As New Federal Government Targets DEI, County Vouches for It
Flyer supporting equity, diversity, and inclusion from 2016. [Photo By Quinn Dombrowski from Berkeley, USA – Equity, diversity, inclusion, CC BY-SA 2.0, Link]
With a change in national leadership, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) is a target of new policies and presidential executive orders but Humboldt County is affirming commitment to its DEI program.
The benefits of the county’s DEI program were described to the Board of Supervisors at its Jan. 28 meeting.
The county launched what it calls “The Great Workplace Culture Change Initiative” in the summer of 2020. Since then, the program has expanded to include formation of staff “affinity groups” and drafting of a DEI “strategic plan.”
Dr. Isaac Carter, the consultant hired to assess the effectiveness of the county’s program, said the county’s DEI program has improved “in terms of policy awareness and accountability improvements” and “on how people feel about the support they’re receiving.”
There have also “been some cultural and behavior shifts with the activities and educational opportunities that you have provided for your team” and staff members “feel they have an opportunity to continue their growth and development in their chosen professions,” he continued.
But Carter described the program as a work in progress, saying, “These results are promising but I want to make sure we do not mistake improvement for achievement.”
Dr. Jeremy Michael Clark, the county’s DEI manager, briefed supervisors on a series of recommendations.
They include executive staff coaching, creating “robust communication and training systems” and expanding “professional development opportunities.”
Supervisors vouched for the program’s necessity.
Supervisor Natalie Arroyo said many community members have told her they’re “experiencing racism or sort of inexplicable actions that make them uncomfortable in our community.”
She added, “I think if a lot of times when people think everything’s fine, it’s because they’re not necessarily part of the group that’s feeling like they’re not having an inclusive and positive experience.”
On a national level, DEI programs are under criticism and some corporations have made news by ending theirs.
One of the complaints about DEI is that it discourages merit but Supervisor Mike Wilson said one way to get more and better job applicants is to create a workplace that “people interpret as welcoming to everybody.”
Commenting on the national trends, Supervisor Steve Madrone said the county will have to “revisit this based on what may or may not be happening at the federal level and things like that.”
Humboldt has “stayed pretty much true to its diversity, equity, and inclusion and the way we try to behave here,” he continued, but “we’ve got to keep at it. It’s never going to be done, we’re never going to achieve it, so to speak, but we can make progress.”
Board Chair Michelle Bushnell acknowledged that she’s “struggled with the proper way address someone” and thanked Clark for advice with that.
The DEI presentation included a quote from a county employee who said the county’s formation of the staff affinity groups has “made all the difference for me with feeling more secure, grounded and comfortable at work.”
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DEI is DEAD thanks to the mandate American voters gave President Trump…
The DEI recipe of racial quotas and the systemic destruction of merit was already unpopular before Trump’s historic victory. Over the last two years, corporate DEI departments were slashed. One third of DEI professionals lost their jobs in 2022.
PROTECTING CIVIL RIGHTS AND EXPANDING INDIVIDUAL OPPORTUNITY: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an historic Executive Order that protects the civil rights of all Americans and expands individual opportunity by terminating radical DEI preferencing in federal contracting and directing federal agencies to relentlessly combat private sector discrimination. It enforces long-standing federal statutes and faithfully advances the Constitution’s promise of colorblind equality before the law. This comprehensive order is the most important federal civil rights measure in decades.
DEI has always been unconstitutional and illegal under Civil Rights Act of 1964. Let’s hope white males denied county employment band together as a class and formally file a complaint with the EEOC. Then do a web search for law firm that’ll take the class action lawsuit on contingency and file for 100% lost wages and benefits + triple punitive damages. Even government must follow the law
Spot on GS…
Deport Every Illegal is alive and well actually.
Give all illegal border invaders 3 months to leave the country and get in line to enter legally. Any illegal border crosser still here will never be allowed to be a citizen of the USA. And be sent home
. Saddest part is the people who are trying to get in legally have to wait for the people who butted in line.
I see this on the streets already . 3rd world attitudes in our streets.
While were are at it . If you use a gun to force your way on anyone to steal , rob or force people to do what you want, you need to spend a long time in jail. 25 years 1st offence 2nd life. Guns are for Hunting and personal protection never for forcing your ideas on others!! If you shoot someone trying to steal from them life in a prison where you came from. It will be cheaper. Car jacking 10 years minimum. All immigration applicants sentenced to jail will go back to the country they came from for prison sentence, and US citizen ship denied.
Make it legal to shoot criminals that are running away. Stupid that a person can rape your wife and if he runs away you can’t shoot them BS.
Make America safe for citizens again.
1.5% is hardly a mandate
Please expand on 1.5% not being a mandate.
Trump won the popular vote by 1.5%. Hardly a “mandate”, it actually was, statistically, a tie.
Go cope harder
Incorrect. It was closer to 3% of the popular vote. The Electoral Vote was 312 Trump and 226 Harris. Trump won 30 states including all the battle ground states/swing states. Trump won the popular vote, both Houses of Congress and a mandate for his policies, not a statistical tie. You’re just a sniveling sore loser.
I’m all for diversity, equity and inclusion but does the County have the money for a DEI consultant? And a full time DEI manager? And how much staff time is taken up by DEI affinity groups, executive staff coaching, training, etc. instead of just doing their jobs?
And Bushnell struggled with how to address people? Was that a “they/them” issue?
Have you ever tried to get healthcare or go through planning and building in this county. We have a problem. My planner got hired to the county after getting fired from Arcata government for sexual harassment…. fucking horrific experience with that dude. I actually prefer the option of firing dumbasses over training them and making sure we don’t hire people with a history of being gross. So yes, get rid of DEI and make racism/sexism = termination or removal from office. You can’t train ingrained bias out of people when they are fifty years old and the other dudes in the office do the same. It’s a cultural issue and we need to get rid of these guys.
John Chiv: County says no comment, Chad Pasquini calls it a mistake but what is the real story behind his depature?
Connie Beck denied care for at risk youth too how do you think that office handles brown and black people
Bear River Band of Rohnerville Rancheria Sues County, State for Discriminatory Treatment of Tribal Youth | Lost Coast Outpost | Humboldt County News
Mis-gendering someone isn’t the issue. You can say, “Oops, I’m sorry. I’m new to this, please be patient with me.”
The issue is the denial of basic services, roadblocks to receiving treatment, and bias in schools. These things do lasting harm, keeping people from succeeding and children from learning and growing. We need to make sure racists stop harming people. DEI hasn’t helped with that. We need a zero-tolerance policy and transparency about what happens to our complaints and the perpetrators.
One of the grossest experiences I had was when a teacher who left Loleta schools was a long term sub for my child’s class and shared with me while I was volunteering at my kids’ school that she was angry the “Indians” wouldn’t let her punish their kids at her old job. She complained that teaching Indigenous children was horrible and made remarks about her old boss being a community leader. This was the boss who refused to provide accommodations to disabled kids.
