Lauren Boebert called "racist" for saying Karine Jean-Pierre is a "DEI hire"
Lauren Boebert called "racist" for saying Karine Jean-Pierre is a "DEI hire"
Many on the right have been using "DEI" as a slur for Black people.
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) is getting called out on social media after she called out White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre a “DEI hire,” a term that many consider racist.
No, we don't consider it racist. It is in fact racist, and in this case both racist and sexist. That is the entire point Boebert said it. Why else would she have used the term, indeed.
Why is racist in qoutes?
It is a journalistic standard.
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Lauren "Racist" Boebert Outed as Racist.
The funny thing is that, despite Boebert being racist about it, if the Biden administration hired her due to a lack of diversity in White House press secretaries, that's a good thing.
Of course she doesn't see it as a good thing, she thinks all the information a president puts out should be said by a white person.
There is a fundamental assumption among anti-DEI conservatives that there is only one Best Candidate for any job, one who conveniently looks like them. Anyone who look different, then, obviously can't be the Best Candidate, so someone must have "tipped the scales" to get them in.
Diversity is important because it leads to better ideas, particularly in matters of public policy that affect everyone. I think it's perfectly appropriate for a PR team to use, as one of its hiring guidelines, a goal to assemble people from different backgrounds, which will make everything they produce more relatable to the public. But since Conservatives don't see the value in that at all, all they see is "They wanted to hire a black woman to tick a box", not realizing the value that particular candidate's lived experience brings to that team.
No shit she's racist. She's a prominent member of the Racist Party.
Only for that?
Okay, cool. Shit heads can say “DEI” hire if other people get to call hiring a shit head cronyism or nepotism or bottom of the barrel hire. Like, we could have hired a talented person of color, but we’re racist so we just scraped the bottom to hire instead. Take your pick.
Racist sack of shit rat hellbent on destroying democracy for money that will be worthless by the time the country crumbles happens to be named "Lauren Boebert"
Do we think jeffw is the editor of lgbtqnation? They’re flooding the community with this source day after day. I’d’ve hoped @news had a higher standard… it’s not news that Lauren Bobert is racist.
Who is it the author says called her a racist? Nobodies on Twitter. We as readers need to respect our time and attention and downvote this junk food reporting. We owe it to ourselves.
I rely on 30+ sources. I do not work for any of them, although I (edit: pay to) subscribe to 3 or 4 (edit: NyTimes, WaPo, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Wired, if anyone cares). Every weekday, I ensure ProPublica’s work gets posted somewhere on Lemmy, that’s probably the only one I never skip.
I don’t alter site headlines and can’t force any outlet to write a better article. The news here is that Boebert said a racist thing. The low-quality journalism thing where they do the “what does twitter have to say about this?” isn’t really important.
Jeff! Your work is indispensable. Thanks for all you do.
Who is it the author says called her a racist? Nobodies on Twitter.
That would only be because our media doesn't have the balls to.
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