'Do We Keep A List Of Everybody's Ethnicity?': Rubio Grills State Dept's DEI Chief

At Tuesday's Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) questioned Gina K. Abercrombie-Winstanley, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at the State Department.
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[@stinger1029]

There can never be "equity" as long as there are "protected classes".

[@marccovitz5289]

@Dave: That is a moronic comment.

[@megamus3]

A " protected class" just means the the lazier stupider class.

[@Sarcastrophus]

Absolutely correct

[@marccovitz5289]

@@megamus3 : Now THAT is a racist comment. Glad you are finally showing your true colors.

[@angiebervinkle9542]

@@megamus3 I'm disabled I'm a protected class I'm far from lazy or stupid I'm a victim of medical malpractice so keep hating

[@sdhonestfoodreview]

You're focus on giving "Special Treatment" not "Fair Treatment."

[@thumperjdm]

Exactly. Someone who is "highly qualified" or "most qualified" will be denied...because their skin isn't dark enough.

[@ginnymurray1869]

Awesome comment.

[@brianmclean7576]

I started rolling my eyes every time she decided to not answer the question asked by Senator Rubio

[@patl3443]

Mine started rolling when she said "thank you for that question, senator" in that sickening sweet voice

[@comizr8r]

Enough of the preferential treatment of some and not others. We are all created equal and we all bleed red. "When you are use to preferential treatment, equal treatment feels like discrimination." ~ Thomas Sowell

[@AmericanToucan]

It’s time to end this dark racism bologna

[@wondery6693]

Dems have no power if you did that. Thats why I am not a dem anymore thanks to Hillary

[@josephdavis6525]

The Democrats will never let that happen. That's what they run on every 2 and 4 years. The race card ! That's their game.

[@MNDrummer]

See how she tries to be a wordsmith? She says we must discriminate in order to "level the playing field" and make is equal for everyone. She then goes on to say they are focused on making "merit" based decisions, but by definition this can't be true if they are hiring based on superficial and unctrollable things like sex, race, and ethnicity. This is truly evil thinking and has no place in our government. She is the type of person that will put on a big smile as she is using her power to destroy you and telling you the entire time why the things she is doing to you are good for you.......... and good for everyone else too. Disgusting. She should be fired immediately.

[@mikeharrison3618]

THANK YOU FOR YOUR QUESTION SENATOR and like the rest of the Biden administration I'll not answer.

[@mostlycloudy3069]

typical answer for all demonrats.

[@schmidtythekidd]

Both sides do this when they are being questioned by their opponents. It’s a tactic to waste their time to ask more questions.

[@johncraig4661]

Still under investigation 🔎 I suppose? 🤔

[@jerryshelton1481]

Having protected classes is on its face discriminatory because that puts those people over others

[@easter_sunday]

I am convinced that racism is a Democrat platform and that they'll never allow it to die.

[@88888gerald]

exactly

[@delta212cpd]

That's obvious. A two year old knows that

[@gonzob9609]

Always have been. New plantations, the inner cities, are harvesting votes. Johnson was a genius. Welfare with a no man in the house stipulation. I'll have them N!@@er$ voting Dem for the next 200 yrs. LBJ

[@nataliapowell3481]

you are right !

[@jackiechilds8047]

Rasmussen has polls from 2012 on show blacks are ASTOUNDINGLY the most racist group. blacks rated themselves the most racist, consistently

[@devilsfury1]

These people are absolutely nuts. Wow, just wow!

[@richardherring8220]

Are we actually "Leveling the Playing Field" or are we just lowering the STANDARDS so people of lower intelligence are being raised to the NORMAL Standard without raising the Standards for those with superior intelligence ??

[@maxbang1813]

BRAVO. YOU indeed hit the actual corruption right on the nose. " lower the standards, don't actually level the playing field by raising people into an educated place". That is that exactly what the far left thinks is equitable. It's insane.

[@raggedyman2257]

In the pursuit of equity, it's two fold; lower standards for those unqualified or incapable, and, secondly, obstruct high performing persons artificially via policy to cede space to the unworthy. Shelby Steele referred to such policies as, "benign bigotry."

[@kenunix1863]

I was there. They used to call that "upward mobility". Promote someone by the numbers and not what they could do. Wrong then and wrong now.

