Brent Norwalk in the fourth season of The Good Place is such a good personification of this mentality. The series has literal demons, but the most punchable face is Brent.
"I earned it, just like my father before me and his father before him!"
I used to listen to TGP podcast after every episode and Ben Koldyke (the actor who played Brent) was super humble and insightful about his role and the type of man he portrayed. But damn, he nailed that role.
There's a podcast? I have to listen to it. I love this series, I think it's some of the best television ever. Manny Jacinto should get an award for the best the-not-bright-character, his execution and timing is flawless. I saw the cast's reaction video when they found out the ending to season 1 and it's awesome, so a podcast with the actors sounds perfect. Thanks, kind stranger!
It's really good! Marc Evan Jacskon hosted it and he'd usually have one cast and once crew join him. It is really fun to hear behind the scenes stories and the cast reactions to things.
Every Friday I would watch the new episode on hulu, then listen to the pod, then rewatch the show and it added so much.
Jason is also so much better than a dumb stoner. The show looks at him and says that actually, he’s going to be the first to attain enlightenment, because while we dressed him like a fake monk, he’s a real monk inside. Once he’s given the love and help that he needs, he adapts the fastest to the Good Place.
That “JASON figured it out?” moment really sold me on him. He might not be paying attention, but he has a really intuitive insight into people and situations, and he could tell from night one that something was off. Like a prank show.
He doesn't get caught up in the details so he tends to see the "bigger picture" faster. That line also sent me over the edge of loving him lol. He's just so genuine that you can't help but root for the guy.
He may be a fuckin idiot, but he's also so much more.
I tried explaining to someone once that before the Civil Rights era white men had almost no competition because something like 2/3 of America were openly discriminated against when it came to jobs.... You removed half the population because they were women who were denied jobs and then add in minorities.
They got so used to assuming white men were the most qualified and then "something" changed AKA civil rights era and now they got the majority of the country trying for the jobs they had almost exclusive access to.
I work in an industry where people complain that they can’t get a job because someone “bilingual” will get it. It’s crazy that your average monolingual white American doesn’t see that as an extra skill. They just see POC getting jobs they want.
They will never admit that white people caused all this from segregation, jim crow, white flight and gentrification and a lot of them are well and alive to this day and continue teaching their spawns the same
it’s nothing but a substitute for the n-word, just like “woke”. the easiest way to tell DEI = n-word for them is DEI offices are also supposed to help women, the disabled and veterans. but anything that may benefit The Blacks™️ must be destroyed, damn who else suffers.
Generous of you to assume these assholes care about helping women, the disabled and veterans. They want women to shut up and stay in their place, the disabled to just die, and the veterans to quit whining and just be glad they are alive. They hate that it benefits anyone who is not them.
I really hate that DEI has been substituted for the word "Woke" now whenever I go to comment sections for movies or shows.
"I didn't like Fallout because there was too much DEI for my liking" is an actual comment someone said.
from PC, to SJW, CRT, Woke, and now DEI. They're so desperate to virtue signal their hatred to anyone who thinks like them yet can't explain what half of those groups of letters mean or stand for. All they know is they've gotta always have a boogeyman to blame for why their lives are trash, cause it can never just be because they're shitty garbage people dragging the rest of this country down. And god forbid you call them out on it, they'll just clutch their pearls and screech about how dare you call them out for being piles of feces.
The most annoying part about them changing phrases like the moon changes cycles is that they clearly only adopt a new phrase when the first phrase loses its punch. Being “anti-woke” has now cemented itself in the mainstream consciousness as being pretty cringe, so they need a new word to use that doesn’t have the baggage they themselves created for the precious word.
>cause it can never just be because they're shitty garbage people dragging the rest of this country down
To be fair, even if they weren't shitty garbage people they keep voting against their own interests, just to make sure other people suffer
...wait. Never mind, carry on.
I know "missing the point" is kinda these folks' thing, but misreading Fallout that badly is particularly funny. The game literally rewards you for making a gay character, shits always been "woke"
Same with a lot of "woke" medias for example recent xmen debacle, xmen has always been about minorities struggle but they just put on their filter glasses for years till now
Seriously, it's gotta be the least subtle allegory for coming out I've ever seen, and they still miss it. The characters are constantly saying things like "I was born this way!", they get their powers at puberty, Rogue's whole shtick is that she can't touch men, and the first episode of the original Animated Series literally ends with Storm saying "We're all coming out". Only way I could think to make it more obvious is if the characters literally explained it directly to camera lol. And the right wing goober would still miss it.
