Boston just dropped its $2.45 billion payroll — and it shows the city is spending millions on a DEI empire of nearly 200 employees while laying off 400 teachers - "A search of the 2025 payroll database reveals at least 169 city employees spread across 11 departments and standalone roles dedicated to diversity, equity, inclusion, and identity-based programming. Together, they cost taxpayers approximately $11.6 million last year... The Black Male Advancement office — yes, that's a real city department — has 12 employees costing $912,348. Executive Director Frank Farrow earned $128,557. The department also employs a Special Assistant at $115,074, a "Policy Analyst & Project Manager" at $98,058, and an Office Manager at $97,119... The Office of Food Justice has 11 employees totaling $515,472, led by a Director of Food Initiative at $126,153... It's not just the equity departments. The payroll is dotted with positions that read like a parody of progressive municipal government. The city's nightlife czar — Corean Reynolds, listed as an "Advisor" in the Office of Economic Opportunity & Inclusion — collected $132,571... The timing of the payroll release is hard to ignore. BPS is staring down a $1.7 billion budget that Chief Financial Officer David Bloom has described as deeply constrained by escalating health insurance costs, transportation expenses, special education costs, and collective bargaining increases... when you're cutting 400 school jobs, watching enrollment crater, and asking taxpayers to absorb double-digit property tax increases — the question isn't whether the city can technically afford a Chief of Equity, an Assistant Superintendent of Equity, a Director of Supplier Diversity, a Director of LGBTQ+ Advancement, a Director of Immigrant Advancement, a Director of Women's Advancement, a Director of Diversity, an Executive Director of Black Male Advancement, a Director of Food Justice, a nightlife czar, two Chief Engagement Officers, and 158 other employees across 11 departments. The question is whether anyone at City Hall has looked at this spreadsheet and asked if this is really where the money should be going while teachers are cleaning out their desks."
Leading Report on X - "BREAKING: President Trump’s Small Business Administration has banned noncitizens from getting SBA loans, effective March 1."
The American Tribune on X - "Remember that the reason that pretty much every gas station and motel was owned by members of a certain ethnic group was that SBA diversity loans allowed them to do so, and continually bring in new family members who then got new loans to keep it going, all while living in wretched conditions and putting Americans out of work. Ending this ends that"
Woman turned down for a firefighter job awarded €8k over age and gender discrimination
WRC rules woman was discriminated against on the grounds of gender & age when applying for a firefighter position as a beep fitness test was used “without the application of a normative table that considers age and gender”. I think lowered standards could be dangerous in situations like this. : r/MensRights - "If the application lowers requirements on women, doesn’t that mean requirements for men are higher and therefore discriminates against them based on their gender? Why is equality so hard for people pretending to fight for equality?"
"Because they want equality of the outcome which is nonsense."
"But only when it benefits women."
nazir afzal on X - "Walk down any city high street and you’ll see Jamaican bakeries next to Punjabi spice shops. You’ll hear Somali mums chatting with Liverpudlian dads while their kids play football in accents no one can quite place but everyone understands. That’s not a crisis. That’s the cure."
Thread by @FuckKoroks on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "This doesn’t happen, btw. I’ve been to “diverse” institutions all my life. Went to a “diverse” college for my bachelor’s and another one for my master’s. What happens is social balkanization. The Nigerians hung out with the Nigerians. The Chinese with the Chinese. Indians with the Indians and so on. This kumbaya bullshit is just fantasy, and it is self-evident. Every ethnic group automatically congregates with its own (save for whites, of course). What actually happens at scale is the formation of colonies of a foreign ethnic group. There is a reason Tower Hamlets is essentially Little Bangladesh and Toronto has become so Indian.
I remember thinking the Chinese were the worst of them all in this regard. You literally couldn’t talk to the Chinese kids. They ONLY ever spoke Chinese if they weren’t in class, ONLY ever talked to other Chinese kids, and never bothered making any friends from anywhere other than China. It was off-putting to me at the time, to say the least. At least with other ethnic friend groups you could have a conversation even if you were never admitted into their circle. Looking back now after learning about how the Chinese do espionage it makes more sense."
