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This has been building up for a long time even before Trump won in 2016. It wasn't called DEI until recently, but it's been around a long time. It is why Trump has been running racist campaigns since 2015. What is now called "woke" used to be called "political correctness" This is not something that Trump invented. It's something of which he took advantage. And ,to be clear, the left is mostly right on these issues, but their messaging has not been good.

No, they don't care...like every big business! I think they do care about losing a years worth of big money though.

With all the money in the game now, for both owners and players, it's hard to believe they would give all that up

Yup, it's been around for a long time at Brandeis. Brandeis has always been based on social justice

The Tigers have an option for 2026 in the Urquidy deal, so he could be valuable next year afer Cobb, Maeda and Flaherty leave.

I have not noticed any positive or negative effect from these progams, but that might be because where I work, they are preaching to the converted.

Studying something where we already know the answer is not efficient. But, I am just an analyst. Give me some data and I'll crunch the numbers!

LOL, Try to get to know posters a little bit before you post. It makes the forums work better. The people who want diversity, equity and inclusion are definitely the good guys. The problem is if you get too preachy about it, you end up pissing people off and we go backwards instead of forward and we are most certainly going backwards now.

I thought it was the Swedish.

It shouldn't. He'll still be a piece of trash regardless.

I don't doubt it. I have lost a great deal of faith in our country the last several years. he might as well make the nobel prize worthless too.

I think that, in general, a fairly substantial number of voters got tired of hearing about DEI being shoved down their throats all over the place and that got tied to politicians, deservedly so or not. Even a dummy like Trump was able to see that and he jumped on it running campaigns around racism for 12 years. There was a chance for a politician on the other side to counter that with some kind of intelligent nuanced view on DEI, but all they did was add to the problem by hammering Trump and his followers for his bigotry. That didn't help.

I explained myself in my next post. I am here mostly to vent. I prefer to save this kind of he said she said stuff for the baseball forums!

They didn't say it. The past three Democratic Presidential candidates never said much of anything other than Trump sucks (which is good enough for me, but not everyone). The idea that everyone is racist and misogynist is all over my social media. I have had to block some otherwise intelligent people. I see non-presidential candidate politicians retweeting and supporting this stuff (mostly because the baseball people I follow retweet or like the retweets).

It wasn't that they went too far, but they got way too preachy about it. Constantly telling people that they are racist or misigonyst because they don't agree with every liberal idea about race and gender is not a good way to win elections. As far as actual actions though, there has never been a time when females or non-whites had an advantages over white males. White males have always had the advantage all things considered.

I never thought I'd see a bigger asshole than Trump, but Musk might have surpassed him.

Conservatives have always thought that empathy was for weak people. They just don't hide it now.

On the bright side, we would a day off from work on June 14. So, I would just take the day off and call it Dump Day.

If they are one issue climate change voters, then they think we are doomed either way.

Or maybe they vote for nobody.

Those of us who live in Chelmsford think Littleton is close and Boston is far away!

I do not approve of this kind of protest.

The question is which side we are going to be on.

What if someone's view are so far left that they don't support either Democrats or Republicans? For example, there are a lot of people, especially young people, who believe that we are doomed if we don't make drastic changes to combat climate change. They think that no other issues matter and neither Democrats nor Republicans come close to addressing the issue sufficiently. Why should they "get in line" when there is no party to line up behind? Regardless of what MB thinks, the Democrats are not entitled to those votes. Everybody's vote is their own and no party is entitled to it.

I have never understood why people (even reasonable ones) keep insisting that Trump is smart. At no point in his life has he ever demostrated any intellect whatsoever.