President’s targeting of Fed governor Lisa Cook highlights his efforts to remove diverse voices from government
A day after Donald Trump announced that he was firing Lisa Cook, the first Black woman to serve on the board of governors of the Federal Reserve, the White House proudly released a photo. It showed Trump, his cabinet and other officials giving a thumbs-up. Of the 24 people in the Oval Office, only one was Black.
For those who have studied the US president’s long and troubling history of racism, the two events were more than mere coincidence. They were indicative of a man who has recently brought white nationalist perspectives from the margins back to the mainstream.
Trump has vehemently denied that he is a racist, pointing to a modest increase in support among African American voters in last year’s election, when his opponent was a Black woman. But critics suggest that his effort to oust Cook fits a pattern of purging diverse voices from the higher ranks of leadership.
Who’d’ve thought!
A nazi white supremacist president is making a nazi white supremacist government?!
Wait, the guy who was investigated in the 70s for not renting apartments to black people might be racist?!
https://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2017/02/trump-fbi-files-discrimination-case-235067
Didn’t he accuse a top general of being a DEI hire because he was black?
It’s not an accident. That’s what this whole anti DEI push actually is.
IIRC also the first female Coast Guard commandant too, before removing her. Racist and sexist.
And that military helicopter pilot the Republicans killed by defunding air traffic control?
It’s so sad. We were already so much better with these things, decades ago. Not there yet, but cautiously optimistic. And then comes this giant wave of aggressive regression.
The cons already had a lot of latent racism, but the election of Obama just drove so many cons (and probably not a few low-info) absolutely bonkers.
“Obama broke them”
took me a while to understand how that’s meant
I think a whole lot of cons had a lot of simmering resentment toward a lot of people prior to Obama. Then the impossible happened - and I didn’t believe it would happen myself - most of America voted for a person of color to be President. I honestly thought lots of people were saying they would, but then vote for third party, or vote R or whatever, once they were casting their vote in secrecy.
But it happened. And it was clear a sizable portion of the country thought this was wrong, that a horrible injustice was done, that everyone was duped because Obama lied about/didn’t show his proper birth certificate. That he had a grudge against “the white race” because of his anti-colonialism and Communism, that he was going “fundamentally change America”, and steal their health care, etc.
I think a whole lot of people could no longer hide their boiling anger rooted in racism and misogyny and so on, and so it came roaring back and most of them started saying a lot of things openly again (or pseudo-anonymously online), and not just about Black people.
In addition: they lost on the gay marriage thing. Well, that only served to make them even more angry. And so they pivoted to the trans thing as a proxy war…
That he had a grudge against “the white race”
There must have been significant naked fear amongst some misinformed white people.
Trans isn’t a proxy war, they hate them too.
Oh, of course. And they hope if they can roll everything back there, they’ll move back to Teh Gheyz, too. And they just might be able to re-claim that turf, too.
It’s clear that Samuel Trollito is a very, very angry man about a whole lot of freedoms and seems poised to do whatever is needed to roll it back.
I have no idea why someone like Thiel would back these people - I assume he plans on moving to New Zealand if things get bad enough. I also think Thiel might be legit crazy given his love for things like the book The Sovereign Individual.
I have no idea why someone like Thiel would back these people
Simple. This style of fascism is designed to give very rich people respite from the law and literal castles from which they can watch the rest of the world, if they feel like it.
The extreme right populist party in Germany is led by a Lesbian who lives with her immigration background POC wife in Switzerland. Let that sink in.
imo you are forgetting one thing, the whole “positive discrimination” concept, as a precursor to “DEI”, was a BIG catalyst that started to make people feel they are being treated unfairly.
Slowly but with solid force people who worked/studied hard, were skipped for positions or possibilities in favor of someone with lesser degrees, and often (not always) the ones suffering under it never fully saw it as a race/skin color issue, it was just unfair.People sucked up that disgruntlement for years, and along comes a bloated guy with a movement that makes clear those years will be rolled back. Some of them seem to even expect to now get that one job they missed out on 6 years ago handed to them, ignoring ofcourse how the scales now tipped to the other side where it will be “friends or buy-ins only”.
The racism has never gone away. Obama being elected created a surge that resulted in Trump v1 and ultimately gave us v2. No one feels a need to be quiet about it now, and they’re not.
I remember the con trolls pushing all these memes about how Obama brought us Taco and so on, and with Taco’s mug coming in and eclipsing Obama’s face, etc.
I’m sure many of the idiots sharing these memes had no idea how much they were telling on themselves. Yes, the very existence of Obama in the WH for two whole terms did indeed turn out a lot of racists to vote for Taco who was blowing that dog whistle for quite some time…
Society is a pendulum and progress always comes with backsliding. It will get better again. It always does. It might get darker first though.
*Americans are racist has hell. Maybe the first time he was elected was a mistake, but you dont make that kind of mistake twice. USA is a deeply rotten country that’s proud of his racist heritage. Period.
Well, part of them are. There’s just a lot more of them than people think.
Of course Taco is racist, but even if his cabinet was all-Black and were incompetent suck-ups with horrible ideology as they are now, it’d be no better just because there was representation.
Oh they’ll hire non-white people. As long as they are white supremacists they won’t discriminate.
It is naive to think diversity is without issues, but ultimately it is indeed strength. Studies showed diverse teams performed better than non-diverse ones. Even though I am vehemently anti-imperialist, multiethnic empires of the past lasted long because they embraced diversity, synthesising ideas and technology from various cultures. Remove the imperialism, and diversity on its own is inherently advantageous. The talent and intellect from various people who have different perspectives allow for creativity and innovation.
As talented Germany as had before and during World War II, history as we know it might have turned out differently if the Nazis did not scare the Jewish intelligentsia and atomic scientists out of the country and absorbed by the US instead. What Trump is doing is precisely that. The US will ultimately fail for its anti-intellectualism and persecution of those different. Other countries will benefit from the brain drain. This is why fascist regimes will always fail because their own policies, which are wholly driven by emotions, are their own undoing. That is the good news. The bad news is that it will get worse before it gets better.
If there is a civil war, I suspect minorities will form the backbone of the free states. Conservatives have demonstrated malice and incompetence, and many skilled minorities will lend their ability to governance that doesn’t suck. Kinda like how black troops were some of the best forces of the Union.
We all knew he meant Make America White Again.
The whitest White House on the planet.
stands in front of an all white panel of judges
“Well shieeeeeeet…”
Trump knows the racists support him.
