Zone1 A Judge Finally Names the Trump Admin's Attacks on Everything it Perceives as DEI For What It Actually Is - Racial Discrimination (by our government)

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I'm not sure if LinkedIn articles are accessible without having an account but that is the source of this particular comment. It is important from my perspective because judge Young mentions something critical that we're becoming more aware of - that it takes courage to take a rabidly unpopular stance these days, no matter how accurate and truthful position is:

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/16/judge-rebuke-trump-nih-cuts

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BREAKING: A federal judge appointed by Reagan rules that many of Donald Trump’s cuts to grants for the National Institutes of Health are now “void and illegal” and declares: “Have we fallen so low? Have we no shame?"

And he was just getting warmed up…

"I am hesitant to draw this conclusion, but I have an unflinching obligation to draw it – that this represents racial discrimination,” said District of Massachusetts Judge William Young. “And discrimination against America’s LGBTQ community. That’s what this is. I would be blind not to call it out. My duty is to call it out."

Many of the cuts were aimed at diversity, equity, and inclusion programs which the MAGA movement has condemned as “woke.” In practice, the Trump administration is entrenching discrimination against people of color and the LGBTQ community — red meat for the white nationalists and Christian nationalists who helped elect him.

In total, Young has ordered the NIH to move forward with disbursement on funding for 357 grants that Trump was trying to kill.

Judge Young condemned the administration’s racist agenda and stated that it’s “palpably clear" that the grant terminations were "designed to frustrate, to stop, research that may bear on the health – we’re talking about health here — the health of Americans, of our LGBTQ community.

“That’s appalling,” he added, stating that he’d "never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable."

"I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this ... I ask myself, how can this be?" he said according to Politico’s Kyle Cheney.

Judge Young said that he is Constitutionally protected in speaking out against this discrimination but wondered if he would have stood “against all this” if those protections weren’t in place.

“Would I have said, 'you can’t do this?' You are bearing down on people of color because of their color,” said Young. “The Constitution will not permit that," he said.

“Have we fallen so low? Have we no shame?" he added.

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[Blisterfinger]

I'm not sure if LinkedIn articles are accessible without having an account but that is the source of this particular comment. It is important from my perspective because judge Young mentions something critical that we're becoming more aware of - that it takes courage to take a rabidly unpopular stance these days, no matter how accurate and truthful position is:

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/16/judge-rebuke-trump-nih-cuts

7h • 7 hours ago • Visible to anyone on or off LinkedIn
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BREAKING: A federal judge appointed by Reagan rules that many of Donald Trump’s cuts to grants for the National Institutes of Health are now “void and illegal” and declares: “Have we fallen so low? Have we no shame?"

And he was just getting warmed up…

"I am hesitant to draw this conclusion, but I have an unflinching obligation to draw it – that this represents racial discrimination,” said District of Massachusetts Judge William Young. “And discrimination against America’s LGBTQ community. That’s what this is. I would be blind not to call it out. My duty is to call it out."

Many of the cuts were aimed at diversity, equity, and inclusion programs which the MAGA movement has condemned as “woke.” In practice, the Trump administration is entrenching discrimination against people of color and the LGBTQ community — red meat for the white nationalists and Christian nationalists who helped elect him.

In total, Young has ordered the NIH to move forward with disbursement on funding for 357 grants that Trump was trying to kill.

Judge Young condemned the administration’s racist agenda and stated that it’s “palpably clear" that the grant terminations were "designed to frustrate, to stop, research that may bear on the health – we’re talking about health here — the health of Americans, of our LGBTQ community.

“That’s appalling,” he added, stating that he’d "never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable."

"I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this ... I ask myself, how can this be?" he said according to Politico’s Kyle Cheney.

Judge Young said that he is Constitutionally protected in speaking out against this discrimination but wondered if he would have stood “against all this” if those protections weren’t in place.

“Would I have said, 'you can’t do this?' You are bearing down on people of color because of their color,” said Young. “The Constitution will not permit that," he said.

“Have we fallen so low? Have we no shame?" he added.

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DEI is a racist concept.

 

[excalibur]

The judge doesn't run the Executive Branch, he can fu*k off.

He is in Massachusetts, meaning he was appointed as part of a deal years ago by Reagan. IOW, he is a liberal.

 

[mudwhistle]

DEI is a racist concept.

Anti-White Systemic Racism.

 

[Blisterfinger]

Anti-White Systemic Racism.

You would have to be really corrupt to Advocate as a judge for DEI.

 

[wamose]

Judges like this will bankrupt America.

 

[Lisa558]

A big problem with DEI is it sets up whites to be viewed as “undesirable” and thus fuels anti-white racism and a sense of entitlement among blacks who get jobs they are not the most qualified for.

 

[Delldude]

It is important from my perspective because judge Young mentions something critical that we're becoming more aware of - that it takes courage to take a rabidly unpopular stance these days, no matter how accurate and truthful position is:

Another district judge.

Fuggiddaboutit.

 

[Picaro]

A big problem with DEI is it sets up whites to be viewed as “undesirable” and thus fuels anti-white racism and a sense of entitlement among blacks who get jobs they are not the most qualified for.

This also causes a lot of grief for those black people who really are qualified, but can't be appreciated for it and are in fact despised by left wing blacks as 'uncle toms' or 'actin' white'. I've seen it in company politics before, it's pretty common for the DEI hires to stab the competent ones in the back as often as thy can. Another reason I don't have any sympathy for corporations and their self-inflicted problems.

 

[Lisa558]

This also causes a lot of grief for those black people who really are qualified, but can't be appreciated for it and are in fact despised by left wing blacks as 'uncle toms' or 'actin' white'. I've seen it in company politics before, it's pretty common for the DEI hires to stab the competent ones in the back as often as thy can. Another reason I don't have any sympathy for corporations and their self-inflicted problems.

Yes, and I’ve reported on that before: one out of every three blacks admitted to prestigious universities would have gotten in even if they were white, and two out of three would have been rejected if they were white.

This of course hurts not only the better qualified whites passed over for weaker blacks, but the one of three blacks who got in due to merit.