[@richardherring8220]

Ken, I agree 1000%. thank GOD for LBJ's "Great Society" and EEO mandates !!

[@richardherring8220]

@@raggedyman2257 Rag, of course we are Bigots when we point out this type mentality, just look what it has done to education in public schools over the last 40 or 50 years !!

[@jmarsian4017]

Another total waste of tax money !

[@mediterraneandiet2483]

“Stop the racialization of everyone and everything.” Tulsi Gabbard

[@stuartegrin7543]

what a smug bureaucrat - PROTECTED CLASSES

[@obsey]

Although I agree with you, the phrase "protected classes" is actually already in federal statutes, lol.

[@brendawilcoxson5812]

What a big pile of BS. You don't get a level playing field just because you call yourself a victim. The people most qualified for jobs and positions should be those that get the positions. Gender, Race, Age, should not be considered. All the people claiming that they are victims, for whatever reasons, need to stop expecting things they have not worked for nor qualified for. If you are an American Citizen you have opportunities open for you to make your life better. Stop whining and demanding things you haven't earned. This is the country of the American Dream. It isn't given to you. You have to earn your dream.

[@adamalbert7856]

So hiring someone based on race isn't racist? But hiring someone based on merit is racist? Hire the most qualified...period. In fact no race should be given for any prospective employees.

[@marccovitz5289]

When you hire only white people (what was happening at the State Dept), and only white people are given the opportunity to interview, yes that is racist. Sorry Trumptard.

[@DavidSmith-rr9st]

Why does this have to be so complicated, base it on merit alone. That would eliminate discrimination due to ANYTHING. "Protected classes" are just another way of saying it is OK to discriminate against the non protected class.

[@tenofprime]

Exactly.

[@davidhornback2138]

1. Executive orders need to be severely limited in our government. If a President can be so blatantly "making law", we do have an autocracy.

[@marccovitz5289]

@David Hornback: And your boy Trump signed 220 executive orders and 894 executive actions.

[@marccovitz5289]

@@dalesuhre6522 : What grade did you complete? The only way for Congress to block an EO is to try and pass a bill. Then even if the bill is passed the President can veto it. Go get your GED please.

[@kilgortrout3432]

@@dalesuhre6522 So the reality is, we really don't have a legitimate legislative branch of government, or it seems like they have given away all of their power.

[@dalesuhre6522]

@@kilgortrout3432 Exactly. They will allow the governor or the president to make laws for them because they do not have the political fortitude to make those laws themselves. If they disapprove of an executive order they can override that executive order. Approximately only 4% of executive orders have been overridden by congress.

[@j.davids.2782]

@@dalesuhre6522 Citation required. Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution disagrees with this.

[@esvbud]

Equity and merit-based decisions aren't compatible. Equity is absolute nonsense.

[@KenSiefert]

Some animals are more equal than others....footnote: Animal Farm was meant to be a warning, not a “how to” book

[@georgewood7381]

1984 was the same. Throw in Atlas Shrugged.

[@KenSiefert]

@@georgewood7381 I was torn at which example to use😇

[@marccovitz5289]

@@KenSiefert : A typical comment from an old, white, male dinosaur.

[@KenSiefert]

@@marccovitz5289 you sound internally conflicted...enjoy your servitude 😂

[@marccovitz5289]

@@KenSiefert : Not one bit. I’m just not an old, bitter, ignorant, white, male dinosaur.

[@stidgemon]

As someone who works in a school district in an afterschool program, DEI is incredibly racist and has insinuated itself into every aspect of schooling. Most people think that equity is the same as equality it most certainly is not. They want to level the playing field at the expense of others. When you artificially raise someone up you have to artificially send someone down.

[@marccovitz5289]

@stidgemon: You do not know what the definition of racism is. Identifying racism/inequality is not racist.

[@tomparshall2450]

@@marccovitz5289 ignorance is racism!

[@marccovitz5289]

@@tomparshall2450 : Yes. Ignorance and the refusal to acknowledge there are still inequalities is most certainly racism.

[@MattH-wg7ou]

So making more inequalities is probably the best way to right past inequalities?

[@marccovitz5289]

@@MattH-wg7ou : It’s not making more inequalities. You old, white dinosaurs already have the advantage.

[@bcast9978]

Trying to understand leftist logic is like trying to decipher Linear A.

