Comment by dragontamer
1 year ago
And if they did violate the ADA, do you seriously expect this administration's anti-DEI Department of Justice to pursue legal action?
1 year ago
And if they did violate the ADA, do you seriously expect this administration's anti-DEI Department of Justice to pursue legal action?
Yes because accessibility and DEI are different despite partisans' attempts to make "DEIA" a real thing.
I'm not expert on this, but it appears that the Dept of Justice rolls DEI and A into one DEIA, which makes some sort of sense since any litigation would be similar. Not sure about other federal agencies
https://www.justice.gov/archives/jmd/diversity-equity-inclus...
Trump's team is rolling back DEIA already.
Did you read the executive order? It's not the left calling it DEIA. Its Trump.
> Sec. 2. Implementation. (a) The Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), assisted by the Attorney General and the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), shall coordinate the termination of all discriminatory programs, including illegal DEI and “diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility” (DEIA) mandates, policies, programs, preferences, and activities in the Federal Government, under whatever name they appear.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/endi...
Because it's a pretty simple legal maneuver to say "no this EO isn't requiring us to shut down this program because we call it 'DEIA' instead of 'DEI' so it's different."
The EO is using the language of the programs to ensure that they're shut down.
Accessibility has been around forever. One of the major proponents of it was a Republican nominee for President. It has broad bipartisan support.
DEI has been around for 45 minutes and is racism disguised as anti-racism.
So why is the Trump administration also removing accessibility features from government websites, and firing ASL interpreters?
Because the administration is thousands of people and it's possible for them to do both good things and boneheaded stupid things simultaneously?
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You seriously think this administration gives a care about the disabled? They're already firing accessibility people in the government.
https://www.aclu.org/news/racial-justice/trumps-executive-or...
Right there in the executive orders. They're literally rolling back accessibility and making this a policy.
Read the EO yourself.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/endi...
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I can find you literally hundreds of posts from people insisting that ADA is nothing but a small-business-killing shakedown, that it's makework for lawyers, that it's doing nothing to help the disabled, and that it's just as bad if not worse than DEI. What makes your claim better than theirs?
>it's doing nothing to help the disabled
I make you a deal: Instead of hundreds of posts from random people, find me just 50 posts from disabled people that agree with this.
> What makes your claim better than theirs?
Well, for starters it's not so absolute:
> it's doing nothing to help the disabled
It's obviously doing something for the disabled. Reserved disabled parking spots and wheelchair-accessible building entrances are requirements of the ADA. It seems reasonable to think it "improves people's lives". A whole bunch of contrary opinions are not necessarily reasons for disagreement as much as they are simply disagreement.
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I call your bluff. Do it.
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