• Broadfern@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s been said better by other people but the general understanding of the right’s use of “DEI” is as a convenient blanket slur.

    It’s typically used against Black and Hispanic people the most, followed by trans people, but any/all women are convenient extra padding under the bus tires of their bigotry and insecurity.

    Remember that their fascism is based in feelings of superiority in addition to fear. Use that against the cowardly bastards. They can’t stand to see someone “undeserving” do as well as or better than them, so they try to mow it down.

    Fuck ‘em.

    EDIT: It seems like Rose Ferreira is of Hispanic descent, hailing initially from the Dominican Republic then moved to NY and eventually secured an internship at NASA, and is now an astronomer and aerospace engineer. It seems like her NASA page got reinstated, maybe after backlash. She’s awesome. Hell yeah for the Streisand effect.

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      1 year ago

      Oh absolutely. Anyone who rails against “DEI” is by definition a white supremacist.

      • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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        1 year ago

        Not necessarily. They might be a misogynist, a militant christian or some other form of bigot as well. That’s the beauty of it, you can be “against DEI” as well as a woman or someone with more melanin than the “default” and you get to imagine they don’t hate you, just all those other people.