The shock strategy implemented upon his return to the White House by Donald Trump engaged in a radical takeover of the government, its agencies, its bureaucracy, made a very venerable victim on Tuesday, January 21: executive decree number 11246, founding text of the fight against discrimination in federal employment, signed in 1965 by President Lyndon Johnson in the wake of the struggles for civil rights, and on which six decades had since been built of institutional efforts in Washington DC in favor of equal opportunities.
In one of dozens of new executive orders frantically signed since his inauguration Monday – titled, not without sinister irony, “Ending Unlawful Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity” – Trump dismantles with the stroke of his pen what anti-racist milestone which had contributed to shaping an American conception of equality of opportunity, always perfectible but gradually enriched to include discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability, crossing since L
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