Joy Reid and her guest: DEI is about accommodating disabled veterans
Joy Reid had Everett Kelley on her show, The ReidOut. Kelley is the national president for the American Federation of Government Employees. Both Reid and Kelley argued that DEI was about helping disabled veterans work for the government. Kelley insisted that DEI wasn’t about “affirmative action”. He claimed that DEI made it possible for a veteran, injured in the military, to work in the government via accommodations for his/her disability.
From mrcNewsBusters:
JOY REID: This memo, we can put it up on screen, and it went to all heads and acting heads of departments and agencies, shuttering DEI offices and other things. What is the union’s response going to be?
EVERETT KELLEY: Well, first of all, I think that we have an obligation to educate the public as to what DEI really is because, number one, it’s not affirmative action as some might think. DEI is about making sure that, say, a veteran may have a handicap, an injury from the services, and come to work for the federal government. DEI would make sure that that veteran has the, I guess, I would say the opportunity to work in a job, and they were placed in a position where they could accommodate that veteran and so that they can do their job. So, DEI is about that and about providing services for workers. It’s not about the color of a person’s skin.
REID: And it’s not a quota program. Let’s just be clear.
KELLEY: Absolutely.
REID: It means that you know not and it also I think for a lot of conservatives–
KELLEY: Okay.
REID: — they believe DEI just means black people getting jobs, and so when they see a black person in any job, they say, “Oh, that person’s a DEI hire.” They said it about the literal elected vice president of the United States.
KELLEY: Absolutely
REID: She wasn’t hired. She was hired by the American people. Eighty million Americans voted and voted for her, but they can’t see through her race and gender. So, it isn’t just about hiring black people and women, right?
KELLEY: That’s right.
REID: It’s about disabled veterans being accommodated. It’s veterans returning from wars are also under DEI.
KELLEY: Absolutely. And I see that as a veteran myself. Right. I see this initiative as a direct impact and attack on veterans. Of the 2.2 million federal workers, 642,000 of those are veterans, and so this is in my way of viewing this, is a direct attack against veterans as well. You know, the misunderstanding of what DEI really is. You know, it’s on us to really educate the public as to what it really is all about.
Additional Reading:
Christy, A. (2025, January 23). Joy Reid Thinks You’re Dumb, Says DEI Is About Helping ‘Disabled Veterans’. mrcNewsBusters. Link.
Category: Media, Society, Veterans in the news, Veterans Issues
Idiots.
“You know.” ? Such poor vocabulary, you know? I’m embarrassed for them.
The title: “Joy Reid and her guest: DEI is about accommodating disabled veterans.”
My reaction:
Reid look like a used gubmn’t mule.
More like a rented Swamp Donkey that’s been put away wet!
Joy Reid… I swear..
Dear Joy Reid,
A Trump EO makes this valid…
“Of the 2.2 million federal workers, 642,000 of those are veterans” and in many of those cases, their jobs are effectively nothing more than extended welfare – they do almost nothing, seem to be almost completely unaccountable, and get sums of money from the government for doing so.
And a lot of them are about to lose those jobs.
What’s yer point?
I’d modify that to say 40% of ALL government jobs are extended welfare. Full disclosure, I am a federal employee. We could easily lose 40% of the admin positions at the upper levels and operate better. Ever try firing a federal employee? Short of a felony conviction (and even that’s not enough sometimes) it’s nearly impossible.
VA:
https://nypost.com/2024/12/04/us-news/probe-into-va-facility-uncovers-orgy-official-who-had-sex-with-32-coworkers-report/
Hack Stone’s sister worked HR for the Social Security Administration. They had cases for termination of employees who demanded “service fees” from applicants, made unauthorized charges on government credit cards, and employees convicted of Child Porn. Their union always fought any effort to fire union members.
2.2m would be ~2% of all [income] taxpayers.
It’s even worse when you look at total goobermint employees at 24.7m, 22% of all taxpayers.
https://www.usdebtclock.org/
Congrats, America. You created a less drunk USSR but with high-speed internet.
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Shouldn’t this be under the stupid people of the week post?
I am a disabled Veteran.
I don’t need any kind of special help, accommodation, equal rights legislation, diversity, equity, or inclusion consideration to get me a job.
I’d rather get one on my own abilities and merits than be hired because I’m screwed up in the head, have one less leg than the next guy, or have weird ideas that I’m a lesbian Bald Eagle trans male barbershop quartet singing multigender platypus.
I’ll get a job because I can DO the job…not because I can check all the right boxes.
Many moons back in college we had a black woman come in for one of our poly sci seminars claiming that if you’re a veteran and you’ve used the GI Bill or were hired because of veteran’s preference you cannot be anti-affirmative action because all of that IS affirmative action. The veterans in the class glared hard at her and supposedly when the seminar ended she told the professor who invited her to speak that she “didn’t feel welcome.”
