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milestogo

(20,351 posts)
Thu Apr 24, 2025, 12:40 PM Yesterday

Civil Rights Act of 1964 going down the toilet

Sec. 5. Existing Regulations. (a) As delegated by Executive Order 12250 of November 2, 1980 (Leadership and Coordination of Nondiscrimination Laws), the Attorney General shall initiate appropriate action to repeal or amend the implementing regulations for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for all agencies to the extent they contemplate disparate-impact liability.

(b) Within 30 days of the date of this order, the Attorney General, in coordination with the heads of all other agencies, shall report to the President, through the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy:

(i) all existing regulations, guidance, rules, or orders that impose disparate-impact liability or similar requirements, and detail agency steps for their amendment or repeal, as appropriate under applicable law; and

(ii) other laws or decisions, including at the State level, that impose disparate-impact liability and any appropriate measures to address any constitutional or other legal infirmities.


https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/restoring-equality-of-opportunity-and-meritocracy/



This is possibly the worst, most far reaching thing he has done to destroy our country so far.
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Civil Rights Act of 1964 going down the toilet (Original Post) milestogo Yesterday OP
K&R UTUSN Yesterday #1
Oh $#@$&#& Fuck him! 1WorldHope Yesterday #3
Bastard. greatauntoftriplets Yesterday #2
Rememeber these people supported segregation Henry203 Yesterday #4
So, it's like the South won the Civil War. Kid Berwyn Yesterday #5
The ruling class males are in charge again milestogo Yesterday #6
They lost the war... lonely bird Yesterday #10
Well stated, an apt metaphor (or is it a simile?) Redleg Yesterday #16
He has no redeeming qualities whatsoever ismnotwasm Yesterday #7
Another EO dweller Yesterday #8
Bingo! PortTack Yesterday #14
Between the gutting of the Civil Rights Act, VGNonly Yesterday #9
May god damn this fucker. spanone Yesterday #11
Time for some Good Trouble IcyPeas Yesterday #12
How he had the strength to be who he was I can't comprehend. twodogsbarking Yesterday #13
Oh yes bdamomma Yesterday #17
I told my HR students today about this executive order about "Merit" in employment Redleg Yesterday #15

1WorldHope

(1,149 posts)
3. Oh $#@$&#& Fuck him!
Thu Apr 24, 2025, 01:03 PM
Yesterday

It's what he has effectively been doing by cutting funding for dei. Impeach and remove then finish trying the charges against him, add all the new ones and throw him in jail for the rest of eternity🤬🤮

Redleg

(6,465 posts)
16. Well stated, an apt metaphor (or is it a simile?)
Thu Apr 24, 2025, 05:15 PM
Yesterday

Dumbfuckery definitely is winning the war.

VGNonly

(8,060 posts)
9. Between the gutting of the Civil Rights Act,
Thu Apr 24, 2025, 02:05 PM
Yesterday

the Citizens United Case, the 2010 congressional elections allowing for widespread gerrymandering and a spineless Supreme Court, has put us where we are now.

It's a bleak prognosis.

Redleg

(6,465 posts)
15. I told my HR students today about this executive order about "Merit" in employment
Thu Apr 24, 2025, 05:14 PM
Yesterday

I said: "Don't worry if you can't remember anything about adverse impact for the final exam. Someone at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue doesn't want us talking about it."

My students understood this to be sarcastic.

But on the other had, Trump wants universities to push for "viewpoint diversity." While I am not a conservative, I am an older white male teaching in the business college, so people will just assume I am a conservative.

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