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.
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 ...
