A former Trump appointee is sharing his experiences with both USAID and DEI.
FILE - Oregon National Guard Soldiers receive and inventory a shipment of personal protective equipment sent by USAID from Dubai, April 10, 2020.
“I think it was just for new employees, but they threw us in with the other career employees. And we didn't have actual training on important stuff like fighting waste, fraud and abuse. But we were getting the DEI training,” Moyar said. Trump’s and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency said on Jan. 31 that they’ve canceled dozens of DEI-related contracts that will save $1 billion.“Contemporary DEI, not to be confused with the colorblind antiracism of the Civil Rights Movement, actually confines minorities, especially Black Americans, to the status of perpetual victims that need the rules changed and white Americans disempowered to accommodate for that victimhood,” Smith wrote.
“The objective, meritocratic past that DEI critics imagine is thus a myth,” she wrote. “The centuries-long, systematic exclusion of white women and people of color gives lie to the idea that jobs have historically gone only to the most qualified.”
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