{"id":2307291,"date":"2024-07-24T11:01:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T15:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-is-it-offensive-to-call-kamala-a-dei-hire\/"},"modified":"2024-07-24T11:06:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T15:06:40","slug":"why-is-it-offensive-to-call-kamala-a-dei-hire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-is-it-offensive-to-call-kamala-a-dei-hire\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Is It Offensive To Call Kamala A DEI Hire?"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fwhy-is-it-offensive-to-call-kamala-a-dei-hire%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=2307291&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--><p>Democrats\u200c are upset with Republicans\u200b for suggesting that Vice President Kamala Harris\u200c was a diversity hire, \u200cas they believe \u2062it \u2062is an attack on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Critics \u2064find\u200b these accusations insulting and racially charged. The controversy surrounding Harris&#8217;s appointment reflects broader issues of race- and sex-based hiring practices and the implications it has on individuals&#8217; accomplishments and careers. Democrats argue that Harris was not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-2017-inquisition-style-meeting-laid-groundwork-for-2024-army-of-shock-troops-report\/\" title=\"Report: Trump&#039;s 2017 meeting set stage for 2024 &#039;shock troops\">chosen solely based<\/a> on her gender and race, but rather\u200d on her qualifications and experience. However, some Republicans claim that Harris was picked because Biden promised to choose a black woman as his running mate in 2020. The debate highlights the ongoing discussions around diversity, equity, and inclusion in politics.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Democrats are offended that Republicans are pointing out Vice President Kamala Harris was a diversity hire. What do they have against diversity, equity, and inclusion? Shouldn&rsquo;t they be celebrating those concepts? It was the left, after all, that conceived and implemented DEI programs around the country.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Kamala Harris faces racial &lsquo;DEI&rsquo; attacks amid campaign for the 2024 presidency,&rdquo;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/kamala-harris-faces-racial-dei-attacks-amid-campaign\/story?id=112196464#:~:text=Critics%20claimed%20she%20was%20a,backed%20because%20of%20her%20race.&amp;text=Vice%20President%20Kamala%20Harris%20is,Biden%20abandoned%20his%20reelection%20bid.\">explains<\/a>&nbsp;ABC News. &ldquo;Incredibly insulting,&rdquo;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/07\/23\/politics\/video\/susan-rice-kamala-harris-dei-hire-comment-sr-sot-digvid\">says<\/a>&nbsp;Susan Rice. &ldquo;Right-wing media figures call Kamala Harris a &lsquo;DEI&rsquo; candidate as race-based attacks ramp up,&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/07\/24\/media\/right-wing-media-kamala-harris-dei-race-attacks\/index.html\">writes<\/a> the perpetually confused Oliver Darcy. &ldquo;Is it 1951?&rdquo;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/morning-joe\/watch\/-is-it-1951-joe-slams-rep-burchett-s-claim-vp-harris-was-a-dei-hire-215472709598\">asked<\/a>&nbsp;&ldquo;Morning Joe.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Sort of, yes. In 1951, many white Americans still judged their fellow citizens by immutable characteristics like the color of their skin. Today, a new group of Americans are doing the same thing, including journalists who stopped using &ldquo;black&rdquo; as a descriptor of a color and then started capitalizing the word to strongly suggest that skin color defines a person. Scarborough should ask his good buddy Al Sharpton, a big-time defender of DEI, how all of it works.<\/p>\n<p>Let&rsquo;s face it, the only reason mentioning DEI is considered a &ldquo;racial attack&rdquo; by the left is because DEI is a racist policy. And the anger over the Kamala accusation is a tacit admission there&rsquo;s something ugly and demeaning about race- and sex-based hiring practices. It&rsquo;s an admission that being associated with DEI depreciates a person&rsquo;s accomplishments and career. If that is true of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-defector-emails-pipeline-to-obama-admin-seen-as-currency\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden Defector Emails: &#039;Pipeline&#039; to Obama Admin Seen as &#039;Currency&#039;\">vice president<\/a>, it is surely true of the millions of minority women and men toiling to make it out in the real world. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Democrats are going to spin this by arguing that it is factually incorrect to contend that Harris was picked because of her gender and color. &ldquo;The argument coming from Republicans is Harris &mdash; who had served 13 years as DA + AG before 3.5 years in the Senate &mdash; was a DEI hire for Biden, while JD Vance &mdash; who wrote a bestseller, worked in venture capital briefly &amp; has been in the Senate 18 months was picked because of his r&eacute;sum&eacute;,&rdquo;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/IsaacDovere\/status\/1815879889716904225\">argued<\/a>&nbsp;CNN Senior Reporter Edward-Isaac Dovere.