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Comment by pc86

1 year ago

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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dragontamer  1 year ago

The head of the administration, Trump, literally issued an order. An order that's being carried out right now.

And that order is messing with disability programs and other accessibility issues. Directly.

  • pc86  1 year ago

    A sibling comment quoted it as well but the relevant thing is here:

    > 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.

    IMO this is a crystal clear example of why you don't lump unrelated programs in together. You lump accessibility with DEI because accessibility is largely favored and DEI is largely not. Their hands are likely tied by the text of this EO because the previous administration didn't keep DEI separate from accessibility. As I stated elsewhere accessibility is a decades-old cause while DEI has been around barely the past couple years in government circles and wider press.

    If the previous administration had left them separated and stopped hamfisting DEI into DEIA I don't think this OE would have mentioned accessibility at all. But since it does, if you're a federal employee you don't really have a choice unless you want to try to make the argument that accessibility on its own is not DEIA and therefore it can stay but that's likely a losing battle.

    • dragontamer  1 year ago

      I quoted it and irrelevant.

      Trump signed the order like that. If he wanted to change the order, he would have written it differently.

      In any case, President Elon is pissed at accessibility folks harassing him over Twitter firings (including the firing of Twitters accessibility teams). This is stuff well within their politics and is 100% what they want.

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