[@dirkkemnitz762]

I prefer Linear B.

[@yourmomma2995]

liberalism truly is a mental disorder.

[@tet68vietnam72]

Equality of opportunity, not outcome! No "participation" trophies: In every competition, be it sports or for a job, there will be winners and losers. When I retired from the Army, I applied for a position I desperately wanted. But someone else got the job that, because of the leadership skills I had honed in the Army, I felt I was better qualified for. But instead of throwing a tantrum and whining about how unjust the system was, I sent a very nice, polite letter to the Human Resources department and asked why I was not chosen. What skill or experience was I lacking? I received back a very nice, polite letter telling me what I could do to improve my chances in the future. I went back to college, finished my degree and took a minimum-wage internship to gain the experience I lacked. Two years later, I applied for the same position, which had come open at the same company and this time was hired after the first interview! I never worked a day for the next 10 years, because it was a joy to get up in the morning and go do something I loved. That led to an even greater position that I held until retirement! If you want to succeed in life, find out what it is you love, what you need to succeed in that endeavor and get to work making it happen. Don't sit on your hands and wait for someone to give you a job because you belong to a "protected" group!

[@rivaridge7211]

My Grandparents came to the USA in the 1920's from Ireland - they faced much discrimination based on the fact that they were Irish. Reparations and special rights for me? P.S. Enough of this crap!

[@sandyh5873]

My grandparents also came from Ireland, however they reminded me that I was not Irish, I was American. Mexicans can be in the US for four generations and they still claim they are Mexicans and not Americans.

[@JamesSmith-gn9ou]

@@sandyh5873 Truth.

[@rivaridge7211]

@@sandyh5873 Thank you for the response Sandy - to be clear, my Grandparents were very proud Americans - and always waved the flag of the USA every July 4th. They were grateful for the opportunity to have left a difficult life in Ireland for the promise of a better life in the USA. They found it - and most certainly, never cast themselves as "victims." And, yes, in 1920's New York City they did face discrimination based on their country of origin. They sucked it up and made a wonderful life for themselves and their six children (one of whom is my mother, now 85). Cheers to all!

[@suzanneyoung8011]

I agree with what you wrote. This comment is just to acknowledge your pen name, which probably is overlooked by everyone else. Riva Ridge, the 1972 Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes winner, was a very good horse, also owned by the Chenery Stable but usually overlooked by his year younger stablemate, Secretariat, who won the Triple Crown the following year. Riva Ridge was Penny Chenery's favorite, however.

[@rivaridge7211]

@@suzanneyoung8011 Thank you Suzanne, for your very kind and spot-on comment! Riva Ridge was indeed the "older brother" (I don't mean same bloodline, of course) of the great Secretariat (at Meadow Stable) and was the "Kentucky Derby" and "Belmont Stakes" winner in 1972. The thing I most love about Riva Ridge (besides being such a champion in his own right) was that he literally saved "the farm" (Meadow Stable) in 1972, with his huge "Crown" wins (he had other significant wins, of course). Meadow Stable (where Riva and Secretariat were housed) was teetering on the verge of bankruptcy in 1972 - and it was Riva's outstanding (1972) championship races which, not only kept Meadow Stable solvent, but paved the way for Secretariat's Triple Crown win in the following year. Certainly, Secretariat was the greatest race horse ever, in my view. Incidentally, the lovely Penny Chenery would have had two back-to-back Triple Crown winner's had not Riva Ridge been tangled up on a wet/sloppy track at the "Preakness Stakes" in Baltimore - which he absolutely hated. Miss Penny was a very bright and gracious lady. When she passed in 2017 (at age 95) I truly wondered if anybody could fill her shoes. I am still wondering. Cheers!

[@freshurb8963]

"Equity" is the very essence of racism

[@draxik3763]

Yup, equity is pure evil, not just racist. It knows no limits, race or religion. It will destroy whatever it has to in order to accomplish it's goal. Rest assured we will all be equally poor and dependent on the elites once equity has accomplished it's goals. Welcome to the bread line.

[@RealRyanFlynn]

Actually, equity is anti-racism. When people are treated equally regardless of their sex, race, gender identity, religion, preferences, disability, political affiliation, and national origin, all of those are removed from the equation and you’re left with performance-based assessments, at least in the case of employment. That is the essence of meritocracy. Unfortunately, it seems this country is incapable of separating themselves from their baseless prejudices concerning other people, or at least hasn’t learned this on a wider scale yet. People seem intent on painting with a broad brush rather than getting to know people individually and seeing that everyone has their own challenges.

