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News Executive order “Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy” - Printable Version +- clovenhooves (https://clovenhooves.org) +-- Forum: The Personal Is Political (https://clovenhooves.org/forumdisplay.php?fid=3) +--- Forum: Women's Rights (https://clovenhooves.org/forumdisplay.php?fid=57) +--- Thread: News Executive order “Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy” (/showthread.php?tid=1079) |
Executive order “Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy” - Clover - Apr 25 2025 r/TwoXChromosomes posted that a "new EO just dropped": https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/1k6glg8/new_eo_just_dropped/ Individual_Crab7578 And as many of us have been fearing for months, it looks like he’s trying to open the way to go after our financial independence.Down in section 6 you’ll find this gem: Link to the EO: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/restoring-equality-of-opportunity-and-meritocracy/ The executive order spends a lot of its beginning demonizing "disparate-impact liability," and after that it goes on to claim it is going to eliminate it. Executive Order: Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy Sec. 2. Policy. It is the policy of the United States to eliminate the use of disparate-impact liability in all contexts to the maximum degree possible to avoid violating the Constitution, Federal civil rights laws, and basic American ideals. What is disparate-impact liability? Quote:Disparate impact liability holds employers and other entities accountable for policies or practices that have a disproportionately negative impact on a protected group, even if the intent of the policy is not discriminatory. So... Get ready for a lot of institutionalized dogwhistles that prevent opportunities for marginalized groups again... Since according to this EO, it "doesn't matter" if some requirement or practice discriminates as long as it doesn't literally say it discriminates. We all know discrimination is always super obvious and never sneaky and insidious! /s RE: Executive order “Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy” - Elsacat - Apr 25 2025 Restoring (white) men's opportunity and meritocracy. RE: Executive order “Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy” - Clover - Apr 25 2025 Restoring white men's privilege and mediocrity. RE: Executive order “Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy” - flytraps_ - Apr 28 2025 These people talking about restoring meritocracy kills me. There never was a meritocracy, American society always favored heterosexual white men. They don't want meritocracy; they want to enshrine privileges for white men into law. RE: Executive order “Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy” - Myrth - Apr 29 2025 Krasnov speaks of meritocracy. He isn’t restoring merit based hiring, he is restoring white male hiring, DUI hires over DEI hires. This will go badly for women and minorities. RE: Executive order “Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy” - Elsacat - Apr 29 2025 I feel like he's speedrunning the destruction of the U.S. and enabling it to become effectively a Russian satellite/billionaire-friendly country before he either passes from old age or something happens - 2026 elections, impeachment that goes somewhere, who knows what - that forces him and/or most of his Congressional supporters out of office. He can talk 2028 all he wants, and he has, but I think he knows he might not even get the full current term unless things go really badly, in a martial law kind of way, for everyone who doesn't support the TrumpMAGA cult. Bringing it back to the original thread topic, "meritocracy" seems like a dog whistle for "make white male supremacy great again." I have less respect for the Serena Joys who support that than I do for the handmaidens who prop up TRA and TIMs, because most of the handmaidens at least seem to think they're somehow doing the right thing and helping the oppressed, until they wake up and figure out otherwise. The Serena Joys know the deal, because they get power and influence by allying with the white supremacist conservative men and propping them up. They're also blatantly hypocritical, pushing trad "stay in the kitchen and bedroom" values, while being publicly powerful and visible in ways that wouldn't have happened without generations of women who rejected making sandwiches and babies as being all womanhood was good for. RE: Executive order “Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy” - amareldys - Apr 29 2025 What the fuck is with all this legislating from the Oval Office? |