• merc@sh.itjust.works
    91·
    2 months ago

    Was this supposed to convince anybody?

    A lot of these Republicans secretly hate that their disabled neighbor gets government assistance. They hate having to deal with the bagger with down syndrome, or the autistic barista. They think their pregnant friend should be married, a stay-at-home-mom, and it should be her husband making the money. They don’t want everybody to have an equal opportunity, they only want “people who deserve it” to have an opportunity. Where, of course, “people who deserve it” is conservative straight white men from rural areas, or whatever.

    Honestly, how could you watch nearly 10 years of hateful rhetoric and think “oh, I just need to explain DEI better, then they’ll support it!”

    • alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      37·
      2 months ago

      Upvotes for correctness. But don’t forget the centrists.

      The people you describe are a minority. And they convinced the centrists that DEI is just rich people keeping out working class people from top jobs.

      These same centrists who did vote for Obama, did support abortion rights and marriage equality, just not as strongly as the left.

      It all boils down to taking back the narrative and OP is trying to do that.

    • BanjoShepard@lemmy.world
      22·
      2 months ago

      As far as I can tell, from their prospective DEI is harmful made-up psychobabble that must be eradicated at all costs, unless it’s for veterans with PTSD or January 6th rioters who deserve a second chance. The only moral DEI is MY DEI, I guess.

        • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
          9·
          2 months ago

          Yeah, they definitely don’t like veterans with PTSD. They like veterans who work for the police department and try to use their military / police status to insist on discounts at McDonald’s.

        • DicJacobus@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 months ago

          people who got drafted, fought, and died in a war are suckers. sucks to be them ~ President of the USA

  • thezeesystem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    44·
    2 months ago

    Hello I have a lot of those. I haven’t had a job in 10 years because nobody will hire me because I’m unable to “pass” as able bodied neurotypical. I require a service dog with me.

    I’m pretty much fucked where I live as I’m in a heavy republican state.

    Let’s see how long it takes for my public housing, medical and food stamps are taken away.

  • Modva@lemmy.world
    40·
    2 months ago

    Why do you people think talking will help? You are so far past the point of honest discussion it’s mind-blowing.

    THERE IS NO EUREKA MOMENT COMING FROM RHETORIC.

  • 3DMVR@lemm.eeEnglish
    33·
    2 months ago

    Thats why when talking to conservatives you gotta target them, like if a pregant womans trying to make you agree with her on conservative points say hell yeah cant wait for them to get rid of all these pregnant woman that get paid for not working and just pop out babies to avoid work, if they’re old make sure you talk about how you hope they get rid of social security, etc. Fully commit especially when they try to act like it should be kept, call them libreral snowflakes.

    • 3DMVR@lemm.eeEnglish
      17·
      2 months ago

      the only time their brain processes anything is when it effects them so hold up a mirror basically

  • Nindelofocho@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    2 months ago

    It also includes type I and type II diabetes too so remember that when filling out those self identification forms

  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    10·
    2 months ago

    It’s disingenuous to claim that this is all there is to DEI, or that this is the kind of thing that DEI opponents are actually opposing.

    Oh and also the ADA was a thing before DEI, all this is covered by the the ADA, and I don’t expect that most of the people opposed to DEI are also opposed to the ADA.

      • CMLVI@lemmy.world
        26·
        2 months ago

        I work intimately with disability services for a state run, federally funded org.

        To say we are on fire right now is an understatement. We may be closing applications altogether, funding is down like…80% from last year. And we are one of the top performing agencies in the country. There are whispers of layoffs. All my Trump voting family keeps telling me “oh, it won’t be you guys, you do good work”.

        The water is on the ship, and it’s up to our neck, and I’m being told that I’m safe from sinking because I’m responsible for mopping and keeping the floors dry, why would I sink?

        • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
          9·
          2 months ago

          All my Trump voting family keeps telling me “oh, it won’t be you guys, you do good work”.

          You should bet them money. And you should make it explicit, both before and after you win your money, that you know that doing good work won’t protect you because Trump is a big manbaby piece of shit who doesn’t care if people are doing good work, and in fact mostly actively dislikes it.

          (This is probably not good advice for your exact situation. It’s just a satisfying thing to think through, the idea that you might do it and it manage to slap some sense into them, because they genuinely don’t know what Trump is about. This is why I sometimes emphasize that it’s not the Trump voters’ fault, really, because their news is so backwards from reality that they really think he’s a good person who’s going to do good things. Seriously. I am 100% serious about that.)

          • CMLVI@lemmy.world
            8·
            2 months ago

            Nah, the yearn for schadenfreude is large. I get it lol. I can’t wait for the day I get arrested and I get to flip these people off, if not just to say “I told you so”.

    • Spazz@lemmynsfw.com
      2·
      2 months ago

      Why chose to be a a wireless liar?

      You know full well that ADA isn’t the same, and your know full well conservatives oppose ADA as well

  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
    9·
    2 months ago

    Oh you mean the useless eaters? They’re taking good jobs from hardworking abled Americans. /s

    But seriously, disability rights are not as uncontroversial as she thinks.

  • Gork@lemm.ee
    9·
    2 months ago

    This is why being infected with the Woke Mind Virus is the best plague imaginable.

  • Furbag@lemmy.world
    8·
    2 months ago

    Optimistic to believe that Republicans care about the disabled or differently abled. Them getting caught in the crossfire is a feature, not a bug.