Cheatle resigned

[theevan]

Too much heat in the kitchen.

Has she been treated unfairly? I don't know. But the incident is clearly a massive failure, and is looking worse as more info trickles out. At least this isn't old Japan when seppuku was expected. Wait, was that the bloodbath Trump predicted? Seppuku?

[coachdoc]

Cheatle? So who is this person you refer to.

[epaul]

Par for course. Expected. Goes with the job. There was failure, there is a price to be paid. Buck stops here. Plenty of other bosses to be found. Seppuku.

[coachdoc]

Oh. Not her fault, but she chose the hot seat.

[coachdoc]

Where will she land? Private or public?

[Rob Hanesworth]

Jul 23, 2024 12:05:59 GMT -5 coachdoc said:

Where will she land? Private or public?

Mall cop?

[theevan]

DEI czar at an Ivy League?

[james]

This anti DEI sneering is getting old and nasty very quickly, IMO.

[Dub]

Jul 23, 2024 11:58:40 GMT -5 coachdoc said:

Oh. Not her fault, but she chose the hot seat.

Whaddya talkin’? Of course it was her fault.

[Rob Hanesworth]

Jul 23, 2024 13:25:21 GMT -5 james said:

This anti DEI sneering is getting old and nasty very quickly, IMO.

Agree.

[millring]

It became the law of the land without a single vote cast -- either for it OR against it. It deserves every sneer it gets. It deserves worse than mere sneers.

[james]

I'll let Robyn Pennachia take this.

For the last year or so, Republicans and their “conservative” press have been blaming every single thing that has gone wrong in the country or in their own personal lives on “DEI” — Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives. Did a bridge collapse? DEI is to blame! Did a student beat up a girl who severely bullied her? Obviously DEI! Trump was almost assassinated? Gotta be DEI! Airplane malfunction? DEI! Crowdstrike outage? Well, that’s definitely DEI. Bad hair day? Hangnail? Probably also DEI, somehow.

But let’s be real. “DEI” in this context is just the latest in a never-ending parade of terms Republicans don’t fully understand but use to rile up their base. Previously, they’ve done it with woke, critical race theory, cultural Marxism, Affirmative Action — I could go on. Every time one loses their punch, they come up with another. This one is particularly insidious, however, because the core of the argument is very specifically “Horrible things happen when you hire women and people of color instead of white men.”

More at

www.wonkette.com/p/when-they-say-harris-is-a-dei-hire

[millring]

Jul 23, 2024 14:38:01 GMT -5 james said:

I'll let Robyn Pennachia take this.

For the last year or so, Republicans and their “conservative” press have been blaming every single thing that has gone wrong in the country or in their own personal lives on “DEI” — Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives. Did a bridge collapse? DEI is to blame! Did a student beat up a girl who severely bullied her? Obviously DEI! Trump was almost assassinated? Gotta be DEI! Airplane malfunction? DEI! Crowdstrike outage? Well, that’s definitely DEI. Bad hair day? Hangnail? Probably also DEI, somehow.

But let’s be real. “DEI” in this context is just the latest in a never-ending parade of terms Republicans don’t fully understand but use to rile up their base. Previously, they’ve done it with woke, critical race theory, cultural Marxism, Affirmative Action — I could go on. Every time one loses their punch, they come up with another. This one is particularly insidious, however, because the core of the argument is very specifically “Horrible things happen when you hire women and people of color instead of white men.”

More at

www.wonkette.com/p/when-they-say-harris-is-a-dei-hire

That's a complete misrepresentation of the objections to DEI.

[TKennedy]

Call me stupid but I had to look up what DEI meant.

Edit: I also had to look up “Brat Summer”

[theevan]

DEI makes a doctrinal priority of

Diversity. Adds weight to staffing/admissions/etc based on race, gender I'd and so on rather than merit. Result is a weaker staff/student body.

Equity. Mandates equal outcomes. We are based on equal opportunity. It has become a code for other things such as reparations.

Inclusion. More of the above.

All of which is not only corrosive but is also demeaning to the groups it purport to help, implying they can't make it on merit.

Above all, it views people, not as individual but as groups, inevitably pitting one against another.

Those are a few of my objections.

[TKennedy]

That clarifies things. Thanks.

[james]

A parade of right-wing media and others saying that Kamala Harris and Kimberly Cheatle are/were "DEI hires" is a sorry spectacle. It is in these instances, as is not infrequently the case nowadays, a way of disparaging the worth, quality and suitability of people for their occupations primarily because of their gender. Pitiful.

The condescending, sexist bullshit is rife at the moment.

With Harris  being a person of colour, the attacks are uglier still.

[Rob Hanesworth]

The reason behind DEI is that the people it is intended to aid were not being treated fairly.

It is predictable which of you disagree, but in my 77 years I have seen the evidence.

[Russell Letson]

Cheatle was with the Secret Service for a total of 29 years and was made Director in 2022 after running security for Pepsico for three years. Given the range of senior posts she held in the Service, it's a bit of a stretch to call her a "DEI hire." And that phrase has indeed become a slur and a sneer--the tone is unmistakable, especially when applied to non-whites. (It's already being aimed at Harris, who gets a double dose--or triple, if you count her South Asian heritage.) It's right up there with "welfare queen" in the lexicon of right-wing snarl terms.

I understand that on-my-watch statements and ritual resignation are common in the culture of politically-exposed leadership positions. But I noticed that in an interview on NPR, the Bush Administration Director was not as hard on Cheatle as her Congressional interrogators were--though he didn't downplay the seriousness of the on-the-ground failure to prevent the assassination attempt.

www.npr.org/2024/07/23/nx-s1-5049719/former-secret-service-head-on-the-agencys-controversy-following-the-rally-shooting