DOD Will No Longer Prohibit Contractors from Running Segregated Facilities

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DOD Will No Longer Prohibit Contractors from Running Segregated Facilities

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DOD Will No Longer Prohibit Contractors from Running Segregated Facilities

DOD Will No Longer Prohibit Contractors from Running Segregated Facilities​

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By Josh Marshall

March 6, 2025 10:44 p.m.

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Just found out that a new memorandum from the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), dated March 5th, 2025, directs all acquisitions executives through the military to stop including language which requires contractors to agree that they will not use segregated facilities as a condition of being a DOD contractor.

Specifically the memorandum bars the use of FAR 52.2220-21 Prohibition of Segregated Facilities. This is a provision which dates back to 1965 and has been updated by a series of Executive Orders over the years adding additional forms of restricted segregation. The most recent change came in 2015 when sexual orientation and gender identity were added via executive order to the list of prohibited forms of segregation. The history and evolution of the Prohibition of Segregated Facilities is discussed here in the Federal Register.

Presumably it is the addition of gender identity which drove the OSD to ban usage of the Prohibition of Segregated Facilities in DOD contracts. Maybe? But the 2015 addition of gender identity to the Prohibition could simply have been revoked. It was added in 2015 and it could be removed in 2025. What they did here, however, is remove everything. So military contractors will no longer have to warrant they don’t have racially segregated facilities or facilities segregated by religion or ethnicity or anything else.

 

[CopiousX]

Ohhhh, that kinda makes sense. See , this is exactly why the democrats need to throw trans people off the politucal bus.

Black people are taking strays here . Adding LGBT to existing discrimination laws and frameworks weakens the entire framework. As an analogy, democrats adding trans to established black laws is like adding a pink lego block to the foundation of a house. It compromises the integrity of tge structure.


According to how they phrased it, it looks like the Republicans are fighting the trans bathroom thing. A democratic executive order tried to staple Trans into a law about black/white segregation presumably so that men in wigs could share the same bathrooms as women. Democrats know damn well they cant pass bills specifically for them, because even fellow democrats think they are weird, so they tried to slickly redifine existing statutes.

 

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Ohhhh, that kinda makes sense. See , this is exactly why the democrats need to throw trans people off the politucal bus.

Black people are taking strays here . Adding LGBT to existing discrimination laws and frameworks weakens the entire framework. As an analogy democrats adding trans to established black laws is like adding a pink lego block to the foundation of a house. It compromises the integrity of tge structure.


According to how they phrased it, it looks like the Republicans are fighting the trans bathroom thing. A democratic executive order tried to staple Trans into a law about black/white segregation presumably so that men in wigs could share the same bathrooms as women. Democrats know damn well they cant pass bills specifically for them, because even fellow democrats think they are weird, so they tried to slickly redifine existing statutes.

What they did here, however, is remove everything. So military contractors will no longer have to warrant they don’t have racially segregated facilities or facilities segregated by religion or ethnicity or anything else.

An injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. - MLK jr.

 

[CopiousX]

An injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. - MLK jr.

You know damn well MLK was an old school baptist preacher that would condemn trans people.





When written to about gay blacks, MLK did not give them a shoulder to cry on; instead, he firmly told them to see a psychiatrist for their mental issues.

 

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You know damn well MLK was an old school baptist preacher that would condemn trans people.



When written to by gay blacks, MLK did not give them a shoulder to cry on; he firmly told them to see a psychiatrist for their mental issues.

so you don't believe an injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere?

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Well it’s complicated. He was also friends with and shared the stage with Bayard Rustin, openly gay and an arrest record to prove it, who organized the March on Washington on August 28, 1963.

Their friendship was complicated, but MLK’s attitudes toward homosexuality weren’t always as oversimplified as you’ve presented.

Also, that was pretty much the standard reaction most folks would have had - Christian or not - including psychiatrists and psychologists in the 1950’s and ‘60s about homosexuality.

The American Psychological Association wouldn’t remove homosexuality from the DSM as a mental illness until 1973.

 

[Kasgoinjail]

It's guna be a warm time working in America
Right back to 1945

 

[CopiousX]

so you don't believe an injustice anywhere isn't a threat to justice everywhere?

I believe in the original context of that phrase and under the intentions(race/class) of the original speaker. I dont agree with how you are using King's quote now.

