Why Is It Offensive To Call Kamala A DEI Hire? – The Federalist

Democrats are offended that Republicans are pointing out Vice President Kamala Harris was a diversity hire. What do they have against diversity, equity, and inclusion? Shouldnt they be celebrating those concepts? It was the left, after all, that conceived and implemented DEI programs around the country.

Kamala Harris faces racial DEI attacks amid campaign for the 2024 presidency,explainsABC News. Incredibly insulting,saysSusan Rice. Right-wing media figures call Kamala Harris a DEI candidate as race-based attacks ramp up, writes the perpetually confused Oliver Darcy. Is it 1951?askedMorning Joe.

Sort of, yes. In 1951, many white Americans still judged their fellow citizens by immutable characteristics like the color of their skin. Today, a new group of Americans are doing the same thing, including journalists who stopped using black as a descriptor of a color and then started capitalizing the word to strongly suggest that skin color defines a person. Scarborough should ask his good buddy Al Sharpton, a big-time defender of DEI, how all of it works.

Lets face it, the only reason mentioning DEI is considered a racial attack by the left is because DEI is a racist policy. The anger over the Kamala accusation is a tacit admission that race- and sex-based hiring practices degrade a persons accomplishments and career. If that is true of the vice president, it is surely true of the millions of minority women and men toiling to make it out in the real world.

Democrats are going to spin this by arguing that it is factually incorrect to contend that Harris was picked because of her gender and color. The argument coming from Republicans is Harris who had served 13 years as DA + AG before 3.5 years in the Senate was a DEI hire for Biden, while JD Vance who wrote a bestseller, worked in venture capital briefly & has been in the Senate 18 months was picked because of his rsum,arguedCNN Senior Reporter Edward-Isaac Dovere.

No, thats not the argument. The argument is that Biden decided to, or was pressured into, picking a black woman by Democrats in 2020. He promised to do it. He bragged about doing it. All Dovere had to do was search his own website to find the evidence.

Joe Biden Says He Is Considering Four Black Women To Be His Running Mate, a 2020 CNN headlineexplained not four of the most qualified people. Joe Biden Pressed Again To Name A Black Woman As His Running Mate,reada headline in The Washington Post. Pressure Grows On Joe Biden To Pick A Black Woman As His Running Mate,saidan NPR headline, right under the words America Reckons With Racial Injustice written a little more than three years after Barack Obama finished his eight-year tenure as the most powerful man in the world.

It was clear that Kamala Harris wasnt the meritocratic choice, not even among the other 2020 Democrat Party presidential contenders. Her campaign didnt even make it to Iowa. Her senate career was undistinguished. Her polling was atrocious. She was unable to run a campaign or keep her staff.

Of course, Im not nave. Harris isnt the first candidate whos been picked, fully or in part, because of her background, personal appeal, and physical characteristics. Vance is Trumps veep pick because he allegedly strongly appeals to the forgotten Rust Belt working man, not because hes the most accomplished person in America. One suspects he would admit as much.

Now, none of this means that many African Americans and Hispanic kids dont often have to overcome failing schools, poverty, and other obstacles just as other groups have in the past. (Harris is not one of these people, by the way.) This puts them at a serious disadvantage. So, lets fix (or better yet, dismantle) the public school system and welfare state that break apart families and undermine opportunity and stop punishing other Americans who have earned their opportunities.

Should GOP attack Harris over her hiring a good campaign attack. No. But, in the end, if you dont want your preferred candidate being called a DEI hire, stop bean-counting people by their color and sex.

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