[@draxik3763]

@@RealRyanFlynn Actually, you are completely wrong and just repeating what CNN told you to repeat.. Equity means equal OUTCOME.. regardless of any other circumstance. You can not get to Equity without stealing from others. Equity means the fast food worker makes the same as the doctor. The final result of equity is everyone will all be equally poor and dependent on the government which will control everything, Equity is socialism and communism packaged in a "I'm better than you because I care about the less fortunate" disguise. We legally already have equality. It is already illegal to discriminate based on race, gender etc. Does discrimination still happen, yeah, for sure. But it is not systemic because it is literally illegal so you can't say it is the system. You need to wake up and stop repeating the talking points you hear from "experts". You don't seem stupid so maybe try thinking for yourself instead of letting the left think for you.

[@wdblackman]

Equity = ownership. Using “protected” groups as a category to evaluate ownership between groups generates the grounds for trying to pit one group against another. That’s the gospel of contention through oppressor and victim. Christ said, “For verily, verily I say unto you, he that hath the spirit of contention is not of me, but is of the devil, who is the father of contention, and he stirreth up the hearts of men to contend with anger, one with another. Behold, this is not my doctrine, to stir up the hearts of men with anger, one against another; but this is my doctrine, that such things should be done away.”

[@FriendofBill-2005]

We are focused on making 'merit based decisions'. You can't claim you base your decisions on merit and in the next sentence say you are looking to achieve equity. The way you ensure merit based decisions is to look at qualifications ONLY, with a blind eye to race, ethnicity or sex.

[@bobhope3716]

Amen.

[@michaelrandall7667]

These people's definition of "leveling the playing field" seems to be the opposite of what it should be (like most things now adays). When one person can't afford something that others can so you pay for it, that's not leveling the playing field, it's making the field uneven.

[@marccovitz5289]

@michael Randall: You clearly have less than one working neuron if you think providing aid to the underserved or oppressed groups makes the field uneven.

[@michaelrandall7667]

@@marccovitz5289 Your insults really demonstrate your virtue. Define underserved and oppressed. We're talking adults here. It is never helpful to anyone to give them something they could have already have had, had they made better decisions (see the epidemic of generational welfare recipients). Not only does that perpetuate their lack of assertiveness but it's also unfair to the person who made good decisions and sacrificed to be able to afford said thing. For the last 10 years one person spent the time eating out, sitting on the couch playing video games while the other has studied day and night, worked 60 hour weeks eating ramen noodles but the couch potato gets the hand out? Why? Because he happens to have a certain skin color, be from certain area? Do you think that low of minorities that you think they aren't the hard workers in that analogy? Because they very often are, not that it matters because it's equally unfair to everyone no matter their skin color.

[@marccovitz5289]

@@michaelrandall7667 : Your paragraph full of ignorant bull shit shows your virtue. You morph the topic into welfare recipients. No one is talking about welfare recipients. We are talking about the ability to give minorities equal access to jobs that have been, and still are, historically given to white men. These would be qualified minorities with the same or greater level of education and qualifications as the old, white, male dinosaurs who are currently employed. It is the old, white, male dinosaurs who have been getting the “handouts” for decades simply because they are white men. So stand down and go get your GED and you can start competing for the jobs in question.

[@BudFox559]

When I see this I always the of the Mexican lady who laughed at me when I wanted to apply for a grant in the 80s, while I was working nights and going to Jr College. I was running straight "A"s Eventually I just figured out that if you are a white male, you were excluded from everything, no matter what your grades are. It didn't stop me. It just took longer, a lot longer

[@angelawesel4654]

🏆🇺🇲😎

[@merrittreeves7136]

But see, people like this woman in the state dept believe you DESERVE that discrimination because of what someone ELSE did decades ago that discriminated against someone who doesn't look like you. That's what quotas are all about.

[@BudFox559]

@@merrittreeves7136 They are goin to give every black person 5 million bucks here in California, There is nothing more racist than that. I think they should be careful what they wish for .

