If Leftists Believe DEI Radicalism Is So Popular, Why Are They Whitewashing Their Support For It?
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It only took a shellacking at the ballot box, but some leftists seem to be slowly realizing that their harmful race and gender politics aren’t selling with voters as much as they’d hoped.
Last week, it was reported that former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg axed his “he/him” pronouns from his social media accounts. The discovery came amid speculation that Buttigieg may run to become the Democrat nominee for Michigan’s 2026 Senate seat, which came about after Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., announced he will not be seeking reelection.
President Trump won Michigan by 1.4 points during the 2024 election.
But Buttigieg is hardly the only notable leftist to seemingly whitewash his public participation in Democrats’ race and gender games. Several career bureaucrats also appear to have altered portions of their social media profiles that signaled their endorsement of neo-Marxist ideology.
According to the American Accountability Foundation (AAF), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Stefanie (Erskine) Anderson “discretely updated her LinkedIn title from [Diversity Equity Inclusion and Accessibility] DEIA advisor to Public Health Advisor/Workforce Advisor.” The watchdog group claimed the change represents “a clear attempt to dodge Donald Trump’s new executive order,” which aims to terminate all DEI-related programs, offices, policies, and activities throughout the federal government.
Anderson appears to have liked a post from then-President Biden’s Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, which provided readers with a toolkit identifying types of so-called “health misinformation.”
The CDC’s Reginald Jones has also seemingly altered his job title on his LinkedIn profile.
According to AAF, the job title head previously listed under Jones’ profile name read, “Public Health Professional & Class of 2024 Presidential Management Fellow” and “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Change Agent.” Now, Jones’ LinkedIn profile does not list his DEI title under his profile name.
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Karen Comfort similarly appears to have gutted mentions of DEI in her job title on LinkedIn. Screenshots of Comfort’s profile published by AAF indicate the health bureaucrat no longer lists her job title as “Senior Executive Deputy Assistant for Equity, Diversity & Inclusion and Chief Diversity Officer.” Her profile currently lists her title as “Deputy Assistant Secretary at HHS with expertise in Public Administration.”
An X account seemingly belonging to Comfort signals her support for Democrats and Black Lives Matter.
A Changing Culture
These officials’ apparent attempts to hide their track records of involvement with the left’s race and gender insanity are revealing.
For politicians like Buttigieg, it shows that Democrats’ gender ideology has become incredibly toxic among the American electorate. Contrary to the narratives spun inside their leftist hivemind, the average citizen is not on board with shoehorning transgenderism and LGBT radicalism into every facet of society — and that includes declaring one’s “pronouns.”
Meanwhile, career bureaucrats’ purported scrubbing of DEI-related positions and work from their social media profiles indicates how these left-wing actors intend to skirt Trump’s efforts to eradicate such damaging ideology from the federal government. By simply rebranding, they can maintain their positions of power to thwart the will of the president and the 77 million Americans who voted for him.
Conservatives still have a lot of work ahead of them in defeating DEI and its offshoots. But the aforementioned examples showcasing leftists’ willingness to hide their support for it from the public indicate that progress has been made in the right direction.