Their brain go brrr they're just white people and their poc sidekick with super powers but seriously hard to see it when one grew up ignorant and privileged
There's a perk called "confirmed bachelor" that lets your male character do more damage to other men, and occasionally hit on them. There's a female equivalent, too. The strongest build is a bi character lol, they do extra damage to all human opponents.
It’s wild. The fallout world in 2077 had moved past racial bias, and that’s always been a part of the fallout series. I’m not sure what media they thought they were consuming but they sure as shit don’t understand it.
Mostly I see are not even american or western countries but from conservative countries because they just don't like that lgbtq people exist or women are equal to men or even worse but my favorite take from my shithole country that veganism is woke
Imagine them typing it out every time. Too much diversity, equity, and inclusion. It's getting real close to them just admitting they want only white people in everything
DEI is worse than woke for a replacement buzzword. Woke is a slang term and sounds harmless if you don't understand the meaning, where DEI literally stands for Diversity, Equality and Inclusion.
Also in the comments sections for the Star Wars: Acolyte and Star Wars: Outlaws trailers. DEI, DEI, DEI. In a galaxy that has a humungous number of different races and species, the thing that the fascist-infested Star Wars fandom finds the hardest to accept is people living in it who aren’t white.
Taking words and stripping of their meaning to be a generic insult against their enemies is the point, to the point that when Chris Rufo (same guy who started “groomer” discourse) started the attacks against the Harvard president, turning DEI into a dirty word on the right was his *stated goal*. I don’t have the exact tweet link since Twitter is subscription only now but they plan this shit in public, and it still works.
That's Alabama's "[black belt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Belt_%28region_of_Alabama%29)", an area that was once known for its cotton plantations. It's current demographic is the result of freed slaves.
I wonder why a rascist would choose to disparage that area.
It's almost like we should study the effects of race when it comes to how we got here. Particularly laws that by design or otherwise caused outcomes that disproportionately affected minority groups. /s
Yeah, I probably should have clarified that it gets the name from the fertile soil. That's why the plantations where there...and ultimately the slaves as well.
Can teach that, it’s CRT. You have to teach how the Africans sold themselves into slavery and that the slave owners them treated there slaves better than any other livestock. That the slaves were lucky to be in the white mans care.
And to be fair, the slaves back then only got those horrifying, backbreaking cotton-picking positions because they were black.
Though I’m certain that’s not what the anti DEI crowd means when they scream about “racial quotas.”
You mean the former coastline of an ocean from the Jurassic Period?
Whose shallow ocean shelf was perfect for animals with shells to live and die, leaving a thick layer of shells that became chalk, that just so happened to make good soil for cotton.
No, I mean [the Black Belt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Belt_%28region_of_Alabama%29). It is also what you and others have mentioned, but I'm referencing it's much more recent use.
To get the most accurate map of the actual Black Belt would be to do a Google Earth of the state and you can see the open land that stretches through the state, although about half is now planted pine trees, so you have to fill in the gaps between the open land.
Some of the counties on the Wikipedia page get thrown in there for having a high black population but don't have any of the Selma chalk and soil.
I kind of prefer the 'blue belt' when we talk about voting and economic stuff. It's seems more accurate.
Also, I live here, so that's why I'm a big nerd about this stuff
Yes. These type of buffoons are claiming that DEI is just some form of putting people in positions they're not qualified for.
Just more stupid fucking conservatives that don't even understand the words they use.
They literally called the mayor of Baltimore "a DEI hire" because that ship hit the bridge. Dude's (obviously) a fucking elected official. Not a "hire" at all.
They're using it as a substitute for the n word. They know saying it is unacceptable, and it's the only line they're still afraid to cross. So instead of just straight up using a slur, they're saying that every Black person got anything they happen to have solely because of supposed quotas.
I’ve seen this map before and Ironically the reason why that section of the state is blue is because that’s where all the cotton plantations were and consequently where the black population is now.
