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DOGE Bro Flagging Grants for DEl Tries to Explain What DEl Is (cdn.social.linux.pizza)

submitted 3 weeks ago by CubitOom to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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This is Justin Fox, a former DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) who said his job was to review and flag grants for "DEI" which would then go to superiors for termination under Trump's Executive Order.

This deposition is part of a lawsuit filed by the American Council of Learned Societies, the American History Association, and the Modern Language Association. They say Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) used ChatGPT to process to identify DEl programs to inform decisions to terminate grants awarded by the NEH.

Here is Fox attempting to answer questions about what DEI is.

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[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago

You just need to read the EO. It'll clear everything up.

I guess this is the new-age fascist version of "just following orders".