[@BudFox559]

I know. All those times I froze my ass off covered on oil platforms, in the howling wind, I didn't know that was white privilege. The black guys I worked with never mentioned it. Or earlier beekeeping with my Dad, and getting the crap stung out of me until I threw up in my hood. I just never thought of it as privilege. we were so ignorant, but back then we didn't have a BLM ring to kneel before and kiss @johncollins7062

[@getworking5652]

there's equal opportunity and equal outcome. you can't have both. equity is discrimination, plain and simple. there is nothing holding anybody back from being successful today. you level the playing field by getting off your behind and do the work. go to school, learn. If you have not wasted your time while in school and actually learned, you will graduate. you will be literate. you will be able to get a job. wait until you have a job to get married. get married before having children. quit being the victim

[@h1r086]

It's communism. Marxism is the victim/oppressor narratives that ironically oppresses people by making them act as if they are oppressed, making the lie true, but the cause still a lie.

[@mtmc823]

Well said 👏👏👏

[@michaelsnyder7003]

Martin Luther King wished for a color-blind society. This was a call for equality, which is admirable, and virtually everyone supports this idea. For the most part, America has achieved that aspiration. The modern Democratic Party wishes for a color-coordinated society. This is a call for equity, which interjects unfairness into every area it touches. The progressives try to make the terms interchangeable, but each produces vastly different results. Engineered equity will always produce poor results.

[@3rdpig]

"Protected classes". One rule for me, another for thee.

[@toplarry]

Protected classes. What you talking about WILLIS.

[@MNDrummer]

Government job applications shouldn't ask a user's sex, ethnicity, age, religion, race, etc. All interviews should be held with no visuals so the interview panel never sees the candidates until after they are evaluated and offered a job. Just hire the best, based on qualifications, experience, training, education, and how they do in their interview.

[@chhavijain6313]

👏🏻

[@MNDrummer]

Sorry, I meant applicant instead of user! :)

[@jennic2251]

1 million percent agree

[@bratttt100]

Remember the good old days when the best qualified person was hired. Instead of their color or agenda.

[@glenbelson5485]

This nonsense just leads to the selection of people who are incapable of doing the job that they are hired to do.

[@ginnymurray1869]

Like Kamela and the mop head.

[@cheapdate2334]

Sad but so true

[@lilalove1743]

IMO, YOU MEAN LIKE: "KACKLES" HARRIS ATTY GEN AUSTIN PETE "BUTGIG" AOC HEALTH SECT. ~ LIAR SCHIFF LIAR "SWALLOWELL" INSIDE TRADER PELOZI SUPREME COURT INTIMIDATOR SCHUMER RIOT INSTIGATOR WATERS .....ON & ON & ON ...............

[@dondoering4431]

When are people with common sense going to be considered a protected class?

[@gaylesantone1885]

Don: GREAT COMMENT! Bravo 👏

[@truthseekers864]

😂😂😂😂

[@d.c.marsha9027]

Dear God in heaven...quick question if we are doing this to level the playing field...when will we be finished...when does this BS end?

[@lexconor8498]

Another 4 minutes of my life I'll never get back. I can only conclude that all these questions are simply too difficult to answer, because no one. Ever. Answers them.

[@m.r.jarrell3725]

I grew up in a State Dept family and this is the strangest thing I've ever heard. State has always been one of the most diverse government agencies in history. People of every race, gender, religion and ethnicity work for them. Not sure why this department even needs to exist.

[@shanenelson3825]

Pure madness

[@bobhope3716]

The only thing that results from basing hiring decisions on race/ gender is lowered standards. Hiring should be based exclusively on merits and qualifications and nothing else.

[@ginnymurray1869]

100%.

[@joebright4607]

They’ve been doing it since the early eighties. Bell curves and hiring quotas.

[@randb4865]

Witness: the current U.S. administration.

[@ginnymurray1869]

@@joebright4607 It was wrong then and it's wrong now. Merit is all that should matter.

[@karlmahlmann]

"Do We Keep A List Of Everybody's Ethnicity? Of course. How else would we know how to treat people??

[@Mojave4ever]

The formation of "protected classes" is in direct conflict with equal treatment/justice.

[@Robbie28]

Whenever you hire or promote people based on their COLOR or SEX and not their qualifications, the workplace suffers greatly and also eventually morale, and work output will also go down and eventually, those people who were hired based on color or sex will be in positions of authority and have no clue what to do. Watch that business go down after that happens.