InfantryDort on X - "DEI distorts the very fabric of existence. Especially with institutions. Institutions are supposed to exist to do something:
1. Armies win wars
2. Universities pursue truth
3. Courts deliver justice
4. Companies create value
DEI subordinates mission to disgusting moral theater. Once that happens:
1. Truth becomes secondary to optics
2. Victory becomes secondary to fairness
3. Performance becomes secondary to perception
At that point, institutions no longer serve civilization. They serve the ideology that captured them. And you get ruled by despots who have worldviews worse than Stalin, but say it in a voice that makes it seem like they’re your innocent little mother. The tyranny of the 21st century isn’t a fist. It’s a hug you don’t want that never lets go."
Diversity dysfunction at Wilfrid Laurier University’s faculty of social work - "Confidential university documents leaked to True North reveal troubling times within Wilfrid Laurier University’s Faculty of Social Work, characterized by the Indigenous faculty members and the black dean accusing each other of racism. At the centre of the conflict is Kathy Hogarth, then dean of the social work department... A scroll through Kathy Hogarth’s X account (which she deleted after being contacted for this article) could certainly convince onlookers that she has contempt for those with peachy complexions. “I need to socialize my white colleagues to the idea that I am not their Black Jesus,” she posted online in November 2021. “I cannot magically dismantle the system of white mediocrity they hold a vice grip on.” But as it turns out, white people aren’t a factor in the Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty of Social Work diversity dysfunction at all. Professors in the faculty of social work had some pre-existing grievances with Hogarth: they found her untransparent about hiring decisions and said she had a generally uncollegial attitude. But it was at a faculty retreat in September 2022 that the showdown between Hogarth and the Indigenous Field of Study (IFS) social work faculty came to a head... The IFS asked to participate in the retreat remotely because its members were still scared of contracting COVID, but Hogarth had a preference for the department’s members to appear in-person... The IFS team later claimed Hogarth’s “exclusion” of them was “an act of anti-indigenous racism” and “colonial violence,” and that Hogarth had employed “strategies of exclusion, divide, conquer and misuse of power.” Prior to the retreat, Hogarth had asked the Indigenous faculty elders to give a land acknowledgement on the day of the retreat, but the elders felt her request was “performative” and they refused. Hogarth ended up delivering the land acknowledgement, and then asked someone from the IFS to comment on the significance of land acknowledgements. “This is not what we agreed on. Why are you asking us this? This is not our responsibility,” an IFS team member replied. Hogarth later recounted in a report that the faculty were “rowdy” during the retreat, interrupting her and challenging her decisions, and that they wrote phrases like “less colonialism” and “less bullshit” on the end-of-day feedback notes. Hogarth interpreted this as “implicit racism.”...
"As one of less than a handful of Black Deans in Canada, I cannot divorce my Blackness from my leadership identity. The experiences of colonialism are embedded in my DNA. The enactment of colonial violence on my Black body is unrelenting. After being bloodied and bruised at the Faculty Retreat, and nursing the bloodiness of the day, I was forced to dry my tears, put a smile on my face and go welcome a new cadre of students to our institution. And I ask, how can I do that with integrity after witnessing and experiencing such violence at the hands of social work ‘professionals’? Yet, I had to be strong because that is what is expected. As a leader, and more so as a Black woman leader, there is always a justling for power. I saw that. I saw the subtle and not so subtle attempts at destabilizing, the micro-invalidations and the micro insults. Anti-black racism was as real and alive as it has ever been on Wednesday. As painful as it is, I am naming that. We can choose toxicity – The kind of toxicity that I have observed and that the faculty of social work seems to be known for across this institution and beyond. We can also choose to break free and work towards healthy community. I will not join the toxic. I will not engage in the violence. Those are not negotiable. I challenge you, both perpetrators of violence and bystanders to do better. Both the bystander and the perpetrator are equal participants in enacting violence."
