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Trump just killed federal affirmative action. The new Trump EO goes beyond even no longer mandating affirmative action among contractors. While DEI was required to get government contracts before, now it’s prohibited.
Christopher Caldwell says this is way bigger than people may think:
"Trump’s decision to repeal it is the most significant policy change of this century—more significant than the Affordable Care Act of 2010 or anything done about Covid. How can people be talking about anything else? Yet major news outlets treat Trump’s bold move as a detail of personnel management: “Distress and Fury as Trump Upends Federal Jobs,” headlined The New York Times.
"Somewhere along the line, the Trump administration came to understand in a sophisticated way how the enforcement of civil rights actually works. Not many Americans do—and it’s worth reviewing.
"It was possible to believe at the time of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that a good-faith moral commitment would suffice to remedy the devilish racial antagonism that had beset the country since its founding. That that wouldn’t work became obvious very quickly. Barely a year later, at the start of the summer of 1965, President Johnson argued before a Howard University graduating class that it’s not fair to make a runner “who, for years, has been hobbled by chains” compete with others.
"It sounded generous. But it was dark. Three months later, Johnson would issue Executive Order 11246, realizing that it was possible to remedy a racist system only by favoring the victim race, in doses of remedial racism, or what the British—apparently a more straightforward people than we are—call “reverse racism.”
"This was a course that the public could not tolerate and neither government nor business could avow. A climate of dishonesty was the result. Affirmative action was a big factor—perhaps the biggest—in convincing about half of Americans never to trust anything any person of authority said.
"Ten presidents managed to insulate affirmative action from public accountability. Then it became obvious to the public that changing anything would require dismantling everything."
It's made up of the Epstein Cartel in London and Washington, the Illiteracy Cartel in the school system, and the Debauchery Cartel in Hollywood.
"In today’s world considering the U.S., logic, reason, and common sense have been abandoned, and replaced with ignorance, dependency, and indifference; all to such a degree as to have made impotent the intellect of Americans.
"Critical thinking and acting on that solid premise, have completely disappeared in favor of desertion of reality, truth, and moral behavior. As Mason Carter said: “A critical thinker is not someone who knows all the answers, but someone who keeps asking better questions.” Americans no longer ask questions, they no longer seek truth, but they expect to be entirely taken care of by governing forces.
"This is not just an attitude of the expectation of enslavement, but is one of a slave who has given up entirely, and now just waits for whatever consequences are forthcoming, hoping only to survive."
-- Gary Barnett
And so "white" is now in every way pejorative. A racist insult.
"America was built by white Europeans, mostly Anglo. Our ethical standards are those by which the rest of the world measures itself. Instead of modelling, migrants come to steal, murder and rape.
"Yes, we “whites” are a flawed people. Our leadership is often complete garbage, and extractive in the extreme. Our superior banks rake dough off us, like we are rice paddies they own. Instead of - here’s an idea - supporting the culture. But, but, in every town and city, we still stand, our Church, our Schools, our Courts, our Farms, Ranches, Forests and Mines, our Businesses, our Ideas, our Innovations.
"We have a rich, deep, culture of great writing, art, architecture, religious faith, and...manners. We don’t eat with our hands. We don’t slaughter animals in our back yards. We don’t twerk like whores and thunder around the stage mimicking group sex, breasts and buttocks flapping everywhere. We have formal ...
For more than two decades Congress has been avoiding the courageous scholar Robert B. Spencer. Finally, this week, he publicly gave expert testimony before the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government. His expertise is unmatched internationally: militant Jihad and how blind, foolish, irrational and ignorant Western nations are being culturally, spiritually and politically conquered by traditional Islam. Present tense.
The link is below. It's a four minute read. I asked A.I. to summarize it and Spencer's words were too hot for them to touch. The politically correct robots were as cowardly as US congressmen have been for the last quarter century.
In 2016 I contacted the Trump transition team immediately after the election to formally recommend Spencer for Secretary of State, giving my endorsements directly to Ed Meese (Chairman) and Becky Norton Dunlop, the keeper of resumes. Why Spencer? Because International Islam is the greatest geopolitical threat in the world, and...