I wasn’t surprised that the school we were going to hired her because they also had a history of saying and doing problematic things. The school secretary at my childs’ school constantly made snide comments about brown people and was intensely racist. My concerns were met with really immature catty behavior because the admin decided to share the private complaint not only with teachers but with parents as well. It was eye-opening what rural school in this county are allowed to get away with. That school should have oversight yesterday.
When I complained to the office of education, I was told it was up to the school administrator to take action. The person who provides DEI training couldn’t go there unless they allowed her, and they denied her. They desperately needed that training. I’m so thankful we left but I feel scared for any person of color going to that school and the lasting effects it will have on students mental health. That lady is still teaching and moved to the Hoopa area. Knowing what I know, and that the county did jack shit is an awful feeling to sit with.
ACLU Files Civil Rights Complaint Against Loleta Elementary Alleging Discrimination Against Native and Disabled Students | Lost Coast Outpost | Humboldt County News
I’m so sorry this has repeatedly happened to you. Same?
Racism and discrimination in this county is delivered with a smile and often from a”friend “. It’s terrible, insidious, and COMMON.
These folks can pretend they’re not bigoted, but the world will continue to refuse to accept this behavior. So… good luck to them when they leave this community. Glad they’ll be reality checked by the public at the first international port of call when they disembark their cruise ships ?️
Thanks yeah its a depressing journey to go through. But its the truth speakers that make change. So I’m willing to be problematic if it means little kids don’t have to experience racism within the classroom. The more of us who are willing to tell our stories the better. And honestly we need to stop paying county counsel to represent these fuckers. If its racism or sexism or abuse of any kind they need to end closed sessions and they need to pay attorneys fees and court fees out of pocket. If you fuck up in these ways because of your own personal bias the tax payers shouldn’t pay for your defense.
“Mis-gendering”?
Radical trans activists do it all the time — there is no such thing as “cis-gender” males or females — so stop mis-gendering everyone who doesn’t buy into the radical trans activist agenda.
Like I said above, I don’t think misgendering is the larger issue. We have 0.35% of all Californians identifying as trans. Why do you all focus on that so much? We are literally hiring known sexual predators to work in county government because of nepotism and the good old boy network. We are allowing our elected officials to make derogatory comments about local business women’s bodies, and we don’t even fire them and they reoffend again and again and again. Why isn’t that concerning to you? That’s what’s happening. In fact, they get taxpayers to defend these pieces of garbage. Why aren’t you mad about that? I don’t understand the logic.
are the derogatory comments true though? were the chicks fat or something?
Look guys the tiny pecker club came to comment. Awe honey nobody wants to touch that. No means no. I know must be difficult to navigate a world where women have choice and agency when you always are getting picked last
“Look guys the tiny pecker club came to comment. Awe honey nobody wants to touch that.” –Farmer
It’s ironic that you were just complaining about elected officials making derogatory comments about local businesswomen’s bodies.
Am I an elected official? Am I ethically and legally bound to represent a wide variety of people and ensure they are safe in the workplace? Are the taxpayers paying me a salary? The answer is no, nor would I ever. I am not in charge of dealing with the safety and well-being of small-peckered men in the workforce. I have no imperative or legal obligation to look after the feelings of small-peckered men anywhere. And if any small peckered men out there want an apology let me know.
Well there you have it! Maybe there will be a super fun comment about large-peckered men in relation to her complaints about County Officials.
so you’re fat?
No, he got a dickydoo. It’s when your stomach sticks out farther than your dicky do
Saying that males invading girls and women’s sports isn’t a problem because it involves only a small percentage of people is like saying rape or murder isn’t a problem because of the small numbers — the issues you complain about should be investigated but don’t dismiss the violations of girl’s and women’s rights or the chemical and surgical mutilation of children because the numbers are small.
So, what were your thoughts on local married men sexually assaulting their co-workers and still getting hired for a county position? I know he is still working for a local engineer in Fortuna. Would you recommend women stay away from that firm for safety reasons?
I made my point — you make yours — leave the deflection at the door and pick it up on your way out.
What about someone convicted of sexual assault being President of the US?
Your ignorance of what I assume is your native language is profound
Just the opposite is true — I have a very profound understanding of language – sorry not sorry that my calling out the radical trans activist’s insidious manipulation of language bothers you.
discrimination is already federally illegal, file a law suit.. Do you really think having someone lecturer a racist about being racist is going to change the thinking of a racist?
And if a specific kid is acting out in class more then others, they will get in trouble more then others regardless of race…
The idea that an entire school should have to tiptoe around one student with ADHD that can’t control themselves is one of the many reasons why our school system is failing.
Loleta schools made an arrangement with the rancherias for “restorative discipline” to be administered by the rancherias to their kids over school discipline issues, using traditional means, elders, and such. The result was that problems never really got taken care of and tended to get worse and worse while the “restorative discipline” apparatus played their essentially meaningless do-nothing games. Mauricio Johnson bounced around in that system while he continued to terrorize his school and eventually graduated to killing three people on the Bear River Rancheria.
That’s a case of double dipping as the article says. She was eventually determined to be ineligible due to already getting tribal assistance. But as it reads it seems that the foster program is where the problems are. IMO she needs more of an assisted living set up where there are dedicated home health or other care persons available and helping out. It exists. Just going off an article there’s more to it than a hard policy being tested, thus the lawsuit . Foster care is whatever people make of it and often has a negative effect on kids through adulthood. It’s a policy issue too…if you cross the IRL or income reporting limits, benefits get cut. And the state watches that for fraud. Doesn’t matter if a person is native, black, white, or from Mars, it affects everybody in the system. But not being privy to any of that rather having known people in the past in similar situations I’m not a fan of foster care for troubled kids. Never have been. They may have a million issues out of their control to go along with whatever traumas and depressions they may have to get handed off to low-level, inconsistent care that sometimes is just a repeat of the homes they left. It’s not a good solution. But nothing is said of why the person was in foster care to begin with, but that isn’t any of my business. Some regulations have changed and this may be a crack she fell into that needs to be addressed and she can be in a happier state of mind.
Look into Beck and the counties long history of ignoring Native children suffering. We have a lot of problems with the county heads being bigots. You don’t have to agree with me but I’m going keep fighting this. Its past time to take action. She should have been fired in 2016. The fact that we haven’t rid our departments of the disease of bigotry and we have been trying to solve this with kid gloves and DEI hasn’t worked. It just hasn’t we need to clean house
https://www.northcoastjournal.com/NewsBlog/archives/2018/02/15/settlement-reached-in-attorney-generals-humco-child-abuse-reporting-inquiry
Seriously, I have no idea what your past interactions with Beck have been, but all you’ve presented so far is the filing of a lawsuit in 2023 alleging that an either/or policy on extended foster or adult tribal benefits is discriminatory (and thus far, no court judgement supporting that) and a stipulated finding that the County abuse reporting system was outdated, inefficient, and dysfunctional. In the first case, it is the County’s responsibility to avoid paying out of their own meager funds what is already being covered by a much larger pot. It’s called fiscal responsibility and avoiding scams. With the abuse reporting issue, it’s well known how outdated, inefficient, and abuse-prone accounting and reporting systems across the county have been. It was never about one individual. It really seems like you’re just trying to drag up dirt on Beck for any old reason, likely because you didn’t like some decision she made at some time.
