The Bridge Was Too Woke
Incredibly, there were plenty of people who thought the bridge collapsed because of racial diversity and inclusion initiatives at U.S. companies, sometimes referred to as DEI. How is that supposed to work? Your guess is as good as ours. But it seems like you can blame pretty much anything on DEI these days.
“Did anti-white business practices cause this disaster?” one particularly dumb X user wrote on Tuesday.
Racists also called Baltimore’s mayor the “DEI mayor,” in tweets on Tuesday, continuing their long-practiced tradition of insisting anyone who is Black only got their job through diversity initiatives.
Other far-right figures insisted America can’t even build bridges anymore. The Francis Scott Key bridge that collapsed in Baltimore was first opened in 1977, to be clear. If you think there were structural issues with the bridge—and there’s no evidence that there was—take it up with the 1970s.
