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Clarence Page: Deriding DEI is the right’s attempt at a polite way to attack civil rights

“DEI mayor.”

That’s how a troll on X, formerly Twitter, labeled a news clip of Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott delivering an update on the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge after it was struck by a massive cargo ship.

“It’s going to be so, so much worse,” the tweet concluded. “Prepare accordingly.”

I don’t know precisely what we are supposed to prepare for — and I imagine the troll doesn’t know, either.

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