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I get that you don't like DEI, but can anyone explain to me what's wrong with health equity?

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Great research, excellent article from Open the Books! We hope it goes directly to Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy in the new DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) to stop DEI everywhere it exists in government. (DEI already is starting to fall in the corporate world thanks to efforts by Robby Starbuck and others.)

DEI is low-hanging fruit that DOGE must prune mercilessly. It helps no one while enriching government employees and the DEI industry. Let's return to meritocracy, equal (and quality) treatment for all, and founding principles. DEI must DIE. And it will, once the sweet, sweet taxpayer money dries up like a prune.

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Afuera!

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Go woke go broke and be laughed at

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woke/dei has put healthcare providers in same position as corps and pols who push dei/woke-no one trusts them and they are unwanted

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Having worked as an academic in the College of Health Sciences at UTEP, the University is in an idea place (El Paso) to study health disparities in the Hispanic community. I don't see this as DEI. There isn't much research in the area. I despise DEI and fought against it in my Department. Sometimes I won, and sometimes I lost. Unfortunately, I lost respect for a handful of colleagues who were blinded by this boondoggle.

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Dissolve DEI and anyone associated with it.

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DEI is racist.

And it hides the greatest shame of the left: The liberal education monopoly devastated the black community.

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My experience runs along those lines too. Marginal candidates, advanced for who knows what reason, at every faux pas and "incompetence" raise the specter of expecting same from similarly "selected" encountered in the future. [Simply immediately on guard in certain professional encounters with DEI exemplars]

Some might say it's biased or even racist; others like myself are confident in our own experience(s). Experience has proven that ignorance [if so inclined] is readily rectified; stupidity on the other hand is all too often supremely confident in their degree or title... until its not [oops].

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Trump needs to appoint a czar to review all of university, medical and NGO grants to reform the grant making process. Billion$ are wasted annually on fraudulent and wasteful studies that at best have no value, and at worst, are devisive and destructive.

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https://justice4all.substack.com/p/federal-state-officials-aiding-criminal-662

NC's "Culture of Corruption" from Coast to Raleigh to D.C. Damns Asheville Flood Victims.

https://open.substack.com/pub/justice4all/p/reform-or-replace-the-us-dept-of-3df?r=o62no&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

After decades of embezzlement, bribery, rapes, lynching's, child sexual and physical abuse in public schools. and political violence and terrorism by N.C. judicial, law enforcement & government officials, aided by DOJ, FBI and other Federal Agencies and officials.

https://justice4all.substack.com/p/federal-state-officials-aiding-criminal-662

https://justice4all.substack.com/p/federal-state-officials-aiding-criminal?r=o62no&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&fbclid=IwAR3IocGge8vnFE-QLiYE27mxzMR6NWujzMiZsZB9E8GuZYoJpmMR-5a-sZk

Sexual abuse of children, violence toward political “threats” to corrupt NC officials, aid to these crimes by NC and Federal government, judicial, law enforcement, “trusted” institutions, media...the traumatized victims and grieving families DO NOT MATTER in NC. District Attorney Office's used for rape, theft of taxpayer funds, child abuse and sadistic violence are NC's "Culture of Corruption," according to the FBI. The same FBI that has and continues to aid and collude in criminal misconduct "Under color of law." subverting with violence representative democracy, Rule of Law, Constitutional and civil rights, due process, whistleblower protections, protection of minors from abuse and sexual violence trauma, and engaging in sadistic brutality, torture, deprivation of basic rights, and torment of crime victims by subverting legal procedures & due process, undermining local democratic government for corrupt allies, and providing for embezzlement of public funds for personal theft and bribery additionally aided by media, law enforcement, clergy and both major political parties and officials.

Evil, child abuse, rapist DAs and New Hanover County Sheriff's Office criminal gangs have a home, as do bribed fake media "reporters" and sadistic corruption crimes long-established & cherished in NC Culture in lieu of virtue, morality, ethics, integrity and any semblance of empathy or human decency.

Violent crimes, child abuse, embezzlement, lynching, sadistic violence & retaliation are valued and have a home in a City of Wilmington, NC Government, fighting corruption DOES NOT, NOWHERE in the Cape Fear Region or among NC's elected officials, judiciary, law enforcement, schools or government staff with their decades of FBI & DOJ aided brutality, murders, and rampant criminal violence & corruption beyond anything anywhere else in the USA:

https://open.substack.com/pub/justice4all/p/reform-or-replace-the-us-dept-of-3df?r=o62no&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Sexual use of children along with lynching and violence toward political “threats” to the corrupt policies and violent as wells as financial crimes, antidemocracy terrorism, preventable deaths, torture and absence of Rule of Law, Justice and responsible, lawful government, policing, criminal justice, education, and emergency management have suffered across N.C. as a result of years of theft, violent criminal abuses, and criminal misconduct by the “Culture of Corruption” according to the FBI.

