Judge rules that anti-woke is just racism

[sheshe2]

You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a rancid bigot.

"'Have we no shame?'" Judge William Young asked, in an unmistakeable echo of attorney Joseph Welch, who famously punctured Joe McCarthy’s popularity with his simple plea for decency."

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-06-18T20:35:50.738Z

Earlier this week, a federal judge in Boston explicitly called out the Trump administration for its “palpably clear” discrimination against racial minorities and LGBTQ+ Americans in a case involving canceled grants from the National Institutes of Health.

“Have we no shame?” Judge William Young asked, in an unmistakeable echo of attorney Joseph Welch, who famously punctured Joe McCarthy’s popularity with his simple plea for decency.

Seventy-five years ago, McCarthy and his sidekick Roy Cohn hunted Communists. Now, Donald Trump, who was mentored by Cohn, hunts a different kind of subversive. In executive orders signed during his first weeks in office, he targeted “Illegal DEI and DEIA policies,” claiming that they violate civil rights laws. He declared that “it is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female,” and branded “efforts to eradicate the biological reality of sex” as discriminatory against women and girls.

This is a radical misstatement of the law. No court in the land has ever held that DEI — whatever that means — constitutes racial discrimination, or that allowing trans people to participate in society amounts to gender discrimination. It also defies the medical and scientific consensus about sex, gender, and biology. But no matter! The president redefined reality by executive fiat, and then instructed his minions to carry out a purge consistent with his edict.

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/william-young-trump-dei-lgbtq

[surfered]

1. Well, duh?

[malaise]

4. Double duh!

Racism,on steroids

[electric_blue68]

2. Ty, Judge Young. Truth!

[Passages]

3. Yep.

This is not rocket science.

[Cha]

5. Good on Judge William Young!

Mahalo, she

Racist Crocks of Shite!

Hawaii Rejects Anti-DEI Propaganda!

[UpInArms]

6. Decency is absent

in this maladminstration

[ancianita]

7. It's why they're called JUDGES. The racist anti-woke has to be overruled by judges. Such is Good Precedent

for future rulings against anti-DEI, which happens to be in the same category as anti-woke.

[Johonny]

8. Obviously

There is no woke agenda, but there is a bigoted anti-woke agenda. . .

[paleotn]

9. Yes. And the sun rises in the east. Snow is generally cold.

But still, thank you Judge Young.

[soldierant]

13. You have to state the obvious with MAGA

and especially for its leader, who would not recognize reality if it came to his door and showed RealID.

[SouthBayDem]

10. A judge nominated by RONALD REAGAN.

https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/young-william-g

(Likely with recommendations from the MA senators of 1985, John Kerry and Ted Kennedy.)

[CatWoman]

11. ....

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[Skittles]

16. thanks for this!

I had wondered why the judge would be "hesitant"; I didn't realize how rare it was to speak truth to the power like this.

[B.See]

12. And anti-DEI is just PRO SEGREGATION.

And TSF knows it. Removes a bust of MLK from the White House, puts up 88 ft. white supremacy poles, and rolls out red carpets for Afrikaners while banning travel from mostly Black and Brown countries.

But hey, he's not a racist. After all, "four bits" likes him.

[sheshe2]

15. "four bits"

Well played.

Oh and I agree with everything you stated.

[Skittles]

14. he gets it

he truly gets it

[Initech]

17. It was bullshit started by conspiracy theorists to sow racism as petty revenge for Trump being ousted.

[AllaN01Bear]

18. ding .this x 1000

[SheltieLover]

19. Excellent!

[patphil]

20. The Republicans want everyone to be brain dead zombies.

To be woke, that is awake, is to be able to see, hear, and understand what's going on around us. It's no wonder these people are anti-woke. It's better for them if we're ignorant of what they're doing; easier for them to enrich themselves at our expense.

[AntiFascist]

21. K&R! We need to bring back "woke," throw it in their faces! n/t