[@Mike-zf4ev]

Exactly...see what it did to the Government. This administration is a perfect example.

[@stuartegrin7543]

some are more equal than others some are more protected than others rules for thee but not for me LMAO

[@preservativetalkradio]

The art of dodging the question

[@jaceebrynne49]

Merit based? How's that now? WTF is she talking about ......

[@benfrantsen3315]

As soon as you hear “thank you for your question “ you know they aren’t going to actually answer the question.

[@pegasuvius9765]

There is NOOOO such thing as a level playing field. This world is about winners and losers. Life is not fair. We come into this world naked we leave with the clothes on our back. Then we meet our maker and He will judge our deeds secret or otherwise.

[@greghanson407]

"Protected classes" by implication means that there are "unprotected classes". Can anyone guess who is included in the "unprotected classes" group?

[@psycholuigiman]

You know, I'd love to give her the benefit of the doubt when she is talkin about virtual job interviews and stuff that can actually help. The problem is that the diversity crowd has burned up all the good will I ever had with them, and it's gonna be a long time before it ever comes back.

[@stevebeasley8526]

She is really good at talking around the questions

[@deepconcealmentholsters783]

Who are these protected class of people that she keeps referring to? I thought we all have the same rights.

[@Raptor-bt6zp]

“ leveling the playing field “ = reverse discrimination

[@jimlynch7421]

How to detect BS before it begins, listen for: ‘Thank you for that question’.

[@b.bernal6151]

There she goes using her hands nonstop when answering a question like all liars.

[@michaelmelling9333]

Senator Rubio is sharp.

[@stuartegrin7543]

2+2+4

[@gwilli9511]

When I took the test to become a postal worker years ago, if you were black you got 5 extra points added to your test score. If you were a veteran, you got 5 extra points. I made a 92 on the test. The black veteran sitting next to me got an 83 plus his 10 extra points and got the job. Was that leveling the playing field? Was the most qualified person hired?

[@mohammedsamura3151]

I was rejected section 8 apartment because I was a full time college student. Regardless of the fact that I was an independent student, married and with a child. They quote "full time student rule" I don't understand America dream honestly.

[@AzzekaTheRealOne]

Hell No!!!!!

[@cindyburrell4439]

It must be incrediby frustrating to ask a logical question knowing you're never going to get an honest answer.

[@rwyankees]

We need senators that will ask the tough questions, call these people out for their blatant bullshit, and force them to answer a question. Everyone of them just let them not answer and move on. They need to ask the tough question and spend the rest of the time asking the question, over and over, and over. No more just moving on and letting them off the hook.

[@fnusecurity5112]

Think about this. If Wal-mart or Elon Musk had these same standards for their Company hiring practices. Could you imagine the lawsuits and Federal and State investigation into them?

[@laurabrown3785]

She's totally tossing that word salad and drenching it with dressing

[@johncraig4661]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤢🤮😵‍💫🤯

[@SuperchiefApache]

Merit based? Now I’m choking!!!

[@td7723]

We as men need more equity when it comes to building roads, houses, painting, construction, and labor. When will women start picking up the slack?

[@t.c.3695]

When you let them do what the men do if they choose a work place where men are men and women leave them alone. They can't do what you all men do. If they want equity give it them

[@benb3584]

@@t.c.3695 Excuse me, but women have every opportunity to work and make as much as any male makes. When I hear this crap, it makes my blood boil....women want the same everything as men, and they have at their disposal all manner of ways to be just a s successful as a male....all the crying does is make it worse....

[@Sammysgrl22]

Fair point. Personally, I'm not a feminist. I am a happy stay at home mom. Not all women are nuts. That's just what the media wants everyone to think.

[@88888gerald]

why have protected classes when we are all equal?

[@oklahomanorm2278]

We have decended into the pit of incompetence, corruption and evil.

[@RG-wg5nf]

When they start off with "I can tell you that..." What they're actually saying is "there's so much I'm not going to tell you..."

[@milesdufourny4813]

This person's definition of "equity" is getting equal results without having to put in the effort. In other words: Quotas, which is a form of racism.

[@stuartegrin7543]

what a simpleton

[@trumpjr5179]

What a load of crap.

