We’re constantly lectured on the wonders of the new secular religion, ‘Diversity, Equity, Inclusion’. ‘Diversity is our strength!’ ‘DEI: A strategy for success!’ ’Diversity wins: How inclusion matters!’
All in all, DEI seems to be a pretty great thing, or so they tell us.
So, why do they get so mad when anyone calls Kamala Harris a DEI hire?
Harris is a DEI hire. So are nearly all of Joe Biden’s appointments. As the New York Times recently boasted: “Roughly two-thirds of [Biden’s judicial appointments] were women and roughly two-thirds were Black, Hispanic or members of other racial minorities, meaning he has done more to diversify the federal bench than any president.”
DEI is just a great, great thing, yeah?
So why do they lose their shit if anyone mentions it?
The media are hopping mad about Republicans referring to Kamala Harris as a “DEI hire.”
Here’s some of the teeth-gnashing:
– ABC News: “Kamala Harris Faces Racial ‘DEI’ Attacks”
– NPR: “Republicans Call Kamala Harris a ‘DEI Hire’ as Attacks on Her Gender and Race Increase”
– Slate magazine: “The DEI Smear Against Kamala Harris.”
So… DEI is bad?
I wish these loons would make up their minds.
What makes it all even weirder is that, while it’s racist! to suggest that Kamala Harris got appointed because of her race and sex, it was perfectly fine to say exactly the same things about, hmm, Dan Quayle.
“She is the vice president of the United States. She is the former U.S. senator.”
So was Dan Quayle. I don’t remember liberals stoically refusing to sneer about Quayle being a silver spoon, golf-loving WASP.
When a white guy gets hired because of his race and sex, it’s privilege. When a black woman gets hired because of her race and sex…?
And let’s stop with the lying denials that that’s exactly what happened.
DEI proponents have denounced the suggestion that Harris is a DEI hire on the grounds that Biden did not expressly say his vice president had to be a black woman. As Whoopi Goldberg indignantly pointed out, “[Biden] never said that. He said that he was thinking about a woman. He never said her color.”
Oh, cut the crap. Early in the campaign, Biden promised that his running mate would be a woman – and black people made damn clear that it better be a black woman.
He appointed Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court – and these were his own words, let’s not forget – because he wanted a black woman in the job.
And – again, on his own words – he appointed Harris for exactly the same reason.
It was so obvious that Biden had to name a black female that, just this week, the Times’ Michael Barbaro claimed that “by the end of that selection process, [Biden] said, ‘I am going to pick a black woman.’”
Just don’t notice that that’s how it went down.
Having held a gun to Biden’s head to ensure he picked a black woman, the same people are acting today as if Harris survived a dog-eat-dog competition, beating all rivals, without regard to race or sex.
And boy, do they get mad if you mention DEI.
I guess it can’t be that great, after all.
