LilMikeSF<p>In <a href="https://c.im/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> the <a href="https://c.im/tags/majority" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>majority</span></a> of voters have favored preserving or increasing funding for the Department of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Education</span></a>. </p><p>Unfortunately for those voters, the people that agree with them did NOT win the last election, and federal gov primed and in a rush to destroy <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dept" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dept</span></a> of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Edu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Edu</span></a> along with any <a href="https://c.im/tags/DEI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DEI</span></a> initiatives </p><p>As scapegoating and irate legislative attacks against <a href="https://c.im/tags/Diversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Diversity</span></a> in educational initiatives continues, silence = complicity.</p><p>While <a href="https://c.im/tags/DJT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DJT</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/RWNJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RWNJ</span></a> wage war of <a href="https://c.im/tags/WhiteSupremacist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteSupremacist</span></a> rooted rants , the constant and oft uninformed attacks against inclusion policies reveal a rabid <a href="https://c.im/tags/racist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racist</span></a> retelling of false facts flagrantly spewed to spread bigotry, and destroy confidence in people of color's qualifications, while few say anything to oppose this <a href="https://c.im/tags/NeoNazi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NeoNazi</span></a> narrative. </p><p>The blaming of the tragic plane crash over the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Potomac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Potomac</span></a> brought on a new low, and few, if any, stood and denounced the words that spewed from the <a href="https://c.im/tags/President" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>President</span></a>'s <a href="https://c.im/tags/bully" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bully</span></a> pulpit.</p><p><a href="https://briefly.co/anchor/Higher_education/story/as-dei-is-scapegoated-silence-is-complicity-opinion" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">briefly.co/anchor/Higher_educa</span><span class="invisible">tion/story/as-dei-is-scapegoated-silence-is-complicity-opinion</span></a></p>