Booker: Trump Is Demonizing DEI to Rip Apart Government

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Booker: Trump Is Demonizing DEI to Rip Apart Government

Pam Key 9 Feb 2025

Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that President Donald Trump is “using” DEI as a way of “ripping out entire aspects of our government.”

Host Dana Bash said, “President Trump and Elon Musk are, as you know, taking sweeping steps to reverse DEI initiatives across the United States. The president says he’s actually protecting civil rights and making society, quote, colorblind and merit-based. Your response?”

Booker said, “This is stunning to me, especially because they’re they’re really charging this word DEI as if it’s something that undermines the ability for the government to hire the best people. It’s actually the opposite of that. When we’re trying to hire the best of the best, having a more inclusive search to go to HBCU or Hispanic serving institutions to find as big of an applicant pool as possible. To me, these are the kinds of things that help us to hire the best of the best. What Donald Trump is doing is successively lying to people under the guise of some noble ideal.”

He continued, “Donald Trump wants to try to demonize ideas of inclusion, of equity, of fairness. And that is unfortunate and frustrating. And he’s using that as a way of ripping out entire aspects of our government that are vital.”

Booker added, “We should be outraged that organizations and agencies created by Congress in a bipartisan way have now been torn down by a president who has no authority or does not have the legal justification for doing that. So I understand that they want to distract you over here by talking about trans people. They want to talk about DEI. They want to talk about all these things as a distraction to the truth of what they’re doing, which is making us less safe, making government more corrupt, making violating people’s privacy.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/02/09/booker-trump-is-demonizing-dei-to-rip-apart-government/

[The_Reader_David]

Booker is being disingenuous.  Were DEI just a matter of making sure the applicant pool included ethnic minorities (e.g. graduates of HBSC's) it would not require huge bureaucracies staffed entirely with ethnic minorities, homosexuals and the occasional white left-leaning woman to run, nor would it spawn "anti-racism" trainings, enforced declaration of preferred pronouns, and all the other rubbish associated with DEI.  Were it just a matter of ensuring applicant pools included ethnic minorities, while the very best people were actually hired, there wouldn't be opposition from the right.  But "equity" means more or less the same as quotas for hiring ethnic (and sexual) minorities, but quotas are illegal so a weasel-word had to be invented and no records kept.  Equity is antithetical to merit, and Booker knows it.

[mountaineer]

Booker supports discrimination on the basis of race, sex, disability or sexual preference, in other words.

[Smokin Joe]

If doing away with the discrimination that is DEI will 'rip apart' Government, then it desperately needs to be 'ripped apart'.
There is no reason the rest of America should be subjected to a bureaucratic tyranny run and populated by people who do not represent the interests of the majority of Americans. When preferential hiring policies let department policies that all Americans are subjected to be generated by splinter groups with an axe to grind, it is far from anything resembling "democracy".

[DefiantMassRINO]

Yeah, so?

How is this worse than Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid forcing Obamacare into law by 1 vote without debate and amendment on the floor of Congress?

[berdie]

Booker is being disingenuous.  Were DEI just a matter of making sure the applicant pool included ethnic minorities (e.g. graduates of HBSC's) it would not require huge bureaucracies staffed entirely with ethnic minorities, homosexuals and the occasional white left-leaning woman to run, nor would it spawn "anti-racism" trainings, enforced declaration of preferred pronouns, and all the other rubbish associated with DEI.  Were it just a matter of ensuring applicant pools included ethnic minorities, while the very best people were actually hired, there wouldn't be opposition from the right.  But "equity" means more or less the same as quotas for hiring ethnic (and sexual) minorities, but quotas are illegal so a weasel-word had to be invented and no records kept.  Equity is antithetical to merit, and Booker knows it.

I don't have a problem with that. But I don't think the applications should have any reference to race, gender, sexual preference.

 Sort of like The Voice. Hear the person sing and then see what they look like.

[The_Reader_David]

I don't have a problem with that. But I don't think the applications should have any reference to race, gender, sexual preference.

 Sort of like The Voice. Hear the person sing and then see what they look like.

Exactly.  That is why Booker is pretending that's all DEI is, since essentially everyone (leave aside the few genuine unreconstrurcted racists) would be happy with simply ensuring applicant pools are as broad as possible demographically, while most of the voting-age population objects to what DEI actually is.

[Hoodat]

Booker: Trump Is Demonizing DEI to Rip Apart Government

Booker is sanctifying DEI to rip apart America.

[Sighlass]

Booker added, “We should be outraged that organizations and agencies created by Congress in a bipartisan way have now been torn down.....

I don't think anyone with a shred of common sense believes Booker is being truthful here. They are being hired to flood the system with corruption and those too stupid/gullible to recognize/care about said corruption. Government slush departments have been filled with voting blocks to reward robbing taxpayers.

[DCPatriot]

Am expecting an 'earthquake' of sorts in the Washington, DC Beltway real estate market...these bastards rushing to cash-out and getting out of 'Dodge' because of DOGE.

[Fishrrman]

Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that President Donald Trump is “using” DEI as a way of “ripping out entire aspects of our government.”

Yes.
So...?

EDIT: I swear that I posted this reply without looking at any others above...