Trump Begins Dismantling Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion Initiatives

 

A very limited sampling of the white nationalist/ misogynist transformation going on in the Malignant Fascist's Washington, DC.

White- and- man-washing history

The Air Force has removed training courses with videos of its storied Tuskegee Airmen and the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs — the female World War II pilots who were vital in ferrying warplanes for the military — to comply with the Trump administration's crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

The videos were shown to Air Force troops as part of DEI courses they took during basic military training.

In a statement, the Air Force confirmed the courses with those videos had been removed and said it “will fully execute and implement all directives outlined in the Executive Orders issued by the President, ensuring that they are carried out with utmost professionalism, efficiency and in alignment with national security objectives.”...

The Tuskegee Airmen?  WASPs?  You don't get any more American than that.  WTF.

Science- washing DEI from the FDA

The Food and Drug Administration has removed webpages about diversity and inclusion in clinical trials for cancer drugs.

The page for Project Equity, a 2021 initiative launched by the FDA's Oncology Center of Excellence to ensure that cancer drugs were evaluated for approval based on data from a diverse group of study participants, has gone dark.

The program aimed to develop policies to make clinical trials for treatments more accessible to people who had been underrepresented in this research in the past. The removal comes amid the Trump administration's push to terminate diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility programs and initiatives.

According to archived Project Equity pages, historically underrepresented groups included "racial and ethnic minorities, individuals who live in rural areas, sexual and gender minorities, and individuals with economic, linguistic, or cultural barriers to healthcare services."...

We can only hope it's the webpages that have been removed, not the accessibility to clinical trials. But if the information is deleted, how do people find out in order to participate (rhetorical question)?

Rolling back civil rights protections

Among the flurry of executive orders since his Jan. 20 inauguration, President Donald Trump has taken aim at rooting out diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, programs within the federal government. But his efforts go beyond DEI, with one recent order rescinding a Civil Rights-era rule that has helped protect millions of workers from discrimination. 

Mr. Trump's Jan. 21 order — "Ending illegal discrimination and restoring merit-based opportunity" — revokes the Equal Employment Opportunity rule signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 — which is still law today — had a loophole that excluded federal employees. 

Johnson signed the Equal Employment Opportunity rule to close the loophole, and those protections were signed into law in 1972. That rule bars federal contractors, who today employ 3.7 million people, from discriminating against job applicants or workers on the basis of race, gender, religion and other protected characteristics. It also gave the Labor Department the authority to take action against discrimination. 

Mr. Trump's order does not invalidate the law, and private and federal employees are still protected from discrimination as laid out under the Civil Rights Act...

We noted this last item yesterday in our "Skeets," but it bears repeating.  

Some of the above is overreaction by bureaucrats trying to make sense of the senseless flurry of orders signed by the MF, but the chaos and the white Christian revanchment are real and are all part of the plan for this ugly kakistocracy.  Of course, there's much more and there will be much more to come, and the sooner we get off our asses and fight back, the better.

BONUS:  Oliver Willis writes on "The origins of Trump's war on diversity."

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