[@barbkugler7568]

well, I can tell you where they get that information. Am I the only person who received a U.S. Census in the mail ?? All of these questions had to be answered on the mandatory U.S. Census.

[@squeekieballs5052]

If the root word of equity is "equal", what would that make a/the protected class?

[@Vaioplayer88]

So veterans are not apart of the "protected" group. Good to know.

[@ljsmooth69]

And what that lady said was yes yes we do make a list and keep it listen to what she says.

[@milkey1]

If she thinks anyone is buying anything she’s saying she’s badly mistaken people aren’t stupid

[@jimatyeo]

The reality is we will not do shyte for anyone and I will not answer a single question regardless of how simple or important. That is FJB's policy. Also I am incompetent and really shouldn't have this job but I am Black and a Woman and a left wing lugnut so thats all the qualification needed to get a job in this regime.

[@maxbang1813]

Yes Mr. Menendez your definition of "equity" and "justice" is an absolute joke! Get out. You have had your time of stealing money gtfo! You serve no purpose now get out

[@EatBeets]

As soon as you hear thank you for your question, comes the bs. Always.

[@christianityisunstoppable4155]

When she starts answering the question right at the beginning she starts nodding yes. That’s her subconscious answering before she realized it and caught herself. The answer is an obvious yes.

[@mjones4083]

"Protected classes- a catch all term for those who will not (or simply cannot ) compete on merit . The more I see of these affirmed /quota'd people in jobs the more I realise what of disastrous policy it is .

[@danlacey4419]

Why is it that the underserved communities always have more service than everybody else and more programs

[@user-ff6kg4bx4j]

what is a protected class?

[@catwoman2582]

I dont know why but this woman makes my spidy senses jump into action...😮

[@robertwolfe2971]

When they won't answer that means yes.

[@donmaduro5262]

As soon as I hear "Thank You for the Question" I know the answer is going to be everything but the answer. Her answer of an example of inequality is people that can't afford to fly to San Francisco. I guess she favors reparations too.

[@johniwan1]

They're making this as complicated as the tax code. Real simple fix, if you're qualified to do the job you get a shot. If it turns out you can't do the job you were hired for then you get fired. Next applicant please. See how simple this could be?

[@robertjohnson1962]

‘Thank you Senator”…….translation “ Up your nose with a rubber hose” I don’t understand why all these witnesses say this without recognizing how disingenuous it sounds.

[@unamcgurry6875]

Are Equal opportunities failing? If so then maybe more needs to be done. But equity - is no matter how unqualified we will select that person over another more qualified . That is not very sensible and is doomed to failure.

[@genevacacioppo]

Meticulous records about citizens heritage is icky and historically not a good look

[@satyricon65]

Geez it's as if equity is 'Acceptable Racism' in todays climate.

[@davidrounds3245]

It's always been illegal to ask all those personal questions.

[@kazsawczak6910]

Senator, why do you allow those witnesses, nominees and others to NOT answer your questions directly and meaningfully. They almost always talk about something they like to talk about avoiding the questions they have been asked. That's on you, Senator!

[@billykuan]

One day we might wake up and see what a waste of time and money the last 30 years have been when it comes to infrastructure, education, and diplomacy. Truly the list of accomplishments could be better with that giant national debt we have today.

[@DanOKC]

How far back in HISTORY must we go to make those actions RIGHT into today's present? My family were generational migrants share-coppers and were displaced OKIES in the dust bowl. Am I a historical victim, entitled to special compensation and placement?

[@ibmark2u2]

She chocked!! Who's under served?? So much BS. Mr Rubio, keep up the good work!!!

[@accountowner8352]

SHE IS VERY CAREFUL ABOUT WHAT SHE SAYS

[@rauljimenez8132]

Equity and Mediocrity is our strength?.....God help us.

[@jollyroger35]

I worked for a private company that was growing aggressively, and the owner was very profit motivated. He hired only the best he could find, and most hires never made it past their probationary period. At the same time it was more diverse than the general population, and in no way was that intentional. He didn't care about the color of your skin, or the colors on your rainbow flag; he only cared about hiring the best. It was also the best placed I ever worked. Not because of the diversity, but because we were all of high caliber. He built a great team, plain and simple.

[@GrimrDirge]

I stopped filling out demographic information wherever possible, but they make it compulsory on a lot of e-forms. I knew where it would lead.