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[-] Armand1@lemmy.world 116 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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.

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 13 points 2 days ago

This is just another version of pulling the ladder up behind them, no?

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

You beat me by a minute with that thought! 😆

[-] Zannsolo@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] seven_phone@lemmy.world 49 points 3 days ago

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

[-] hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org 31 points 3 days ago

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".

[-] seeking_perhaps@mander.xyz 16 points 2 days ago

She sent the email. They're her words now.

[-] Tja@programming.dev 27 points 3 days ago

So... "she's just following orders"?

[-] olympicyes@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

They need to give all interviews in with an Inspector Clouseau accent to let us know they are under duress like the US pilot who was put on TV during the first gulf war.

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