FEMA ‘horrified’ after confirming workers directed to ‘avoid homes’ with Trump signs in hurricane-ravaged Florida community
FEMA ‘horrified’ after confirming workers directed to ‘avoid homes’ with Trump signs in hurricane-ravaged Florida community
A Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) supervisor told disaster relief workers in Florida to “avoid homes” with signs supporting President-elect Donald Trump, the agency confirmed Friday.
The FEMA official — Marn’i Washington — conveyed her edict both verbally and in a Microsoft Teams chat used by relief workers canvassing Lake Placid homes ravaged by Hurricane Milton last month, according to the Daily Wire.
“Avoid homes advertising Trump,” Washington wrote in a “best practices” memo to employees.
The order was the second bullet point in a list instructing workers to not go “anywhere alone,” practice “de-escalation,” stay hydrated and to “follow the rules.”
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FEMA isn't horrified. It's a faceless bureaucracy. It's like a Large Language Model. The organization released a statement saying it was horrified because the model stated it should release those particular words in this situation.
To be completely fair, you could say that if a company feels 98%+ a certain way about something that happened, you can just in a shorthand way say that "Samsung regrets this happening," right...
You can do the same with FEMA.
It's just how language is used sometimes, IMO.