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DEI = racism.

Are democrats seriously still supporting racism??[/quote]
I've heard both Kamala Harris and Ketanji Brown Jackson referred to as "DEI hires" by people like you. But which is more racist - the fact that they are the first Black female VP and SC justice respectively, or the fact that nobody who occupied those positions between 1789 and 2021 was a Black female?[/quote]

NP. People said that because Biden literally said he was going to choose a woman of color for each of those positions. Why didn’t he just say he was going to choose the best person &  then pick them anyway? He is partially at fault for this perception.

And yes of course racism & sexism kept people like them out for centuries.[/quote]

That's the whole problem.  There are TONS of qualified women and people of color who could serve as Vice President or SCOTUS justices, it's racism and acting like it's somehow unfair for any of them to be chosen that has kept them out of office.[/quote]

Brett Kavanaugh isn’t exactly the finest legal mind of the 21st century, but nobody questioned his fitness on the grounds of his skin color or gender.  It was just assumed he was qualified.

White men get a free pass on this stuff.  If a black woman is chosen: “why didn’t he pick the best person?”  The unexamined assumption there is that the real best person is somewhere out there among the ranks of white men, getting unfairly passed over.

Kavanaugh was elevated by the Heritage Foundation and chosen by Trump to enact a specific right wing judicial agenda that has nothing to do with how smart he is or how unbiased he is or where he went to law school.  If Biden decides he wants a black woman on SCOTUS, it’s because he wants to diversify the bench with different perspectives.  From that standpoint, such a candidate is indeed the best person.[/quote]

[b]That’s obviously because white men are not a part of a group who gets preferential hiring based on skin color.[/b]
 or gender. That’s why black women have to answer that question. You didn’t know that?[/quote]
You’re joking right? White men have been a preferential group since the inception of this country. And there were and are bonus points if white, male, with money. Such white men have traditionally been the only people considered for all jobs and positions of middle, upper and elite positions. [/quote]

That’s illegal and also not universal. We are talking about law and modern day policy. White men are facing a disadvantage in modern day hiring. Go look at WMATA and tell me about average white men having an advantage.[/quote]

DC is a city that's historically been majority black, it stands to reason that a majority of applicants and hires would also be black.  That's hardly evidence of discrimination against whites.[/quote]

You are not arguing in good faith. The demographics of the WMATA workforce do not match the city demographics at all.

WMATA Workforce overall:
74% black
13% white
6% asian
5% hispanic

https://www.wmata.com/rider-guide/upload/2022-2025-Equal-Employment-Opportunity-Program.pdf

Those numbers do not reflect the population. [/quote]

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