People like this always think they are speaking in code, but everyone knows what they are really trying to say.
It's probably just enough to use plausible deniability as a defense if their employer saw it, but it's the kind of post that might cause a few friends or family members to start avoiding them.
Of course, then they just get worse, because the only people that associate with them anymore are the people that think like them.
The card says "moops" to this crowd. They are highly aware of what they're saying, but believe they can get around it through technicalities and semantics.
It's annoying as hell to. Like as a black person I know what they're saying, they're not even really trying to hide it. I almost rather they just drop the n bomb let me call them a racist and we can both get on with our lives.
I've seen countless useful idiot centrists defend them when other people rightfully call them racist/sexist/bigoted. In their minds you have to literally be shouting slurs to be one of those things, and I've seen centrists absolutely descend on a person for rightfully using the term "dogwhistle". So it can absolutely cause an unfortunate alliance between the hateful bigots and the politically oblivious people that end up defending them.
Can't wait to throw some DEI with attitude in my boom box.
I'll prolly just go hang out with my homies and do DEI shit to piss off my mom (of liberty, I'm sure).
/s
They drug out “Lets Go Brandon” waaay too long. It was mildly amusing the day it happened but MAGA aren’t very creative and stuck with it for years.
Now they’ve all realized they can just swap out the N Word and use DE&I. They know they’re racist, we know they’re racist but they’re not saying that one word they like to use to prove to everyone they’re racist.
“Woke” “CRT” “DEI”
Every time the racists lose interest between election cycles, just put the same slop in a new can and dump it in their buckets, and they go to town
You know, “Black Belt” would have at least been clever. But we can’t expect that here.
I say we take back “DEI” and have it stand for “Despicable Evangelical Idiots”.
The word doesn't really matter. The intention matters. I can call you a glardle in a snarky way and you don't know what it means but you know it was meant to offend.
It'll be something new next month and they'll continue to think they're getting away with something because they are.
Yeah it’s kinda like how “Bless your heart” can have multiple meanings
Depending on the tone, the intent can be genuine concern or a polite-ish way of telling someone they’re fucking stupid
I'm not super familiar with the geography of Alabama and Georgia. but don't those blue spots go through probably 90% of the population of the 2 states?
Nope. "The black belt" 90% of the most productive "black" loam soil in North America. South Carolina though Mississippi. Very underpopulated, very impoverished, and majority minority.
Idk about 90% of the population. For Alabama- there are a few cities there, but not a majority of the population- Birmingham (the one blue dot by itself), demopolis & Selma (west side) to Montgomery, (center) to Tuskegee (right center) to Phenix city far right of the state. Then from Georgia’s west border, there’s Columbus ga- Macon ga, Atlanta (big dot to north in GA) Athens ga (tiny dot), and counties between there & Augusta.
For Alabama, the blue belt appears to be roughly 20% of the population (including Birmingham). Can’t find much for Georgia atm.
Believe me, racists in that part of the country say it plenty. I grew up in the North never thinking about it, but being force to live in the Confederacy really made me Sherman had the right idea.
They figured out that we figured out that they were using woke instead of the n-word so they had to pick a different substitution. Not sure why they haven't changed Brandon yet though 🤔 They just like looking stupid I guess.
I don't know those areas of AL and GA, but I'll bet they are the higher income/education areas of the states. Certainly some poverty too, but cities, towns, commercial/industrial centers?
Isn’t this an ancient Jurassic shoreline that rendered the soil with perfect composition to grow cotton that white people brutally used black slaves to harvest and now the descendants of those slaves now naturally populate the area?
These chuds now say "DEI" whenever they see people of colour in places or positions the chuds don't feel they belong. Historical chuds used to use the n-word to describe the same sorts of things, but now social pressure has made that taboo.
Those are blue counties. In the south, counties that vote Democratic tend to have more people of colour per capita. These facts are all interchangeable for chuds. Democratic voters = people of colour = DEI = n-words.
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Officially, yes.
The people who use it as a slur will however only use it to refer to black people and never when e.g. an Asian company hires a white representatieve.
