Last week, as America blew by Martin Luther King Jr. Day at 100 mph to inaugurate the most racially divisive president possible, Silicon Valley’s chief enablers chortled.

Mark Zuckerberg, that permed paragon of manhood, called for more “masculine energy” while dismantling DEI at Meta. Oh, Zuck also said corporate culture had become “neutered.”

Let’s look at what DEI actually is: It’s diversity, equity and inclusion, the culmination of King’s dream, which is to have a racially just society. What do the broligarchs say? 

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The hell with that dream, we gotta make a buck.

Now that X, Facebook, Instagram and other platforms turn away from Photos of What You Had For Dinner and fact-checking to enabling gay-bashing, transphobia and the other new blood sports of the Trump era, a collective loud gasp from progressive San Francisco and the Bay Area is in order.

“You want women to be able to succeed and … have companies that can unlock all the value from having great people no matter what their background or gender … but I think these things can all always go a little far,” testosterone-obsessed Zuckerberg clucked on Joe Rogan’s podcast broshow recently.

Yeah, this equality thing has gotten completely out of hand. Can’t have this sort of thing mucking up our ability to suck up to the blow-dried chartreuse-dyed-hair, make-up-smeared face of our 47th president. 

What does Donald Trump make of all this?

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