Days after Hogarth’s email, the tenured faculty sent the higher-ups of Laurier a petition to have Hogarth removed as dean, claiming a “crisis of leadership.”... “The Indigenous Field of Study Team and tenured faculty submitted complaints against Dean Kathy Hogarth involving, in part, allegations of anti-indigenous racism. In her response, Dr. Hogarth made allegations of anti-Black racism against Faculty, and the IFS Team,” the Lakhani Campea LLP report read. The IFS team alleged that Hogarth “demonstrated a pattern of problematic behaviours and engaged in anti-Indigenous racism and colonial violence.” Specifically, Hogarth’s “exclusion” of the IFS Team from the afternoon session of the Retreat was “an act of anti-Indigenous racism.” According to the report, a member of the IFS team suggested to Hogarth that by excluding them at the retreat, Hogarth is “worse than the federal government who had taken Indigenous children from their communities.”... Hogarth claimed she was subject to workplace violence, microaggressions, and anti-black racism. One example of racism Hogarth cited was that a faculty member commented on Hogarth’s hair and also said they “sometimes forget that Black people can be smart.” (In fact, Hogarth’s official bio on the Wilfrid Laurier University website reads, “I am Black… I have always been Black, but that fact never mattered as much until I entered white space. Then, my Blackness seemed to matter more than any other aspect of my identity… So much so, even in this position as Dean, colleagues remind me that I can be smart as a Black woman. So, I say to you I am Black – unapologetically Black!”)... Ultimately, the investigator found that although Hogarth’s Sept. 15 email used racially insensitive descriptors, she had not engaged in any outright anti-Indigenous racism – or herself been subjected to any anti-black racism... Hogarth did not respond to request for comment and her email auto-response stated she was “on leave” indefinitely. She deleted her X profile upon being contacted for this article."
From 2024. I'm just surprised no one blamed white people
Meme - "r/CanadaPublicServants
Employment equity standards
I am rather new to the federal government in a department which is actively working to meet employment equity standards. As a mixed black and Indigenous woman, I belong to three of the groups they're trying to recruit. I received an offer to become indeterminate rather quickly and was told I need to take advantage and apply into different pools ASAP. When a position opened up, my white colleague and I both applied. Although she's more qualified and experienced, I got the job. Management explained that they're prioritizing employment equity groups right now and encouraged my colleague to apply for the next pool. It feels like my colleague was overlooked because of her race, and that's hard to swallow. What's more, my boss has been pushing me to take on more responsibilities and join Indigenous and black groups within the organization and to be as active and vocal as possible. While I appreciate the opportunities, I feel like I'm being used to demonstrate my boss's commitment to employment equity. On one hand, I'm benefiting from these opportunities. On the other hand, I feel like a token, used to improve my boss's diversity credentials. I'm not sure how to navigate this situation or reconcile my feelings about it."
Of course in the comments people didn't see anything wrong
Sam Bowman on X - "Publicly traded companies in Britain must have, or “explain to the regulator” why they do not have:
- A minimum of 40% women on their board of directors
- A woman CEO, chairman of the board, CFO and/or Senior Independent Director
- A board member who is an ethnic minority
Why is anybody confused about why so few companies want to list here and so few promising startups scale up here? Would you agree to put people in charge of your company on the basis of their sex or race in order to meet a diversity quota? These rules were brought in by the Conservative Party in 2022, BTW."
