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he's a Black man, but that is a coincidence and you can't say that that's DEI-related. That's just one person who's acting badly. Now, but at least in the fire department, you know, you don't have so much of a DEI problem, right? Well, I mean the head of the fire department is a lesbian, but nobody's saying that lesbians can't do fire department jobs. And she's got tons of experience relevant. So…
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But I warn you that if you're thinking there's a problem with lesbians because of these three, no, that doesn't follow. It doesn't follow that there's some other lesbian who isn't the best person to be the chief of police or the chief of the fire department. So this is sticky stuff. If you're just assuming that somebody is a DEI hire and therefore they're bad, that's not fair. It's also the situation we find ourselves in because DEI is pushed so hard that we assume it's creating problems. We just, it's unfair to point to any specific individual.
And I point out that Gavin Newsom is the least diverse governor you could ever imagine and he's being criticized as much or more than any of the other people I just mentioned. So what do we have? We've got some Black leaders who seem to be terrible. We've got some lesbian leaders who I don't really know if they're being terrible. If they don't have water, which is somebody else's job, so I'm not going to say the fire department's doing a terrible job. Does anybody even say that? I'm not even sure that the fire department has been criticized, have they? I don't think I've seen any criticism of the fire department. So I would say the lesbians are clear.
But you have to ask yourself what a big coincidence. They got a lot of lesbian representation there. And then you look at Newsom, who is not diverse at all, and he's a total disaster. You can't blame DEI for that, right? So let me say again, I don't see the fingerprint that DEI caused this. It's just that you know DEI will cause this. Whether it caused this one, that's hard to say. But will it cause another one? Of course, yeah. Will it cause the complete destruction of another city? Guaranteed. It's built into the system. Remember, Victor Davis Hanson says it's a system collapse. DEI guarantees system collapse because it guarantees that instead of merit and experience, you can look for demographics and identity. So that l
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ittle change just by itself is certainly enough to destroy an entire city if you just let it run forward. But we should not allow ourselves to assume that any individual is a DEI hire. You'd really have to do some deeper dive and we don't often have that level of information from the outside. Tom Ellsworth was on the PBD podcast and he was saying that the reason State Farm pulled out from the st…
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