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Apparently, the Trump administration is attempting to extend dictatorial orders to European cities. This is insane.
www.france24.com
The Stockholm City Council has rejected the US embassy's demands that it roll back diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies at the behest of the Trump administration.
In his inauguration speech, US President Donald Trump vowed to end what he sweepingly but vaguely called efforts to “socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life”.
This has translated into attempts to eliminate programmes in the United States that seek to encourage diversity and equality in education, the work force and beyond.
In an email to the city's planning office dated April 29, the US embassy asked that Stockholm officials sign a document promising that contractors would not operate any programmes promoting DEI that would violate current US law.
“It’s so bizarre,” Jan Valeskog, Stockholm’s vice-mayor for city planning, told the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter on Tuesday.
The city council said Friday that it would not comply with the embassy's demands or offer an official response.
“We were really surprised, of course,” Valeskog told The Associated Press.
“We will not sign this document at all, of course not.”
Valeskog said that while the city wants to maintain a good relationship with the US embassy, it will follow Swedish law and current city policies even if they include DEI practices.
Countries and cities across Europe have received similar demands from US embassies – including France, Belgium and the city of Barcelona – all of which have lashed out at the attempt to expand anti-diversity policies to the continent.
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Folks, DEI is not evil. It is not something that needs to be eradicated, like cancer. This effort is nuts. With all the problems, in our nation, in our world, on the only home we have, Earth, stamping out DEI the world over is a fairly glaring example of how this administration is completely off its rocker. The world will follow Trump’s orders? DEI is the greatest threat our planet faces, and Trump will lead us out of DEI’s valley of darkness? Oh yeah, the guy is our first truly “looney tune” leader.
View: https://x.com/Polytemple/status/1920599195548856377
Stockholm is latest city to refuse 'bizarre' US request to abandon diversity
The Stockholm City Council has rejected the US embassy's demand that it adopt the Trump administration's anti-diversity policies, with Stockholm’s vice-mayor for planning calling the request "bizarre".…
www.france24.com
The Stockholm City Council has rejected the US embassy's demands that it roll back diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies at the behest of the Trump administration.
In his inauguration speech, US President Donald Trump vowed to end what he sweepingly but vaguely called efforts to “socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life”.
This has translated into attempts to eliminate programmes in the United States that seek to encourage diversity and equality in education, the work force and beyond.
In an email to the city's planning office dated April 29, the US embassy asked that Stockholm officials sign a document promising that contractors would not operate any programmes promoting DEI that would violate current US law.
“It’s so bizarre,” Jan Valeskog, Stockholm’s vice-mayor for city planning, told the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter on Tuesday.
The city council said Friday that it would not comply with the embassy's demands or offer an official response.
“We were really surprised, of course,” Valeskog told The Associated Press.
“We will not sign this document at all, of course not.”
Valeskog said that while the city wants to maintain a good relationship with the US embassy, it will follow Swedish law and current city policies even if they include DEI practices.
Countries and cities across Europe have received similar demands from US embassies – including France, Belgium and the city of Barcelona – all of which have lashed out at the attempt to expand anti-diversity policies to the continent.
US Embassy demanded Stockholm officials comply with Trump's anti-DEI policies. They refused
The U.S. Embassy in Sweden's capital requested the city's compliance with Trump's "anti-discrimination law."
www.snopes.com
Folks, DEI is not evil. It is not something that needs to be eradicated, like cancer. This effort is nuts. With all the problems, in our nation, in our world, on the only home we have, Earth, stamping out DEI the world over is a fairly glaring example of how this administration is completely off its rocker. The world will follow Trump’s orders? DEI is the greatest threat our planet faces, and Trump will lead us out of DEI’s valley of darkness? Oh yeah, the guy is our first truly “looney tune” leader.
View: https://x.com/Polytemple/status/1920599195548856377
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