These people are unreal. It’s impossible to have pride in yourself, your achievements or skills if you know you’re a DEI hire. That waters it down and comes out in the quality of your work output (or lack thereof…)
It’s a failed system but leftists gonna leftist and insist the square peg fits in the round hole.
She needs to learn that what veterans have is called an earned benefit. It’s not affirmative action, it’s not a handout, it’s not welfare.
“earned benefit”
And quite often hard earned.
That’s where the glares came in. Cause as one of the veterans pointed out later “some never live to see them put to use.”
The woman — like all leftists and race baiters, was (is) a total fraud.
Amen! In addition, she should learn that no one paid hard earned money to enroll in a class in which she interrupted and her opinions were not supported. It was not a debate.
Leftists make out well running it though:
What utter bullshit. The federal bureaucracy does not want to hire veterans. Veterans might actually do some work, which will set one hell of a bad example for other AFGE employees.
Truth!!!
I spent some time as a GS employee. The only sure fire way to get in trouble was to actually do your job.
True recollection (aka no shit, there I was):
Supervisor: “Grunt, I’m going to need you to take it a little easier here. You’re making the senior guys look bad.”
Grunt: “Could I get that on paper please?”
Supervisor: “This is the shit I’m talking about”
Grunt: 🖕🏻
True, tried to get a job in the civilian motor pool at Pendleton in the early 90’s. Couldn’t even get an interview even with my extensive qualifications. Met a guy in a bar for former jarheads one night that worked on Pendleton, he told me that was the last person they wanted working there. Seems a well trained former Marine Sgt just might make the rest of the mechs there look bad.
Brother worked for CC and was asked to slow down as well. Maybe it’s time to outsource all CC jobs to private companies.
We deal with similar issues in my job, some work we do has a specific amount of time for completion. If I complete a task that echelons-above-reality says takes 4 hours, I can only do that task two times a day. It doesn’t matter if it actually takes 30 minutes. Luckily, we have plenty to do that’s not tracked that way.
For getting points toward federal law enforcement investigator hiring in the 2000s, being a janitor or clerk at a civilian police agency counted more than doing investigations in the military.
Those extry 15+ million that voted for Kumhella in 2020 had to be Vets because they were MIA in 2024.
Skrunt!
Joy Reid is a fucking idiot. But then, we already knew that.
IMHO that’s like saying water is wet, fire is hot and shit stinks!
DEI is nothing but repackaged affirmative action, an approved program of racist discrimination.
Throw “weaponized” in there and we have a working description.
IMHO it’s institutionalized racism that CAUSES the racial division it proclaims itself to fix.
A coil of crap eating its own tail, a turd oroboros
Funny, I was just catching up on Mark Dice videos and saw a NASA memo about doing away with “DEIA” programs. Here’s an article about it: NASA is shutting down its diversity programs after Trump directive.
I had to look up DEIA. Maybe I’m just ignorant or have been oblivious to things, but I’ve only ever heard of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Suddenly, Accessibility is part of the acronym. See, it’s not just about elevating minorities–of all colors, genders, beliefs, etc.–now it’s about the disabled and others who need special accommodations as well. DEI is bad under the current Administration, but DEIA should make us all feel guilty for picking on those downtrodden would-be employees with disabilities. But maybe I’m reading into a simple acronym too much…
Like others here, I’m a disabled Veteran. When I retired from the Army, federal service was tempting. I even went on USAJobs.gov a few times and submitted an application or two. If I’d have gotten an interview, I’d have wanted to be given the same consideration as any other applicant. Veteran’s preference is one thing, we’ve all earned that, but I don’t need some DEIA program trying to make a position for me based on my VA rating. Besides, we all know that, even if there were some leeway for disabled Vets in the soon-to-be extinct DEI offices/programs, it’d be for those who meet the “DEI” criteria more than the “A”. The “disabled Veterans” that they want to hire/promote are those who fit the classic DEI bill. As a heterosexual White male, I’d have little chance of being helped by any DEI or DEIA programs.
How’d y’all make out with the blizzard?
We were good. Missed two days of work, but we kept power and water.
Joy Reid must be VERY proud of her idiocy given how she constantly parades it for everyone to see!
I would like to call her a Stupid Bitch!!
But that would be vulgar and I
A gentleman!
…and it would be an insult to bitches everywhere!
So, they are doing the “US military veterans are the biggest threat to our democracy” thing anymore?
That comes out from the other side of their mouths.
So, they aren’t doing the “US military veterans are the biggest threat to our democracy” thing anymore?
Hack Stone blames the error on being distracted by the Philadelphia Elgses playing the Washington Commodes.
And for the one person who never heard of The Philadelphia Elgses…
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/general/philadelphia-mayor-cherelle-parker-misspells-eagles-while-leading-chant/ar-AA1xFQbB?ocid=BingNewsSerp
She are so smrt.
https://youtu.be/ls5BFzuxGw4?si=xN3OS5VqqshpE1UY