#executive order 11246

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Oliver Willis at Daily Kos:

Donald Trump has a long history of racism, from excusing the actions of Nazis to promoting the racist birther conspiracy theory. Trump also surrounds himself with racist advisers like Stephen Miller, who is currently formulating the administration’s harsh immigration policy. Trump continued this approach in the first few days of his second presidency by issuing a series of executive orders meant to undo past actions by the U.S. government to address the harmful effects of racism. Trump and his fellow Republicans have for years attacked programs meant to counter racism and encourage diversity, attacking diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. They have falsely claimed that these programs prioritize mediocrity over qualified individuals and decision making. But in reality, the anti-DEI crusade has been a smokescreen for rolling back civil rights.

In his executive order “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity,” the Trump administration made this posture clear. The order explicitly rescinds Executive Order 11246, which President Lyndon Johnson signed in 1965—an order Johnson used to desegregate federal contracting. As the Department of Labor website explains (for now, at least), the Johnson order “reinforced the requirement that federal contractors not discriminate in employment and take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity based on race, color, religion, and national origin.” The department also notes that the Johnson order—now gone, thanks to Trump’s actions—were a “key landmark in a series of federal actions aimed at ending racial, religious and ethnic discrimination.” Reversing an order meant to attack racism and pro-segregation policies was described by the Trump administration in a release as “protecting civil rights and expanding individual opportunity.”

[...] The administration issued an order instructing the Department of Transportation and the FAA to “immediately stop Biden DEI hiring programs and return to non-discriminatory, merit-based hiring.” The order claimed without evidence that increasing diversity in transportation programs somehow makes travel more dangerous for Americans. As evidence, the administration pointed to a January 2023 FAA outage as “an illustration of the importance of FAA competence.” But in reality, as the FAA determined at the time of the outage, the cause was a corrupted database issue that occurred when files were deleted by mistake by a contractor. That’s not exactly a diversity issue.

Racist-in-Chief kills LBJ’s 1965 EO that desegregated federal contracting as part of his racist quest to end DEI programs.

See Also:

Vox: Trump’s sweeping new order tries to dismantle DEI in government — and the private sector

NCRM: ‘Civil Rights Canon in American Law’: Trump Rescinds Historic LBJ Nondiscrimination Order

[deadpresidents]

President Trump took action to "protect civil rights" today by rescinding Executive Order 11246, which was signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in September 1965.

Just to be clear, the Executive Order signed by LBJ -- who did more for Civil Rights than any other President including possibly Abraham Lincoln -- nearly 60 years ago, prohibited government contractors from, and this is an exact quote from the Executive Order: "discriminat[ing] against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin" and ordered that government contractors "will take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, color, religion, sex or national origin". It also ordered that government contractors would be required to "in all solicitations or advertisements for employees placed by or on behalf of the contractor, state that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin."

By rescinding that Executive Order today, Trump -- who was sworn in on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, by the way -- is effectively clearing the way, in 2025, for government contractors to discriminate against people because of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. This government, which was elected by a majority of Americans in November, is rolling back the CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT.

Oh, and don't forget that Trump also instructed federal employees today that there would be "adverse consequences" if they did not "inform on colleagues trying to dodge" the Trump Administration's crackdown on diversity. So there's also a culture of fear being built into following these (now legally protected) discriminatory practices.

This has always been the country we live in. People have been looking for permission to be okay with it -- and your fellow Americans gave that permission in November when they re-elected Donald Trump. He never hid what he was going to do this week, and we allowed it to happen. Another disgusting day in America.

[thatconservativebrat]

Donald Trump is actively eliminating DEI and people are really out here believing he just made it legal to discriminate against black people, women, lgbtq+, etc. Please, get a fucking grip and learn a thing or two about the government before you start believing in these hysterics. the civil rights act of 1964 is enshrined in our government and cannot be repealed. it will ALWAYS be illegal to discriminate on the basis of sex, race, gender, religion, etc. Donald Trump cannot change that, nor would he want to. The executive order Trump revoked refers to the practice of affirmative action and returns businesses/gov’t to rely on merit-based hiring. If YOU don’t believe that POC, women, lgbtq+ can be successful without affirmative action, it sounds like you are the one with the problem.

[lumberjackchad]

i’m no legal expert here but uh doesn’t revoking Executive Order 11246 mean that discrimination is allowed ?? at least in the case of federal contractors but like. it’s still allowed …?

[nonsensicalramblings79]

Adding onto this: the PopCrave tweet says that DT revoked the Equal Opportunity Act of 1965, but it's confusing Executive Order 11246 (signed by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965) with the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972, (which is an ammendment to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964).

DT revoked Executive Order 11246, which does not deal with discrimination in hiring based on sex, race, etc.; this executive order deals only with what is commonly known as affirmative action. Like prev said, DT does not have the authority to revoke the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972.

Oh project 2025 isn’t going to happen you’re being paranoid-

What the absolute fuck is this then? This country is so fucked.

[sports45]

Kaitlan Collins details Trump's order to DEI office employees

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Trump to Release Records on the Assassinations of the Kennedys and Martin Luther King. FULL NEWS IN WEBSITE.

