Jackie Robinson is not DEI

[Auld Phart]

If MAGA had been around then, they would have boycotted his games.

MAGA?

More like MBWA.

Make Baseball White Again.

they were around, called themselves Dixiecrats.

 

[rightwinger]

You do realize that some of these removals are mistakes, right. Like the Enola Gay, that just got caught up in their filter. Someone wasn't trying to ban the Enola Gay.

That is exactly the problem with this DEI purge in the military.
They just do word searches for black, gay, Hispanic, diversity…
They purge the document first….ask questions later

 

[ThisIsMe]

What I realize is that none of this should be happening.

I respect your right to have that opinion!

 

[Billiejeens]

for once, I agree with you,

Jackie wasn't hired because of his skin color; he was hired because of his talent.

Which IQ2 is totally against

 

[Billiejeens]

If MAGA had been around then, they would have boycotted his games.

Your alternate reality is weird.

 

[ThisIsMe]

That is exactly the problem with this DEI purge in the military.
They just do word searches for black, gay, Hispanic, diversity…
They purge the document first….ask questions later

I agree, that's a half assed approach. Valid in intention, but horrible in implementation.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Really?!?? How much did she make?

Too much.

Anti-racist author Robin DiAngelo makes '$728K a year' for speeches

Robin DiAngelo, an anti-racist author who wrote a NYT bestseller 'White Fragility,' makes an estimated $728,000 a year from speaking engagements, according to Reason.com.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Seymour Flops]

That is exactly the problem with this DEI purge in the military.
They just do word searches for black, gay, Hispanic, diversity…
They purge the document first….ask questions later

Which is perfectly fine. This is what open government and free speech is all about. If they inadvertently delete a tribute to Jackie Robinson as an unintended consequence of ending DEI, it isn't going to affect military readiness in a negative way nearly as much as promoting people because their skin color is that of people who have not historically been successful, or putting a trannie in command of an infantry company, or not allowing women in the military who are not willing to shower with males.

Someone will notice Jackie Robinson not being on the website (open government) and throw a fit (the now being restored freedom of speech). Then the military can make a rational decision on whether to put him back. EIther way, no harm, no foul.

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

he was hired for his talent. so no, he wasn't a DEI. You just educated yourself on the difference.

Simple minded people believe what they want or only what they can see. You BELIEVE Jackie Robinson was hired for his talent ONLY BECAUSE you can see the evidence of his talent.

In absence of anything tangible, white racists default to
IF Black THEN Automatically not qualified for the position(s) obtained --> BECAUSE of DEI

If there were no such thing as DEI you would still default to this ignorant position because if you don't see the evidence of talent, skill or accomplishments, then this is the erroneous conclusion most often drawn

IF Black THEN Automatically not qualified for the position(s)

If it's not something tangible, that you can see, small minds can't help but default to this same erroneous conclusion, right?

So how do you think Jackie Robinson's webpage, allegedly "by mistake", get deleted in the first place?
While I will readily admit, I don't know why, I would bet my decades of experience in IT on the fact that they're hunting down and removing anything that applies to Black people and it matters not to them whether their accomplishments were achieved prior to the executive order that essentially allowed the creation of DEI initiatives or if they were accomplished afterwards.

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

When are people going to realize trump and crew are flaming racist?

I'm pretty sure they know that they are which is why they love him.

Because they are too and he allows them to not have to hold it in any longer.

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

Correct which is why he shouldn’t be exploited and used by Dem admins on govt websites

Oh my gosh, he's not being exploited, he along with many others were features on a website that told the stories of those who served who are in sports.

He was not singled out and featured because he was Black, at least not until the anti-DEI hunters found him.

 

[Meathead]

In the quest to establish the new "woke culture" the Defense Department actually removed the history of Jaackie Robinson from its website. After much clamor, they decided to restore it. Jackie Robinson is not DEI. What some claim DEI is isn't DEI. It's time this overt nonsense ended.

Defense Department Webpage on Jackie Robinson Goes Down, Then Returns amid Diversity Purge​

A Department of Defense webpage describing baseball and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson's military service was restored Wednesday after it was missing earlier in the day.

