Portland Mayor Keith Wilson has ordered city bureaus to change the wording for city programs that benefit minority groups to comply with President Donald Trump’s anti-DEI directives. The move marks the city’s most significant policy shift in response to Trump’s second term agenda.
Ugh, it'll just get worse later. I get not wanting to lose the money right now, but changing the names of things will surely turn into something bigger & worse.. Sigh. I miss PDX Women in Tech so much, but the local sponsors stopped funding DEI before Trump even got into office. 😢
Counterpoint: if the only change they’re making is to “wording,” that sounds a lot like shining Trump on and continuing to do things as they were before. I’d be fine with that.
But it wont be.
A) we’ll see. B) a delaying action is also resistance.
A) We HAVE seen. The precedent has already been set, numerous times across the nation. B) Yes, but this is exactly NOT that.
Meanwhile: www.kuow.org/stories/seat...
Booooo
Godfuckin damn it... And I ranked that guy like third or fourth! He's the taxi driver, right?
Portland is also suing, but doesn’t want to get cut off from funds while the case is pending. We should complain, tho, as this is a slippery slope.
Oh look, another old white guy in power capitulating to fascists. He’s a coward and needs to be booted.
The more I think about this, the angrier I get that he’s making Portland look weak. Trump wanted Portland to fall and he’s able to watch it happen in real time. The only people who are actually safe with this decision are straight, able-bodied, white, cis men.
Seattle on the other hand is suing.
White cisman does exactly what people expect of white cisman, "burn everyone who is not like me for money"
That's right: bow down. JFC, what assholery.
Spineless
This guy wouldn’t pull that shit.
Ugh. Complying in advance.
There was a reason I didn't vote for this dude. This is it.
The way he presents this, as if we're just going to tweak the wording and after all, minorities benefit, right? (implying but not stating that administration of programs will still be to those in need)....
How do we recall this fucker
I wish more voters had looked up how his employees feel about him/his company. Of course, they've cleaned the shit outta the Glassdoor profile, but thankfully the Indeed one still shows the actual rot.
Right?? Its not easy to research everything about every candidate-my ONE grief with RCV is that its more work on the part of the voter-local media really needs to put this sort of thing into the public eye.
Absolutely. I think the Mercury did a decent job at least making an attempt to put something up on each of the candidates, but I don't think they even thought to look at his company's page, which is kinda frustrating. Should be the first thing you're interested in when a CEO is running, imo.
> These grants make up about 4% of the city’s annual budget ugggggggg
This is leadership, making really hard decisions for the overall best interest of the city. As far as I can see, at worse, it means elimination of quotas. This doesn't preclude traditionally discriminated class owned entities from getting contracts. So what's the real problem?
Dude you don’t even live here
So what, I live in Beaverton. I have a vested interest in the continued success of Portland.
Between this “maybe Chamberlain was right” take and your “liberty” position on taxation you come across pretty intent on seeing the city fold
Honestly, my fear is that PDX loses its tax base (wealth exodus, businesses shutting down, etc.) while acquiring more and more homeless people. Why do we have the highest per capita homeless population in the US? I really don't know the answer, but it scares me.
homelessnesshousingproblem.com
This is interesting. I like Gov. Kotek. Perhaps her priorities (housing) will work, and will meaningfully reduce our homelessness challenges. Thanks!
Glad it’s useful. It really helped me understand the issue.
I'm all for standing up against bullies, in general, and Trump, in particular, but gotta be smart about it. We must pick the right battles. Not a libertarian re. taxes. I don't mind paying them at all. I am, however, a realist. I want OR to create aa better business climate so we can thrive.
Right, and that hard-nosed “realism” is feeding my assumption that the 64 in your handle is your birth year, that you came of age under Reagan and refined your political sensibility in the Clinton years, and that you think business leadership represents a special, perhaps superior class of thinking
Why is it so important to pigeon hole me. I can't stand Reagan. I am all for democratic socialism but w/ really good safeguards against corruption and conflicts of interest. I do like to hear different takes on important issues and am open to changing my positions.
I am looking for an approach to take to get you to stop calling bad things good. The name for the theory of political economy containing that swirl of ideas you’re asserting is “neoliberalism.” Despite the failure of neoliberal ideology to ever actually deliver on its promises of shared prosperity,
all it’s ever done is drive a wedge into the middle class, enriching smaller and smaller numbers of primarily white men to a ludicrous degree while pushing most of my generation into poverty. Yet the slim economic successes of your generation cling to it like phlogiston proponents after Lavoisier
Give it up like the rest of us. Move on
Okay. Heres your chance. If we capitulate now out of fear of losing 350 million because of WORDS, and make it easier for the vulnerable to be harmed. Then what will we be willing to sacrifice when he demands MORE? Because he WILL demand more.
I think it's situation-by-situation. Also, I'd like the mayor to look into working w/ other entities on joint legal strategies. Intrigued by Seattle's resistance. Nice of them to take one for the team. Naive as I likely am, I don't see his capitulations as being overwhelmingly irreversible.
Lol "Situation by situation." So. Youll support these decisions and more and more people lose more and more rights and access to liberty until you yourself is affected directly. Got it.
"Im standing up against bullies, but not against those who fall in line and capitulate". Seems rational.
This is actually the opposite of leadership. It is cowardice and capitulation.
Something as little as changing the dot on a lower case i at the request of a fascist is capitulation, and NO ONE should do that. The only acceptable answer to fascist demands is to lie right back at the liars, or straight up say Fuck You. Giving a millimeter is giving a mile with this regime.
Perhaps, but $300 million is a lot of money. Tell me how you avoid losing it, or give me a list of casualties from losing this money before we decide it's worth it to "fight" this. Would U be taking any of these $$ bullets?
I wonder if the mayor has considered the simple expedient of just lying about it.
If CBS crumpled in the face of an asinine trump lawsuit, I don’t see the City of Portland fairing much better when they get accused of lying to a federal agency.
maybe they should've tried lying
? This comment makes zero sense
Keep documenting the atrocities. History will have say.
Can we please stop electing white men as mayors of this city? None of them have any spines.
FR this city is addicted to electing identical spineless white dudes mayor.
I'm gonna DEI so hard when I get into city government it'll make keith's little weenie head spin
total weenie move from notorious weenie keith wilson
Guy looks like strong wind would shatter him, no surprise he's got no spine.
Pathetic pos
Here’s the form to contact Mayor Keith Wilson and tell him what you think of him caving to Trump’s fascist and hateful anti-DEI demands. www.portland.gov/help/contact...
Folding to Nazis.
🤦🏻♀️disconnect: “City Administrator Michael Jordan has been tasked w overseeing the [DEI] policy language change.” - opb $320K/yr Jordan, and powerful City Attorney Robert Taylor, both white males (and history of paternalistic deeds), 📌are advising newbie Mayor Wilson on DEI language & law. Whyyyy?
Shame on City Attorney Robert Taylor. He refuses to investigate the secret deliberations by a quorum of councilors who are openly violating ORS 192.630, ORS 192.640, and ORS 192.650. He is fostering corruption on the PDX city council. www.opb.org/article/2025...
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The only way I was able to stop from being bullied was to punch him in the face. Got suspended from school. But the bullying stopped.