Some more background on why Trump’s executive order rescinding affirmative action was so massive.
▪️The Civil Rights Act never defined discrimination. So when Johnson issued EO 11246 prohibiting discrimination among certain govt contractors, what did that mean? Not a whole lot at the time, but that quickly changed.
▪️At the time the Civil Rights Act was passed, discrimination was widely thought to be the purposeful exclusion (or inclusion) based on race. Over time, the courts and govt bureaucrats interpreted discrimination to mean disparate impact, which is how “woke” ideology snuck in and took over.
▪️No longer did discrimination have to do with an employer’s intent. Any hiring practices or decisions that appeared to benefit one group or disadvantage another was deemed discriminatory. After all, one key tenet in woke ideology is that if a minority group isn’t sufficiently represented it’s because of discrimination/racism.
▪️This is why IQ and other aptitude tests all but vanished in hiring. If your test ends up favoring one group over another, it was deemed discriminatory and illegal. Physical standards for women had to be lowered for jobs like police and fire fighters. Even literacy tests for teachers have been subject to civil rights lawsuits.
▪️If you’re thinking that no matter what a company does there will be disparate impact, you’re correct! The disparate impact standard meant that companies had to collect and obsess over race and gender data among their employees. If the numbers were “problematic” you needed a plan.
▪️Under this standard, virtually every company could be in violation of employment law, so what to do? Get an HR department, declare your company is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion, institute sensitivity training and hope the bureaucrats leave you alone.
▪️Ironically, when the Civil Rights Act was passed, there was much worry from legislators about disparate impact and reverse discrimination. The promoters of the bill went out of their way to promise reverse discrimination would never happen. The legacy of this is that any sort of explicit hiring quotas are forbidden.
▪️But it took less than a decade after its passage for disparate impact to become the standard and for the woke ideology to backdoor slowly become enmeshed in corporate hiring practices. While quotas are forbidden, so is hiring the wrong amount of certain races and genders.
▪️There are several steps needed to undo this, but rescinding Johnson’s EO is one of the most important. This, combined with the president encouraging companies to not practice DEI and eventually, the SCOTUS removing the disparate impact standard and clarifying the definition of discrimination in the CRA, will go a long way.
Just incredible. After posting a meme blaming Charlie Kirk for his own murder, they post another a few hours later applauding Democrats for their civility.
Also, if you look at the Occupy Democrats timeline, their posts “denouncing political violence” were variations on “no one should be shot…BUT here’s a quote from Kirk showing he’s a terrible person.” Or sometimes they’d leave the first part out altogether and just attack him. There are no posts denouncing violence without qualifiers trying to gin up their base.
