Attacks on Diversity, DEI, Smack
of Hypocrisy, Dehumanization
By Steve Rensberry
RP News/Opinion
RP News/Opinion
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (RP NEWS) -- 2/2/2025 -- The more the new administration attacks and tries to erase diversity and equality and social justice programs the more determined I am to fight for each of these causes, doubling down, trippling down, and quadrupling down if necessary. The reason they hate diversity as a concept and practice is because they know it works, because it's humanizing, and because it prevents money-hounds and ideologues from using people merely as assets and objects. Well too bad. It is wrong to dehumanize people.
The presidency doesn't come with the authority to define reality, or gender, or value, or truth. The president’s job is to serve the people, employ the best advisers and staff possible based on qualifications not loyalty, and to serve the people, not serve over them. So NO, what we've seen so far from this administration is unacceptable. A decent human being would at minimum attempt to bring a divided nation together, peacefully, via commissions, forums, educational initiatives, using non venomous language -- but nope, he's going to drive the nation to civil war, intentionally, and those of us seeking peace and unity are threatened like we're evil in the flesh, with the censorship of our values and symbols taking place at breakneck speed. And whatever happened to concerns about "cancel culture?" The current admin is trying to cancel everything we as a country have learned since the Enlightenment.
Dehumanize: to deprive (someone or something) of human qualities, personality, or dignity: such as a: to subject someone to inhuman or degrading conditions or treatment; b: to address or portray someone in a way that obscures or demeans that person's humanity or individuality. This is precisely what the current admin anti-DEI, anti-gay, anti-LGBTQ, anti-trans, policies do. They are a big, YOU DON'T EXIST in the United States, gesture of pure unChristian, uncivil hatred toward these people. Lying about and demonizing refugees and non-documented people is only step one in the game plan.