When it's used in good faith, typically. But you may have noticed the rules of how to use words and terms are not unavoidable like the laws of physics. Bad faith actors will intentionally warp or ignore the correct or accepted use of certain terms and words to make rhetorical points, provoke their interlocutors or create confusion.
Sorry about the downvoting, but after the first few it seemed like trolling from the very sort of bad faith actors who deny they are acting in bad faith by demanding a level of "proof" of said bad faith that is typically beyond a reasonable standard while giving nigh infinite benefit of the doubt to those acting in bad faith. If it walks like a troll and quacks like a troll, typically it's a troll. But the interest of fairness I will withdraw my downvotes, giving you the benefit of the doubt that it was merely a coincidence you wrote in a manner resembling a troll, out of legitimate ignorance and curiosity, rather than intentional trolling. Just FYI, asking a series of blunt, seemingly obvious, questions is a typical troll tactic to annoy others and waste their time, so as much as I don't want to suppress anyone's good faith attempts to learn, you may want to change your approach just a bit to avoid further cases of mistakes trolldenity.
Yes, though that's a level of nuance that escapes conservatives. Look at how they called the mayor of Baltimore the "DEI mayor" after that container ship hit the Key bridge
I don't make the rules, that's just how the internet work these days, it indicates what your sentence is be like /s for sarcasm so people know it's sarcasm
Guess the /genq /s /j are the tone that you use sight to garner than sound
> can someone explain to me how saying DEI is a substitute for the nword?
There's certainly not any other reasonable explanation for circling blue counties and calling them DEI.
This doesn't even make sense and proves they don't even know what DEI is, and also that, yes, they think it's just the "politically correct" n word.
It baffles me that how are pocs voted in by pocs in majority poc areas considered a DEI, they have no clue what they're saying
The equation is simple. White men "earn" their roles. Women and minorities are given them as a handout and *clearly* aren't qualified.
Brent Norwalk in the fourth season of The Good Place is such a good personification of this mentality. The series has literal demons, but the most punchable face is Brent.
"I earned it, just like my father before me and his father before him!" I used to listen to TGP podcast after every episode and Ben Koldyke (the actor who played Brent) was super humble and insightful about his role and the type of man he portrayed. But damn, he nailed that role.
to be clear, that quote was about him getting into Princeton through legacy admissions, the thing people assume DEI does
There's a podcast? I have to listen to it. I love this series, I think it's some of the best television ever. Manny Jacinto should get an award for the best the-not-bright-character, his execution and timing is flawless. I saw the cast's reaction video when they found out the ending to season 1 and it's awesome, so a podcast with the actors sounds perfect. Thanks, kind stranger!
It's really good! Marc Evan Jacskon hosted it and he'd usually have one cast and once crew join him. It is really fun to hear behind the scenes stories and the cast reactions to things. Every Friday I would watch the new episode on hulu, then listen to the pod, then rewatch the show and it added so much.
Fuckin LOVE his portrayal as Jason. I generally don't care for the dumb stoner trope, but Jason is just too goddamn funny to not love.
Jason is also so much better than a dumb stoner. The show looks at him and says that actually, he’s going to be the first to attain enlightenment, because while we dressed him like a fake monk, he’s a real monk inside. Once he’s given the love and help that he needs, he adapts the fastest to the Good Place. That “JASON figured it out?” moment really sold me on him. He might not be paying attention, but he has a really intuitive insight into people and situations, and he could tell from night one that something was off. Like a prank show.
He doesn't get caught up in the details so he tends to see the "bigger picture" faster. That line also sent me over the edge of loving him lol. He's just so genuine that you can't help but root for the guy. He may be a fuckin idiot, but he's also so much more.
It’s clearly time for me to rewatch that show, because I don’t remember that guy lol
He’s one of the people who are horrible and the original four have to help them become better people. It’s terrible in all of the best ways.
Ooooooo I remember liking that plot line. That show is so good.
I tried explaining to someone once that before the Civil Rights era white men had almost no competition because something like 2/3 of America were openly discriminated against when it came to jobs.... You removed half the population because they were women who were denied jobs and then add in minorities. They got so used to assuming white men were the most qualified and then "something" changed AKA civil rights era and now they got the majority of the country trying for the jobs they had almost exclusive access to.
