Donald Trump has ordered that all federal diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) staff be put on paid leave “immediately” and eventually laid off as the new President’s war on woke goes nuclear. The Telegraph has more.
The move follows an executive order the President signed on his first day back in the White House which revoked Lyndon Johnson’s [sic] protection of workers against discrimination based on race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin.
Mr Trump’s order also encourages the private sector to “end illegal DEI discrimination and preferences”.
Heralding a “new golden age” for the US, he has sought to quickly dismantle many Biden-era policies with a flurry of executive orders on immigration, gender and climate.
The President has vowed to fire more than a thousand of his successor’s appointees, including Adml Linda Fagan, whom Joe Biden, the former President, appointed to lead the US Coast Guard in 2022.
Mr Trump sacked Adml Fagan on Tuesday for excessive focus on diversity policies.
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) directed agencies to place DEI office staffers on paid leave, take down all public DEI-focused webpages and cancel any DEI-related training by 5pm EST on Wednesday (10pm GMT).
The memo also encouraged employees at federal agencies to inform on those attempting to disguise DEI programmes.
Federal department and agency bosses are required to ask “employees if they know of any efforts to disguise these [DEI] programmes by using coded or imprecise language”.
The memo, issued on Tuesday, included a template email for bosses to send to employees, which asks them to report to OPM if they are “aware of a change in any contract description or personnel position description since November 5th 2024 (Election Day) to obscure the connection between the contract and DEIA or similar ideologies”.
The memo added that DEI programmes “divided Americans by race, wasted taxpayer dollars and resulted in shameful discrimination”.
Federal Government departments had started to take down public webpages associated with diversity, equity and inclusion on Wednesday, in line with the OPM memo and ahead of the 5pm deadline.
The US Treasury, Department for Labour, Agency for International Development and the General Services Administration appeared to have heeded the order by dismantling their DEI landing pages.
Trump providing lots of ideas here for the U.K.’s next Right-wing administration…
Worth reading in full.
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I confess, I am equally frustrated that everyone carries around with them a way of accessing the entirety of human knowledge, and so few bother doing anything more than watching kitty video’s or asking their friends what they are doing.
Puppy videos are better.
Thanks to Joanna Gray for exposing this shocking truth. All these years I had just assumed that young people were even more adept than us old folks at using the internet as the vast, wondrous library it is, so it comes as a real shock to me that most young ones have no interest at all in that.
One small English quibble: it’s “reams”, not “reems”.
Really nteresting article. I think you are on to something here. Most people will default to ‘lazy’, given the chance and lack of stimuli.
I will be looking at my teenage children’s usage with this in mind.
One more reason to be glad that I’ll be dead soon.
When I wrote my PhD, I could only use hardcopy sources and I went through a LOT of books and journals to do it. The internet existed, but it was nothing like the resource it is now. When I quit teaching, half my students were using the internet to write their essays for them (and being caught out because the results didn’t sound like them. Thus I would type in what they’d written et voila! Source found and student got a b@ll@cking). To find they’re not even doing that much is depressing. I am reading academic papers, doing research, watching documentaries, listening to interviews… It’s all there for them. Why aren’t they seizing on it? What has changed in education that they no longer have the urge to learn even when it’s easy?
Stupid is as stupid does (or does not); the answer my be that the younger generation has become more and more stupid.
Ah yes.
But that’s just with Bliar’s genius stroke of increasing university attendance to 50% of yoof.
(In other words ensuring a cohort of students of below 50% IQ, as many kids can’t or don’twant to do that. And the appointment of “University Professors” who would be lucky to have been laboratory assistants back when I was at University.).
Now, we learn that our Uniparty (Labia,branch) chums look to ensure 70% of kiddies go to University. The outcome should be exciting.
Maybe forcibly jabbing children with 72 needles has something to do with it…
What do they eat in Scotland? Fascinating question.
Technology is great and we should ofcourse use it. —–But today Technology is using the people.———– In a very short period of time we have gone from no phones to where I now see young people waiting for the school bus or walking along the road all glued to their phones. I see young mums pushing their buggies with one hand on the phone and paying no attention at all to their baby. —————I think we have to class this now as some kind of phycological disorder.
It is tied up with changes to the family structure and lone parents and grandparents needing to provide 365 day support to their children and grandchildren in order to keep them dependant and home for as long as possible so they will never be lonely.
Jordan Peterson does a good analysis on this subject.
Yes, plus pots of extra benefit money for life, if they can get their sproggies declared “mentally disabled” under one or more of the hundreds of categories.
Going to a hospital appointment the other day I was carrying my current read, D Day, by Antony Beevor. “Good book? What’s it about?” Asks the nurse. “Er, D day”‘ I reply. “What’s that then?” She said.
It’s hopeless, isn’t it?