I believe the county is discriminatory against the tribe. Both Beck and Honsal were implicated in that lawsuit. I believe DHHS and HCSO are not only failing to provide federally available support to Native peoples but intentionally creating strife and unrest. It’s interesting and terrible that in 2025, there is such a pushback on uplifting tribal members or even allowing them to provide public safety on their own land. This is not a personal attack it’s what I have witnessed from the lack of County support and failures. If it was personal there is a lot I could say but I won’t.
I’m attaching an article from today which effectively paints the picture of how far Honsal is willing to undermine the safety of the Indigenous community. In this article we see he went as far as trying to get a tribal officer prosecuted for doing his job and arresting non-Native criminals and transporting them to the HCSO. HCSO essentially told perps to sue tribal officers for violating their 4th amendment rights.
So, Public Law 280, which was enacted in 1958, essentially took away the rights of Natives to criminally prosecute non-Natives who commit crimes on reservation land. This was because whites were fearful that they would be treated as unfairly as they treated indigenous peoples in a sovereign justice system.
This is why Honsal believes he is in his right to try and charge a tribal officer with felony imprisonment for doing his job. PL 280 is also responsible for why most MMIW (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women) cases are never investigated. The grey area of the law should not exist. Criminals on tribal land should be able to be arrested by tribal cops..but for some reason Honsal doesn’t want to give them that power. WHY?
The Battle Over Bear River | News | North Coast Journal
Have you met our community members? Yo, they need help to not be dumb racists
You cannot attract and retain employees that feel mistreated and subject to daily micro aggressions. A large number of upper management across the county are terrible and act as if they’ve never been outside the county. News flash: it’s a big diverse world out there and people are no longer accepting the outright disrespect and ignorance of those in positions of power
There are already laws that cover this.
The issue arises when those laws aren’t enforced. Which is pretty common when you have a legal structure fully comprised of people who don’t like the laws.
This shit is common around here, we have a small, insular, nepotistic county government. Things move quickly and with lots of accommodation if you’re the “right kind” of person, and they move painfully (and expensively) slow if you’re not.
This attitude was on full display with the whole A-C controversy a few years back. The young outsider identified some serious lapses in county accounting and also identified the virulent pushback that pointing these issues out received. Unfortunately, she seems to have had her own set of personality issues that made her an atrocious spokesperson for those issues and the good ol boys were able to shuffle in one of their own to smooth it all back out.
DEI seems similar, it’s a ham fisted solution to a problem. It, ironically, fails to understand the culture of the people that it needs to communicate to most and ends up being just another wedge issue that inflames cross cultural tensions.
Removing DEI won’t solve the underlying issue. And solving that issue without DEI is more likely to involve more costly lawsuits. So I’m not even sure we’ll save any money. But hey, reactionary populism won the day and elections have consequences. So I guess we get to see how this goes.
That question is being asked elsewhere. Especially following the last city council and BOS meetings with budget discussions. They’ll need grant money to get out of the red. Weed tax revenue is down and their salaries and insurances go up
Where does the Grant Money come from?
You and me at some point. There’s a million different types of state and federal grants out there depending on purpose. But they’re going to need outside assistance without some draconian budget measures, all this DEI stuff aside. They’re millions in the hole.
California is in the same situation only replace the m with a b as in billions. Hey, maybe raise taxes for some essential service only put the money in the general fund.
it’s over 2 trillion when you factor in unfunded liabilities..
https://californiapolicycenter.org/california-state-and-local-liabilities-total-1-6-trillion/
https://usdebtclock.org/state-debt-clocks/state-of-california-debt-clock.html
Americans are sick and tired of DEI. Think that was made pretty clear in the blowout election. They’re tired of alot of things
When the Orange Turd won by less than 2 million votes, and more than 30% just didn’t vote, I wouldn’t call that a blowout. I hate hearing the right call this past election ‘a mandate’. I don’t think most people that voted for him wanted all this stuff that he is attempting
Yeah well the orange turd won twice without the assistance of fake votes from dead people and illegal immigrants.
Voting fraud was largely committed by TRUMP VOTERS
facts matter
and funny how yall aren’t talking about fraud or the fact that elon bought the entire “republican “ party, including his fake million dollar sweepstakes to pay people to vote
…and Biden allowed multi-millions into our country, illegally, in order to override the law and give them the right to vote….for him, of course. Voter fraud usually finds a democrat heading it up i.e. the people paid by democrats to stuff ballot boxes who were caught red handed in 2020.
There was no accountability so they continued to get paid in 2022. Here’s a direct quote from Biden in 2020, “We have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics”. The “we” was Obama and him, but that’s a guess.That was still on U-tube last summer. Bet they took it down before the 2024 election. Didn’t matter Lara Trump and the RNC took it seriously and had poll watchers and lawyers paying attention.
Those are the sorts of things revealed during his non-campaign whenever they allowed him out to make a speech or wave at the few folks that showed up for his staged rallies. When you have a slip that big, it denotes a certain loss of cognitive ability. Unfortunately, the media paid no attention and didn’t follow it up. We were watching and almost fell out of our chairs in disbelief.
lol, Kamala paid celebrities tens of millions to endorse her..
There’s no truth or facts to support your post.
Change the channel sometimes Rick
Lol…you sure have continued drinking the kool-aid. Dead people? That was the republicans. Illegal immigrants cannot vote. Now that dear leader is in power, where’s all the voter fraud that he was so jacked up about? All he cares about his his billionaire buddies that he’s given cabinet/gov’t positions to. He won’t bring down any food prices. He’s set on bringing them up with all the “wonderful” tariffs he’s got planned. Just wait until President Musk and his twenty-something punks get a hold of all the personal info and oops, your disability or SS check is delayed or doesn’t come in. They’ll be cutting programs for Vets and medical programs for kids. But you voted for all that so good for you!
Little sad Joe?
Final count was something like 8 million votes more
Incorrect
Nope. https://www.cfr.org/article/2024-election-numbers
+2,284,952 is the official tally on 63.9% turnout.
Trump had a solid win, but it was no landslide. Reagan was a landslide. Trump with or without outside or inside collusion was large enough that even if Kamala got 50k more votes in most states to swing this delegate or that wouldn’t have been quite enough to win. If Trump had to get a bunch of cheaters onboard, that is a hell of a lot of people, like everyone in Los Angeles comingled to screw things up. So I don’t doubt one bit there was some malfeasant agents out there, it was nowhere what Fox or anybody wants to parrot. Trumps margin leads me to think cheating was relatively sporadic or more of “shit that just doesn’t work as planned” than something organized. Otherwise why cheat if you’re already winning? That’s like winning a race but you shut down the finish line after you crossed it so nobody else can out of spite. But this is O. Julius we’re talking here.
Don’t intrude on their fantasies. It just makes them angry
Who were the 30% that didn’t vote? My guess is they were democrats who felt betrayed by their own party for the past 4 years. At least those are the people I know who didn’t vote.
