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# Putting the DE and I in Denial
- URL: https://goodoil.news/putting-the-de-and-i-in-denial-2/
- Published: 2024-08-19T01:00:44.000Z
- Updated: 2024-08-19T01:00:43.000Z
- Description: If DEI is so great, why do they get so mad when we call them DEI hires?
- Author: Lushington Brady
- Tags: USA Politics, Feminism

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.

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