Current Events > Donald Trump has revoked the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1965

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https://x.com/PopCrave/status/1882096153044619503?mx=2

There's been a lot going on but everyone should know Trump just made it ok to be racist when hiring and not have to worry about it...and its only been two days.

You don't understand

Harris didn't earn my vote.

I can't believe how backwards we've gone in just 48 hours.

They're going after the Civil Rights Act next, I guarantee it.

the democratic party just assumed that minority voters were automatically with them. they didn't even talk to minorities!

Fuck Donald Trump and fuck the Heritage Foundation.

That's the nicest possible thing that I can say within reason and I'll refrain from giving my full thoughts.

Terrible.

Solar_Crimson posted...

I can't believe how backwards we've gone in just 48 hours.

They're going after the Civil Rights Act next, I guarantee it.

yes but that's actually a law, and actually, iirc, this "executive order" was later made into law in 1969 or 1974 a few years afterwards.

I *think* the civil rights act should still cover employment-based things.

So now an employer can come right out and say "I'm not hiring you because you are (insert minority here). Wait until these employers have to close because white people don't want those jobs.

i really wish we could mention what needs to be done

"Same thing, both sides"rs will be silent about this one too

AceMos posted...

i really wish we could mention what needs to be done

At this point we should just say it, and fuck gamefaqs if they want to lick fascist boots.

So companies can hire with complete discrimination?

Two days down, 1,458 more to go.

AvlButtslam posted...

Two days down, 1,458 more to go.

Lol, sure.

Also we're just overreacting right? Calm down guys it won't be that bad stop dooming

VeggetaX posted...

So companies can hire with complete discrimination?

No. The Equal Employment Opportunity Act is still in place and would have to repealed by Congress. I don't think that would get past the slim House margin.

Its only going to get worse from here. I feel pity for the Americans.

Fuck anyone who didn't vote for Harris.

AceMos posted...

i really wish we could mention what needs to be done

Anyone with even a small grasp of American history understands what our ancestors did in response.

But we can't say that.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-illegal-discrimination-and-restoring-merit-based-opportunity/

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:

Section 1. Purpose. Longstanding Federal civil-rights laws protect individual Americans from discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. These civil-rights protections serve as a bedrock supporting equality of opportunity for all Americans. As President, I have a solemn duty to ensure that these laws are enforced for the benefit of all Americans.

Yet today, roughly 60 years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, critical and influential institutions of American society, including the Federal Government, major corporations, financial institutions, the medical industry, large commercial airlines, law enforcement agencies, and institutions of higher education have adopted and actively use dangerous, demeaning, and immoral race- and sex-based preferences under the guise of so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) or diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) that can violate the civil-rights laws of this Nation.

Illegal DEI and DEIA policies not only violate the text and spirit of our longstanding Federal civil-rights laws, they also undermine our national unity, as they deny, discredit, and undermine the traditional American values of hard work, excellence, and individual achievement in favor of an unlawful, corrosive, and pernicious identity-based spoils system. Hardworking Americans who deserve a shot at the American Dream should not be stigmatized, demeaned, or shut out of opportunities because of their race or sex.

These illegal DEI and DEIA policies also threaten the safety of American men, women, and children across the Nation by diminishing the importance of individual merit, aptitude, hard work, and determination when selecting people for jobs and services in key sectors of American society, including all levels of government, and the medical, aviation, and law-enforcement communities. Yet in case after tragic case, the American people have witnessed first-hand the disastrous consequences of illegal, pernicious discrimination that has prioritized how people were born instead of what they were capable of doing.

The Federal Government is charged with enforcing our civil-rights laws. The purpose of this order is to ensure that it does so by ending illegal preferences and discrimination.

Sec. 2. Policy. It is the policy of the United States to protect the civil rights of all Americans and to promote individual initiative, excellence, and hard work. I therefore order all executive departments and agencies (agencies) to terminate all discriminatory and illegal preferences, mandates, policies, programs, activities, guidance, regulations, enforcement actions, consent orders, and requirements. I further order all agencies to enforce our longstanding civil-rights laws and to combat illegal private-sector DEI preferences, mandates, policies, programs, and activities.

