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GOP Lawmaker Slammed For Calling White House Press Secretary ‘DEI Hire’

GOP Lawmaker Slammed For Calling White House Press Secretary ‘DEI Hire’ | Atlanta Daily World

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Photo: Getty Images A GOP lawmaker is facing backlash after referring to White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre as a “DEI hire.” On Tuesday (July 2), Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert (R) suggested that Jean-Pierre was only hired to fill a diversity quota. “I couldn’t care less about what @PressSec has to say today,” Boebert tweeted. … Continued
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GOP Lawmaker Slammed For Calling White House Press Secretary ‘DEI Hire’

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So DEI now just means the job went to a non-white, non-GOP, not-male person.
Convenient.
- They’ve been using "dei" instead of racial slurs for a while. It’s all a part of their toxic plan.
  
  It's not even a new idea. It's just the same weathered and worn "a minority couldn't possibly have the proper education to do this job," from uneducated idiots who... *checks notes... definitely don't have the education to do the same job and spend all their time trying to reduce access to education to minorities.
  It's still the slaveowners attitude of purposefully keeping them uneducated and then judging them for their... lack of education. It's what stupid selfish controlling people have done to others for centuries, kick them down, and then berate them for having been kicked down. They don't like smart people who can talk back to them so they try to make sure they are the smartest person in the room by purposefully keeping everyone else dumb.
  When everyone in a political party is vying to be the smartest person in the room by controlling information and making everyone else dumber, you end up with a joke shitshow like the US Republican party, which stands for nothing other than bullying and willful ignorance.
- Isn't it amazing that the people advocating for a "STricT mERITocrACY" conspicuously ignore their meritocracy is very monochromatic?
  
  Are you denying she’s horrible at her job? She’s quite possibly the worst-spoken press secretary ever.
- Anto-DEI has always been a dog whistle for racism and sexism. Conservatives will screech DEI if a woman or person of color does literally anything.
- That's what it always has meant. It threatens the heteronormative Christian patriarchal power structure to have anyone but a white man in charge of anything. And it doesn't matter that a woman is saying it because it's a woman who doesn't understand that the leopards will eat her face too.
- "Politically correct" is old news, "woke" is losing steam, so now we move to "DEI".
  Just like how it used to be "Shell shock", then it was "Battle Fatigue", and now its PTSD.
- 🐶🌬️
It doesn't matter how many times I see Boebert in the news - she still seems to me to be a particularly gross and nasty tweaked-out cam girl who's inexplicably been allowed to pretend to be a politician.
- She got her GED so she could run for congress...
  
  BARELY got her GED and had to take the test FOUR times.
- "It's funny cuz it's true"
- I’d smoke meth with that granny.
  Maybe we could go to a dark theatre after.
"Slammed…"
S L A M M E D
SLAAAAAAAAAAAAMMED
Edit: forgot an m
Is a DEI hire bad? I don't think so. All those letters stand for good things.
- I think the implication is that they're not being chosen solely on their qualifications. So that would imply a lower bar and lower performance.
  
  Of course that's the spin this psychotic cunt is putting on it, but DEI hires are a real thing, and they don't have to have a bad implication - let's not let them own this phrase.
  
  Which, of course, ignores the fact that there are likely multiple people from various races, ethnicities, genders and other identities which are all about equally qualified and getting a black woman in an administration run by a white man could bring needed perspective.
Right Wingers continue to just take terms and turn them into placeholders until they crank the hard R.
Thug ---+ Woke -----> DEI
First "gop lawmaker" is REALLY a far too generous stretch for a boebert descriptor. "gop participant and known public handjob aficionado" maybe...
Second, the gop always DESPERATELY needs an acronym to funnel their implant hate through - seems clear that the emerging favorite these days is DEI with a hard "R". Fucking cowards.
anything Lauren Boebert says is comedy gold
if it's the ginger pistol I saw giving the press a verbal shellacking a while back, there's nothing DEI about her hire unless we count the fact she's like 91% angry viking barely restrained by some hard manners .... so, Norwegian-Canadian immigrant?
2b. Nah, I could watch her school press flacks all.freakin.day. She was on fire.
Ted Cruz’s former prostitute and abortion kompromat vessel called someone else DEI? That’s too rich.
"Ohhhh, You're tough now, aren't you motherfucker... HE'S A DEI!!!! A DEI, DEI, DEI!!!! Get his DEI ass out of here!!!"
-transcript from inside the gop's cavernous heads, rolling around next to the guilt for never actually reading the bible and the last 5 grindr messages they responded to
A clock shaped like a pile of rancid garbage is still right twice a day, as harsh as it is.
Karine Jean-Pierre is not a very good press secretary, And while I don't know what the candidate pool was or what the vetting process was like, I think you'd be hard pressed to say that her being a black, LGBT, woman didn't at all factor into her getting picked for the job. And while that's not a bad thing, let's not clutch our pearls and pretend calling her a DEI hire is some unhinged claim.
Ask yourself this, do DEI hires exist? Yes, they often do. Does KJP tick literally all the boxes for a DEI hire? She absolutely does.
- In this context, calling her “a DEI hire” means she’s not qualified. You’re saying she’s not qualified? Hey y’know who wasn’t a very good press secretary at all? Sean Spicer. Remember when he jumped in the bushes? He wasn’t a DEI hire was he? Nooooo. White men don’t need no steenking badges.
  
  I will take a hundred KJPs over one Scaramucci.
  
  It doesn't mean she's unqualified, it just means more qualified candidates may have been passed over in favor of her because she's more diverse. And considering how bad of a job she's doing, if you are trying to make the claim that she WASN'T a DEI hire and she was hired solely because she was the best candidate, then you are making the claim that Biden and his cabinet are so incompetent that they can't attract anyone talented who wants to work for them.
  And don't deflect with "well the horrible people during Trump were worse!" Yea, no shit. It was the Trump presidency. That changes absolutely nothing about KJP and why she was hired.
- Do you say she's not very good because you think she's unqualified?
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karine_Jean-Pierre
  It seems to me she has a well-developed resumé, she has held several key posts in Democratic campaigns before landing the Press Secretary gig. She appears to be objectively qualified for her job. Much more so than
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_Boebert
  Who owned a bunch of restaurants before running for office. Her main qualification semes to be that she talked some shit to an ex-member of the Cult of the Dead Cow. But the only vetting process she went through was an election.
  
  I'm saying she's not very good because of her many gaffs and avoidance of questions.
  And why compare her to Boebert? Boebert is a shit stain who's unqualified to work at a fruit stand, let alone be a congresswoman. You bring up her qualifications like you think it's some new info.
  I don't understand how people think this type of deflection is worth anything. "You think this person is bad, well what about this other person who's WORSE?!" Yea, that doesn't make the first person better. This isn't a fucking grade school popularity contest.

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