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GOP Lawmaker Slammed For Calling White House Press Secretary ‘DEI Hire’ (atlantadailyworld.com)

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From the Atlanta Daily World:

Photo: Getty Images A GOP lawmaker is facing backlash after referring to White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre as a “DEI hire.” On Tuesday (July 2), Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert (R) suggested that Jean-Pierre was only hired to fill a diversity quota. “I couldn’t care less about what @PressSec has to say today,” Boebert tweeted. … Continued

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Racists can't imagine a non-white person earning any job.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I'm going to just start referring to bigots as DEI hires until they get the point.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Pretty good insult tbh

But rather ironic coming from a poorly educated "welfare queen"

Boebert has stated that her family depended on welfare when she was growing up, and that she was raised in a Democratic household in a liberal area.

she earned a GED certificate in 2020, a month before her first election primary.

Sounds like Boebert is feeling a bit insecure about:

Jean-Pierre graduated from Kellenberg Memorial High School, a college-preparatory school on Long Island, in 1993. Her parents wanted her to study medicine, and she studied life sciences at the New York Institute of Technology as a commuter student, but performed poorly on the Medical College Admission Test. Changing career tracks, she earned a bachelor's degree from the New York Institute of Technology in 1997. She earned a Master of Public Affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, in 2003