This doesn't stop left wingers hating the Tories or painting them as far right extremists or fascists. The two minute hate needs targets
The FAA's Hiring Scandal: A Quick Overview - "A scandal at the FAA has been moving on a slow-burn through the courts for a decade, culminating in the class-action lawsuit currently known as Brigida v. Buttigieg, brought by a class who spent years and thousands of dollars in coursework to become air traffic controllers, only to be dismissed by a pass-fail biographical questionnaire with a >90% fail rate, implemented without warning after many of them had already taken, and passed, a skill assessment. The questionnaire awarded points for factors like "lowest grade in high school is science," something explicitly admitted by the FAA... Historically, the pipeline into air traffic control has followed a few paths: military veterans, graduates of the "Air Traffic-Collegiate Training Initiative" (AT-CTI) program, and the general public. Whichever route they came from, each candidate would be required to take and pass the eight-hour AT-SAT cognitive test to begin serious training. This test was validated as being effective as recently as 2013. The FAA has faced pressure to diversify the air traffic control for generations, something that seems to have influenced even the scoring structure of the AT-SAT cognitive test used for pre-employment screening of air traffic control candidates. Leading up to 2014, that pressure intensified, with the National Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees (NBCFAE) leading the push. To start with, in 2000, a three-member task force, including NBCFAE member Mamie Mallory, wrote "A Business Case and Strategic Plan to Address Under-Representation of Minorities, Women, and People with Targeted Disabilities," recommending, per the lawsuit, a workplace cultural audit, diversity "hiring targets" for each year, and "allowing RNO- [Race and National Origin] and gender-conscious hiring." They were advised by Dr. Herbert Wong, who helped the NBCFAE analyze FAA diversity data in 2009. Wong authored a report concluding that the FAA was "the least diverse agency within the executive branch of the federal government." Mallory and Wong were consulted as part of the 2014 test replacement process. From there, the NBCFAE sent letters in July and October 2009 to the FAA administrator and the Secretary for the Department of Transportation claiming disparate treatment, adopted a strategic plan "advocating for affirmative employment, obtaining an 'independent valuation of hiring and/or screening tools,' and pursuing litigation," a "Talking Points" document pushing the FAA to address diversity, and the creation of a group called "Team 7." In 2012, Team 7 members met with the secretary of the Department of Transportation, the FAA administrator, and senior FAA leaders to discuss diversity, after which the FAA commissioned a "Barrier Analysis" with a number of recommendations. Central to this: the cognitive test posed a barrier for black candidates, so they recommended using a biographical test first to "maximiz[e] diversity," eliminating the vast majority of candidates prior to any cognitive test. In 2012 and 2013, the NBCFAE continued pushing this process, with members meeting with the DOT, FAA, Congressional Black Caucus, and others to push diversity among ATCs. By July 2013, the FAA created a "Barrier Analysis Implemention Team"... In 2014, the FAA rolled out the new biographical questionnaire in line with the Barrier Analysis recommendation, designed so that 90% or more of applicants would "fail." The questionnaire was not monitored, and people could take it at home. Questions asked prospective air traffic controllers how many sports they played in high school, how long they'd been unemployed recently, whether they were more eager or considerate, and seventy-some other questions... CTI schools were blindsided and outraged by this change. A report on FAA hiring issues found that 70% of CTI administrators agreed that the changes in the process had led to a negative effect on the air traffic control infrastructure. One respondent stated their "numbers [had] been devastated," and the majority agreed that it would severely impact the health of their own programs. The largest program dropped from more than 600 students to less than 300. Concurrent to all of this, NBCFAE members were hard at work. In particular, one Shelton Snow, an FAA employee and then-president of the NBCFAE's Washington Suburban chapter, provided NBCFAE members with "buzz words" in January 2014 that would automatically push their resumes to the tops of HR files. A 2013 NBCFAE meeting advised members to "please include [on resumes] if you are a NBCFAE Member. [...] Can you see the strategy", emphasizing they were "only concerned" with the employment of "African-Americans, women ... and other minorities." After the 2014 biographical questionnaire was released, Snow took it a step further. As Fox Business reported (related in Rojas v. FAA), he sent voice-mail messages to NBCFAE applicants, advising them on the specific answers they needed to enter into the Biographical Assessment to avoid failing, stating that he was "about 99 point 99 percent sure that it is exactly how you need to answer each question.""
Time to blame Elon Musk and DOGE for the La Guardia accident and other US Air Traffic Control incidents
Pedro L. Gonzalez on X - "The new right can’t and will not ever produce any real art or culture that will stand the test of time because it is fundamentally driven by hatred and resentment and a movement based on those things cannot create anything beautiful or worthwhile. It is a gutter movement. It lives in an imaginative and moral sewer from which nothing good can ever emerge."
Coddled Affluent Professional on X - "The left has basically spent the past 35 years demanding that the literary canon be shredded so that they could clear the shelves for hastily produced, aesthetically atrocious agitprop that there’s no organic market for. There’s also basically zero academic job market for the sort of modernist literary specialist who venerates Joyce. These people like to imagine that they’re refined intellectual aristocrats but the reality is that elite progressive cultural production is ~98% disposable midwit slop."
