Leon Firing As Many People Of Color As Possible

Monday, March 10, 2025

A reporter covering President Donald Trump explained why tech billionaire Elon Musk wanted to fire "DEI hires" at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). New Republic staff writer Kate Aronoff discussed a report from The New York Times about an explosive cabinet meeting during a conversation with "The Daily Blast" host Greg Sargent. Aronoff suggested on the podcast episode that Musk is using Trump's attack on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) as an excuse to fire people of color. Sargent pointed to a moment in the reported cabinet meeting when Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy accused Musk's team of trying to fire air traffic controllers, while Musk claimed there was "DEI hiring" of those key positions.

Posted by Reinheitsgebot at 04:35 PM | 4 COMMENTS | permalink

What you said there is interesting because another element to their exchange"the one between Sean Duffy and Elon Musk"is that Elon Musk again raised the nonsense about DEI hiring at air traffic control. And Duffy actually said, No, that's not true. And I don't think they said this in the article, but basically Duffy, in saying that, was debunking something Trump has said," Sargent said.

"Right. And clearly, to read not too far between the lines of that, Elon must [have seen] a person of color who is an FAA employee, right? That is what all of this means: He just wants to fire as many people of color as possible, and will call them DEI hires' or whatever he wants to in order to do that," Aronoff said.

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"Musk is using Trump's attack on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) as an excuse to fire people of color"

I can't imagine why a Nazi would want to do this.

I can't imagine why another Nazi would allow him to.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2025-03-10 05:39 PM