giving vibes of reframing cops killing black children as "X black people died" lmao
Shaun Harper
"I am a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) expert"
This is somehow the most racist thing I've read in weeks
Really not enjoying how that particular term has made a resurgence, when for my entire childhood it was seen as a comically antiquated way of talking about people
The way white people pronounce "bLLacKS" always gives me the mental image of blood spatter on a wall or unseasoned spaghetti falling on a hardwood floor
Same thing with the way people say African American. Almost always makes me cringe. It's about their tone
Imagine how excited this guy was to pitch this and have it published only to have it pulled
Had to break his poor little heart
Shaun Harper Contributor
I am a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) expert
disclaimer
I understand DEI is a reactionary canard, but if you are referring to yourself as a DEI expert, I expect your analysis to be better (or at least more convincing) than thinking Black folks are like Pig Pen from The Peanuts except instead of dust motes swirling around them there are bullets.
Ah yes, THE BLACKS, known for being shot at, haha! Such delightful people
Saving a google:
The author is a black guy. I don't know if that makes it any "better," but like, goddamn.
Also his Wikipedia literally describes him as a DEI expert. Which I found funny because it sounded totally made up as something to be an expert in. Like a self aware racist would call themselves that as a sort of joke.
Obviously he's a very public figure. Lots of info. But, saving the google.
https://rossier.usc.edu/faculty-research/directory/shaunharper
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun_R._Harper
I didn't pay thousands of dollars and spend years studying under both Professor Emeritus Vance Medley and Professor Valerie Variance to have my DEI double-doctorate slandered like this on the internet.
Lmao.
It's just the exact description sounded funny given the recent context of Republicans calling everything DEI this and that
His actual degrees in like racial equity are more along the lines of what I expected in a description, but that's probably just my own brainrot brought on by right wingers.
It's really just making it that much more obvious how "DEI hire" and such are only ever specifically meant to be slurs. You can't say "the racial hire? To fill the BLACK quota?" but you can plausibly ask about DEI hires... well you could. They've run that in the ground already.
now that i think about it, yeah, we could probably kill every journalist in this country and nothing of value would be lost.
Are they talking about the TikToks where black people are walking into the room with a shit eating grin to the tune of Many Men? That's the most generous interpretation of the headline I could think of and it's still shit.
takes 
