In early June, the Washington Post published a follow-up to earlier stories on a Trump administration plan to remove thousands of photographs from Defense Department websites because of “DEI-related content.” Illustrated with more than a dozen samples of the targeted photos (which the Post‘s reporters were able to find reproduced on non-government websites), the Post‘s new story offered more details on the images marked for deletion because they were deemed to touch on diversity, equity, and inclusion issues — overwhelmingly depicting subjects identified as “gay, transgender, women, Hispanic, and Black.” The headline over the story didn’t mince words: “Here are the people Trump doesn’t want to exist.” Identified from a database obtained by the Associated Press, the targeted subjects included... Read more
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