Hiding in Plain Buzzwords

I want to share an recent example of how easily bigoted thought just moves through “progressive” spaces, needing only a few key words to side step overt detection, but allowing for that harmful perspective to breed and maintain a place in people’s “allyship”.

There was a comedian going around with a bit. ~”I think we should have less DEI because prisons have too much of it. Prisons are full of black and brown people, most of them unqualified to be there. If it weren’t for DEI we’d have qualified, rich, white criminals in our jails instead.”

This is literally just the Bigoted talking point that has been puppeted since yt people realized they could sub DEI for nigger.

It equated DEI to solely Black and brown people, when a prison full of predominately Black and Latinx folks is not “diverse”, but rather full of targeted Black and Latinx folks.

And it described DEI as an initiative that takes positions from qualified white people and gives them to unqualified people of color just for being not white.

Recognizing this type of thing is important because Historically, (and literally within recent memory) white people have been very reluctant to actually give up their privilege for the sake of equality, pushing the idea that holding true to true equality is nothing more than people being difficult and that refusing to compromise.

And when even the “allies” (though homie could fully be an op) are pushing the idea that equality is giving unqualified people positions because of their race, then when They feel they are being asked to give up materially and they don’t like it, or when they don’t get what they wanted “because of a black man” that bigoted thought gets a lot of time to fester, rot, and spread.

I could truly give a whole bunch of examples of, people not looking beyond keywords to make their “political” decisions: the 2024 US presidential election, the popularity of The Voice of Hind Rajab, the list truly goes on.