The “orange turd” won every swing state and made headway in many blue states like NY and CA. I think, had you paid attention, all “this stuff” he is “attempting” is exactly why he won the election. He was very transparent about his views and what he wanted for “the golden age of America”.
If you don’t watch, listen and read about the candidates because you have always just voted a party line, you miss out on the issues. Policy is more important than personality, although Trump’s personality is just what we need right now to dig us out of the deep abyss we are in due to no one “elected” was at the helm for four years.
Trump is a badass fighter and a real worker bee. His cabinet, if we can get the whiney democrats to stop trying to block everyone, will be fantastic for “we the people”. Luckily, DOGE is just a committee with the ability to take a look at where our tax dollars go and recommend accountability. Clearly there are real problems with that. We have also found out the billions we thought went to Ukraine is lacking in actual billions going there. Maybe we will find out who got paid off instead of Ukraine.
The “swamp” is a thing and I am sure both parties have people worried about draining it. In the meantime, Trump did receive a mandate from those who voted because we knew we couldn’t exist as a country with four more years of the unelected radicals running our country because our POTUS, if Harris, would be too weak to know the lay of the land and stop the carnage.
Why must you berate those you disagree with. The American voters just gave President Trump a mandate to irradiate DEI. His electoral college win was resounding. Trump this year became only the second Republican to win the popular vote since 1988.On a different metric, Trump’s win over Harris in 2024 appears even more comfortable. He won 312 votes in the US electoral college compared with Harris’s 226.
And this is the number that really matters. The US election is really 50 state-by-state races rather than a single national one.
No, they just are too stupid and beta to think for themselves.
Sure Art. The Democrats lost the popular vote and electoral college. No more talk of getting rid of the electoral college for you guys. That is a mandate. Just because u don’t like it means nothing in the scheme of anything. EartH.
Bunch of ignorant basement dwellers who long for the touch of a woman
Most women are overweight with shitty tattoos, badly dyed hair, and metal hanging out of their face. They look more like something out of Gladiator than anything I’d want to touch.
Most Amerikans do not even know what DEI means or what it is. They take their cue from their god/cult leader.
I agree. So many people like Bidens cool aid. Go crooked Joe. Worst POS ever
That’s easy, it means Didn’t Earn It..
Wrong. You’re just delusional and filled with chronic TDS.
So stop saying it. Last week it was crt
The election was NOT a blowout. Math matters. Facts matter
And denial matters. Ref: Stages of Grief.
Nothing says virtue signaling more than affirmations of feelings!
“Dr.” Isaac Carter – “….on how people feel about the support they’re receiving.” and “…feel they have an opportunity to continue their growth and development in their chosen professions…”
“Supervisor” Natalie Arroyo – “I think if a lot of times when people think everything’s fine, it’s because they’re not necessarily part of the group that’s feeling like they’re not having an inclusive and positive experience.” Wtf? ?
”Rando” County employee – “…made all the difference for me with feeling more secure, grounded and comfortable at work.”
”Supervisor” Steve Madrone – “…It’s never going to be done, we’re never going to achieve it…”
Unattributed to “Dr.” Jeremy Michael Clark, after “Supervisor” Steve Madrone’s remark – “Thank the stars, these morons ain’t gonna fire me cause they’re stuck on stupid!”
My observation too. All about feelings! Why are we squandering public dollars on studying or tip toeing around feelings?
Humboldt leadership thinks it’s so special with its pointless touchy-feely DEI “study” and disasterous sanctuary status, and it’s not going to end well.
Uh no.. we just won’t work for you so good luck!
Good, plenty of people looking for work right now.
Humboldt should just declare blacks and women to be incompetent, so they can fit in with MAGA and Musk.
Back to the plantation again eh? Ask Tulsi how she feels about that. It’s amazing that she is gonna know all the secrets. She will be part of the .0001% versus the 99.9999% of us who don’t, men and women. Incompetent my arse. KKK founded by Democrat Party. Oopsie. Will Robinson, we have a problem. Abort…….
Why not? Do you declare white and male to be unDEI as you do declare them racist and sexist and the only solution is to hire not white and not male? Hello? If it is wrong to declare women and black people categorically incompetent, then declaring them to be categorically competent is equally stupid.
The real strange thing is that the most common way of categorizing individuals- intelligence- certainly results in a mediocracy at best- a rule by the mediocre. Actually the average is less intelligent than mediocre so let’s hit the below mediocre target! Because average and below average in intelligence are seriously under represented in powerful positions. Let’s fix that right away! Vox Populi! AI is the solution! Dumb doctors, dumb engineers, dumb nurses, dumb teachers. There can not be too much dumb added to fix their under represented status.
Of course for promoting incompetence, the Democats already have tried that demographic for President. What a world where the only option people can choose for their leadership are demented, rabid and unfit for the duty. But let’s make DEI instead of voting elect the next one. That would be true DEI .
Imagine being so brainwashed by NAZI hate and guided by stupidity that you don’t even know that DEI represents everyone, including white males, and you make your ignorance known by typing a comment and letting it sit past the editing time.
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TDS is treatable, even under obamacare.
Did you think that I think Trump is in control of Leon?
MDS is also treatable. Get it son.
Yall seem incurable to me
Bill Burr is taking the lead on explaining the disease:
https://youtu.be/xg2iPL8ZTo0?si=7nHBBnOi-acZNMjF
There are no more D leaders for actual objective people to turn their energy towards.
Watch out.
Art, your words would blind me to the reality of what hate looks like.
I couldn’t blind anyone who isn’t willing to see.
Speak for yourself!
Have you ever had to take DEI mandatory training? It literally represents everybody but white males…
Thankfully, some of us are fluent in sarcasm. Thank you
So let’s get this strait ,the county and city officials would rather put dei policy’s and 10 percent of the people ahead of the actual needs of the total 100 percent ,and risk losing the ability to receive any future federal grants also loose the ability to help 100 percent of the population that needs it.They must remove dei policies from federally funded programs and workplaces or the entire county looses.They really need to step back and take a look at what they are doing it could have a impact on all federal funding for Humboldt and if you think the feds will back down ,think again
There’s basically something evil in a government handout being the controlling issue in policy.
For the greater good of all, is at the heart of the collective mindset, and it’s a lie. No ideology is more elitist based. Oh yeah, communism has its 1% but it’s not based on merit, but rather nepotism, favoritism, and identity, which is how the California bureaucracy functions.
At face value, and with DEI initiatives being removed for government work, then what money? There’s nothing to appeal or apply for, just wishful thinking for something that just gotten taken away.
I am actually a DEI enforcement operative.
every day i encounter opportunities to promote various cultural worldviews.
through the lense of DEI, I am able to coerce those with other points of view that my communities concerns need to be highlighted and sponsored in order for there to be a more perfect union.
any resentment or pendulum swinging is minor compared to the smooth sailing achieved when my communities preferences are conjoined systematically though promotions like DEI that ultimately lead to togetherness
I’ve learned that the color of one’s skin is their most important attribute. Accomplishments do not matter, melanin content is the sole metric by which people must be judged.