That development came after pages honoring a Black Medal of Honor winner and Japanese American service members were taken down — the Pentagon said that was a mistake — amid the department's campaign to strip out content singling out the contributions by women and minority groups, which the Trump administration considers “DEI.”

Defense Department Webpage on Jackie Robinson Goes Down, Then Returns amid Diversity Purge

The page on Robinson includes biographical information about his Army service during World War II, which occurred prior to his famously breaking baseball's color barrier in 1947 with the Brooklyn Dodgers.

www.military.com

True. Jackie Robinson was meritocracy. Blacks in most sports and music are so. In other fields they would be almost totally absent without DEI.

 

[Meathead]

As hard as many of the trump people try, their racist tendencies sometime just slip out. I don't understand how a black person could vote for tump? But many did....

Mostly men, so you wouldn't understand.

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

You do realize that some of these removals are mistakes, right. Like the Enola Gay, that just got caught up in their filter. Someone wasn't trying to ban the Enola Gay.

Do you want to take a guess as to why these mistakes are being made?

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

I respect your right to have that opinion!

No he's right. Best practices in doing a modification to published webpages, or heck any task undertaken really, requires that you TEST your work before publishing.

For all of the complaining about federal workers and them allegedly being lazy or not capable of doing their jobs, the replace crew has shown NOTHING but incompetence.

I certainly wouldn't be allowed to get away that work that sloppy. Certainly the accusations of being nothing more than an affirmative action hire would be leveled.

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

Which is perfectly fine. This is what open government and free speech is all about.

WOW, you couldn't be more wrong. And their work is shoddy as hell, starting with their algorithm for determining which sites are "DEI" and should be removed.

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

I agree, that's a half assed approach. Valid in intention, but horrible in implementation.

Oh my gosh, you just said what white racists think and do, out loud.

The intention is absolutely not valid but you've nailed it - you equate DEI with being Black and/or gay.

 

[rightwinger]

Which is perfectly fine. This is what open government and free speech is all about. If they inadvertently delete a tribute to Jackie Robinson as an unintended consequence of ending DEI, it isn't going to affect military readiness in a negative way nearly as much as promoting people because their skin color is that of people who have not historically been successful, or putting a trannie in command of an infantry company, or not allowing women in the military who are not willing to shower with males.

Someone will notice Jackie Robinson not being on the website (open government) and throw a fit (the now being restored freedom of speech). Then the military can make a rational decision on whether to put him back. EIther way, no harm, no foul.

The Military relies on Diversity more today than at any time.
Blacks, Hispanics, Women, Gays all play a bigger role.

Under Trumps attack on any DEI, the military is forbidden from acknowledging the contributions of those groups

 

[ThisIsMe]

Do you want to take a guess as to why these mistakes are being made?

Because they fed an algorithm into a computer and it spit out a bunch of stuff, and they just didn't look at it well enough to cull out things that shouldn't be in there?

 

[Billiejeens]

Simple minded people believe what they want or only what they can see. You BELIEVE Jackie Robinson was hired for his talent ONLY BECAUSE you can see the evidence of his talent.

In absence of anything tangible, white racists default to
IF Black THEN Automatically not qualified for the position(s) obtained --> BECAUSE of DEI

If there were no such thing as DEI you would still default to this ignorant position because if you don't see the evidence of talent, skill or accomplishments, then this is the erroneous conclusion most often drawn

IF Black THEN Automatically not qualified for the position(s)

If it's not something tangible, that you can see, small minds can't help but default to this same erroneous conclusion, right?

So how do you think Jackie Robinson's webpage, allegedly "by mistake", get deleted in the first place?
While I will readily admit, I don't know why, I would bet my decades of experience in IT on the fact that they're hunting down and removing anything that applies to Black people and it matters not to them whether their accomplishments were achieved prior to the executive order that essentially allowed the creation of DEI initiatives or if they were accomplished afterwards.

You all said that they couldn't make it on their own, without your help.

The racism of low expectations - that is a bad type of racism, by the way.