Trump DOJ to Criminally Investigate Private Companies With DEI Programs

[Marlow Stanfield]

Still cleaning up Biden mess & also DEI causing everything to go up. There will be some short term inflation before American is great again

Just curious... how has DEI caused price increases?

 

[BlackJesus]

I believe the result would be hitting them with heavy fines.
For example, the Slacker Family and their company were ordered to pay billions as a result of the criminal lawsuit brought to them on the opioid crisis:

Justice Department Announces Global Resolution of Criminal and Civil Investigations with Opioid Manufacturer Purdue Pharma and Civil Settlement with Members of the Sackler Family

Today, the Department of Justice announced a global resolution of its criminal and civil investigations into the opioid manufacturer Purdue Pharma LP (Purdue), and a civil resolution of its civil investigation into individual shareholders from the Sackler family. The resolutions with Purdue are...

www.justice.gov

The ripple effect would be other companies falling in line to not open themselves up to such fines.

But laugh away while this all unfolds in front of your very eyes.

thecoli thinks everything is funny lol.

 

[BlackJesus]

Trump does realize DEIZ hurts whites more than blacks right?

Anyway Verizon on the clock

White women especially. The same white women who voted for him at 53% lol

 

[Rekkapryde]

Crackas the ultimate scammers.

Ain’t shyt changed

The ones with sense are vastly outnumbered

 

[AngryBaby]

Also, dont online applications already have requirements prior to even applying? Meaning the system is already going to look for that first?

Someone should ask Elon or Trump that. I feel like everyone is being too stupid, and has no balls lately. I shoulda heard that question on an interview already.

 

[SupaDupaFresh]

Hey guys. Did I make it in time to hear a grand chorus of "this only effects white women" from our most spineless cowardly militants yet?

 

[Yzak]

I noticed social media and LSA are really not pushing gender war talking points like they love to--even after the election.

That threat/targeting of those Black women in DEI by that Heritage Foundation adjacent group and going after that female Coast Guard admiral has made many recalcitrant people pull their heads out of their asses and realize we are only going to get through this with each other.

 

[The God Poster]

You sound dumb as fukk

Dude need a ban

Just curious... how has DEI caused price increases?

Clearly y’all some DEI posters

 

[fact]

good luck, bytch.

She think she gonna arrest the CEO of Costco because his company hired a guy in a wheelchair?

This is aimed directly at Costco, too. Most companies would kiss the ring, it will be interesting to see how they react. This is already a legendarily trash timeline.

 

[MoshpitMazi]

Hope the world goes to communist China

What were you thinking

You're a retard if u think China is communist.

 

[Samori Toure]

Trump’s AG is a DEI hire. So is she going to be investigating herself?

 

[ArchStanton]

As we feared, hiring managers for the NIH are allegedly not even considering grad student candidates from "marginalized communities" because of feared of being accused of pushing DEI policies. Just completely throwing our deserving people. This is infuriating.

Miriam Goldstein (@miriamgoldstein.bsky.social)

Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.

bsky.app

 

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David Ho (@davidho@mastodon.world)

We got a message from the university to remove any use of the "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline.

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@davidho@mastodon.world
We got a message from the university to remove any use of the "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline.

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@can@mstdn.social
@davidho what are you going to do?

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@ajsadauskas@vivaldi.net
@can @davidho Can you send back an email asking if it's okay to put a trigger warning over words that sound like DEI words but aren't? That way, easily offended snowflakes white billionaires can make an informed decision about whether they continue reading?For example, an electronic engineering paper about transistors might say: "Warning: This paper contains electronics terms some readers may find confronting. Reader discretion is advised."If this is not possible, is there a list of recommended politically correct alternative terms for words like "biodiversity" that white billionaires will find less triggering?

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@markrprior@ohai.social
@ajsadauskas @can @davidho electronic engineering is going to get tricky if resistor or resistance is an issue.

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@chebra@mstdn.io
@markrprior @ajsadauskas @can @davidho You might think it's funny but it actually just happened with the cybersecurity term "privilege escalation" Lesley Carhart :unverified: (@hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange) has no chance in the age of trumpism.

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@MiriShuli@mstdn.social
@ajsadauskas Wait. First let’s deal with woman, women and female. Are we non-male? Or are we c*nts, pussies and bytches now?What is a female child? p*ssyette?Can you feel the anger?

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@enmodo@mastodon.social
@davidho just substitute it with Donald Elon Incels

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@Colman@mastodon.ie
@davidho all occurrences of the string or just in a social justice type context?

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@rhys@rhys.wtf
@davidho We simply must crack down on biodiversity to ensure that only the best and brightest, most meritorious organisms can succeed.

