Joy Reid Guest Claims DEI Is About Helping Disabled Veterans

In the left’s latest attempt to defend the indefensible, a guest on MSNBC’s Joy Reid’s show is rebranding DEI from a new form of affirmative action to “helping disabled veterans.”

Reid and The National President of the American Federation of Government Employees Everett Kelley hysterically criticized Donald Trump‘s executive order to shut down divisive DEI offices across federal agencies.

When asked about how his union would respond to Trump’s order, he said “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,” Kelley said. “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.”

Kelley then insisted that DEI has been misunderstood as a program focused on racial or gender quotas. “It’s not about the color of a person’s skin. It’s about disabled veterans being accommodated,” he added.

Surely this is just as surprising news to us as it is to all those advocating DEI in recent decades as it is to us. 

Reid chimed in to dismiss the idea that DEI is a racial or gender-based initiative. “And it’s not a quota program. Let’s just be clear. They believe DEI just means black people getting jobs,” she said, lying. 

Don’t miss the Dan Bongino Show