Sec. 3. Terminating Illegal Discrimination in the Federal Government. (a) The following executive actions are hereby revoked:
(i) Executive Order 12898 of February 11, 1994 (Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations);
(ii) Executive Order 13583 of August 18, 2011 (Establishing a Coordinated Government-wide Initiative to Promote Diversity and Inclusion in the Federal Workforce);
(iii) Executive Order 13672 of July 21, 2014 (Further Amendments to Executive Order 11478, Equal Employment Opportunity in the Federal Government, and Executive Order 11246, Equal Employment Opportunity); and
(iv) The Presidential Memorandum of October 5, 2016 (Promoting Diversity and Inclusion in the National Security Workforce).
(b) The Federal contracting process shall be streamlined to enhance speed and efficiency, reduce costs, and require Federal contractors and subcontractors to comply with our civil-rights laws. Accordingly:
(i) Executive Order 11246 of September 24, 1965 (Equal Employment Opportunity), is hereby revoked. For 90 days from the date of this order, Federal contractors may continue to comply with the regulatory scheme in effect on January 20, 2025.
(ii) The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs within the Department of Labor shall immediately cease:
(A) Promoting diversity;
(B) Holding Federal contractors and subcontractors responsible for taking affirmative action; and
(C) Allowing or encouraging Federal contractors and subcontractors to engage in workforce balancing based on race, color, sex, sexual preference, religion, or national origin.
(iii) In accordance with Executive Order 13279 of December 12, 2002 (Equal Protection of the Laws for Faith-Based and Community Organizations), the employment, procurement, and contracting practices of Federal contractors and subcontractors shall not consider race, color, sex, sexual preference, religion, or national origin in ways that violate the Nations civil rights laws.
(iv) The head of each agency shall include in every contract or grant award:
(A) A term requiring the contractual counterparty or grant recipient to agree that its compliance in all respects with all applicable Federal anti-discrimination laws is material to the governments payment decisions for purposes of section 3729(b)(4) of title 31, United States Code; and
(B) A term requiring such counterparty or recipient to certify that it does not operate any programs promoting DEI that violate any applicable Federal anti-discrimination laws.
(c) The Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), with the assistance of the Attorney General as requested, shall:
(i) Review and revise, as appropriate, all Government-wide processes, directives, and guidance;
(ii) Excise references to DEI and DEIA principles, under whatever name they may appear, from Federal acquisition, contracting, grants, and financial assistance procedures to streamline those procedures, improve speed and efficiency, lower costs, and comply with civil-rights laws; and
(iii) Terminate all diversity, equity, equitable decision-making, equitable deployment of financial and technical assistance, advancing equity, and like mandates, requirements, programs, or activities, as appropriate.

Sec. 4. Encouraging the Private Sector to End Illegal DEI Discrimination and Preferences. (a) The heads of all agencies, with the assistance of the Attorney General, shall take all appropriate action with respect to the operations of their agencies to advance in the private sector the policy of individual initiative, excellence, and hard work identified in section 2 of this order.
(b) To further inform and advise me so that my Administration may formulate appropriate and effective civil-rights policy, the Attorney General, within 120 days of this order, in consultation with the heads of relevant agencies and in coordination with the Director of OMB, shall submit a report to the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy containing recommendations for enforcing Federal civil-rights laws and taking other appropriate measures to encourage the private sector to end illegal discrimination and preferences, including DEI. The report shall contain a proposed strategic enforcement plan identifying:

(i) Key sectors of concern within each agencys jurisdiction;
(ii) The most egregious and discriminatory DEI practitioners in each sector of concern;
(iii) A plan of specific steps or measures to deter DEI programs or principles (whether specifically denominated DEI or otherwise) that constitute illegal discrimination or preferences. As a part of this plan, each agency shall identify up to nine potential civil compliance investigations of publicly traded corporations, large non-profit corporations or associations, foundations with assets of 500 million dollars or more, State and local bar and medical associations, and institutions of higher education with endowments over 1 billion dollars;
(iv) Other strategies to encourage the private sector to end illegal DEI discrimination and preferences and comply with all Federal civil-rights laws;
(v) Litigation that would be potentially appropriate for Federal lawsuits, intervention, or statements of interest; and
(vi) Potential regulatory action and sub-regulatory guidance.