You’re a commissar?
Oak makes good firewood!!!
Correction: you used to be a DEI operative.
“Supervisors vouched for the program’s necessity” Well as long as supervisors vouched for it….bunch of dipshits. How about hiring based on ability rather than alleged disability?
DEI inevitably is a quota system. Otherwise how does anyone know the goals of diversity, equity and inclusion are met? Then comes the tricky details. Are the quotas national? State? County? How is diverse defined? Proportionate of each demographic in that definition universe? How do you choose the demographic? And that is even before the most tricky element of equity is applied.
Frankly the times that this ideal has controlled hiring in government presence locally, the experience was people were hired in a designated demographic without the needed skills but in the right catagory. Then sent to training and given access to special assignments to tick off the “merit based” point system to get them ready for the next step. Since in the local area the required demographic was pretty sparce, people were hired for the job from outside of the area, spent most of their time getting qualified for the next promotion, hated living here, put minimum effort into needed work and left as soon as they were offered the next job. Meanwhile the locals who had frankly played good employee game were bypassed until the sheer turnover left them as the only option.
Hmm… maybe equity ought to include points for not being the necessary widget in the DEI game.. You know just to be equitable. And no, despite the inevitable accusations from rabid commenters here, it had nothing to do with me personally. I just watched the circus from outside. Several times. Hello? The problem is baked into the whole idea, and Natalie would never be concerned about any complaint that would speak to that. Because like who listens to the complaints of racist people who have had it their way for years…
The only “goals” I’ve learned during DEI training is how to avoid micro aggressions, unconscious bias, and acceptance of others. Beyond that, I don’t think there’s any specific “goals” for supervisors and managers. Perhaps in the hiring process, however, again, the aim is to reduce bias and to choose applicants based on qualifications rather than race. So sorry, white people… if you’re not as qualified as someone else, then maybe you need to check into gaining more experience and knowledge. Blaming your failures on DEI and other equal opportunity programs is just lame and your white privilege doesn’t count in an interview for a position you’re low qualifications doesn’t meet.
See that’s what I meant when I said above “And no, despite the inevitable accusations from rabid commenters here, it had nothing to do with me personally. I just watched the circus from outside. ”
There is a problem of assigning blame for failure going on. But it is yours that seems to require government laws to be work. Oh.. and I suspect that those “white people” to whom you refer to do not feel your education on how to “avoid micro aggressions, unconscious bias, and acceptance of others” has been effective.
Sincerely, the population here has enjoyed benefits they haven’t earned through education or experience. Nepotism has wrecked this place. Wait till they find out that it’s barred EVERYWHERE ELSE!?
And , btw, bipoc and queer people, and women wonder daily how these lazy ass white men can be absolutely terrible at their jobs yet never worry about being terminated
DEI doesn’t hold a candle to nepotism. It’s one thing to hire your kids or relatives because it’s well, your company, but when you hire family or inlaws to positions that you’d require a masters degree or 10 years experience, yet the newbie is barely out of high school, well….DEI means nothing because you skipped right around that.
When I was in the lumber/logging business, management’s goal was to have a labor force that reflected the population of the community. It was achievable and nobody seemed to give a never mind.
The lumber industry is heavily reliant on cheap Mexican labor.
Not only to cut trees, but at both ends of the yarders.
And then guess who’s planting the 30 million SPI trees each year? Not [edit-Kym].
How are those lumber prices going to go down when labor prices double and labor quality halves….
Hint: They wont.
“Not whitey.” –Art
You can’t eliminate racism by being racist.
Lol, remove “white people” and your statement makes sense. Or … Blaming your failures on “white people” is just lame and your DEI privilege doesn’t count in an interview for a position you’re low qualifications doesn’t meet. See what I did there?
My experience in corporations had the effect of making everyone rather quiet and unsociable. Cold even. Too worried about saying something that can be remotely misconstrued as insensitive, or something such as a hair style and “cultural appropriation” is now offensive. It just made people around me not want to converse at all. It gets hard to work on teams with people that don’t talk without feeling like they’re programmed. Worse on the middle managers that have to feel like they’re never-ending speech and thought police to those they supervise. Meanwhile senior management rattles on with whatever garbage without recourse.
Y’all just be laminating the best parts of this whole entire experience for you guys like it’s the best greatest thing in the world but nobody gives a crap about the people displaced by this program. Nobody gives a shit that it’s completely racist towards white people. Nobody gives a fuck that everybody who built this country is being physically removed from their positions of power and being replaced by people who are untrained, unskilled, and have no idea what the fuck they’re doing who are placed there because of their own skin color without regards to their actual intelligence capability to commit to the job and see it through all the way completely and correctly.
And all of you don’t even see this as racist at all?
I think the most racist part about this is how you guys are completely colorblind to anything besides black and brown.
None of us should be giving a shit about what color you are, we should be caring about how intelligent you are, and if you aren’t intelligent maybe we should be lifting people up to make them more intelligent and help them become a better piece of society.
I was raised for 40 years being told that skin color doesn’t matter and All that matters is merit, capability, and how smart you are but all the sudden in the last 15 years skin color matters.
How about instead of forcing your way into positions of power because of your skin color you go to college and learn a trade instead of wasting your college years on retarded crap that has nothing to do with growing a society that thrives.
Racists, all of you involved in DEI.
Rick, you are not a very smooth talking guy but I think I know what you’re saying. Us 35+ year olds were raised in a time when the liberal/progressive ideal was to be ‘color blind’. As in, we see everyone as equal, no matter their ‘color’ or race. It’s a damn progressive concept for the ‘80s and ‘90s. Many people from this generation don’t agree with the modern progressive concept that basically turns ‘colorblind’ on its head, and insists we value everyone for their uniqueness and their culture.
Yes! Merit based, regardless of identity!!!
Trump bankrupted his businesses.
Like that kinda meritocracy?
Like Linda McMahan meritocracy?
Like Tulsi Gabbard, and Pete Hegseth?
None of these people know anything except who’s tiny orange dick to stroke publicly.
You allow this comment?
Unlike Trump, I can punch up.
elon is no genius either. He’s an uneducated, apartheid nepo baby welfare queen illegal immigrant who stole all of his ideas from the engineers he hired , then took credit for their accomplishments- all very white male behaviors
But facts don’t matter to these people
He literally has no patent worth mentioning, far from an inventor.
Twitter in debt owing billions to US banks.
Deposits for Tesla Roadsters have not been returned after 13 years of not delivering.
Total beta who Zieg Heils for any friend possible.
Do you have proof that Elon is an illegal immigrant? Facts matter
Certainly some aggression toward an African American, there! Democrats’ hatred towards minorities ALWAYS comes out! Hating since 1865!
Like Laura Trump heading the RNC.
Ya, totally merited!!! ???
Qualifications needed; boning a Trump son.
That is exactly the problem. MLKs dream of a color blind nation has been replaced with racism.
