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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s not DEI, it’s far better. It’s not just getting an opportunity to try, it’s being given preferential treatment on a silver plattter.[/quote]

And they deserve it. How many people here would rather see their kids enlist after high school instead of heading to a 4 year college? [/quote]

Everybody has their preferred version of DEI, and you have yours.[/quote]

When someone enlists they’re putting themselves at risk. They’re relocated to places they may/not want to go to, they’re at risk for PTSD, for injury, for death. They should get something in return for putting themselves on the line.

Not quite the same as going to a nice college in New England. [/quote]

And a poor kid who goes to a dangerous inner city school with high crime and dropout rates but takes the toughest classes their school has to offer and gets the best grades— but maybe not the best SAT scores because it’s still a not great inner city school and they can’t afford SAT prep—will be called a DEI pick if they get accepted to Harvard. That’s called being set up to fail b/c that kid maximized every possible opportunity available to them but it was the opportunities not the kid that was insufficient. But MAGA has a problem with that kind of DEI. No “points” for resilience and perseverance in a crap environment. But we should give those same points to military. Research has shown that some inner city neighborhoods are comparable to war zones and living in them can give people ptsd. [/quote]

Veterans preference is different. Military personnel basically give themselves to the government, so in return, the government should absolutely give them something in return for their service. And for many, that something is a steady, protected job that isn’t at the mercy of the stock market.  [/quote]

Meh, we’re going in circles at this point. The same can be said for civil service employees that Trump is treating like crap right now. Civil service employees go into harms way frequently throughout their careers as well. The MAGAs need to get really clear because you’re looking like a bunch of hypocrites.[/quote]

🤷‍♀️ There’s a reason we say “thank you for your service.” How many of us would run for the hills before we let our kids get drafted?

As far as DEI goes, most people born and raised in adversity can use a little help. Let’s face it— not everyone is Elie Wiesel. Sent to Auschwitz and Buchenwald as a teenager, was surrounded by death, watched his own father die, was liberated, then went on to become a professor, author and Nobel Laureate. Pre DEI. One in a million, right? [/quote]

There’s a reason it’s called the civil “service”… There’s also a reason Trump didn’t include civil service employees in national security jobs in his little buyout. He knows these people are doing critical work and can do better in the private sector. These are exactly the people who want the buyout. They can do better and don’t want to work for him. These are the people the government will lose. [/quote]

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