Financial Times on X - "White males will have ‘fewer board seats’ in future, says UK diversity chair"
Christian Heiens 🏛 on X - "If you want to understand why every White male under the age of 30 appears to be a Fascist, it’s because they see the ladder being pulled up in front of them. They’re being institutionally discriminated against and told this is a universal moral imperative. And if anyone ever attempts to fight back, that’s used as justification for framing them as a villain who is getting what he deserves. Why would any young White man ever show any loyalty to a regime that frames hatred towards them as something to celebrate?"
Meme - Wylfcen @wylicen: "Diversity advocates live in an eternal present like dogs.
British people in 1948: "It's just 800 Caribbeans."
Germans in 1961: "It's only 55 Turkish guest workers. They'll go back after a year"
Swedes in 1988. "It's just a thousand Somali refugees. They'll leave once their civil war is over""
Gemma Ayodele @wandr_bkwise: "Ah yes, the existential threat of *checks notes* 0.8% Filipinos. Icelanders trembling as we speak."
George Alexopoulos on X - "There are only 15 million Greeks left in the WORLD, fewer than the number of Africans in the US (over 40 million). Greeks are a legit endangered species, yet there's not a single one in this movie. So let's not act like these casting choices are about progress. It's just another insult in a long tradition of shitting on good people who laid the foundation for the West, who've basically just been chilling and not bothering anyone for 2,500 years."
On race-swapping Helen of Troy
DiscussingFilm on X - "The first trailer for ‘FOR ALL MANKIND’ Season 5 has been released. Releasing March 27 on Apple TV."
Oilfield Rando on X - "Hilarious. The multicultural alliance is struggling against the old White “Earth First” men to advance civilization. Sure, it’s the complete opposite of reality, but that’s just how the Narrative always is."
Andrew Follett on X - "I was PURGED from NASA in about 2013 and lost a grant bc the team was "overly white." They spent the money we'd wanted to FLY A ROCKET PLANE ON MARS on global warming satellites. You don't understand just how DEIed NASA is unless you saw it from the inside."
The left continually rewrites history, just like claiming Hedy Lamarr invented Wi-Fi.
Andrew Follett on X - "Why yes, I've discussed this before at length. NASA is now just a jobs program. There's a thin veneer of old dudes at the agency whom the Libs are waiting for to retire, then it will be pure trash. Sources and stuff here."
Andrew Follett on X - "One of the ladies who approved these grants told me the Mars airplane project I was on "was overly white." It was one of 4 finalists, but wasn't selected and got defunded for more global warming satellites. Why I left science and entered politics."
RodeoProfessor on X - "For the record, I am against NASA cuts *in general* but it is impossible to ignore how completely deranged and ideologically captured NASA became in the past 5 years with race quota grants & race/gender obsessed comms (rather than science). It is no surprise it has to take its medicine."
ABC News on X - "Three medical schools are being investigated by the Trump administration over how race is used during the admissions process, marking the federal government's latest effort to reshape higher education."
Chris on X - "Now they hate it when the federal government is trying to “reshape higher education.” When it was “dear colleague” letters coming from the Obama administration, it was great! When it was funding tied to DEI, they couldn’t get enough. Now that it’s enforcing the Supreme Court’s landmark SFFA decision for the equal protection of all students, they think it’s not the role of feds to decide what happens to federal taxpayer dollars in education. Ok."
Meme - Landeur 🏴 @Landeur: "There will come a time when they simply pretend that Britain has been multi-ethnic forever. Not just in propaganda, and on the BBC, but they will literally rewrite the history books and scrub anything contradictory."
They're already doing it, e.g. BBC Horrible Histories claiming the British Isles were black "before these isles were British"
Meme - Into the Memory Hole @frogNscorpion: "In 2011 the Juno mission was launched. This was around the public and private sectors began an absolute Hail Mary propaganda campaign against common sense by just blatantly lying and manipulating media. Media messaging acts as a primer."
"Google doodle of Juno mission team members: *diverse*
Actual Juno mission leam members: *all white, mostly men with 1 woman*"