Well said. I was lucky to get that progressive mindset in the 60s-70s from my very conservative Republican parents. Yes decency is not the property of any political party ha ha. I got lucky. My grandparents both sides were old school racist but my parents broke that tradition. I don’t see much gain from DEI other than spending money on extra consultants and meetings. Merit- based hiring and promotions are where it’s at. Best person for the job. Period. And an effective government complaint board to look into charges of discrimination w penalties if somebody’s a racist/ sexist asshole. Boom.
Because the passive “color blindness” didn’t get the desired results. Nor looked to be able to in any sort of immediate time frame. It was useless as much a principle seems to be pretty weak in the face of self interest. Government affirmative action was needed.
And I don’t think that it’s a Progessive ideal that ” we value everyone for their uniqueness and their culture.” That are just the words used tear down a disagreeable element in society by generically gutting too much shared values. Frankly it seems that there is a rush to self affirming group partisanships but little interest in the overall society..
Covid was a typical example of the change in public mores. In earlier pandemics of the 1900s, people wanted to show their unity in fighting the disease by making and wearing masks , keeping working some society didn’t collapse into caos, take what precautions they could, those who could created ambulance services, volunteered for Red Cross or took food to the stricken. The story in my family was that my grandfather was carted off to tent mass hospital to be taken care of by volunteers in San Francisco when he came down with it, health offical put up warning signs at his house until it was clear no one else had it and some sort of ladies auxiliary of some sort fraternal organization brought food to the family until they were free to leave. With covid every was told to stay home and avoid others, hospitals were on their own and some government workers would act for everyone.
Well, if you think ‘colorblind’ didn’t get the desired result, what do you think the result of your new ideology is? It gave us Trump.
For one it’s supposed to teach people to not use that as a bias as the beginning of any conversation. Or simply how you treat people? When you see someone not of your ethnicity to you cringe when they extend a handshake? Or a bow? Or do you embrace the person and say hello? Get that negativity and barriers out of one’s thinking. Then we can focus on what type of synergy we have with the person. Are they likeable? Trustworthy? Reliable? Skilled? A snake or general a-hole to deal with? Maybe they just don’t like crowds. Personality crosses all barriers, but “blindness” is just that…look past or ignore your own personal barriers. Or get rid of them.
Thank God, it gave us Trump. The unprejudiced Man with the plan…MAGA.
Gurrrrrrrl…. Women, bipoc, and queer people have to be overqualified to be considered for lesser positions at lesser pay.
We tried this white male shit for the last 500 years. It sucks
Also, if someone is “racist “ to you for being white, well damn….. perhaps you could do some self reflection to ensure NO ONE is mistreated in your orbit ?
It would be nice if commenters would put their gender, ethnicity and sexual proclivities in their bios, so we could rank them by the proper DEI assigned importance.
It would save me from having to filter through all these privileged white male commenters.
Brown trout eh? Do you swim in a porcelain pond?
A self-affirming POS? Hey I didn’t make the name, but that’s what it implies.
So you’re bigoted towards white males with differing opinions.
Musk is the new Rasputin.
It could end the same for him too.
Thanks for sharing Art! The FBI sends their love !
We need DEI ended immediately. We have airplanes with doors falling off, airplanes hitting each other, airplanes catching fire, trains derailing all over, trannies in the military and other places. Democrats turned our country in to a disaster of mental ill folks, incompetent and unqualified ppl in charge of things they are not qualified to be in charge of. DEI is racist and dangerous.
Some would say that you’re a horrible person for such a statement.
some retards would
Most ppl who know me just know I don’t hold back the truth and like they say…..The truth hurts.
What truth? You’re blaming those things on people with mental health issues Where’s the proof? Oh, you don’t have any except to say they all had mental health issues. Clearly your tin foil hat is on too tight! Try listening to someone other than your dear leader/President Musk.
Most would say David isn’t a horrible person for mentioning the truth.
DEI is code word for “I don’t understand”.
When I read your comment and exchange the code word, it makes a lot more sense.
Really fun! Everyone should reread your comment and read “I don’t understand ” when you typed “DEI”.
It becomes an explanation of yourself ?
You’re correct, I don’t understand DEI. I just can’t comprehend how we as a society have came so far in terms of equality, only to flush all the progress down the drain with identity based policies.
I just don’t understand.
If we start with your 2nd paragraph, the 1st then has context.
I perfectly understand Diversity, Equity and Inclusion means no white ppl are being hired. If you have been reading the newspapers, looking online or watching the news you know every single thing I said is true. I am really don’t care who likes my comments or not. You are obviously a snowflake liberal or Democrat.
I’ve been fighting reverse discrimination AKA: Affirmative Action Programs since 1972. The most qualified often doesn’t get the position.
Boeing’s problems with planes isn’t a DEI issue. It’s who they let run the company in general. Instead of letting the engineers make the decisions, they let the bean counters do it. No DEI needed.
No, it was stated in several news papers as well as on Fox and other news channels that the recent plane wrecks were because air traffic control was very short staffed because of DEI and they had DEI hires that were not qualified for their jobs. Same with the train derailments, the warehouses not getting products out to the suppliers etc. etc. Here is a video that proves what I am saying. The fAA DEI hire could not answer on single question about anything to do with airplanes or landings…….nothing. See for yourself.
https://youtu.be/iEj2Yq0okzU?si=wsf6mc4sn7KUOb17
Huh. That’s Fox’s version of it. OK.
Boeing’s engineer problems started waayyyy before DEI was even a thought. Before “affirmative action” even. It started when McDonnell Douglas was snapped up in the 90s and got even worse when Condit and Stonecipher decided to cut costs everywhere they can and moved the HQ from Seattle to Chicago. I remember that as I lived there at the time and was acquainted with some of their Everett and Renton plant workers that got laid off during the switch.
https://ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu/engineering-ethics-and-the-boeing-scandal
“According to Robison, and he tells a convincing story, Boeing was long one of the most admired companies in the world largely because it was run by engineers with an engineering point of view. As all three textbooks mentioned above note, the first of the six fundamental canons of the National Society for Professional Engineers code of ethics is that engineers shall: “Hold paramount the safety, health, and welfare of the public.” As Robison explains it, Boeing’s downfall began when it merged with McDonnell Douglas in 1997 and managerial power over the new combined company shifted from the engineers who had run Boeing to the financial engineers who had already run McDonnell Douglas into the ground. Engineers were sidelined in numerous ways, and the new firm’s emphasis shifted decisively from passenger safety to shareholder value.”
The real answer is the bolded part. DEI had nothing to do with it unless DEI stands for Ditch the Engineers, you Idiots.
Also, outsourcing of software and cheap parts. Crappy software from India led to a lot of the 737-Max problems that grounded all the Max-8 jets. They were paying $9 an hour for guys to write Boeing supplied code software. That’s not DEI. That’s being cheap bastards that cost lives and more than a few expensive lawsuits. Not to mention an number of thousands of solid jobs that went POOF!
“Increasingly, the iconic American planemaker and its subcontractors have relied on temporary workers making as little as $9 an hour to develop and test software, often from countries lacking a deep background in aerospace — notably India.”
When you outsource work, that’s not a DEI thing as it doesn’t apply as those workers aren’t even in the country.
