{"id":1571864,"date":"2022-07-26T14:16:39","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T18:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1571864"},"modified":"2022-07-26T14:21:26","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T18:21:26","slug":"brazen-discrimination-cruz-grills-biden-official-over-state-dept-email-allegedly-excluding-straight-white-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brazen-discrimination-cruz-grills-biden-official-over-state-dept-email-allegedly-excluding-straight-white-men\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Brazen Discrimination\u2019: Cruz Grills Biden Official Over State Dept Email Allegedly Excluding \u2018Straight White Men\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbrazen-discrimination-cruz-grills-biden-official-over-state-dept-email-allegedly-excluding-straight-white-men%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1571864&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/77753-e1658857424183.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz pressed the State Department\u2019s chief Diversity and Inclusion officer Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley over an email allegedly excluding \u201cstraight, white men\u201d and people of the wrong religion from being hired.<\/p>\n<p>The senator argued that the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/08\/exclusive-state-department-prepares-to-announce-worldwide-racial-equity-chief-leaked-email-shows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">department\u2019s<\/a> Equity Action Plan, which changed hiring practices at the agency, is \u201cnothing more than brazen discrimination.\u201d An email from a senior department official described reports from candidates claiming to be denied a position for having a disability or for classifying as \u201cwhite men, straight white men, [or] not [being] of the right religion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you clear this guidance?\u201d Cruz asked during Tuesday\u2019s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.senate.gov\/committees\/hearings_meetings.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">diversity, equity and inclusion<\/a>.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never seen that before,\u201d Abercrombie-Winstanley said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo you didn\u2019t know it had been sent,\u201d Cruz clarified.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first time I\u2019m seeing it, sir,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/22\/ted-cruz-whiteboard-ketanji-brown-jackson-child-pornography-sentencing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">senator<\/a> suspected that a person not being of the \u201cright religion\u201d pertains to Christians. He pressed her if she is aware that these hiring practices are allegedly occurring inside the State Department, to which she responded that they are not.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo do you believe the senior state department official who sent this email was lying?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSenator, I can\u2019t comment. I don\u2019t know who that\u2019s from,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019ve never seen it before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo you\u2019re the chief diversity officer and you are arguing you are certain discrimination is not happening at the state department, is that right? Is that what you\u2019re testifying? It\u2019s what you just said.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/06\/ted-cruz-deputy-ag-treating-parents-domestic-terrorists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018Partisan Power Grab\u2019: Ted Cruz Rattles Deputy AG Over Treating Concerned Parents As Domestic Terrorists)\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Abercrombie-Winstanley said the State Department is not intentionally breaking the law, though there are members of the agency that \u201cdiscriminate,\u201d \u201charass,\u201d and \u201cbully,\u201d therefore leading to the creation of programs to hold individuals practicing discriminatory actions accountable.<\/p>\n<p>The senator said she called for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Accessibility hiring practices, though she claimed she was unaware of the instructions in the email.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat would you say you do around here?\u201d the senator said. \u201cWhat is your job if not to stop discrimination, and unfortunately, I believe your job, in practice, is encouraging this discrimination. This is a manifestation \u2026 is it good for the State Department and good for the United States government to be actively discriminating based on disability, based on race, based on being a straight white man, or based on not being the right religion, it that good or bad?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndeed, and so I would say comments do not at all say it is indeed happening,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cComments from hiring people saying we can\u2019t hire them because of it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez, the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing chairman, said Cruz should provide attribution for the email and then be \u201cfully investigated.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Encouraging this discrimination&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1571864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1571864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1571864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1571864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1571864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}