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@Dss@infosec.exchange
@rhys @davidho Well yes! If a parasitic orange slug can get to the top of the tree, there's hope for every eukaryote...

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@kristoff@m.krbonne.net
@davidhoWe've got some great universities here in Europe who are probably very interested in US academics who want to continue their work over here!

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@regenrohr@mastodon.social
@kristoff @davidho which brings even more turmoil to the labor market.Before now USA was a place to go for many German academics, since its nearly impossible to plan your life for longer than 1 to 3 years

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@juergen_hubert@mementomori.social
@kristoff @davidho It would help if we increased the working conditions around here, though.Just because the academic environment in the USA is getting much worse it doesn't mean we shouldn't try to get a lot better.

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@JubalBarca@scholar.social
@juergen_hubert @kristoff @davidho Yeah, Europe isn't putting the investment or improved rules in to take account of the potential brain drain, which is very silly.

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@NatureMC@mastodon.online
@kristoff France already invited US-scientists officially. @davidho

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@kristoff@m.krbonne.net
@NatureMC@davidho We had a discussion on this here. Why not try to get some of the bright IT people from silicon valley who do not 'want to live under emperor Musk' to Europe.A lot of them have a student loan that is a real burden for them: pay one tenth of their remaining loan over 10 year from a EU fund if they come to live and work in the EU.

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@Dss@infosec.exchange
@kristoff @NatureMC @davidho China does it's best to encourage the fully funded kids it sends out into the world to come back once they've got their PhDs. Other countries could do well to take notice.

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@notsoloud@expressional.social
@kristoffYeah, but they should study up on local immigration laws first. It can be pretty difficult.@davidho

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@waywardsun@tech.lgbt
@davidho Sounds indeed like utter stupidity, but given the people driving this, might as well be booked under "not-that-collateral damage" or "not-quite-unintended side effects".

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@JorgeStolfi@mas.to
@davidho Whhich "university" is that?

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@Stege@rollenspiel.social
@davidho wow, i am stunned. I read the list with the 27 forbidden words already and biodiversity was not on it. But "diversity" was. Does this mean that even every larger word, that has the 27 in it, is forbidden too?

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@texhewson@datasci.social
@davidho it really is a case of the library being burnt down by people who can't read. I was reading about escalation privileges yesterday (a cyber security thing) but of course it includes the word privilege.

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@Linza@kamu.social
@texhewson @davidho See also: 4th century Roman empire

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@src_esther@mastodon.online
@davidho Don't remove but replace.

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@SuperMoosie@mastodon.au
@src_esther Don't remove or replace.Just make the text and background colour the same.@davidho

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@mmby@mastodon.social
@SuperMoosie @src_esther whoever flags this will be crawling the sites using automation, either using the source or using LLM agents to interpret the rendered site (which would be slower)if they're clever enough, they will save where they found the instances and automatically check whether they were removed and log the change, i.e. also find any 'workarounds' that might replace the instaces that were foundmalicious compliance would be to replace some letters of the word

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@androcat@toot.cat
@davidho The last gasp of the polluter class, a desperate power grab.Some people ought to save a copy of the pages, for the Shadow University.

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@BashStKid@mastodon.online
@davidho Ok, global search and replace to put a letter q in the middle of all Naughty Words and list them in the endnotes.

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@trantion@masto.ai
@BashStKid @davidho biod1vers1ty, privil3ge, etc

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@Dss@infosec.exchange
@BashStKid @davidho Not a bad plan.

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@sanpan@mas.to
@davidho What happened to our intranet? Well, most topics are influenced by such a broad variety of diverse parameters with the inclusion, but not limited to xyz...I had to delete everything.Does dispair count as a viable solution?

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@Thomaslindvig@mastodon.social
@davidho what can the federal government do, if a university sincerely wants to focus on some of these issues?

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@mkj@social.mkj.earth
@Thomaslindvig I suppose to start with the US federal government could cut a significant chunk of said university's funding.@davidho

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@hermann@chaos.social
@davidho When are people going to protest? I asked the same question to someone last week and was being answered, that people aren’t protesting because they’re afraid to do so. Is it really that bad?

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@zimzat@mastodon.social
@hermann @davidho I have yet to see a coherent objective for a protest, much less one that motivates the average citizen.In normal times we'd protest to rally Congress to Do Something, as they're the check to the President, or vice versa, but when the head of all branches are co-opted, who you gonna call? Protesting at the state level might work, but I don't see anyone putting forward a plan to make that happen either.The only viable avenue is economic protest. Maybe.


