Maga’s ‘DEI hire’ taunt is an age-old grievance reignited. And it’s spreading | Gaby Hinsliff

Wayne Brown was a trail, a man who made a small piece of his history by becoming the first black fire head in Britain.

He made his way as a young firefighter, as they escalated in the ranks, as the audience served during the dark times, including the 2005 London terrorist attacks and Greenville fire.

But in January last year, at the age of 54, Take up his private lifeLeave a note saying: “I can’t do it anymore.” The investigation, which he heard, has become increasingly sad after bombing for years through hostile social media publications, complaints to the employer, freedom of inquiries and emails from an unknown account that appears to be a campaign against him. Days before his death, Brown taught The investigation will be officially investigated To demand his CV to have a master’s degree in business management, which actually began but it has not ended.

Whether these are disturbing complaints – what a female deputy described “as” ongoing harassment from many individuals ” – or that the legal violations were not completely, was not to decide the investigator, and her job was not to investigate the reason for the apparently attracted a large black officer.

However, there was something in the picture that friends and family drew from a man in a really stressful job, carrying an additional burden that will be at least familiar to the “first” in their field: the uncomfortable feeling that the world is waiting for you only to fall on your face on your face.

This abbreviation is the gift: Dei is the American version of what the British are often called EDI, or the diversity and inclusion of equality, Ground Zero of Donald Trump War on Woke. The president’s strange and free attempt to blame A deadly collision in the air between a helicopter and a plane In Washington, January was in DEI’s employment policies enough, but the speed with which some Americans adopted the idea that was chilling. A coherent ball of anger on the Internet crystallized, as it was swinging at a terrible speed of Captain Rebecca Lubbash, a female helicopter of the female army, who was killed in the accident. Her family and sad friends were forced to defense, noting that she was at the top of 20 % of graduating students, apparently the information is not required by the male crew on the plane. But for Dei Warriors, its qualifications do not seem important. She was a woman, right? It is clear that it should be the weak link.

After weeks, Trump The Black Air Force shot Charles S Brown JuniorDefense Minister, Beit Higseth, as a “waking shit” hero in the army, alongside Admiral Lisa Franchiti (who was the first woman to lead the US Navy) and three senior Pentagon characters. General Brown was a former fighter pilot and had 40 years of his country’s distinguished service, while Higseth is the former individual Fox News and did not exceed the rank of the pioneer in the National Army Guard, who prompted his candidacy as defense minister to reports that he left two jobs in the old warriors organizations after that Objects of mismanagement financial, aggressive sugar and sexual behaviorWhich denied Higseth again and again. “Was it because of his skin tone? Or his skill? We will never know, but he always doubts about it,” Higseth has once wrote about General Brown. “Since he made the race card one of his largest communication cards, it really doesn’t matter,” Higseth has admitted. In order to contempt for the Dei rental, which is a responsibility for the job that should never be allowed to rise, it should not be incompetent or even employed through any official diversity plan. Just a envy of it, although you are not a straight white man, is a cause of doubt – especially if you have the audacity to raise the hero on the ladder.

Britain is not America, or at least not yet. We are still the country where it was “just a big deal” (such as Rishi Sonac put itIn the end, the British Asian Prime Minister must start, and since the fateful Nigel Faraj proposal is that diversity officers in the newly -led councils must begin to search for new jobs, have sparked sharp warnings of unions that cannot be expelled in this country for political reasons. (They could also add that diversity staff were not some suspicious left -wing effects, but most of them are people working to ensure councils meet their legal obligations under the Equality Law, where some reform consultants may be about to discover.)

But the stadium stadium in “Dei Hire” nevertheless feeds an old complaint, which is an inherent feeling that someone has a job that could have been for you. It creates an atmosphere as it can be said with confidence quickly as it has become uncomfortable in the polite company with confidence. Perhaps the most corrosive ever, it nourishes the annoying suspicion that already lurks within the most confident people.

Successful women, often men succeed from unconventional backgrounds, sometimes complain of “”Antichrist syndromeAnd the illogical fear that anyone now will penetrate you as fraud. You do not belong being He – is. Although everyone makes errors, fraudser syndrome makes it loom on the horizon and more shameful within your head than.

For politicians and others in the eyes of the audience, social media has long turned what was one day whispers behind your back in a constant and general barrage of sexual or racist assault that elevates even the confidence of even the most skin. You can complain about the platform’s supervisors if you want, but there are a lot of fat that will work in general – which leaves a choice between leaving it or learning to ignore it, which is an option that no one will consider acceptable if the same insults are the minorities out of a bar. The future argues in equality in the future, in the presentation of the Committee to choose equality in the House of Commons A new investigation in the cohesion of societyThe platforms that do not guarantee reporting mechanisms that do not enjoy female and minority users with the same service in which anyone else can be in violation of the 2010 Equality Law.

But the real danger, perhaps, is from the same stadium the ridicule and the knee biases leaks into real life talks. Britain is not America, not yet. But only if we make an effort to keep it in this way.