Trump removes Federal Government diversity/sensitivity trainings on white privilege & racist history

[The M.I.C.]

Getting close to that point... real close..

 

[Worthless Loser]

So let me get this straight he saw some cac on Fox New telling him to do this and he went ahead and did this? Makes it sound like he didn't even know this existed till he saw it on Fox and the racist that he is couldn't contain himself.

Fox News basically runs the country. There have been many times when Fox would say something, then Trump would tweet out the exact same thing minutes later. People behind the scenes were calling Sean Hannity the shadow Chief of Staff, and that the only reason Trump didn't go to war with Iran is because Tucker Carlson stopped him.

Hannity played his part masterfully. But his friends told me he was burnt out for long stretches of the Trump presidency. Being the president’s “shadow chief of staff,” as he was known around the White House, could be a thrill, but it was also a serious burden. Hannity counseled Trump at all hours of the day; one of his confidants said the president treated Hannity like Melania, a wife in a sexless marriage. Arguably, he treated Hannity better than Melania. Hannity’s producers marveled at his influence and access. “It’s a powerful thing to be someone’s consigliere,” one producer said. “I hear Trump talk at rallies, and I hear Sean,” a family friend commented.

Hannity chose this life, so no one felt sorry for him, but the stress took its toll. “Hannity would tell you, off-off-off the record, that Trump is a batshyt crazy person,” one of his associates said. Another friend concurred: “Hannity has said to me more than once, ‘he’s crazy.’”

“Hannity Has Said to Me More Than Once, ‘He’s Crazy’”: Fox News Staffers Feel Trapped in the Trump Cult

"This is a relationship that is extraordinary, because Trump shapes Hannity's show [and] Hannity advises the president on policy and personnel," Stelter says. "And then at 9 o'clock sharp, the president is watching Hannity deliver the talking points that they have already discussed."

"When the virus was silently spreading in the United States in February and early March, some of his biggest stars [on Fox News] downplayed the threat, almost edged into denialism," he says. "And the biggest problem about that is that Trump heard it. He echoed it. They echoed Trump back. So we're into this grotesque feedback loop where they're telling each other it's going to be OK, and they are lulling the president into a false sense of security about the virus."

Carlson took this virus more seriously than a lot of his on-air colleagues. He warned about it in January. He warned about it in February. Now, that's partly because of his animosity toward China. But he was warning about this virus early on.

So in early March, a White House aide — we don't know who, Carlson's never said who — asked him to drive across the state of Florida to go to Mar-a-Lago and try to talk some sense into President Trump to try to convince Trump to take the virus seriously. That meeting happened about a week before Trump actually did start to change his tone. So it didn't work right away. But Carlson at least tried.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Here’s a point to ponder: To what extent is Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson responsible for President Donald Trump stepping away from a potential war with Iran?

From his prime-time perch on the top-rated cable network, Carlson has advocated restraint in dealing with Iran, and resisted cheerleading the Trump-ordered drone killing of Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani.

Shortly after the story of Iran’s counter-attack broke on Tuesday, Carlson hosted a show that mixed coverage of the story as details became known, emphasizing early reports of a lack of American casualties, and interviews with experts on the Middle East. Some of those guests pointed out the dangers of spiraling escalation.


“I continue to believe the president doesn’t want a full-blown war,” Carlson said. “Some around him might, but I think most sober people don’t want that.”

Trump, who announced his decision not to retaliate against Iran’s missile strikes in a nationally televised address 14 hours later, told some close to him that he watched Carlson’s show, according to BuzzFeed News. He told confidants in recent days that Carlson’s strong advocacy not to escalate the situation in Iran played a role in his decision-making, two White House officials and Republicans close to the West Wing told The Associated Press on Thursday.

Did Fox's Tucker Carlson play role in calming Iran pressure?

 

[Doobie Doo]

Trump Bans Diversity Training, Claiming It’s Divisive, Anti-American Propaganda

Janice Gassam AsareSenior Contributor
Diversity & Inclusion
I help create strategies for more diversity, equity, and inclusion.

• major announcement that will surely have a huge impact on the diversity, equity and inclusion industry. Trump is now prohibiting federal agencies from conducting cultural sensitivity trainings because, according to the report, they are “divisive, anti-American propaganda.” Diversity trainings that focus on educating participants about white privilege, critical race theory and the racist origins of the United States apparently create “division and resentment” amongst federal employees. What is deeply problematic about this new ban is that the U.S. has a habit of avoiding the country’s dark and racist past. Evading the issue will not make it go away. It will grow more insidious and resilient as each year passes. In June of 2020, America was finally willing to look in the mirror, acknowledge the past and start the long process to make amends in order to move to a point of racial reconciliation and healing. The momentum was building and setting the stage for progress to be made. But with the Trump administration’s recent announcement, the racial equity that the country has been striving for will be stalled. Below are some of the reasons why this announcement was a huge mistake:
  
  1. Comfortable conversations will not produce change. Race is the pink elephant in the room—everyone sees it but pretends they don’t. For so long, conversations about race were not taking place because it made people feel uncomfortable. But an interesting point to note is that change doesn’t occur in comfortability. When a person is finally moved to change, there is a catalyst that sparks that change. More often than not, it’s a feeling of un-comfortability. You may reach a moment when you realize that your current way of thinking, understanding and seeing the world requires a shift. By avoiding conversations about things that make us uncomfortable (white privilege, white supremacy, and anti-blackness) we will stay stagnant and little progress and growth will be made. The only way to get more comfortable with uncomfortable conversations is through practice. Stopping the conversation completely is highly detrimental to anti-racism efforts.
  
