Sources: Zinke tells employees diversity isn't important

[dalton99a]

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/26/politics/ryan-zinke-diversity/index.html

Sources: Zinke tells employees diversity isn't important
By Sara Ganim, CNN
Updated 1:42 PM ET, Mon March 26, 2018

Washington (CNN) Several employees at the Interior Department have told CNN that Secretary Ryan Zinke repeatedly says that he won't focus on diversity, an apparent talking point that has upset many people within the agency.

Three high-ranking Interior officials from three different divisions said that Zinke has made several comments with a similar theme, saying "diversity isn't important," or "I don't care about diversity," or "I don't really think that's important anymore."

Each time, Zinke followed with something along the lines of, "what's important is having the right person for the right job," or "I care about excellence, and I'm going to get the best people, and you'll find we have the most diverse group anyone's ever had," the sources said.

Interior last year unexpectedly reassigned 33 senior executive staffers, of which 15 were minorities, according to the lawyer of one of the staffers who was moved. Some of those who were reassigned have filed complaints with the US Merit Systems Board.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. These racist scum must pay for their crimes to our nation. I suggest life in prison, where there

is much diversity.

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2. Heehee. Those "Bubbas" wanting new "bit_hes" will have the welcome mat out for them.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. You can do better than gender-based slurs and the implication that prison rape is funny.

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6. Give it a rest. I have no sympathy for trump racists/traitor/criminals.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

7. Sure, but normalizing the idea of prison rape hurts all prisoners.

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8. Who's normalizing it? Pretending it doen't happen isn't normal.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

9. Pretending it's funny can make it look like you accept it as a given when it comes to incarceration.

Or that, you know, you think prison rape is funny.

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10. Give it a rest again. I live in the real world and don't pretend reality is not reality. And IMO...

most people know when a joke taken at the expense of racist, treacherous, criminal trump scum is one well worth taking.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

11. Maybe I just don't get the joke. What's funny about prison rape?

[spanone]

4. remember, trump only hires the best...so don is okay with this.

[peggysue2]

5. Thi follows the general ideology

Steve King said diversity wasn't our strength but rather our weakness. Zinke is parroting the party line and probably speaking his own truth. As for the Trumpster? He's encouraged this sort of attitude.

The rot's from the head down.