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Frederick Douglass always amazes me.

I hate to think this, but with today's US Gov and this being a .gov site, I wonder when it will be purged.

I just went to the wayback machine to the save the page to be safe, but nice to see it was already saved!

Yeah, it talks about how the author was progressive for his era and pulled a quote about how Presidents have a tradition of serving only two terms. If this article isn’t pulled for being a gross example of DEI, I’ll eat my hat.

Good article though, well worth saving.

You need to put "gross example of DEI" in qoutes if you want to indicate your disagreement with it. The way it stands in your comment, it reads like you agree with a classification the current fascist regime would make..

FWIW, I got what labster and understand why you commented.

But what I do not know is why the down votes ? To me, both of you seems to agree with my intent, am I missing something ?

You put the content first, they put angry reactionary politics first. Fighting fire with fire just fuels the flame.

Countries may go through developmental trajectories similar to startups—progressively striving for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) ideals in the beginning, only to later regress to traditional ways.

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