First--let me say this post has nothing to do with any politics, left/right, etc.--and while some people may think this post is "too soon", this isn't Facebook with your mom's friend's cousin who you might see next Turkey Day where you may worry what she might say (because you actually worry).
It's a blog, and while I am not daily as I once was, it's still a blog, so it all happens in real-time.
And I also don't care what your mom's friend's cousin thinks about what I say on FB.
Back to the topic at hand...
Will there be things to look at after the fires, the devastation they caused, after this is all done?
Absolutely.
Is putting that you support Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion one of the issues to look at?
That would be a huge MF NO.
These people--these people who tell you to not be "Woke" and that DEI is BS--really want you to believe that somehow, this equaling of power for everyone, is taking away from other things.
That you just can't have both. That somehow valuing a diverse workforce and community, that having equity for everyone, actually pretty simple things to not only consider (because you at least have to start there) and do, isn't worth it. That it doesn't make a difference.
But it's really about keeping power and money in their hands.
It's like these Old (and new I guess) White People who are like "I'm not PC! HR can take that! We don't need..."--and on and on and on--those same people keeping up traditions of patriarchy, sexism, racism, and xenophobia. So while I feel for all of those who've lost so much--and I can't even comprehend all of it as I do not live in LA--I can't help but say for James Woods, who throws things out like this at this time (and I can understand people's anger) as well as his past hashtags on Gaza--not discriminating between innocent people and actual terrorists--he's just the picture of bullshit.
And while I do not wish for anyone's house to be burnt to the ground, families and children having to figure out what comes next after something so horrific--including the Woods' family--I know there are people out there who think in some ways, karma came to kind of bite him back.
And I'll just leave it at that.
Thoughts are out there to everyone who's been affected by the fires in LA.
