The president’s habit for offering embarrassing “Bushisms” is apparently spreading to other administration officials.
The Washington Post noted today that the Office of Special Counsel publishes information offering government employees information about discrimination and their rights in the workplace. For years, this information has contained information about discrimination based on one’s sexual orientation.
Naturally, the new Republican appointee placed in charge of the agency, Scott Bloch, has “removed references to sexual orientation from a discrimination complaint form, training slides, a brochure titled ‘Your Rights as a Federal Employee’ and other documents.”
The motivation for the change is pretty obvious. The administration is unconcerned about protecting gay government employees who face discrimination and so it is censoring information about their rights from government documents.
This is offensive, to be sure, but there’s a funny part. Confronted with the news, Bloch offered this gem: “It is wrong to discriminate against any federal employee, or any employee, based on discrimination.”
Classic. I couldn’t make this stuff up if I tried.