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The transcript discusses Donald Trump's efforts in 2025 to criminalize hiring practices related to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) initiatives by targeting private companies through the Department of Justice (DOJ). Newly appointed Attorney General Pam Bondi has issued multiple memos instructing the DOJ to investigate and potentially prosecute businesses that implement DEIA policies, framing these practices as a form of segregation and discrimination. The strategy marks a stark shift from traditional Republican values of limited government interference in private enterprise, instead positioning the administration as actively dismantling efforts aimed at creating inclusive workplaces. This initiative is presented as being rooted in a Supreme Court ruling that curtailed affirmative action, with implications that companies may face serious legal repercussions for maintaining diverse hiring standards. The author expresses concern over this move's potential to undermine civil rights and workforce diversity, likening the situation to historical instances of systemic racism.
I’ve read on here countless times how the Black community was stronger before MLK
Congratulations … you’re about to get what you wanted …
AI Summary:
The transcript discusses Donald Trump's efforts in 2025 to criminalize hiring practices related to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) initiatives by targeting private companies through the Department of Justice (DOJ). Newly appointed Attorney General Pam Bondi has issued multiple memos instructing the DOJ to investigate and potentially prosecute businesses that implement DEIA policies, framing these practices as a form of segregation and discrimination. The strategy marks a stark shift from traditional Republican values of limited government interference in private enterprise, instead positioning the administration as actively dismantling efforts aimed at creating inclusive workplaces. This initiative is presented as being rooted in a Supreme Court ruling that curtailed affirmative action, with implications that companies may face serious legal repercussions for maintaining diverse hiring standards. The author expresses concern over this move's potential to undermine civil rights and workforce diversity, likening the situation to historical instances of systemic racism.
It is not hyperbole to say that Donald Trump is trying to bring back segregation under color of law in 2025. Not exaggerating, this headline should send shivers down your spine; it should cause you alarm and distress. The Republican Party used to be a party that claimed it wanted the government out of people's lives to let business do what business does, not to interfere in the policies of private companies.
Now, Donald Trump has dispatched—let me go back—remember when there was a kerfuffle about men trying to get hired at Hooters because all Hooters hired were the ladies? Republicans were roundly opposed to this, saying let Hooters do what Hooters are going to do. If that's their business, it's their private business to do what they want, hire who they want.
And now, in 2025, because Donald Trump is a racist, a white supremacist in charge of the largest most effective white supremacy organization on the planet Earth—the Republican Party—he is dispatching his attorney general on private companies who utilize DEI to hire the people they choose to hire: people of color, Black folks, Hispanics, women, LGBTQ—pick your minority group. Donald Trump is so upset about this he's dispatching her to threaten them with criminal prosecution for doing so.
Here's the headline from Slate: Pam Bondi instructs Trump DOJ to criminally investigate companies that do DEI. This is segregation, bringing it back in 2025. Here's the article: on Wednesday evening, newly installed Attorney General Pam Bondi sent staff in several divisions of the Department of Justice more than a dozen memos within a 15-minute span laying out the agency's new policies on issues ranging from reviving the death penalty—you know, very important—to targeting sanctuary cities to enforcing a strict return-to-office policy.
Well, an astonishing memo seen by Slate puts the DOJ at the center of President Donald Trump's widespread efforts to destroy any traces of initiatives that would create inclusive and diverse workspaces, otherwise known as DEIA. The new memo claims that it will target private sector DEIA initiatives for potential criminal investigation.
I'm going to repeat that sentence for your edification and to drive home the danger that is taking place in America again in 2025. The new memo claims that it will target private sector DEIA initiatives for criminal prosecution. Not civil fines, but criminality. They believe hiring Black people is a crime. It’s a crime for Black people to want to sit at the lunch counter with whites in a whites-only restaurant.
It's hard to overstate both the constitutional record this crusade will leave in its wake and the havoc it could wreak on the American workforce in the name of protecting constitutional rights. Bondi's Justice Department has teamed up for an all-out assault on the fundamental First Amendment rights to speak, organize, and associate. A request to the DOJ for more information about the memo has not been responded to at the time of press.
The memo, headed with the subject line "Ending Illegal DEI and DEIA Discrimination and Preferences," instructs the Civil Rights Division—historically charged with protecting the rights of vulnerable minorities—and the Office of Legal Policy to take a number of steps to attack any private companies that prioritize diverse workforces through DEIA programs.
Bondi has given those departments a March 1 deadline to submit a report with their recommendations to encourage the private sector to end illegal discrimination and preferences, including policies relating to DEIA and DEI. The memo then asked for a list of business sectors of concern within the Department of Justice and the most egregious and discriminatory DEI and DEIA practitioners in each sector of concern.