Fox news should know all this. They reported on all these Boeing issues years ago as did any other major news outlet. All they did was try to twist it into a DEI issue caused those planes to crash.
Also, Reagan ATC had staffing issues forever. It takes considerable and explicit training to be a traffic controller. It’s not an easy job, with high stress and responsibility and quick as lightning thinking required. Not many people want that type of work. DEI wasn’t making for less qualified employees or filling quotas: There just aren’t enough people willing to fill that position. And it’s going to get worse, DEI or no DEI. That and there’s entirely too much overlapping traffic patterns it was a matter of time.
One more that notes the door blowout a year ago.
“Boeing’s current CEO, took over in January 2020, nine months into the grounding of the 737 Max following two fatal crashes. He also has no engineering background, having served as senior managing director and head of portfolio operations at investing firm The Blackstone Group, CEO of Nielsen and spending 26 years at GE.”
Blackstone. He’s a money guy, not an engineer. He makes money, not planes. He doesn’t know shit about how to build one or what to look for because all the good engineers are gone. …..and……
It had a choice between consolidating production to a veteran plant in Washington state staffed by unionized employees and a non-union South Carolina plant. It decided to close the unionized line in Washington and keep the South Carolina plant.
“the probe that followed the second crash revealed Boeing executives were more concerned with continued production than finding the cause”
They cared more about money, not some hiring mandate.
You obviously did not watch the video I posted which proves my point 100%.
Thanks to the feckless Biden Administration, the FAA reported that the USA is short 4,000 air traffic controller positions. Leaving many to work forced overtime in an already stressful job.
Exactly
Has nothing to do with Biden. Would you want to be an air traffic controller? It’s a stressful job. The training is not for everyone and then on the job stress. Do some research into that first before you blame someone. I bet your dear leader’s gov’t will not be able fill the quota for controllers either. Stop watching Faux News and expand your mind a little bit.
I was raised in an ATC tower…Catch before more needlessly die…
From the article:
Dr. Isaac Carter, the consultant hired to assess the effectiveness of the county’s program, said the county’s DEI program has improved “in terms of policy awareness and accountability improvements” and “on how people feel about the support they’re receiving.”
Here we go again. It’s all about feeeeeelings, no matter the cost. Nope, hair gel will fold like a 2 dollar suitcase. You can’t run a government on feelings, because efficient governments only succeed based on rational thought.
You can’t run a government without ability to print money. Hello, California 5th largest in the World.
y’all have pretty strong feelings about DEI. I guess we are all special and unique snowflakes after all.
Code: revisit based on what happening at Federal level. Deciphered: $$$$$$$. The discovery of more NGO/Federal Tax Dollar/ Money Laundering set-ups (USAID as example) might be rough on California – especially places like Humboldt County.
Being “colorblind” is boomer speak. You can’t fully understand a person’s struggles if you can’t see them for who they are in the larger context of community attitudes and behaviors.
Why would things being equitable, diverse, or inclusive to ALL be so offensive?
Also, Ladies and Disabled Folks….. they’re talking about us too!
Remember how we still don’t make the same money for the same job? Or aren’t allowed to reach certain career goals like say….President?! Uh…. Hello!!! This is exactly why white men must be forced ( they rarely do it without force) to TREAT EVERYONE EQUALLY
ffs
You got some issues. Boomer speak is ageist in itself and also one of the things that DEI and diversity and workplace protections exist for. You saying it just shows your own insensitivity against people older than yourself. Good job. You do realize that boomers are the ones that led most of the Civil Rights marches? The ones that protested the Vietnam War? The ones that brought the entire “counter culture”, “free love” and all sorts of inclusivity related terms and lifeystyles into existence? You saying “white men must be forced” tells everyone else you’re racist all by yourself.
When an electable woman is nominated for President by either party, she will win. More than likely she’ll be Conservative and MAGA. ?%.
Why wouldn’t a woman make the same amount of money for the same job? Every individual gets to negotiate their compensation in most fields. If you’re saying women can’t negotiate just compensation, it’s hardly white men’s fault!
Entitled much!??
Also… yall must love being embarrassed by and sued for dumb shit Rex bohn or the shady building permit guy are dumb enough to SAY OUT LOUD
Well, show up at the next BOS meeting and say it loud to him how you feel. They’re open to the public.
https://youtu.be/CVgNJf6CsBA?si=7wsk_Pi2paQohvqf
Take an hour and a half w AOC.
Take notes.
Is insanity covered under DEI?
What do you mean there Ernie?
I don’t think anxiety meds are covered by DEI.
Yes, it’s a prerequisite for admittance…
DEI = Didn’t Earn It
It’s clear to see when rhetoric and propaganda lead us to focus on broad and vague causality (the blame game). Individuals can make mistakes, but it takes multiple failures in a system to cause real harm. Inclusion policy CANNOT be the cause of multiple failures. I’m a white male and it has been my experience that multiple levels of white males failing to do their job cause the most egregious errors. Anytime I encounter someone that may be sponsored as a DEI candidate, I’m always surprised how un-entitled they are. And how much class, merit, experience, and humility they bring to a team.
“i hate myself.” -mobiuscrash
No, I just hated the entitled white males in my life that thought they “earned it” while everyone else is lazy and undeserving. Sure, make things up to give you and your people an unfair advantage. I get it and I don’t hate anyone now. But I see through the lies and I won’t support a false narrative. Whether it serves me or not.
It makes sense that white men are feeling left out and lashing out as a consequence. We don’t really celebrate their unique gifts. The only people that acknowledge them are their family and friends. It’s no wonder they have big feelings and are lashing out.
Seriously tho, we could take this opportunity to put more effort and implement better measures to stop nepotism hires.
Such bullshit. Oh yeah they don’t have enough qualified applicants because colored people don’t think they’d be hired without DEI.
There’s no way Wilson is dumb enough to believe this.
It seams to me that the people who want to spend money this pretend world should be able to fund it. I do not want any of my taxes to go to this make believe group. Equal opportunity means no special treatment for any group. Lets make a check box on taxes, if you want to fund this you check the box and let the entities take what they need from your paycheck.
What am I to do; my president is a fool!
How are the grocery prices doing?
Organic avocados are damn expensive!
They’ve more than doubled in the last 4 years. Are you just now noticing?
What is Isaac Carter a doctor(sic) of?
Publicly attesting to a commitment to waste taxpayer funds. Are they totally ignoring the national news?
Taxpayers are sick of this shit.
Publicly funded racism has to go.
Trump has a few kids he can volunteer for combat in Gaza.
Barron is of age and no bone spurs!
From now on we call it MAGAza! ??
Good One…MAGAZA…
Too tall to be a tunnel rat.
DEI is going the way it should. Right down the drain.And Arroyo and Madrone are whining all the way. I predict Arroyo’s stay in Humboldt will be transitory. Shes only interested in furthering her own political ascendancy. And claims of racial discrimination in this county are nonsense. Time to get rid of unnecessary consultants.
Dr. Issac Carter. Here is some information on him at http://www.wearecocreative.com.