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The war on DEI is a smoke screen

MAGA’s attacks on “wokeness” and diversity, equity, and inclusion are a thinly veiled attack on the Civil Rights Movement itself.

www.theverge.com

The war on DEI is a smoke screen​

MAGA’s attacks on ‘wokeness’ and diversity, equity, and inclusion are a thinly veiled attack on the Civil Rights Movement itself.

by Gaby Del Valle

Feb 17, 2025, 10:30 AM EST

Gaby Del Valle is a policy reporter. Her past work has focused on immigration politics, border surveillance technologies, and the rise of the New Right.

Violent metaphors abound for what’s happening in Washington: Elon Musk and his allies have taken a “slash-and-burn” approach to the government and a “sledgehammer” to government institutions, doing away with supposed waste and excess while leaving the fundamental structure intact. All of this is being done with the stated goal of ridding the federal workforce of the scourge of wokeness and “DEI” — diversity, equity, and inclusion, a term that has become a catchall for anything Musk and other MAGA insiders don’t like. USAID is DEI. The National Institutes of Health is DEI. The National Endowment for the Arts? Obviously DEI. We can probably all agree that the woke word cloud at the FBI Academy in Quantico is DEI. Major broadcasters are pushing DEI on their viewers; public school teachers are using it to indoctrinate impressionable young students. The only solution to this is, of course, to defund and dismantle everything.

The war on DEI is a smoke screen; it’s an opportunity to unite various conservative factions under a single rallying cry, giving them a common enemy on which to blame their myriad concerns. It unites recent converts to the cause, like Musk, with more mainstream conservatives whose criticisms of federal overspending look quaint in hindsight. Musk’s success is part tactics, part branding. His Department of Government Efficiency has indeed been efficient, tearing through the federal workforce in a manner critics say is clearly illegal.

Under normal circumstances, dissolving the US Agency for International Development would require an act of Congress. Instead of doing that, Musk ordered his army of cracked zoomer coders to block funding, while the White House alleged that the agency was using taxpayer money to push a woke agenda overseas. Musk benefits from the nebulousness of “DEI,” a term that has come to encompass everything from corporate diversity trainings and hollow brand PR statements to teaching children about the horrors of slavery.

The public’s negative polarization against DEI in recent years is no accident; it’s the product of a yearslong campaign led by a coalition of right-wing think tanks

The public’s negative polarization against DEI in recent years is no accident; it’s the product of a yearslong campaign led by a coalition of right-wing think tanks, which in turn were funded by deep-pocketed conservative donors. It began with academia: organizations like the Manhattan Institute and the Claremont Institute accused universities and grade schools of pushing “woke” ideology onto children in the form of “critical race theory” and, more recently, DEI. While “critical race theory” failed to take off — perhaps because of its academic connotations — DEI conjured images of overbearing HR departments, Raytheon Pride swag, and elite prep schools touting their commitments to diversity and inclusion, making it an ideal target for populist ire. Worse still, they say, the problem extended far beyond bland, consultant-crafted DEI statements, infecting every level of the federal bureaucracy.

Rather than being used to help Americans, we were told, our tax dollars were being wasted on woke. In the weeks leading up to Trump’s inauguration, right-wing media stirred up excitement for DOGE’s government takeover by drawing attention to obscure research projects that had received federal funding: $600,000 to study why chimps throw feces, $240,000 to study the effect cocaine has on honeybees, $1.3 million to put shrimp on tiny treadmills. It didn’t matter that some of these projects were decades old, or that they had actual scientific merit (the shrimp study was actually measuring how shrimp react to changes in water quality), nor did it matter that the five to seven figures researchers received from the government amounts to a rounding error in terms of the overall federal budget.

Given the speed of Musk’s government takeover, it’s easy to forget that, in practice, ending “DEI” means advancing longstanding Republican priorities like gutting the Department of Education and, yes, slashing funding for USAID. At the same time, the war on DEI allows more pernicious ideologies that were once relegated to the conservative fringes — like racism and eugenics — to seep into the mainstream, as figures who have explicitly advocated for doing away with protections enshrined in the Civil Rights Act and similar legislation are elevated to positions of power within the movement.

Other conservatives have picked up on the fact that deriding policies they oppose as products of DEI could encourage the White House to go after them next. Writing in City Journal, the in-house publication of the conservative Manhattan Institute, Daniel Di Martino encouraged the Trump administration to “end DEI in immigration” by scrapping both the diversity visa lottery and ending family-based migration. Neither of these policies is related to recent “DEI” efforts: Congress created the diversity visa lottery in 1990, and family reunification has been the cornerstone of legal migration since the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which overturned the national origins-based system that had been in place since the 1920s. Anti-immigrant groups like the Federation for American Immigration Reform have sought to end both the diversity visa lottery and abolish the 1965 Immigration Act for decades; while they haven’t succeeded yet, they have gotten other items on their wishlists, including a halt in refugee resettlement. At the same time, the Trump administration has pledged to take in white “Afrikaner refugees escaping government-sponsored race-based discrimination” in South Africa.

