Most don’t realize that the core of DEI and much of the nonsense in every HR department can be traced back to this EO from the ‘70s. It seemed innocuous at the time, saying govt contractors couldn’t discriminate, but later interpretations broadened that to mean every govt contractor had to obsess over the race and gender of their employees to prove they weren’t “discriminating.”
Thus, they all had to keep records of their employee demographics, and show they were getting more “representative” of the overall population, which in practice meant affirmative action and race and gender quotas. If your company demographics didn’t improve, you’d be open to lawsuits and losing govt contracts. Ironically, the govt couldn’t explicitly mandate quotas, but this was a backdoor way of doing so.
While it only applied to govt contractors, the reality is 1/3 of Fortune 500 companies are considered govt contractors, as are 1/4 of all employees! Google is a govt contractor. Even if a tiny fraction of the company does govt contracts, this EO applied to the entire entity. Plus, the millions already employed by the federal govt and universities. More than any other law, this EO is responsible for affirmative action infiltrating the private sector.
What’s really crazy is that any Republican president (including Trump in his first term) could have repealed it starting with Nixon, but none did. It was the lowest hanging fruit but they were too afraid to touch. Until now.
As with the leftist freak out over “banned books” this is not banning books, it’s still easy to get Harry Potter and bookstores should be able to limit whatever books they want for whatever reason. But not only does it show a double standard, the rationale is far less justifiable than removing certain content from school libraries. At least there the justification was the content of certain books are inappropriate for children, clearly not every book should be available in a school library. Here, there’s no argument about the content they just don’t like the author’s politics!
Because news came out about his letter to the FBI, revealing he was a nutcase. The letter was rambling and incoherent, claiming he was trained by the US military off the books, and that Walz had instructed him to kill Amy Klobuchar so he could run for Senate. None of it made any sense (Walz is not running for Senate) and none of the assassinations made any sense, even in a diabolical way.
Nearly all of his hit list was Democrats (including Walz) and abortion clinics, but he was supposedly working for Walz?! Plus, one of the guys he killed wasn’t even on his list, and others were no longer in office or deceased. None of it makes sense from any coherent angle.
Basically, it appears the guy was mentally ill and neither the left or right can use the incident to push their agendas anymore, so the story was dropped.
This is so dumb. First, this means LA began as Spanish land founded to support Spanish missions (i.e. colonialism). Which contradicts their entire premise. But the reality is that Los Angeles is a quintessential American city.
▪️When the US acquired California in the 1840s, LA was a small town of less than 2,000 people. It was basically nothing. It became large only after the gold rush and the railroads completed in the 1870-80s, which brought thousands of new settlers and a booming commercial center.
▪️But LA had a major issue limiting its growth, no water. It wasn’t until Mulholland found a water source and built an aqueduct down from Northern California that LA had the infrastructure to grow into a major city.
▪️Then, a combination of oil, real estate and the film industry caused it to boom in the early 1900s. Post WWII, industries like aerospace continued its spectacular growth. Calling this “Mexican land” is a brain dead take. Neither the Mexicans, Spanish nor ...
