# An argument against DEI

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I don’t know enough about the military or Brown’s career to judge whether there was any merit-based reason to fire him, but based on what we’ve seen with everyone else Trump has fired, I assume there wasn’t.

I don’t think I’d count his appointment as an example of DEI, though.

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