LEMON DROP | Trump Tells White Men To Sue Over DEI!

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What prompted the EEOC chair to encourage white men to report DEI-related discrimination?

Don Lemon 0:13
So white men are now saying that they are being discriminated against. At least that's what our government is saying. They're being discriminated against in jobs and that they should somehow get affirmative action. Now, they didn't like affirmative action for black people. But apparently they like it for white people. So this is the article. This is from media and it says, are you a white male who has experienced discrimination? EEOC chair reaches out to DEI related victims. This is all part of that whole DEI thing that the Trump folks started when they first went into office. But I think you have to watch the actual video that's in the article and then we can talk.
Andrea Lucas 0:58
I'm Andrea Lucas, chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Are you a white male who's experienced discrimination at work based on your race or sex? You may have a claim to recover money under federal civil rights laws. Contact the EOC as soon as possible. Time limits are typically strict for filing a claim. The EEOC is the federal agency charged with enforcing federal anti-discrimination law against businesses and other private sector employers. The EEOC is committed to identifying, attacking, and eliminating all forms of race and sex discrimination, including against white male applicants and employees. Check out EEOC.gov to learn more and read our one-page explainer about DEI-related discrimination.
Okay.
Don Lemon 1:51
Look, if I wasn't living through this, I wouldn't believe it. So that is the chair of the Equal Opportunity, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Her name is Andrea Lucas. And she posted this video on social media. It was just this week. to reach out to white males who have experienced discrimination under past or may have experienced discrimination under past administrations, implementation of diversity, equity and inclusion policies. Now, it's not they didn't reach out to black people who are the victims of employment discrimination all the time. They didn't reach out to women who are the victims of employment discrimination all the time. We know that the number one beneficiary of diversity, equity, inclusion are white women.
Don Lemon 2:37
but somehow black people are left out of this. This stems from Donald Trump wanting to gain support or listening at least to his, maybe his own lived experiences or his own beliefs, I should say, or his advisor saying that white men are being discriminated against and or they need to capitalize on this sort of grievance culture and do things like this. Do you remember this was in the beginning of the administration? We shouldn't be surprised by this. The beginning of the administration, when there was a helicopter and a claim, remember that mid-air collision in Washington, D.C., and they tried to blame it on diversity, equity, and inclusion, and there were no people, I don't believe there were any people of color involved with the pilots or any of it.
Don Lemon 3:24
I think the pilots were white men. But anywho, Um, this, we should have known because this is what JD Vance came out of the gate. This was in January, not even a month. I think maybe a week or so in office, maybe two weeks. If that long watch.
J.D. Vance 3:43
if you go back to just some of the headlines over the past 10 years you have many hundreds of people suing the government because they would like to be air traffic controllers but they were turned away because of the color of their skin that policy ends under donald trump's leadership because safety is the first priority of our aviation industry yeah yeah and so people because of the color of their skin they're seeing people now um
Don Lemon 4:04
You guys are out there. You tell me. You tell me if you're in a job and you think that, I'm not saying that white men can't be discriminated against in their job. Of course they can. Anyone can be. But if you look at historically and the actual statistics about who actually is discriminated against, what demographic group is discriminated against the most, who are the people who are discriminated against the most, it's not white men.

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