More Than 100 From DOJ Civil Rights Division Quit En Masse Over Trump's Anti-Civil Rights Agenda

More than 100 attorneys with the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division have resigned en masse, essentially, because they'd rather get new jobs than continue to serve a White House administration that is dedicated to perverting what civil rights protections are all about.




From Newsweek:

"No one has been fired by me ... but what we have made very clear last week in memos to each of the 11 sections in the Civil Rights Division is that our priorities under President Trump are going to be somewhat different than they were under President Biden," Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for the DOJ's Civil Rights Division, told conservative commentator Glenn Beck during an appearance on his show at the weekend.




"And then we tell them, these are the President's priorities, this is what we will be focusing on-you know, govern yourself accordingly. And en masse, dozens and now over 100 attorneys decided that they'd rather not do what their job requires them to do."

Is there a "bloodbath" in the DOJ's Civil Rights Division? Listen as Harmeet Dhillon @AAGDhillon joins @glennbeck! "The job here is to enforce the federal civil rights laws, not woke ideology. We need to replace those people." @HarmeetKDhillon
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Dhillon just basically towed Trump's narrative around "woke ideology," which, essentially, is anything related to racial justice, social justice, non-whitewashed American history, anti-racism, or anything else that gets white conservatives all in their eternally fragile feelings.




More from Newsweek:

The DOJ's civil rights division, founded after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, initially focused on protecting the voting rights of Black Americans. But Congress later expanded its responsibilities to include protecting Americans from discrimination on the basis of race, national origin, sex, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and military status.




But Dhillion reportedly issued a series of memos earlier in April detailing the division would be focusing on priorities laid out in Trump's executive orders, such as the participation of transgender athletes in women's sports, combating antisemitism and ending diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.

What neither Dhillion, President Donald Trump, nor anyone else in Trump's abysmally incompetent Cabinet will admit is that the White House's so-called civil rights agenda is all about returning America to a nation that protects practically no one except heterosexual, cisgendered, Christian identifying white people. 




It's why white American history and studies that cover and celebrate Western civilization are virtually the only teachings that have gone unaffected by Trump's takeover of federally funded museums and arts institutions being purged of so-called "improper ideology." 




It's why Trump, who, during his last campaign, pledged to fight fictitious anti-white oppression in America, is reportedly taking his cues from white lawyers who are unilaterally deciding how much Black history is too much history.




It's why Trump's factless anti-DEI propaganda has gotten so out of control that the Department of Justice recently ended a settlement agreement regarding wastewater issues in a mostly Black rural Alabama county, citing the White House's anti-DEI directive, which, of course, has absolutely nothing to do with a court settlement. 




It's why the Trump administration is working so hard to fight against the rare occurrence of transwomen participating in women's sports - which isn't any of the federal governments's business in the first place - while it also reportedly toys around with the idea of defunding specialized services for LGBTQ+ youth on the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.




More than 100 attorneys left the DOJ's Civil Rights Division because, under Trump, the DOJ no longer fights for civil rights - it fights to make white nationalism and the right-wing agenda great again. That's it, and that's all.







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