It also asks for litigation activities or other strategies to target these private sector companies, evidently envisioning a coordinated agency-wide onslaught that would divert many attorneys' attention away from their normal areas of practice. Bondi says the DOJ will be working with the Department of Education to make sure that universities are in compliance with the administration's new DEIA mandate.
Finally, and perhaps most shockingly—this is where, if you haven't been tuning in, if you're petting your cat or having a cup of coffee and you're zoning out, pay attention to this paragraph—finally, and perhaps most shockingly, the memo implies that some private companies may face criminal penalties for DEIA initiatives.
Specifically, Bondi requests that the plan from the Civil Rights Division and Office of Legal Policy include specific steps or measures to deter the use of DEI and DEIA programs or principles, as well as proposals for criminal investigations and up to nine potential civil compliance investigations of these companies within the sectors of concern.
The memo specifically cites the section of Trump's EIA executive order targeting publicly traded corporations, large nonprofit corporations or associations, foundations with assets of $500 million or more, state and local bar and medical associations, and institutions of higher education with endowments of over $1 billion.
Now, Donald Trump has dispatched—let me go back—remember when there was a kerfuffle about men trying to get hired at Hooters because all Hooters hired were the ladies? Republicans were roundly opposed to this, saying let Hooters do what Hooters are going to do. If that's their business, it's their private business to do what they want, hire who they want.
And now, in 2025, because Donald Trump is a racist, a white supremacist in charge of the largest most effective white supremacy organization on the planet Earth—the Republican Party—he is dispatching his attorney general on private companies who utilize DEI to hire the people they choose to hire: people of color, Black folks, Hispanics, women, LGBTQ—pick your minority group. Donald Trump is so upset about this he's dispatching her to threaten them with criminal prosecution for doing so.
Here's the headline from Slate: Pam Bondi instructs Trump DOJ to criminally investigate companies that do DEI. This is segregation, bringing it back in 2025. Here's the article: on Wednesday evening, newly installed Attorney General Pam Bondi sent staff in several divisions of the Department of Justice more than a dozen memos within a 15-minute span laying out the agency's new policies on issues ranging from reviving the death penalty—you know, very important—to targeting sanctuary cities to enforcing a strict return-to-office policy.
Well, an astonishing memo seen by Slate puts the DOJ at the center of President Donald Trump's widespread efforts to destroy any traces of initiatives that would create inclusive and diverse workspaces, otherwise known as DEIA. The new memo claims that it will target private sector DEIA initiatives for potential criminal investigation.
I'm going to repeat that sentence for your edification and to drive home the danger that is taking place in America again in 2025. The new memo claims that it will target private sector DEIA initiatives for criminal prosecution. Not civil fines, but criminality. They believe hiring Black people is a crime. It’s a crime for Black people to want to sit at the lunch counter with whites in a whites-only restaurant.
It's hard to overstate both the constitutional record this crusade will leave in its wake and the havoc it could wreak on the American workforce in the name of protecting constitutional rights. Bondi's Justice Department has teamed up for an all-out assault on the fundamental First Amendment rights to speak, organize, and associate. A request to the DOJ for more information about the memo has not been responded to at the time of press.
The memo, headed with the subject line "Ending Illegal DEI and DEIA Discrimination and Preferences," instructs the Civil Rights Division—historically charged with protecting the rights of vulnerable minorities—and the Office of Legal Policy to take a number of steps to attack any private companies that prioritize diverse workforces through DEIA programs.
Bondi has given those departments a March 1 deadline to submit a report with their recommendations to encourage the private sector to end illegal discrimination and preferences, including policies relating to DEIA and DEI. The memo then asked for a list of business sectors of concern within the Department of Justice and the most egregious and discriminatory DEI and DEIA practitioners in each sector of concern.
It also asks for litigation activities or other strategies to target these private sector companies, evidently envisioning a coordinated agency-wide onslaught that would divert many attorneys' attention away from their normal areas of practice. Bondi says the DOJ will be working with the Department of Education to make sure that universities are in compliance with the administration's new DEIA mandate.
Finally, and perhaps most shockingly—this is where, if you haven't been tuning in, if you're petting your cat or having a cup of coffee and you're zoning out, pay attention to this paragraph—finally, and perhaps most shockingly, the memo implies that some private companies may face criminal penalties for DEIA initiatives.
Specifically, Bondi requests that the plan from the Civil Rights Division and Office of Legal Policy include specific steps or measures to deter the use of DEI and DEIA programs or principles, as well as proposals for criminal investigations and up to nine potential civil compliance investigations of these companies within the sectors of concern.
The memo specifically cites the section of Trump's EIA executive order targeting publicly traded corporations, large nonprofit corporations or associations, foundations with assets of $500 million or more, state and local bar and medical associations, and institutions of higher education with endowments of over $1 billion.
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