The Charlie Kirk Shuffle: false idol

If she was only considered because they were only going to hire a woman then she would be a DEI hire. I don't think that this would be difficult, even if you are yawning. If the goal is to hire from a specific group, or to exclude a specific group you think is over represented, then you have yourself a DEI hire.

Now... What I would propose is removing the names, etc. from resumes and hiring by qualifications. If you get RBG at that point, that would not be a DEI hire and it removes any supposed privilege one might have.

If you are making decisions based on melanin content to either include or exclude folks from your hiring, you are making a DEI hire, and one I would surmise is racist and/or sexist to boot.

I think you make a poor assumption about my ancestry if you claim to know what I think because I am "white"... I'm exactly as white as Barack Obama.
Okay, then Sandra Day O'Connor was a DEI hire, do you agree? How about Amy? Clarence Thomas?

When I say "white men" I mean in general, not you specifically.
 
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I read a bio of Johnson and it sure seemed like 90% of Texans in those days were crude racist F****.
A lot were but many were not. My great grandfather who I admired used to give his Black postman a cold glass of water because no one drank bottled water back then and most water fountains were sadly for Whites only and Texas summers are hot. I was about five and I would watch for our Black postman and when he came on our porch I thrust a glass of ice water at him. The first time I did it he looked at my mom and asked if it was OK. Mom said absolutely and he drank it. Then every day during the summer I would do the same thing. It paid off for me because one day I was trying to fly a kite and he stopped and helped me for about 45 minutes. We remained friends and he took me fishing a few times when I was a teenager. Our church congregation was small and the only Church of our denomination in town and we had a Black family that attended regularly until they moved to another town. But yes there were racist in Texas and in most states in the 50s and 60s but things have slowly improved since then. But yes Johnson was a huge racist. He credits his maid for changing some of his opinions on Blacks.
 
Okay, then Sandra Day O'Connor was a DEI hire, do you agree? How about Amy? Clarence Thomas?

When I say "white men" I mean in general, not you specifically.
Clarence Thomas was a merit hire. He earned his way to where he is. He graduated cum laude And earned his law degree from Yale the best law school in the country.

O'Connor earned her way too.

  • Bachelor of Arts: Graduated magna cum laude in economics in 1950.

  • Juris Doctor: Graduated near the top of her class in 1952.

  • Order of the Coif: Achieved this distinction, indicating placement in the top 10% of her graduating law school class.

  • Stanford Law Review: Served as a board editor, a prestigious position that demonstrated her legal acumen.
 
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What about Graduating Cum Laude and Graduating from the best Law School in the country do you not understand? And serving as assistant AG in Missouri and sitting of the DC circuit of appeals?
I can use wiki too. None of this sounds like high praise. Btw a lot of what you say about Thomas could also be said about Ketanji Brown Jackson and the ABA rated her "well qualified." But that doesn't stop you from calling her a DEI hire.

"When Justice William Brennan retired from the Supreme Court in July 1990, Thomas was Bush's favorite among the five candidates on his shortlist for the position. However, Bush's advisors, including Attorney General Dick Thornburgh, considered Thomas inexperienced, and he instead nominated David Souter of the First Circuit Court of Appeals...

A year later, Justice Thurgood Marshall announced his retirement on June 27, 1991, and Bush nominated Thomas to replace him. Bush announced his selection on July 1, calling Thomas the "best qualified at this time".

The American Bar Association (ABA) appraised Thomas as "qualified" for the Supreme Court. The result came in contrast to the "well qualified" rating some nominees had received previously. The Bush Administration anticipated that the organization would rate Thomas more poorly than it thought he deserved, so pressured the ABA for at least the mid-level qualified rating while simultaneously discrediting it as partisan."
 
I'm doing honey do projects today. My wife bought TWO NINE FOOT tin soldiers for Christmas decoration I'm assembling one for a test run. Sometimes I wish I was Jewish.
Then you can have people break your windows because you have a Menorah displayed in one!

Enjoy your nine-foot tin soldiers!
 
I have never supported gov't censorship.
Lie.
I have never supported crime or violence.
Lie.
I have been a shooter, a hunter and a collector since I was a kid.
I am more of a supporter of the 2nd amendment than you ever dreamed of being.
Then you support the right of self defense using ANY weapon, up to and including nuclear bombs, right?
The US Constitution is the ultimate authority and the foundation of our nation.
Then why do you discard and despise it?
And yes, I did serve. I was onboard the USS James Madison, SSBN 627.
Lie. DON'T TRY TO CLAIM FALSE VALOR!
Don't know who you thought I was, but you missed it by a mile.
Trying to deny your own posts never works, Winter.
 
I don't care about Joy Reid. I asked you because you're a maga, she's not. At what level do you start to wonder if someone is DEI, for instance do you give that mental test to your auto mechanic, electrician or plumber?

It seems to me that if a minority is in the higher levels of position or employment, i.e. doctor, judge, college professor, your DEI radar goes off. So where's the point where the difference between non-DEI and DEI occurs?
I wonder when they have my life in their hands. If a mechanic screws up I can go to another or buy a different car if it is a professor I always can drop the class if they are doing a poor job. I had a chemistry class that was being taught by a Chinese teaching assistant who visibly got upset if you asked a question and occasionally would start writing in Chinese then erase and write in English. I dropped the class because it was wasting my time. But once you are flying 600 feet in the air in an aluminum tube I like knowing the pilot got there by his or hers own merit.
 
I would wonder if they do it based on the criteria used to choose them. If their race was among that criteria, that would be a DEI hire.

Let's say I have a checklist. And one item is more important than any of the rest. The person must be a Martian to get this position because Martians are not represented enough....

This discounts every other qualified candidate. Only Martians will be considered.

This would be a DEI hire. Even if the Martian would have gotten the job if every other race of being was considered, the fact that they were not would signify that it was DEI. Even if they do not announce it, the fact that they chose intersectionally rather than experientially would make it a DEI hire.

I would wonder that. I am not answering for them. She was certainly qualified, every American born citizen above the age of 35 is "qualified", the constitution says so. That doesn't mean I want someone like my next door neighbor to be President, only that he's as qualified as she if you go by that minimalist interpretation.
If you used DEI and want only a Black Female you might end up with Kamala Harris and get an unpopular VP and eventually lose a presidential election.
 
Race isn't the only criterion that falls under DEI. "Diversity refers to the presence of variety within the organizational workforce in characteristics such as race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, age, culture, class, veteran status, or religion."

Right off the bat this makes all women DEI hires, since there are always fewer women than men working full time... even though there are slightly more women than men in the population. The deck's always been stacked in favor of white men.
There are fewer stay at home DADS because most men are the primary bread winner. So there are more stay at home moms and women tend to go into and out of the work force. Plus men will do nasty dirty and dangerous jobs that few women will do.
 
"Diversity refers to the presence of variety within the organizational workforce in characteristics such as race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, age, culture, class, veteran status, or religion." Did anyone here ever get a job for any of those reasons? Or were you hired because you were the best qualified at the time?
 
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