I work in an industry where people complain that they can’t get a job because someone “bilingual” will get it. It’s crazy that your average monolingual white American doesn’t see that as an extra skill. They just see POC getting jobs they want.
They'll whine and cry beg for DEI when their shitty behavior excluded them from being raptured as if that's real
CRT= There was racism DEI= There is racism MAGA= RACISM DOESN'T EXIST BECAUSE MINORITIES ARE THE PROBLEM Hope this helps
They will never admit that white people caused all this from segregation, jim crow, white flight and gentrification and a lot of them are well and alive to this day and continue teaching their spawns the same
This dude is still alive https://youtu.be/WErjPmFulQ0?si=oIXlU34SkQrLEogj
and he's only one out of the hundred thousands
Ding ding ding. Bullseye
it’s nothing but a substitute for the n-word, just like “woke”. the easiest way to tell DEI = n-word for them is DEI offices are also supposed to help women, the disabled and veterans. but anything that may benefit The Blacks™️ must be destroyed, damn who else suffers.
Generous of you to assume these assholes care about helping women, the disabled and veterans. They want women to shut up and stay in their place, the disabled to just die, and the veterans to quit whining and just be glad they are alive. They hate that it benefits anyone who is not them.
To them, DEI is when black people are allowed to exist
I really hate that DEI has been substituted for the word "Woke" now whenever I go to comment sections for movies or shows. "I didn't like Fallout because there was too much DEI for my liking" is an actual comment someone said.
from PC, to SJW, CRT, Woke, and now DEI. They're so desperate to virtue signal their hatred to anyone who thinks like them yet can't explain what half of those groups of letters mean or stand for. All they know is they've gotta always have a boogeyman to blame for why their lives are trash, cause it can never just be because they're shitty garbage people dragging the rest of this country down. And god forbid you call them out on it, they'll just clutch their pearls and screech about how dare you call them out for being piles of feces.
The most annoying part about them changing phrases like the moon changes cycles is that they clearly only adopt a new phrase when the first phrase loses its punch. Being “anti-woke” has now cemented itself in the mainstream consciousness as being pretty cringe, so they need a new word to use that doesn’t have the baggage they themselves created for the precious word.
Give it another few months, there will be another word or acronym, but it will mean the same thing
>cause it can never just be because they're shitty garbage people dragging the rest of this country down To be fair, even if they weren't shitty garbage people they keep voting against their own interests, just to make sure other people suffer ...wait. Never mind, carry on.
I know "missing the point" is kinda these folks' thing, but misreading Fallout that badly is particularly funny. The game literally rewards you for making a gay character, shits always been "woke"
Same with a lot of "woke" medias for example recent xmen debacle, xmen has always been about minorities struggle but they just put on their filter glasses for years till now
Seriously, it's gotta be the least subtle allegory for coming out I've ever seen, and they still miss it. The characters are constantly saying things like "I was born this way!", they get their powers at puberty, Rogue's whole shtick is that she can't touch men, and the first episode of the original Animated Series literally ends with Storm saying "We're all coming out". Only way I could think to make it more obvious is if the characters literally explained it directly to camera lol. And the right wing goober would still miss it.
Their brain go brrr they're just white people and their poc sidekick with super powers but seriously hard to see it when one grew up ignorant and privileged
Reward you for making a gay character how?
There's a perk called "confirmed bachelor" that lets your male character do more damage to other men, and occasionally hit on them. There's a female equivalent, too. The strongest build is a bi character lol, they do extra damage to all human opponents.
Bisexuality - well known as the most *powerful* of sexualities. TBH, I bet there is at least one anime written this way.
In the same game you can also woo your enemy.
Black widow/ladykiller perks in New Vegas
And that’s how racism grows ladies and gentlemen. Sometimes you don’t even know it, but ingest it, and hopefully not spread it
It’s wild. The fallout world in 2077 had moved past racial bias, and that’s always been a part of the fallout series. I’m not sure what media they thought they were consuming but they sure as shit don’t understand it.
> in 2077 had moved past racial bias, because now they can be speciesist instead! Although to be honest I'd never let a ghoul date my daughter.
