(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) The Biden State Department asked Congress for $76 million from the taxpayers’ pockets to fund its diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives — a phrase that critics contend is code for being anti-white, anti-straight, anti-male and anti-Christian.
According to the Washington Examiner, on Tuesday morning, Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, the State Department’s first chief diversity and inclusion officer, testified before Congress and asked for $76 million to increase her staff, track race and “gender” demographics in the department, and track employee reports of “discrimination, harassment and bullying.”
“The Department needs an inclusive workforce with equitable opportunities to ensure our foreign policy is as strong, smart and creative as it can be,” she wrote in her testimony.
The publication also reported that her office audited State Department employees to gain demographic information on “race, ethnicity, gender, status of disability, grade, rank and job series skill codes.” Abercrombie-Winstanley stated that she and her office plan to release an annual report tracking “trend lines” for department employees.
Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla., chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Accountability, opened the committee by telling Abercrombie-Winstanley that he believes she is “mandating division within the State Department.”
“This office has a clever name that uses strong emotional words — diversity, equity, inclusion — but functionally does the opposite of what America has always stood for, which is very simply the best man, the best woman for the job,” he said.
He then stated that it is not just the division of people, in general, but also the hatred of straight white Christian men, in particular.
“This office is giving people the impression or given many people outside of the State Department the sense that it is looking for a preferred race or at minimum not white, that it is looking for a preferred religion or at minimum not Christian, or that it is looking for a preferred sexual orientation or identity or at minimum not straight male.”
Additionally, Abercrombie-Winstanley said that she and her office want to push the DEI initiatives abroad because State Department employees “experience discrimination by foreign customs and immigration officials.”
