We have to stop using the fascist's code words. It wasn't DEI. He was expelled for supporting desegregation and racial equality.
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I mean, yah. That probably falls under the umbrella of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. DEI is good, and we shouldn't stop using the term just cuz Orange Man upset (IMO).
DEI is neoliberal language putting a positive marketable spin on anti-discrimination practices. It allows disingenuous corporations look especially nice for doing the bare minimum that should be expected of them.
And it has been co-opted by the far right to act as a nebulous term (like woke) that just describes anything bad.
Yep. So, once again, the left gets stuck holding the bag for neoliberal bullshit that loses to fascism. It's an age old story.
‘I have no regrets!’ – that was the message of South Africa’s expelled ambassador to the US, addressing supporters who’d come to greet him at Cape Town airport.
Ebrahim Rasool took his expulsion by the Trump administration as a ‘badge of dignity.’ The boisterous crowd praised him for serving the country honourably.
The veteran diplomat crossed swords with the Trump administration after he criticised the administration’s crackdown on equity and diversity programmes. Speaking during a webinar featuring academics and political activists, Rasool suggested that Trump had been mobilising the fear that White people could become a minority in the US to justify racist policies.
Ok...now 40 years ago would this have been a satirical headline....
what...the fuck...
That was literally my first thought, too. This is not some random African country that threw off its oppressors after WWII. This is *South Africa, where the oppressors held on until the 1990s. Here's a leader from a country whose racial reconciliation we still haven't come close to replicating, and President ~~Musk~~ Trump thinks the country is too unfair to white people.
That guy gets to go home and be awesome. We get to find out how much more insane and annoying Trump can be tomorrow. I envy this man.