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CNN: Trump Is Imposing 'Ideology’ By Enforcing Civil Rights Law
CNN: Trump Is Imposing 'Ideology’ By Enforcing Civil Rights Law
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On Wednesday’s CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish and her panel managed to recast enforcement of federal civil rights law under Donald Trump as “enforcing ideology,” while a Democratic consultant insisted that DEI “was never a problem” until Trump took office.
The segment opened with archival footage of Jesse Jackson defending boycotts, including the recent effort to intimidate Target after the retailer scaled back "diversity, equity, and inclusion" initiatives following Trump’s reelection. Cornish noted that Target’s CEO has acknowledged financial effects from the leftist boycott.
The more revealing moment came later, during discussion of Trump’s State of the Union vow to end DEI policies across the federal government and, indirectly, the private sector.
After airing remarks from current Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Chair Andrea Lucas defending equal protection principles, Cornish framed the issue this way:
“What it means is the actual government now is involved in enforcing a different ideology, so to speak.”
~Snip~Terry Schilling, executive director of the American Principles Project, offered the clearest counterargument: civil rights law was designed to "tear down" racial barriers, not replace one form of racial preference with another.
For CNN, insisting that Americans be judged without regard to race is now the intolerably ideological position.
Commentary:
Some people don't believe in the "Take Care" clause in the Constitution?
They only want Congress to pass laws they can campaign on, but no really enforce?
So when Democrats takes an oath to "Take care that the laws be faithfully executed," to them that's just "ideology" and not a constitutional obligation of the office?
Liberty requires equality, but equity is an anathema to Liberty. Democrats choose neither, only power.
They have it reversed, it was Obama and Biden imposing an ideology (DEI) in more or less of an extra-legal framework.
The Constitution has as one of its major pillars the statement that all are created equal. Granted, at the time this was written, blacks and women (and native Americans) were not considered equal. But at no time would the constitution ever have stated, some are more equal than others. That was the foundation of DEI, not only are various groups equal, but they were to be treated as superior to equal. One could argue this to be the mirror image of the original constitution which did not extend equality to all Americans at that time.
But it is a perverted intent to create justice with injustice. Justice was served when various groups caught up to the full equality of white men granted in the original document. It can be noted that the process was largely complete by 1920. There has been some further refinement but for all intents and purposes, all citizens and legal residents of the U.S. have been equal for all of their present natural lives. What they make of that equality is their personal choice.
