Appraisers Freed from DEI Propaganda
With a few swift strokes of the pen, President Trump has dismantled the divisive and misguided diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) apparatus that had taken root across the federal government. On just his second day in office, Trump ordered the closure of all federal DEI offices, placing their employees on paid leave and signaling a decisive end to the era of government-sanctioned social justice activism masquerading as fairness and equality.
This bold move immediately resulted in the removal of all appraisal bias propaganda from the official whitehouse.gov website. Attempts to access remarks previously made by Vice President Harris regarding alleged racial bias in home appraisals now return a “page not found” error message. The implications are clear – the lies and false accusations maligning real estate appraisers as discriminating against people of color, along with calls to forcibly diversify the appraisal profession for political reasons, have been firmly rejected by the new administration. Appraisers across the nation are breathing a sigh of relief, knowing these baseless attacks on their integrity and professionalism have been halted, freed at last from the slanderous accusations of discrimination leveled against them and their industry by agenda-driven bureaucrats and race-baiting politicians.
One of the first casualties was the insidious Property Appraisal and Valuation Equity (PAVE) initiative, which had promulgated pernicious propaganda falsely maligning the integrity of America’s hardworking real estate appraisers. In the end, PAVE’s legacy was little more than baseless smears against an industry that already operated under strict non-discrimination laws and regulations. PAVE’s dissolution marked a return to common sense and a rejection of the previous administration’s misguided crusade against a vital cog in the nation’s housing market.
With the DEI cancer now excised from the body politic, the days of appraisers being unfairly targeted by activist bureaucrats appear to be over, at least for now.
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