hundred year head start.
That's OK. Conservatives don't care how many white people they hurt as long as they proportionately hurt more Black people.
University of Colorado literally did a study on this in like 2010. Nobody listened, not even the university officials.
When this whole anti-DEI campaign started, I pointed out this very thing. Part of the goal of DEI was to uplift people who were economically disadvantaged regardless of race, creed, color or gender. There were programs in all 50 states that were designed to help people... period.
Racism hurts everyone even white people since there are more of them.
But racists are too stupid to understand
Fuck em all
University of California tried this back in the 90s and all that happened was they had a ton of asian students and everyone else dropped off.
There is definitely a part of me that is chuckling at the self-inflicted wound here. I am outraged, too, but I'd be lying if I didn't acknowledge the schadenfreude.