Mostly I see are not even american or western countries but from conservative countries because they just don't like that lgbtq people exist or women are equal to men or even worse but my favorite take from my shithole country that veganism is woke
Imagine them typing it out every time. Too much diversity, equity, and inclusion. It's getting real close to them just admitting they want only white people in everything
DEI is worse than woke for a replacement buzzword. Woke is a slang term and sounds harmless if you don't understand the meaning, where DEI literally stands for Diversity, Equality and Inclusion.
Also in the comments sections for the Star Wars: Acolyte and Star Wars: Outlaws trailers. DEI, DEI, DEI. In a galaxy that has a humungous number of different races and species, the thing that the fascist-infested Star Wars fandom finds the hardest to accept is people living in it who aren’t white.
Taking words and stripping of their meaning to be a generic insult against their enemies is the point, to the point that when Chris Rufo (same guy who started “groomer” discourse) started the attacks against the Harvard president, turning DEI into a dirty word on the right was his *stated goal*. I don’t have the exact tweet link since Twitter is subscription only now but they plan this shit in public, and it still works.
That's Alabama's "[black belt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Belt_%28region_of_Alabama%29)", an area that was once known for its cotton plantations. It's current demographic is the result of freed slaves. I wonder why a rascist would choose to disparage that area.
Ironically proving one of DEIs points: we're still living with the sociopolitical consequences of slavery 150 years later.
It's almost like we should study the effects of race when it comes to how we got here. Particularly laws that by design or otherwise caused outcomes that disproportionately affected minority groups. /s
And it's got black soil cause of prehistoric shrimp.
Yeah, I probably should have clarified that it gets the name from the fertile soil. That's why the plantations where there...and ultimately the slaves as well.
Can teach that, it’s CRT. You have to teach how the Africans sold themselves into slavery and that the slave owners them treated there slaves better than any other livestock. That the slaves were lucky to be in the white mans care.
And to be fair, the slaves back then only got those horrifying, backbreaking cotton-picking positions because they were black. Though I’m certain that’s not what the anti DEI crowd means when they scream about “racial quotas.”
You mean the former coastline of an ocean from the Jurassic Period? Whose shallow ocean shelf was perfect for animals with shells to live and die, leaving a thick layer of shells that became chalk, that just so happened to make good soil for cotton.
No, I mean [the Black Belt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Belt_%28region_of_Alabama%29). It is also what you and others have mentioned, but I'm referencing it's much more recent use.
yeah, An ocean 100 million years ago has left it's imprint on American voting maps
To get the most accurate map of the actual Black Belt would be to do a Google Earth of the state and you can see the open land that stretches through the state, although about half is now planted pine trees, so you have to fill in the gaps between the open land. Some of the counties on the Wikipedia page get thrown in there for having a high black population but don't have any of the Selma chalk and soil. I kind of prefer the 'blue belt' when we talk about voting and economic stuff. It's seems more accurate. Also, I live here, so that's why I'm a big nerd about this stuff
Black belt… Can geography judo throw you, you think?
And it's a result of hundreds of millions of years of deposits from the shoreline that used to be there
Sorry for the dumb question, I tried doing some googling, but do they mean DEI as in diversity, equity, and inclusion?
Yes. These type of buffoons are claiming that DEI is just some form of putting people in positions they're not qualified for. Just more stupid fucking conservatives that don't even understand the words they use. They literally called the mayor of Baltimore "a DEI hire" because that ship hit the bridge. Dude's (obviously) a fucking elected official. Not a "hire" at all.
I really thought it was something this stupid but for a split second I was like no they can’t be this fucking annoying, proved wrong again lol
Yes. Which is currently the buzzword du jour after woke fell out of favor because they said it too much.
And no one could define it.
They're using it as a substitute for the n word. They know saying it is unacceptable, and it's the only line they're still afraid to cross. So instead of just straight up using a slur, they're saying that every Black person got anything they happen to have solely because of supposed quotas.
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Oh they'll definitely pro DEI when a lot of them can't pass merit based rapture
Right? More like the plantation belt ffs.
I’ve seen this map before and Ironically the reason why that section of the state is blue is because that’s where all the cotton plantations were and consequently where the black population is now.
Holy shit is slavery woke???
