• Armand1@lemmy.world
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    Janet Petro—the first woman to hold the position since its founding 67 years ago—wrote that diversity programs “divided Americans by race, wasted taxpayer dollars, and resulted in shameful discrimination,”

    In 2021, when she was the director of Kennedy Space Center, she spoke at length in an interview about the value of diversity, saying “our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility has been paramount to mission success.”

    The turnaround is giving me whiplash.

    There’s no begrudging following of the rules, it’s wholeheartedly embracing the new regime.

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      DEI is largely about raising the profiles of minority workers in roles and positions that were both vital to mission success and underpaid/underappreciate-for-promotion relative to the whiter career roles.

      Petro’s following in the grand tradition of Boomer senior leaders by pulling the ladder up behind her now that she’s at the top.

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      I was told to change gender to sex on the apps I develop. I’m pushing to have it removed all together because it’s a field that has no relevance and the order is fucking dumb. My niece is trans saying they don’t exist doesn’t make them not exist.

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      The quote from the email isn’t her words. They were given to her (and all agency heads) to send out to their workforce to implement the EO. It should not be taken as “embracing the new regime”.

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      When it is easy everyone thinks they are Oskar Schindler but when it is hard most people are Hugo Boss.

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        Sun-Tzu actually described how this works with soldiers, and how do you work with such gentle material. I’d say his book’s parts on psychology are about making a Hugo Boss from a wannabe Oskar Schindler, but if one applies his advice to oneself, one can put different goals.

        I also like Marcus Aurelius.

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      Boomers are natural bootlickers, no conviction… She says what gets her a head.

      Also shouldnt she be in a fema camp instead of leeching on federal budget?

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        Dude, they are insulting people and blaming boomers for everything is just keeping us divided. You want to start throwing ageism into this look at the ages of the tech bros of elon musk doge raiders. All like 19 -26

        Look at the average ages of jan 6 Matt gaetz, Alex jones.

        The vast majority of everyone is suffering.

        It’s us poors together that we need not letting them keep us divided

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          Fair points but boomers did provide political cover for a lot of this shot like the wars and ACA

          But are all to blame now. Nobody knows what a proper opposition is