Applying MLK to lgbt would be like me taking Jesus' quote on "Blessed are the meek" and applying it to gimps or "bottoms". Obviously this doesn't work because its horribly out of context and would be vehemently objected to by the original coiner of the phrase.


This is my original point. If you wish to find a quote or law or doctrine or executive order to support gay people, then why not find one specifically adressing them?

 

[BaggerofTea]

You will have to throw every Trump appointment and hire out of government

 

[ucanthandlethetruth]

Historical civil rights for black people destroyed and locations being hawked for sale and now Trump is bringing back segregation
This what black maga voted for now they can't stop winning

 

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I believe in the original context of that phrase and under the intentions(race/class) of the original speaker. I dont agree with how you are using King's quote now.

Applying MLK to lgbt would be like me taking Jesus' quote on "Blessed are the meek" and applying it to gimps or "bottoms". Obviously this doesn't work because its horribly out of context and would be vehemently objected to by the original coiner of the phrase.


This is my original point. If you wish to find a quote or law or doctrine or executive order to support gay people, then why not find one specifically adressing them?

the logic you employ can be applied anywhere.

All men are created equal - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

this was written by slave holders...

"I believe in the original context of that phrase and under the intentions(race/class) of the original speaker(s). I dont agree with how you are using the United States Declaration of Independence now."

you see how easy cherry picking right's and who deserves equal protection under the law can lead to an unjust world?

 

[dj-method-x]

Historical civil rights for black people destroyed and locations being hawked for sale and now Trump is bringing back segregation
This what black maga voted for now they can't stop winning

According to @CopiousX this is a good thing since now they can segregate the .0000005% of people that are trans.



Tangibles

 

[CopiousX]

According to @CopiousX this is a good thing since now they can segregate the .0000005% of people that are trans.



Tangibles

You took me out of context and you are being facetious.

Which is my whole point here. The original guidelines were intended specifically for black people in the light of jim crow. However , the executive order was being used out of context by the democratic administration to allow trans to use women's bathrooms and that weakened the entire guideline affecting black people. This is why im saying the lgbt people need to be kicked off the political bus because they are a detriment to the strides of black people.

The law was left alone for 60 years despite numerous republican presidents who were adverse to black people, because it had been politically unfeasible to advocate for outright black/white segregation among the entire democrat party and most of the Republican party.

Democrats killed this executive order and its directives to contractors by attatching trans people to it.

As i said earlier....

As an analogy, democrats adding trans to established black laws is like adding a pink lego block to the foundation of a house. It compromises the integrity of the structure.

 

[Wargames]

Ohhhh, that kinda makes sense. See , this is exactly why the democrats need to throw trans people off the politucal bus.

Black people are taking strays here . Adding LGBT to existing discrimination laws and frameworks weakens the entire framework. As an analogy, democrats adding trans to established black laws is like adding a pink lego block to the foundation of a house. It compromises the integrity of tge structure.


According to how they phrased it, it looks like the Republicans are fighting the trans bathroom thing. A democratic executive order tried to staple Trans into a law about black/white segregation presumably so that men in wigs could share the same bathrooms as women. Democrats know damn well they cant pass bills specifically for them, because even fellow democrats think they are weird, so they tried to slickly redifine existing statutes.

You think black people catching strays? Bro they hate us too. Lowkey they hate us the most.

If they wanted it to be about LGBTQ only they would have wrote it that way.

 

[gtj1982]

You took me out of context and you are being facetious.

Which is my whole point here. The original guidelines were intended specifically for black people in the light of jim crow. However , the executive order was being used out of context by the democratic administration to allow trans to use women's bathrooms and that weakened the entire guideline affecting black people. This is why im saying the lgbt people need to be kicked off the political bus because they are a detriment to the strides of black people.

The law was left alone for 60 years despite numerous republican presidents who were adverse to black people, because it had been politically unfeasible to advocate for outright black/white segregation among the entire democrat party and most of the Republican party.

Democrats killed this executive order and its directives to contractors by attatching trans people to it.

As i said earlier....

You could actually read the article and find out that they could have easily just stripped the trans portion out just as easily as that part was amended in. Instead you carrying water for racist trying to sound intelligent but busy flapping about nonsense.

 

[Ghost Utmost]

You fukcing idiots.

Here's your tangibles.