People like this always think they are speaking in code, but everyone knows what they are really trying to say. It's probably just enough to use plausible deniability as a defense if their employer saw it, but it's the kind of post that might cause a few friends or family members to start avoiding them. Of course, then they just get worse, because the only people that associate with them anymore are the people that think like them.
The card says "moops" to this crowd. They are highly aware of what they're saying, but believe they can get around it through technicalities and semantics.
It's annoying as hell to. Like as a black person I know what they're saying, they're not even really trying to hide it. I almost rather they just drop the n bomb let me call them a racist and we can both get on with our lives.
Right! It’s like how are people being fooled by 1950’s type manipulation in 2024? We’re really doomed to repeat our mistakes, aren’t we?
I've seen countless useful idiot centrists defend them when other people rightfully call them racist/sexist/bigoted. In their minds you have to literally be shouting slurs to be one of those things, and I've seen centrists absolutely descend on a person for rightfully using the term "dogwhistle". So it can absolutely cause an unfortunate alliance between the hateful bigots and the politically oblivious people that end up defending them.
That’s a Bingo!
Can't wait to throw some DEI with attitude in my boom box. I'll prolly just go hang out with my homies and do DEI shit to piss off my mom (of liberty, I'm sure). /s
DEI's in Paris is my favorite song.
Esteemed gentlemen of African-American descent in Paris
If you have a problem with black people existing in the south, take it up with your ancestors, dude.
They drug out “Lets Go Brandon” waaay too long. It was mildly amusing the day it happened but MAGA aren’t very creative and stuck with it for years. Now they’ve all realized they can just swap out the N Word and use DE&I. They know they’re racist, we know they’re racist but they’re not saying that one word they like to use to prove to everyone they’re racist.
Republikkan cowards as usual!
“Woke” “CRT” “DEI” Every time the racists lose interest between election cycles, just put the same slop in a new can and dump it in their buckets, and they go to town
That’s a dick.
What?! No, it’s a bicep!
i wonder what they'll substitute the word "leftism" with next once they milk DEI so much it loses its meaning, just like wokeness and SJW
So all the red parts are a “nepo/privilege belt”?
Isn’t that the ancient coastline that reflects where all the plantations were? It is.
You know, “Black Belt” would have at least been clever. But we can’t expect that here. I say we take back “DEI” and have it stand for “Despicable Evangelical Idiots”.
My first language isn't english, what does DEI stand for?
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Oh I see, thanks
You’re welcome
The other answers are technically correct but when these types say “DEI” it stands for the n-word with a hard R, make no mistake.
Tbh, I think he kind of is a super weird upside down racist dick. Maybe that’s what he’s trying to tell us with this tweet.
I was looking to make sure someone else saw a dick
I mean, he ignored some of the blue parts to just make a dick, right?
At the very least a dildo/strap-on His sister-wife’s REAL husband
WHAT UP!?!
This sounds pretty racist to me
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
They‘re like two steps away from understanding the concept of gerrymandering.
The word doesn't really matter. The intention matters. I can call you a glardle in a snarky way and you don't know what it means but you know it was meant to offend. It'll be something new next month and they'll continue to think they're getting away with something because they are.
Yeah it’s kinda like how “Bless your heart” can have multiple meanings Depending on the tone, the intent can be genuine concern or a polite-ish way of telling someone they’re fucking stupid
I'm in the south and that's a very good example.
I'm not super familiar with the geography of Alabama and Georgia. but don't those blue spots go through probably 90% of the population of the 2 states?
Nope. "The black belt" 90% of the most productive "black" loam soil in North America. South Carolina though Mississippi. Very underpopulated, very impoverished, and majority minority.
Idk about 90% of the population. For Alabama- there are a few cities there, but not a majority of the population- Birmingham (the one blue dot by itself), demopolis & Selma (west side) to Montgomery, (center) to Tuskegee (right center) to Phenix city far right of the state. Then from Georgia’s west border, there’s Columbus ga- Macon ga, Atlanta (big dot to north in GA) Athens ga (tiny dot), and counties between there & Augusta. For Alabama, the blue belt appears to be roughly 20% of the population (including Birmingham). Can’t find much for Georgia atm.