<\/p>\n<p>No, that&rsquo;s not the argument. The argument is that Biden decided to, or was pressured into, picking a black woman by Democrats in 2020. He promised to do it. He bragged about doing it. All Dovere had to do was search his own website to find the evidence.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Joe Biden Says He Is Considering Four Black Women To Be His Running Mate,&rdquo; a 2020 CNN headline&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/07\/21\/politics\/joe-biden-four-black-women-vice-president\/index.html\">explained<\/a> &mdash; not four of the &ldquo;most qualified&rdquo; people. &ldquo;Joe Biden Pressed Again To Name A Black Woman As His Running Mate,&rdquo;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/joe-biden-pressed-again-to-name-a-black-woman-as-his-running-mate\/2020\/08\/10\/d383d786-db2d-11ea-8051-d5f887d73381_story.html\">read<\/a>&nbsp;a headline in The Washington Post. &nbsp;&ldquo;Pressure Grows On Joe Biden To Pick A Black Woman As His Running Mate,&rdquo;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/06\/12\/875000650\/pressure-grows-on-joe-biden-to-pick-a-black-woman-as-his-running-mate#:~:text=The%20demands%20to%20pick%20a,from%2036%25%20in%20early%20April.\">said<\/a>&nbsp;an NPR headline, right under the words &ldquo;America Reckons With Racial Injustice&rdquo; &mdash; written a little more than three years after Barack Obama finished his eight-year tenure as the most powerful man in the world.<\/p>\n<p>It was clear that Kamala Harris wasn&rsquo;t the meritocratic choice, not even among the other 2020 Democrat Party presidential contenders. Her campaign didn&rsquo;t even make it to Iowa. Her senate career was undistinguished. Her polling was atrocious. She was unable to run a campaign or <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/07\/23\/92-percent-of-kamala-harris-staff-left-in-her-first-three-years-as-vp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">keep her staff<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I&rsquo;m not na&iuml;ve. Harris isn&rsquo;t the first candidate who&rsquo;s been picked, fully or in part, because of her background, personal appeal, and physical characteristics. Vance is Trump&rsquo;s veep pick because he allegedly strongly appeals to the forgotten Rust Belt &ldquo;working man,&rdquo; not because he&rsquo;s the most accomplished person in America. One suspects he would admit as much.<\/p>\n<p>Now, none of this means that many African Americans and Hispanic kids don&rsquo;t often have to overcome failing schools, poverty, and other obstacles &mdash; just as other groups have in the past. (Harris is not one of these people, by the way.) This puts them at a serious disadvantage. So, let&rsquo;s fix (or better yet, dismantle) the public school system and welfare state that break apart families and undermine opportunity &mdash; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/parents-sue-gov-newsom-over-mask-mandate\/\" title=\"Parents sue Gov. Newsom over mask mandate\">stop punishing<\/a> other Americans who have earned their opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>But, in the end, if you don&rsquo;t want your preferred candidate being called a DEI hire, stop bean-counting people by their color and sex.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p>      David Harsanyi is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-canvassers-rescind-their-votes-to-certify-wayne-county-michigan-results\/\" title=\"Republican Canvassers Rescind Their Votes to Certify Wayne County, Michigan, Results\">senior editor<\/a> at The Federalist, a nationally syndicated columnist, and author of six books&mdash;the most recent, <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/products\/the-rise-of-blueanon-david-harsanyi?variant=41551839232034\">The The Rise of BlueAnon: How the Democrats Became a Party of Conspiracy Theorists<\/a><\/b>. Follow him on Twitter, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidharsanyi\/\">@davidharsanyi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats\u200c are upset with Republicans\u200b for suggesting that Vice President Kamala Harris\u200c was a diversity hire, \u200cas they believe \u2062it \u2062is an attack on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Critics \u2064find\u200b these accusations insulting and racially charged. The controversy surrounding Harris&#8217;s appointment reflects broader issues of race- and sex-based hiring practices and the implications it has &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":831,"featured_media":2307292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Kamala-Harris-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[16574,6759,10708,11553,32438,35991],"class_list":["post-2307291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dei","tag-diversity","tag-equity","tag-inclusion","tag-kamala-harris","tag-offensive-language"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Kamala-Harris-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307291","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\/831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2307291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2307292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2307291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2307291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2307291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}