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Brian Schatz: And we have the Fair Housing Law, we have equal employment law, like you are not allowed to discriminate in housing. And…

On the recordFebruary 5, 2025
And we have the Fair Housing Law, we have equal employment law, like you are not allowed to discriminate in housing. And so just to understand, they are not trying to just like cancel these programs related to DEI; they are trying to cancel the civil rights movement, like in statutory law, and defund anything that mentions a woman or mentions gender or mentions civil rights, right? And these are like long-settled questions. And so everybody needs--we don't need to spend all night talking about this, but we do need to--like to me, when I saw that thing where it was maybe DEI was the cause of a plane crash, I thought, this is when the DEI thing jumped the shark. And as I see these pages, you can Google ``jumping the shark'' later on.
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Brian Schatz
Democratic · Hawaii
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Feb 5, 2025

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