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Trump to Release Records on the Assassinations of the Kennedys and Martin Luther King.Full NEWS IN WEBSITE.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Ahmed Baba:

We’re only a few days into President Trump’s second term, and so far, he has behaved exactly as many of us warned. Trump has taken multiple executive actions straight out of the Project 2025 playbook, as predicted. From Trump’s immigration orders, his reinstatement of Schedule F to make firing civil servants easier, his executive order targeting trans rights, and his environmental regulation rollbacks, Trump is proving that those who were deemed “alarmists” for calling out the fact Trump’s Agenda 47 aligns directly with Project 2025 are actually realists. There’s one policy area in particular where President Trump’s executive orders echo Project 2025 almost verbatim, and that’s Trump’s targeting of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives. But, as we’ve seen, Trump isn’t simply targeting DEI. He’s targeting civil rights. Just as anti-Critical Race Theory (CRT) efforts became a catch-all method to target the teaching of civil rights education more broadly, anti-DEI efforts have become a smokescreen to target fundamental civil rights era anti-discrimination policies. DEI is mentioned at least 39 times in the 920-page Project 2025 policy playbook. Project 2025 explicitly calls for the elimination of all federal DEI programs and calls for the prosecution of “local governments, institutions of higher education, corporations, and any other private employers” who implement DEI policies. It mentions this all under the guise of targeting discrimination, which they falsely equate with DEI.

This week, President Trump signed executive orders that seek to accomplish much of what Project 2025 laid out, and he uses the same anti-discrimination pretenses. After ending all federal DEI initiatives on Monday, in a Tuesday executive order, President Trump revoked a foundational anti-discrimination executive order from the civil rights era. Trump’s order, titled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity,” doesn’t end illegal discrimination or promote merit-based opportunity. It permits it. Trump’s executive order terminates all DEI practices in the federal government and revokes decades of executive orders from the Clinton and Obama administrations. It goes even further. Trump rolled back the “Equal Employment Opportunity Executive Order 11246” of September 24, 1965, signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ).

This LBJ executive order enforced the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and prohibited federal contractors from discriminating “against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.” It also called for contractors to “take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.” That concept of “affirmative action” became a focal point of decades of right-wing opposition. LBJ’s executive order has been the government’s key anti-discrimination enforcement mechanism for federal contractors for 60 years, opening up opportunities for people of color and women who were eager to work for these companies. But this change didn’t come without pushback. The Heritage Foundation, which now leads Project 2025, published a 1985 report entitled “Revising Executive Order 11246: Fulfilling the Promise of Affirmative Action.” President Ronald Reagan wanted to fulfill the Heritage Foundation’s wishes to roll back this executive order but faced pushback. Now, Trump has finally done it.

Donald Trump’s push to end DEI and affirmative action is part of the satanic Project 2025/Agenda 47 agenda.

[nationallawreview]

Federal Contractors Beware – More Data Disclosures Coming!

On October 29, 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) published a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) notice, inviting federal contractors to respond to FOIA requests that the OFCCP received related to federal contractors’ 2021 Type 2 EEO-1 Consolidated Reports. These reports, required of federal contractors and subcontractors with at least 50…

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[drgaellon]

They’re going to try to redefine “under the jurisdiction thereof“ to say that people who are in this country illegally are still under the jurisdiction of their home country so their children are also not under the jurisdiction of the United States. Never mind the fact that this flies in the face of 150 years of legislation and jurisprudence. This benighted SCOTUS is very likely to grant him this new definition. 

Worth noting that a federal judge has already put one of Trump's dumbass executive orders (the revocation of birthright citizenship one) on temporary hold. Yes etc, temporary, but 21 states sued the instant it was enacted and it's already been enjoined. Etc etc., evil not unstoppable, stupid EOs quickly blocked, small bits of hope in terrible timeline, so forth and etcetera.

[sadbicth]

elon musk did a nazi salute twice at the inauguration, and republicans are defending him.

trump revoked executive order 11246, which prohibited discrimination.

trump put all dei employees on leave to be fired.

trump blamed the dc plane crash on dei.

trump banned all lgbtq+ flags from being hung in government buildings.

trump ordered the pentagon to cancel celebration of mlk jr. day, black history month, women's history month, holocaust remembrance day, asian american pacific islander heritage month, lgbtq+ pride month, juneteenth, women's equality day, national hispanic heritage month, national disability employment awarenessmonth, and national american indian heritage month.

trump proposed removing all palestinians from gaza, turning the area into a vacation resort called “riviera of the middle east”.

trump rolled back biden’s executive order to lower prescription drug costs for people using medicare and medicaid.

trump rescinded the $35 cap on insulin, and prices are expected to rise to $1500 a month.

trump ordered the national institutes of health to cancel their review panels on cancer research.

trump ended the guidelines to prevent ai misuse. the guidelines prevent many things, but notably it prevents production of ai child pornography.

when sean hannity asked trump about the economy, he said “i don’t care”, after campaigning with the economy as his main talking point.