Other conservatives have baselessly invoked the specter of “DEI pilots” to explain the spate of recent plane crashes

Some of the most ardent opponents of DEI see it as not only financially wasteful but politically — and materially — dangerous. Christopher Rufo, the Manhattan Institute fellow who led the campaign to oust Harvard president Claudine Gay, has also pushed the narrative that DEI policies at Boeing are to blame for the company’s recent safety failures. Last year, he published a Q&A with a “Boeing insider” who called DEI policies “anti-excellence” and implied that the company’s DEI initiatives prevented it from hiring on merit. Other conservatives have baselessly invoked the specter of “DEI pilots” to explain the spate of recent plane crashes, a claim Trump echoed after the fatal aircraft collision in Washington, DC. The fact that there’s no evidence for any of this is irrelevant; more reasonable explanations, like Boeing’s cost-cutting measures, are politically inconvenient for a group of people who are committed to deregulation above all else. Blaming DEI pilots, on the other hand, stirs up the base.

These comments reveal far more sinister motivations for the war on DEI. Rufo has repeatedly stated his opposition to policies that promote “equal outcomes,” which he has said should be replaced with a system that promotes “equal opportunity.” That anodyne language obscures the fact that many prominent critics of DEI — Rufo included — have hinted at or outright stated that equal outcomes are impossible under a meritocratic system. This worldview stems from their belief that people are not created equal. Rufo has encouraged his Substack followers to subscribe to Aporia, a “sociobiology magazine” that regularly publishes articles on the links between race and IQ, a phenomenon widely disputed by reputable scientists. Richard Hanania, another prominent anti-woke activist, previously described himself as a “race realist” in blog posts published under the pseudonym Richard Hoste. Hanania apologized for the posts, claiming to no longer hold those views. Hanania’s views on race are slightly more complex than those of popular racists like David Duke, but they’re still generally in keeping with those of scientific racists who believe that race and IQ are inextricably linked. As an advocate for “elite human capital,” Hanania was on the (relatively) pro-immigration side of the tech-right’s civil war over H-1Bs. At the same time, he has called for explicitly racist policies like “more policing, incarceration, and surveillance of black people” as a means for reducing crime.

Hanania’s 2023 book The Origins of Woke reveals the endgame of the war on DEI. In it, Hanania argues that “wokeness” originated with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a provocative argument that is not exactly novel on the right. Former Weekly Standard editor and current Claremont fellow Christopher Caldwell put forth a similar thesis in his 2020 book The Age of Entitlement, in which he wrote that the Civil Rights Act gave progressive groups — and the people they represented — “an iron grip on the levers of state power” that allowed them to discriminate against white men in the name of reversing historical wrongs. Writing for the Claremont Review of Books, right-wing political theorist Angelo Codevilla described the Civil Rights Act as “the little law that ate the Constitution.” Rufo, for his part, has accused “DEI activists” of hijacking the landmark civil rights legislation “to justify active discrimination against supposed ‘oppressor’ groups.”

Yes the communist is correct here and the normie conservative is wrong. Civil rights has been rotten for a very long time. x.com

— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) February 13, 2025​

Far from harmless, the crusade against DEI has been a way of laundering racist policies into the mainstream. The anti-woke right’s public focus on hollow cultural signifiers obscures their actual goal: undoing the gains made by the Civil Rights Movement. In this worldview, “DEI” goes beyond woke indoctrination, serving as a mechanism to elevate biologically inferior people to positions of power at the expense of the true elites. More than a racist project, it’s a racialist project — one whose leaders believe that traits like intelligence are racially determined. Hanania is one of the few activists willing to admit this publicly, but he’s far from the only one that believes it.

For activists like Rufo and Hanania, ending “DEI” policies is an ideological project that goes beyond austerity. No wonder, then, that Musk’s DOGE is staffed with people who pal around with white supremacists online and have expressed support for “eugenic immigration policies.” Musk tried to explain away the posts as old jokes. Others said his views shouldn’t matter as long as he’s good at his job. But those are one in the same, aren’t they? The work of slashing and burning the social safety net furthers the racialist right’s agenda.

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

Still cleaning up Biden mess & also DEI causing everything to go up. There will be some short term inflation before American is great again

This dumb ass cracka pecker wood fakkit maga p*ssy here.


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The govt don't even have the resources to investigate all this shyt.