The DEI label is often used to play upon racial resentments and is increasingly being appropriated as a dog whistle.
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The term DEI has increasingly been co-opted to attack and undermine the positions, qualifications and abilities of racialized people.
Eight GOP candidates for president after they entered the debate hall in Milwaukee on Aug. 23, 2023.
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From immigration and federal spending to Ukraine and the state of American schools, eight GOP presidential candidates had a lot to say.
Former president Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Arizona.
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In Arizona, for the first time, Trump finally explicitly referred to his core constituency: white America.
Trump targets white voters with hostile, angry language.
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Dog whistles constitute coded language that only some voters can hear. But Trump does not hide his bigotry when talking about Mexican ‘rapists,’ the ‘China virus’ and ‘law and order.’