“we’ve got to keep at it. It’s never going to be done, we’re never going to achieve it, so to speak, but we can make progress.”
The scam that keeps on giving.
DEI is simply the lazy way into the work force. I am all for diverse employment. However, I don’t want to be on the job with ANYONE who was hired because they are diverse. If you want to be a cook, then you must be able to cook to get a job. If you want to drive, then you must be able to drive. If you want a job, please spend your time and effort actually training job skills for that job instead of applying with no skills and demanding the employer hire you because you are diverse. Stop whining around like a bunch of babies and do what working America does. Become someone worthy of being employed by putting on your adult pants instead of a diaper. DEI is absolutely endangering lives every day. It must end.
DEI is the opposite of what many commenters think it is — DEI is meant to counteract bias, racism and nepotism — done right it results in hiring the most qualified candidates — instead of lesser qualified candidates we might be more comfortable with because we perceive them to be more like us.
But done poorly, especially with quotas, it results in travesty’s like the female Secret Service agent who didn’t know when to draw or not draw her firearm and didn’t know what to do with it or how to holster it once it was drawn — that was a stunning DEI failure brought about by the equally unqualified head of the Secret Service who set a quota of 30% female agents by 2030 — this dilution of qualifications probably played into the fatal mistake (for the spectator — and near fatal for Trump) of no one thinking to account for the nearby rooftop — Secret Service hires should have years of firearms experience, common sense, absolute clarity and commitment to the mission, and strategic focus among other qualifications — checking a box shouldn’t be one of them.
Unfortunately almost every application, survey, and any other paperwork wants you to enter race information and gender identity. If none of these things really matter, why the questions in the first place? Most commonly this information is used for accusations of racial or gender bias when it is seldom actually the case. It just gives the ACLU and other activists something to protest. Never should anything but skills needed for the job Bea factor in hiring.
To hell with your roads that pulverize your electric car, homelessness epidemic, artificial housing inflation, sub par health care, and drug overdoses… we want you to feel comfortable about being fabulous you! Don’t worry about where your money is going.
All very laughable. DEI means discriminating against white men over forty (unless you’re married to a county employee or gay). I filed a complaint about one county department’s obvious gender bias (eighty plus percent female staff, all female Managers) and it was dismissed. Humboldt County is as corrupt as it gets when it comes to employment. If you’re not well connected or POC (preferably both) you don’t even get interviewed. Same with the local colleges and Eureka City Schools. I have many examples. Hopefully this turns around, but I doubt it. HumCo remains in the dark ages of hippy era liberalism.
Show and give respect unless it’s not warranted and that’s up to each individual and if someone is ignorant
That’s something you’ll just have to deal with when and where it occurs . Life is hard and lawing up the world is not the way to solve it’s issues . I feel the needle way over corrected and like the lil weirdos we Are we’ll over correct the other direction .
I don’t know but for a world that doesn’t wanna be labeled sure have come up with a lot more labels .
Say… I don’t know if this is pertinent to our local “broke?” Situation – Attorney General Bondi has put a hold on Federal $$$ to Sanctuary cities! Maybe counties and/or States? Maybe someone else on here knows?
Good le humboldt county. Doubling down on stupid.
Equality means treating everyone the same. DEI means some groups get more rights than other while other groups are shit on constantly.
More decisive bullshit
So disheartening. Obviously people don’t understand what DEI is. The right has totally mischaracterized and lied to feed into the aggrieved ‘white male discrimination’ narrative. So Pete Hegseth was appointed strictly because of ‘merit but Katanji Brown Jackson was a ‘DEI hired. I call BS, but, white supremacists are celebrating.
So instead of helping people to understand what DEI is… you went straight to “white male discrimination”! That’s not very inclusive of you.
DEI is for wimps. Earn your place or stfu and sit down. Tired of the weakest of humans trying to shame people into..what? Giving you our hard earned tax money? No more free rides, stuff your useless gender studies degree and get a real job. I hear there are a lot of job openings on farms for citrus harvesters and lettuce pickers.
Am I a wimp? I’ve worked since I was 15 years old and now I’m 63 with several health issues from a genetic disorder. I graduated top of the nation in a rigorous scientific program to become a medical health provider. My genetic disorder created pain and degeneration of my spinal column so that I could no longer do my chosen profession. At 56, I went back to school to retrain in another field that didn’t require as much from my physical body. I now take my lifetime of knowledge and learning in both health and social work to my new job. Thankfully, I have an employer who embraces DEI and I have the ability to work within my physical limitations. Not only that but I have the opportunity to love and be loved by my coworkers and the population of youth that I serve. Without DEI, I would have been forced into disability and early retirement and poverty. Instead, I am contributing to our community, working with youth, making human connections that foster love and acceptance. I don’t get paid near as much as my previous work but my life is fulfilling and I am making a difference. I am DEI and my diversity stands for disabled. My equity is my ergonomic work station and 4 day work week and my inclusion is recognizing that although I’m not as fast as my younger counterparts, I have wisdom and creativity that makes up for it. I am also a mentor to the young folks I work with and consider family. 63 year old white female here and I would not be contributing to society without DEI.
Getting rid of DEI or affirmative action, because y’all say it discriminates against you is absolute crap. Getting rid of DEI or affirmative action is really about picking off any and all, minorities and females. Cuz according to you white guys, if anybody is included because of their gender or color it takes away from who, white guys. However you don’t really know people’s credentials, so you don’t know that they may of made it because they’re qualified. If it’s a female or minority person, you’re always going to say it’s affirmative action or dei. So deep down getting rid of DEI or affirmative action is really about getting rid of all the women and minorities. Just look at what happened at the NSA museum for instance, I dare you to try & change my mind.
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/05/nx-s1-5286299/nsa-museum-dei-exhibit-women-people-of-color-trump
what mind?
So you support pushing all minorities & women out of government and business.
✔️
Next ?
Be better than the white guys then. Quit complaining about being shown up in all walks of life by white dudes and best them already. White guys didn’t become the dominant force in society by sitting around bitching.
Those who don’t learn from the past are likely to repeat the errors of the past.
Those are not necessarily the exact words of the quote – but close.
Was it Einstein who said that?
Divide and conquer. Distract.
Hitler did this prior to World War Two.
The world was in recession. People carried paper money in wheelbarrows to buy bread – the money was worthless.
He blamed the Jews for all the world’s problems.
He riled the hatred and fear of the German people against a defenseless group. He gathered the populous behind him in this unjust fight.
We know what he did next.
Orange, aka trump, is using the same playbook.
He is addressing the fear and prejudice of the American people in order to distract from the real actions he is doing. Lining his and other plutocrats pockets with our tax dollars.
Do you want to be a lemming and follow him to the ocean? Or do you want to stand up against his gimmicks and speak truth to power?
The choice is yours.
You can live your short life in fear and reactionism, or in courage and love.
Well said
These delusional and contentious comparisons are one of the many reasons why the left lost the election.
Your not very bright, are you?
now more than ever before, we need a third party. The democrats are idiots and the republicans are freaks. Who’s with me!?