Properly, right here’s a strategy to inform a Republican to STFU about their BS DEI agenda.
Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser appeared earlier than the Home Oversight Committee on Thursday and effortlessly shut down a transphobic line of questioning from Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.).
Though the main target of the listening to was purported to be about crime and security within the nation’s Capitol, Mace used her 5 minutes to attempt to spark a tradition conflict by pushing a invoice entitled “No DEI in D.C. Act,” which appeared to recommend that variety, fairness and inclusion had been guilty for the town’s crime.
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Mace then launched right into a sequence of laughably unhinged questions — which included Mace asking Bowser to reply “yes or no” to the extremely nuanced matter of whether or not or not “D.C. government is racist.”
After failing to get sound bites from an more and more flabbergasted Bowser, Mace determined to push her anti-trans agenda by taking challenge with the inclusive time period “birthing people” — fairly than “women” — being utilized in a bit of the D.C. code.
“One thing we noticed the D.C. code struggles to define is the term ‘woman,’” Mace started. “So, Mayor Bowser, what is a woman?”
“I’m a woman. Are you a woman?” Bowser shot again, inflicting a number of individuals within the listening to to burst out laughing.
“OK,” Bowser mentioned flatly. “I’m a woman. You’re looking at one.”
“Ok, good,” Mace mentioned seemingly flustered.
Many X customers — very similar to Bowser — had a tough time wrapping their heads round no matter bigoted level Mace was attempting to make.
This under no circumstances is the primary time the South Carolina lawmaker has made her anti-trans stance obnoxiously crystal clear. Final 12 months, she tried to ban the primary overtly trans congressperson from utilizing the ladies’s bogs on the Capitol. Mace’s proposed rest room ban, nevertheless, was notably excluded from the Home guidelines bundle in January.