Sec. 5. Other Actions. Within 120 days of this order, the Attorney General and the Secretary of Education shall jointly issue guidance to all State and local educational agencies that receive Federal funds, as well as all institutions of higher education that receive Federal grants or participate in the Federal student loan assistance program under Title IV of the Higher Education Act, 20 U.S.C. 1070 et seq., regarding the measures and practices required to comply with Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, 600 U.S. 181 (2023).

Sec. 6. Severability. If any provision of this order, or the application of any provision to any person or circumstance, is held to be invalid, the remainder of this order and the application of its provisions to any other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.

Sec. 7. Scope. (a) This order does not apply to lawful Federal or private-sector employment and contracting preferences for veterans of the U.S. armed forces or persons protected by the Randolph-Sheppard Act, 20 U.S.C. 107 et seq.
(b) This order does not prevent State or local governments, Federal contractors, or Federally-funded State and local educational agencies or institutions of higher education from engaging in First Amendment-protected speech.
(c) This order does not prohibit persons teaching at a Federally funded institution of higher education as part of a larger course of academic instruction from advocating for, endorsing, or promoting the unlawful employment or contracting practices prohibited by this order.

Sec. 8. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department, agency, or the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.
(c) This order is not intended to and does not create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

THE WHITE HOUSE,
January 21, 2025.

Are you fucking kidding me?

I didn't even think about this one that they can just end just like that.

Accolon posted...

At this point we should just say it, and fuck gamefaqs if they want to lick fascist boots.

I got suspended for simply making a mild joke about the thing that almost happened (by comparing it to a thing that did happen in the country I live in, which everyone was allowed to joke about freely without consequence on here). They were already like this long before he was elected.

Robot2600 posted...

the democratic party just assumed that minority voters were automatically with them. they didn't even talk to minorities!

I take it you think minority voters want to be discriminated against, then?

(Because there are two parties in America, one that want to discriminate against minorities... and one that doesn't.)

So are we just all as a country pretending that executive orders are the same as laws and that Trump gets to write whatever he wants as law now?

well hopefully Harris has learned her lesson! Thats what is most important here, is what I was told

bigtiggie23 posted...

So now an employer can come right out and say "I'm not hiring you because you are (insert minority here). Wait until these employers have to close because white people don't want those jobs.

no, i don't think they can, to be honest. they probably still have to make up some excuse or say you didnt feel like a good fit for the office culture or something weak like that.

See Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title VI:
"Itprevents discrimination by programs and activities that receive federal funds. If a recipient of federal funds is found in violation of Title VI, that recipient may lose its federal funding."

On paper the federal government officially condemns racism and reserves the right to withhold federal funds if discrimination is found.

I was wrong about the dates, it seems LBJ's order was issues after Title VI, so it's obviously rolling something back, but it's unclear what, exactly, has changed beyond the suspension of all DEI programs.

It's "religious beliefs" taken to the highest level.

Error1355 posted...

So are we just all as a country pretending that executive orders are the same as laws and that Trump gets to write whatever he wants as law now?

SCOTUS says it's okay

the act was a congressional bill

it is not revoked

he undid old executive orders and basically said the government will stop doing equal employment

but it doesn't apply to the private sector

yet

this should be a wakeup call what will likely happen later,

they will go after the actual bill

Way to go, idiots.

bigtiggie23 posted...

So now an employer can come right out and say "I'm not hiring you because you are (insert minority here). Wait until these employers have to close because white people don't want those jobs.

That's the problem - you're going to see employers do this, then they'll bitch about how having employees because "people are lazy", then they'll close, then they'll lose money, then we'll all laugh as the non-racist employers actually find workers.