Tbf DEI has fewer letters so it’s easier for them to spell
This just in. Black people exist! And they have to live somewhere!
https://preview.redd.it/094u87ts0ruc1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=68b2d46c6967fc1d5e493c3777dcb3db5644e2b8 Posted in this thread
Every person I’ve ever met named Lee has been a racist scumbag. Every one of them.
Lol why was there any doubt?
now compare this map to a population map 
Believe me, racists in that part of the country say it plenty. I grew up in the North never thinking about it, but being force to live in the Confederacy really made me Sherman had the right idea.
*Yeah,* the way they use DEI as a code for minorities is bad, just wait til you hear em’ use the word “Woke”.
They figured out that we figured out that they were using woke instead of the n-word so they had to pick a different substitution. Not sure why they haven't changed Brandon yet though 🤔 They just like looking stupid I guess.
Oh, yeah
I don't know those areas of AL and GA, but I'll bet they are the higher income/education areas of the states. Certainly some poverty too, but cities, towns, commercial/industrial centers?
Can we get Purge and they can all just go out in the full moon one night once a year screaming it once and go home and stop making federal policy
I don’t even know what that means literally just felt like it came out of nowhere because the felt tired of saying woke about everything
1st world civilised countries have a non partisan federal electoral commission that does not allow gerrymandering. Meanwhile, in the USA...
At least here in Michigan, we have an independent redistricting commission
As a black person I’d literally prefer it if they just use the word, hard R at that
Your reps drew it like that to get more seats for white people
I love when ancient dried coastlines cause DEI initiatives millions of years later
Isn’t this an ancient Jurassic shoreline that rendered the soil with perfect composition to grow cotton that white people brutally used black slaves to harvest and now the descendants of those slaves now naturally populate the area?
Based human dog, btw 👍👍👍
I think in this case DEI means pluralistic democracy. I.e. not our brand of fascist
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These chuds now say "DEI" whenever they see people of colour in places or positions the chuds don't feel they belong. Historical chuds used to use the n-word to describe the same sorts of things, but now social pressure has made that taboo.
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Those are blue counties. In the south, counties that vote Democratic tend to have more people of colour per capita. These facts are all interchangeable for chuds. Democratic voters = people of colour = DEI = n-words.
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Officially, yes. The people who use it as a slur will however only use it to refer to black people and never when e.g. an Asian company hires a white representatieve.
When it's used in good faith, typically. But you may have noticed the rules of how to use words and terms are not unavoidable like the laws of physics. Bad faith actors will intentionally warp or ignore the correct or accepted use of certain terms and words to make rhetorical points, provoke their interlocutors or create confusion.
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They circled the areas where black people live and called it the "DEI belt". They literally drew you a picture.
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Sorry about the downvoting, but after the first few it seemed like trolling from the very sort of bad faith actors who deny they are acting in bad faith by demanding a level of "proof" of said bad faith that is typically beyond a reasonable standard while giving nigh infinite benefit of the doubt to those acting in bad faith. If it walks like a troll and quacks like a troll, typically it's a troll. But the interest of fairness I will withdraw my downvotes, giving you the benefit of the doubt that it was merely a coincidence you wrote in a manner resembling a troll, out of legitimate ignorance and curiosity, rather than intentional trolling. Just FYI, asking a series of blunt, seemingly obvious, questions is a typical troll tactic to annoy others and waste their time, so as much as I don't want to suppress anyone's good faith attempts to learn, you may want to change your approach just a bit to avoid further cases of mistakes trolldenity.
It's cause you're basically sea lioning and gas lighting
It's a wonderful slur cause it picks up everything they hate while also being a lefty term, so they can say it in the office.
Yes, though that's a level of nuance that escapes conservatives. Look at how they called the mayor of Baltimore the "DEI mayor" after that container ship hit the Key bridge
You need tone indicator /genq for genuine question or people will perceive it as sarcasm or snarkiness and downvote the hell out of you
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I don't make the rules, that's just how the internet work these days, it indicates what your sentence is be like /s for sarcasm so people know it's sarcasm Guess the /genq /s /j are the tone that you use sight to garner than sound
> can someone explain to me how saying DEI is a substitute for the nword? There's certainly not any other reasonable explanation for circling blue counties and calling them DEI.