— Chris Murphy
Trump’s statement was questioning DEI.
He, and many of us on the right, believe that DEI means hiring unqualified people. If the criteria for hiring includes anything that is something about the person which is immalleable, then it is unacceptable.
Years ago, we hired a woman to do technical writing. Having read some of her non-technical work, I expected this would work out. When she started submitting her work to me, I red penned it.
This hurt her feelings.
It hurt her feelings so much that she went to HR to complain about how mean I was to her.
The answer, use a green pen.
She wasn’t getting any better. My partner and I had a lunch meeting to discuss what to do with her.
She had graduated from law school but had failed the bar.
He was terrified, rightly so, that she would sue us if we fired her. We were afraid that she would use her status as a “woman” to claim that she was fired because she was a woman, not because she couldn’t do the job.
We agreed to move her to a different part of the company, where she would not do as much harm. It didn’t really help.
There was a lot more having to do with her, up to and including hiring a new HR person to fire her without fear.
She wasn’t hired because she was female, she was kept on because she was female.
At that time, we would have loved to have hired a black, female, physically disabled, capable person. Why? Because all the highly skilled positions in our company were white males. Those were the people who applied, those were the people that had the merit. Those were the people we hired.
Affirmative Action and DEI have caused significant harm to our country. Removing it from our culture is a good thing.
Chris Murphy says the quiet part out loud, and doesn’t even realize it.
He immediately went to “stopping DEI” is an attack on women and blacks. He is admitting that he believes that women and black cannot qualify when there is a merit-based hiring policy in place.
This is why only leftists believe that minorities, PoC are to stupid or lazy or broke to be able to get a voter ID.