  2. An understanding of history is necessary. There is an often-quoted phrase that says those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. There are some people who feel like slavery was a small stain on the fabric of this country and because it happened so long ago, it does not continuously need to be discussed, examined, and scrutinized. The comparison has been made between Germany’s response to the Holocaust and the United States’ response to slavery. Following the Holocaust, Germany took active steps to reckon with its Nazi past. In Germany, Nazi symbols and language is illegal and is considered a form of propaganda. Despite the fact that slavery was one of the greatest human atrocities that ever occurred, the United States still contains many relics of a not-so-ancient past. Confederate flags and monuments, which represent a group who so desperately wanted to keep Black people enslaved, can still be found in different cities across the country. It is impossible to understand systemic racism without having a thorough understanding of history and how a series of past events has created challenges for different groups. Failure to acknowledge the impact of slavery and recognize how race, privilege and power work simultaneously to impact access and opportunity will cause racial equity to elude us.
  
  3. The goal is equity—not equality. The memorandum states that the Trump administration is “fully committed to the fair and equal treatment of all individuals in the United States.” It’s important to note that the goal is not equality but rather equity. Equality is treating everyone the same. The reason equality is not the goal is because it does not take into consideration the different barriers and challenges that have been experienced. Equity, on the other hand, is taking one’s unique needs and challenges into consideration and providing support based on these unique needs. Equity is providing employees with reasonable accommodations to ensure that they are able to adequately and successfully do their job. Equity is putting programs in place to ensure that people of color have equal access and opportunity. Equity is removing systemic barriers that have resulted in disparate treatment. There is an implication that everyone should be treated the exact same way, which is not the objective. Because there has been a long history of unequal treatment, there has to be efforts made to rectify this. Equality does not work to actively address or correct systems that have allowed unfair treatment. Because these impacts are still being felt today, having an equity focus is needed for progress to continue.
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[neph27]

DONALD TRUMP IS A RACIST

HE IS USING THE SYSTEM TO ENACT RACIST POLICIES

A VOTE FOR TRUMP IS A VOTE FOR RACISM

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Y'all gonna just let this slide, huh?

 

[spliz]

Trump’s presidency should let cats know this country don’t really have laws. shyt is just a smoke screen and they can make changes on the whim if they wanted to. He should’ve BEEN out of the oval offices but the rules don’t apply to him. Because there are no rules.

 

[ba'al]

 

[Doctor Wily]

American exceptionalism at its finest

 

[Unknown Poster]

This is the fourth thread on this subject.

 

[Skooby]

Getting close to that point... real close..

What do you mean?

 

[WaveMolecules]

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

And the usual suspects who shyt on Biden and the dems are predictably silent.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

And the usual suspects who shyt on Biden and the dems are predictably silent.

I told you. They're waiting on their instructions.

 

[Tha_Mac]

@TRY GOD @BigRemy_J do open white supremacists get immunity from ya'll because they open with it? Do you not have smoke for people who are open with their racism because at least their honest about it?

Ya'll are "pro-black men" who are about that action against white supremacy right? Not even a comment? Not even an acknowledgment of this? You really think reparations are an attainable goal with this motherfukker in office?

You really not gonna stand with your people to get this open racist out? Or does he get a pass because you at least know where he stands? Is that with the "I like my racism out in the open" is about? Giving passes to white supremacists because their honest about it?

 

[TallMan_J]

that's what the GOP has become these days. All their policies fail miserably (Reaganomics led to outsourcing, NCLB led to school closures etc), so they don't even have political policies anymore. Since Obama, the platform of the GOP has been to literally say "no" to whatever policy progressives put forward. They're all trolls.

You’re not even Black. You’re a self admitted fake “Jew”. Why are you even discussing us?

 

[Born2BKing]

@TRY GOD @BigRemy_J do open white supremacists get immunity from ya'll because they open with it? Do you not have smoke for people who are open with their racism because at least their honest about it?

Ya'll are "pro-black men" who are about that action against white supremacy right? Not even a comment? Not even an acknowledgment of this? You really think reparations are an attainable goal with this motherfukker in office?

You really not gonna stand with your people to get this open racist out? Or does he get a pass because you at least know where he stands? Is that with the "I like my racism out in the open" is about? Giving passes to white supremacists because their honest about it?

Of course they aren't, Trump is their candidate.