Monthly episodes discussing this topic, 2025-01 to 2025-03.
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Federal agencies are attempting to evade executive orders by renaming DEI departments rather than eliminating them.
“what we're seeing now is they're trying to rename and hide these staffers across federal agencies I hope Trump is able to uh get through this and figure out I mean this is malevolent”
Timcast IRL · Jan 2025 · 1 episode · 399K views on this topicDEI initiatives are fundamentally discriminatory and illegal under existing US law.
“any private business that utilizes protected classes in their hiring will be in violation of the law and that means Dei is de facto gone I mean Dei is is totally illegal like if you look at the the the laws on the books discriminating based on any any mutable characteristic is illegal in the United ”
Timcast IRL · Jan 2025 · 1 episode · 399K views on this topicDEI policies are fundamentally racist, anti-meritocratic, and serve to aggregate power for unelected bureaucrats rather than ensuring fairness.
“DEI was racist is racist will always be racist it is antithetical to what Martin Luther King believed content of character and that would extend to merit-based recognition of human beings”
StevenCrowder · Jan 2025 · 1 episode · 199K views on this topicDEI programs should not be eradicated, but rather their necessity in addressing historical racial and gender-based inequities must be recognized.
“It's not so much that you want to eradicate DEI, diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. I'll let somebody else argue on behalf of that. What I like to focus on is how dare you try to ignore the reason for its existence in the first place.”
Stephen A. Smith · Mar 2025 · 1 episode · 105K views on this topicPositions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.