trump has withdrawn the us from the world health organization.

trump is ordering health agencies to stop reporting on bird flu and halt publications of scientific reports.

trump has pardoned over 1500 people who stormed the capitol on january 6th.

trump changed mount denali back to mount mckinley.

trump signed an executive order to rename the gulf of mexico to gulf of america.

trump shut down cbp one, an app which granted legal entry to 1 million+ immigrants.

trump is allowing ice raids at churches and elementary schools.

trump announced plans to declare a national emergency at the us-mexico border.

trump signed an executive order to expand the use of the death penalty.

trump disbanded the school safety board that works to prevent school shootings. it was comprised of survivors, educators, and gun violence prevention advocates and formed after the school shooting in parkland.

trump withdrew from the paris climate act.

trump revoked all protections for transgender troops in the us military.

trump rescinded executive orders made by biden that benefited and protected women, lgbtq+ people, black americans, hispanic americans, asian americans, native hawaiians, and pacific islanders.

trump is attempting to make it legal to refuse to hire or fire pregnant women.

multiple state legislators are drafting bills to allow the punishment for abortion to be the death penalty.

trump pardoned 23 individuals convicted under the freedom of access to clinic entrances (FACE) act for their anti-abortion activism, including oftentimes violent protests at abortion clinics.

trump signed an executive order allowing deportation of foreign students who they believe express support for hamas or hezbollah.

trump announced that the us government will from here on out only recognize male and female as sexes. intersex is not legally recognized anymore.

the trump administration paused health communications to prevent the fda from announcing food recalls.

andy ogles drafted a constitutional amendment to allow trump to be president for a third term.

georgia republican congressman mike collins called for the deportation of new jersey born mariann budde, the bishop who urged trump to “have mercy” on the lgbtq+ community and immigrants during a service at the national cathedral.

six states (arizona, idaho, iowa, kansas, mississippi, and north dakota) are planning on challenging obergefell v. hodges, which would end same-sex marriage nationwide. about a dozen more states have representatives are also considering filing similar resolutions.

amazon revoked protections for lgbtq+ and black employees.

the cdc has removed their hiv prevention page.

the united states state department has officially changed its “travelers with special conditions” page which previously said “lgbtqi+ travelers” to “lgb travelers”, completely getting rid of the tqi+.

every single republican told us we were overreacting. trump swore he had nothing to do with project 2025 yet continues implementing details outlined in it. not a single person has the right to tell us we’re being dramatic anymore.

hope “cheaper eggs and gas” was worth it.

EDIT: i removed the “trump refused to swear on the bible” point because it was being taken as me being an offended christian. i’m not christian, im agnostic. the reason i included it in the first place is because he’s the first president in history to ever refuse to swear on ANYTHING. meanwhile his “conservative christian” followers had no issue with this, and decided to continue to scramble for excuses instead of admitting he may not be as religious as he claims he is. i figured taking that point out entirely is probably better than filling this with an explanation in the middle of the other important issues.

[dysphoria-things]

On Tuesday (21 January), Trump revoked Executive Order 11246, the Equal Employment Opportunity Act. President Johnson signed the original order on 24 September 1965, two years after Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have A Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial.  The Equal Employment Opportunity Order prohibited discrimination in the federal workplace based on “race, colour, religion, and national origin by those organisations receiving federal contracts and subcontracts”. It was updated two years later to include sex among the list of attributes. 

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[sports45]

Trump orders all federal DEI workers put on leave

President Donald Trump's administration directed that all federal diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) staff be put on paid leave and eventually be laid off. It also moved to end affirmative action in federal contracting.

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[zenosanalytic]

Yes, but also I just want to point out that there's nothing wrong with "Affirmative Action", since the term's been vilified in US political discussion for decades and the actual text behind it is very rarely mentioned.

I'm taking quotes here from Wikipedia's Executive Order 11246 page, but know that it takes "affirmative action" as a phrase from previous Executive Orders going back to Franklin Roosevelt attempting to accomplish the same thing(Here's The Actual Text. I'd've quoted from IT but it's formatted weird and doesn't transfer well to tumblr. Brackets are my own edits, done for clarity):

federal contractors and federally assisted construction contractors and subcontractors, who do over $10,000 in Government business in one year [are prohibited] from discriminating in employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin

[contractors are required to] take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

The Order then extends this to student-recruitment, sub-contractors, relevant unions, etc etc etc. All Affirmative Action does is 1)prevent institutions from discriminating against people, and 2)require them to Set and Follow clear policies for preventing future discrimination. That's it.

So all being "an affirmative action student" could possibly mean is that you were recruited by a school which had taken steps to ensure someone of your race, color, religion, sex, or national origins was not discriminated against in the application process. That's it! The conservative narrative on this of favoritism for historically oppressed people is and has always been Bullshit. All Affirmative Action has ever been, has been a policy for preventing discrimination in systems with a clear history of discrimination, and Republicans oppose that because they WANT discrimination in these systems.

Nothing to be a ashamed of in "benefiting"(ie being treated neutrally because of) Affirmative Action; everything Shameful about opposing it.