The FBI, US Department of Justice, Dept. of Education, and NC and local officials in Eastern NC have with the Federal agencies aided and colluded these crimes, despite the undeniable actionable and likely admissible evidence possessed by local, NC and Federal government, judicial, law enforcement and other “trusted” institutions, the media, and much of the public.

Despite the increasing numbers of victims who have sought action, justice, criminal & corrupt priorities have been the unchallenged and unchecked priority and established policy for decades and the traumatized victims and grieving families DO NOT MATTER to local officials, the State of NC, NC SBI, AG Stein or Gov. Cooper!

https://justice4all.substack.com/p/federal-state-officials-aiding-criminal-662

N.C. Republicans are just as corrupt, unprincipled, unfaithful, sadistic, Machiavellian, violently criminal, to the extent that "normal" people REFUSE to believe reality and facts because few ever encounter such evil abnormal narcissistic thugs in life like the sadistic criminals the people of NC elect and empower and worship and blindly follow like fellow soldiers of Satan in a community where rape and child abuse and bribing media and destroying innocent victims with Mexican Cartel violence and smear tactics and evil indifference to human life & fighting corruption and abuse, including sexual abuse of children and adult victims, armed attacks, torture, and tax dollars used to bribe media and government staff to invent totally fictional tales to destroy any threat to this corruption and misconduct and brutality.

Charm and vice trumps human decency and any shred of human decency or Christian virtue by citizens eager to follow their charming, clever, deceitful, evil, devoid of integrity, ethics, Judeo-Christian values and empathy public leaders even when other people's children are being abused and innocent victims are destroyed permanently always a favorite comedy and joke among Wilmingtonians masquerading as "christians" while laughing about and protecting sick crimes by both Reps and Dems. It's evil and it's the cherished culture and reflects the values of the Cape Fear Region and NC governments and institutions. Facts, integrity, morality, protecting children, doesn't matter to anyone in ILM until it's your kid who's raped or your wife who trades sex with the DA to get out of a fake alleged crime and dare to challenge that evil, the community will destroy you in every way and your home will be invaded by armed thugs, your health that will be pummeled and permanently damaged, and your life destroyed by complete fiction created by bribed fake reporters and a community that climaxes laughing at your suffering in a naïve attempt to do the right thing and act with principle and morals that have no place in NC!

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This ideology is appalling and the huge wasteful spending isn't defensible.

We cannot be sure that these hires are reliably excellent, especially where lives are concerned. Hopefully the new administration will look into this and correct it.

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Fantastic research. Keep it up. Transparency is the best antidote to malignant government programs.

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VERY SIMPLY IMPLEMENT A '"ZERO BASED BUDGETING" PROCESS IN EACH DEPARTMENT, AGENCY, PROGRAM, OR GROUP THAT IS REQUESTING FUNDING, THAT MANDATES THAT EACH YEAR BEFORE THEY GET ONE CENT THEY MUST SHOW, BASED UPON SOLID EVIDENCE, THAT THEIR ACTIVITIES CONTRIBUTE TO THE EFFICIENT AND EFFECTIVE OPERATIONS OF THE PART OF GOVERNMENT THEY OVERSEE. A KEY PROBLEM IS THAT MOST OFTEN NOTHING IS EVER CANCELLED THEY JUST THROW MORE MONEY AT IT, A KEY STRATEGY IS TO FLATTEN THE GOVERNMENT TO ELIMINATE MULTIPLE REDUNDENT LEVELS. ALSO ELIMINATE DEI HIRING AND TENURE FOR ALL EMPLOYEES AND ELIMINTE EMPLOYEE UNIONS. IT IS WHAT SMART BUSINESS DO AND AS WHAT SMART AND RESPONSILBE PEOPLE AND FAMLIES DO. THIS WILL BE FOUGHT VIGEROUSLY BY THE LEFT AND ALL THOSE WHO THRIVE IN THE WASTEFUL SPENDING WHILE THEY FILL THEIR RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS OFTEN CONTRIBUTING NOTHING TO THE COUNTRY.

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Excellent report that the "legacy media" will never cover.

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What needs to be done is to get rid of any form that requests applicants to categorize themselves into boxes such as color, race, sexual preference and "gender," which does not even apply to humans as it is a taxonomic term that classifies nouns. This is only significant in medical records. Bank and S&L applications should not ask for race, color or creed. When that stops, the rest will stop.

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Meritocracy is the only protection society has from absolute stupidity. Idiocy rolls from the top down. So does competence. I guess people just want to have their one and only bodies damaged by medical and public health incompetence. In the end this is just another way to steal taxpayer dollars. PU.

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