1/ Deanne Criswell, the head the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency says she made Equity her priority, then FEMA held DEI training saying the U.S. is rooted in extreme violence and White Supremacy is in almost every institution.
Woke activists hijacked FEMA,
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2/ Thanks to reporting from Ben Wilson at the Washington @FreeBeacon we know that FEMA held a series of DEI trainings, one of which claimed that the U.S. is rooted in extreme violence, and the established systems in the U.S. require oppression of subjegated people.
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In a "Letter from the Administrator" Crisswell said that she wanted to make Equity the "foundation of emergency management.
That means that rather then effectiveness or efficiency in responding to disaster, the focus of disaster relief is "equity."
This is absurd.
4/ This is confirmed by the fact that we have Equity as the foundation of disaster relief being built right into the FEMA strategic plan.
When time is valuable and lives hang in the balance you need to move as fast as you can, there's not time to bean count for equity.
5/ Further, in the strategic plan FEMA says they are going to make sure FEMA's workforce "matches the diversity of the nation." This is impossible without racial hiring quotas, which is what is going to happen (if it hasn't already)
6/ FEMA also says they are going to "determine if FEMA’s workforce demonstrates an increased commitment to integrating diversity, equity, and inclusion in delivering the agency’s mission.
To be clear: FEMA is going to implement DEI when delivering disaster relief.
7/ FEMA is also going to encourage employees to spend their time and resources coming up with more ideas related to Diversity Equity and Inclusion.
As you can see, an incredible amount of time and resources are being sucked up by DEI initiatives at FEMA.
8/ FEMA is also going to streamline support for vulnerable people. This is ok in some cases (IE those with disabilities who need special assistance to live) but FEMA wants to prioritize people who don't speak english over those who do speak english.
This is not acceptable.
9/ IT gets even worse. FEMA is going to "develop and implement an annual equity and civil rights assessment agenda, building on the steps taken in developing the Equity Action Plan."
Which means it wants to bring in an entire civil rights apparatus and Equity Action Plan.
10/ FEMA is supposed to respond to emergencies, and instead they are using their budget to advance the ideological agenda of leftist activists. In the process they are making their response times slower, and their operations less effective.
This is what DEI does everywhere...
11/ It takes over every organization it gets a foothold in and then uses that organization as a vehicle to advance woke ideology.
That is what is happening with FEMA, and we need to figure out how to stop it.
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There's a story behind the squirrel story everyone's missing.
A man had his home searched for 5 hours until officials found his pet squirrel, which they took and then killed.
The problem isn't that government broke the law, the problem is that it *didn't* break the law
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2/ People analyze this story as an abuse of power or as government over-reach, but that's not the problem.
The problem is that everything the government did, including killing the mans pet, was LEGAL.
And that's what people find scary: the government is allowed to act that way
3/ The problem is not that the government broke the law, the problem is that the government terrorized a man and his family, disrupted his life, destroyed a source of his income, killed his pet, and left him heartbroken...and doing this was totally legal.
I've been documenting how American government institutions have been hijacked by woke activists, and I've put all my threads in one big thread so you can see how bad things are/🧵
1/ When lgbtq+ activists talk about 'queer' they don't mean "being different."
The lgbtq+ activists definition of "Queer" is about opposing and abolishing *ALL* social norms, and abolishing the idea that anything should ever be declared to be "normal"
2/ "Queer Theory" is an academic discipline which claims to study human sexuality, except that it does not use *science* to study secuality.
Queer Theory analyzes sex, gender, and human sexuality using a method of engagement created by neo-marxists called "Critical Theory."
3/ In 1937 Max Horkheimer wrote an essay called “Traditional and Critical Theory” which explains the difference between "traditional theory" and "Critical Theory."
According to Horkheimer, traditional theory is purely descriptive; its only goal is describe the world as it is...
1/ To show you how captured by wokeness Government institutions are, here's a list of insane things published by *JUST* the National Institutes for Health. /🧵
They hired a "fat activist" to write about "fatphobia, and say there's no evidence for safe weight loss.
2/ The NIH has an article about "Hari discrimination" and the prospect of living with "Black Hair in an Unjust Society"
3/ They have a 3 part series on "intersectionality," a term coined by Critical Race Theorist Kimberlee Crenshaw.
The entire series is about how institutions are systemically biased against women in various ways, and how employees ought to advance DEI as a way to fix this.
1/ The National Institutes of Health hired an activist who claims:
-obesity doesn't cause poor health
-safe weight loss isn't possible
-poor outcomes for obese people are caused by fatphobia, and anti-fat bais
America's largest Health organization is captured by activists/🧵
2/ These ideas come out of an academic field called "Fat Studies," which has it's own academic journals. The ideas from Fat Studies come almost entirely out of Critical theory and Postmodernism.
Those who work in Fat Studies call themselves "Fat Scholars" and "Fat Activists."
3/ Fat Studies is postmodern, and as such is accepts the postmodern idea objective absolute, universal truth does not exist.
Postmodernism says all truth claims are socially constructed, and are thus polluted by the biases, interests, and agenda's of the people who created them.
1/ Critical Social Justice (woke) activists don't see legitimacy as a product of competence, knowledge, merit, and and high standards rigorously and consistenly applied
They think legitimacy is a form of social capital that allows privileged people to accrue prestige and status
2/ According to wokeness, legitimacy is not given to institutions, ideas, or people because they have met the objective standards of merit, competence, knowledge, and truth
Rather, legitimacy is a social convention that gatekeeps access prestige, status, power, and resources.
3/ Woke activists accept the postmodern idea that there are no objective standards for knowledge, truth, merit, rationality, and competence.
They think all standards of judgement are socially constructed according to the interests amd values of the people who constructed them...