Still, the fact that he's literally doing *this* is so incredibly awful. He's already the worst president in history, now he wants to take it down a couple more notches

The Confederacy should have been stamped out completely.

Error1355 posted...

So are we just all as a country pretending that executive orders are the same as laws and that Trump gets to write whatever he wants as law now?

Already did that. You must have missed the memo. We let the executive gain more and more power for decades and all warnings were dismissed. This is a leopards ate my face moment for most of America. Remember when we let Obama assassinate American citizens with drone strikes? That's a great precedent that I am sure will not get abused.

Reading through it, it sounds like they are going with the tact of "supporting everyones equal rights by finally going after all of that anti-white racism".

Ugh

SSj4Wingzero posted...

That's the problem - you're going to see employers do this, then they'll bitch about how having employees because "people are lazy", then they'll close, then they'll lose money, then we'll all laugh as the non-racist employers actually find workers.

Still, the fact that he's literally doing *this* is so incredibly awful. He's already the worst president in history, now he wants to take it down a couple more notches

The racist ones will just get the federal government to give them some slav-

I mean "prison labor."

Out of the people they rounded up and haven't executed yet.

He does realize that there are companies out there owned and managed by black, Hispanic, and Asian people and this would allow them full right to tell white employees to GTFO too right?

Error1355 posted...

So are we just all as a country pretending that executive orders are the same as laws and that Trump gets to write whatever he wants as law now?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/2/2876d2fb.jpg

Tom_Joad posted...

I take it you think minority voters want to be discriminated against, then?

Minorities are generally more racist than white people, especially when they think they're one of the good ones.

bigtiggie23 posted...

He does realize that there are companies out there owned and managed by black, Hispanic, and Asian people and this would allow them full right to tell white employees to GTFO too right?

There were black-owned businesses prior to the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1965, too.

What's your point?

Mechu posted...

Fuck anyone who didn't vote for Harris.

This x10000000000.

bigtiggie23 posted...

He does realize that there are companies out there owned and managed by black, Hispanic, and Asian people and this would allow them full right to tell white employees to GTFO too right?

He's probably looking into ways to take their companies away from them and give them to a wealthy white man instead

Speedrun to collapse

Melchar posted...

Reading through it, it sounds like they are going with the tact of "supporting everyones equal rights by finally going after all of that anti-white racism".

Ugh

correct

tremain07 posted...

He's probably looking into ways to take their companies away from them and give them to a wealthy white man instead

Everybody look under your seeeeats!

YOU get a white man, YOU get a white man, you all get white meeeeeeeeeennnnnnnnnn!

He does realize that there are companies out there owned and managed by black, Hispanic, and Asian people and this would allow them full right to tell white employees to GTFO too right?

The plan is to take away anything owned by anyone but a white man though.

bigtiggie23 posted...

He does realize that there are companies out there owned and managed by black, Hispanic, and Asian people and this would allow them full right to tell white employees to GTFO too right?

If this goes to its logical conclusion, they'll either not be allowed to do so, or the White customers will assault the owners/workers and/or burn down the establishment.

If that order prohibited discrimination based on race, doesn't this actually make DEI legal?

Most DEI programs were hamstrung by the fact that they couldn't actually hire based on race, so they just had to settle for trying to attract diverse applicants or other tangentially related programs.

bigtiggie23 posted...

He does realize that there are companies out there owned and managed by black, Hispanic, and Asian people and this would allow them full right to tell white employees to GTFO too right?

You are forgetting that the (R) behind his name stands for "Rules for thee, but not for me".

Error1355 posted...

So are we just all as a country pretending that executive orders are the same as laws and that Trump gets to write whatever he wants as law now?

TRUMP certainly is pretending that.

I agree that it is useful to keep in mind the difference between laws and executive orders and that Trump cant just repeal existing laws.

I think a lot of this is performative for his moronic base.

I think that this EO is abhorrent, like all of them he has issued so far.

I think his lapdogs in Congress turning every one of Trumps wishes possible into law is a valid concern, sadly.