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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Mamdani's win today had absolutely nothing to do with anything happening on X, nor did it have anything to do with Nick Fuentes, Groypers, or intra-right squabbles.
The Mamdani cake was baked weeks ago, this win, and margin of victory, were predicted by polling for weeks...
Mamdani won because he was able to appeal to the professional creative class demographic of NYC. The fact that Mamdani only won 50% of Muslims, but 70% of non-religious people tells you who his base was: downwardly mobile educated creative class professionals....
Nothing on X, and I mean nothing, played any role in his getting elected.
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For example: Justin Maxson, who sits on the board of the CDFI Fund, created a "racial equity lens" in his previous job.
2/ Jennifer Sun works at Asian Americans For Equality which "advances racial, social, and economic
justice for Asian American, immigrant and other systematically disadvantaged communities"
Again, it's a social justice focus.
3/ Maria Bilonick works at the Opportunity Finance Netowork, which funnels money into "racial equity" and "environmental justice."
1/ These Republicans are protecting the CDFI fund, an institution which funnels money into left wing causes.
The CDFI gave 173 Million dollars to the Opportunity Finance Network, and organization that is concerned with DEI, Systemic Racism, and "Racial Justice"
2/ The Opportunity Finance Network is an institution that has as its goal advancing leftists ideology and talking points.
For example, the CDFI ran a post reflecting on how they were going to "operationalize racial equity" into their work.
This is just a folk version of Critical Race Theory
3/ The Opportunity Finance Network also worked to ensure that the Community Development Financial Institutions's (that are funded by the governments CDFI Fund) are bringing in DEI to their networks and business practices.
Canadians aren't ready for what this is going to do to our economy.
Canadian Liberals adopted smug, self-satisfying anti-americanism because they see themselves as more sophisticated and intelligent than Americans, and they think having to win Trump over is beneath them...
Canada's Elite Liberal class thinks that Trump is beneath them, and they think it is they who deserve to be the ones with all the power and decision making. It eats them alive that Canada needs America more than America needs Canada...
They think Trump should "know his place" and do what Canada's elites want because they are better and Smarter that him. Because of their hubris and pride, they would rather say "elbows up" and crash their own economy than to treat Trump like an equal and show him some respect.
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In the 60's and 70's the radical left was led by violent, militant, masculine men...
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In fact, feminists used to complain about how the left...
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Concepts like "indigenous displacement" appear to be neutral descriptions but are in fact normatively loaded...
3/ And the result is that they get deployed according to the normative political considerations of the person using them.
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