‘Disaster equity’ in FEMA meeting resurfaces: ‘We should focus efforts on LGBTQIA’ victims

FEMA’s history of misplaced priorities resurfaced concerning Hurricane Helene as an agency roundtable came to the fore exploring a supposed “Queer and Present Danger.”

The airline industry, military, government-run schools and basically anywhere that woke culture has permeated can account for some level of injustice or incompetence facilitated in the name of equity. Now, as yet another disaster under the Biden-Harris administration found Americans feeling abandoned by the government, a panel discussion featured the call to focus on “LGBTQIA people.”

“LGBTQIA people and people who have been disadvantaged already are struggling. They already have their own things to deal with. So you add a disaster on top of that, it’s just compounding on itself,” said Tyler Atkins, an emergency management specialist with the Federal Emergency Management Agency as he moderated the pronoun-packed conversation from March 2023.

The clip has been viewed more than 10 million times since the End Wokeness X account shared it Sunday evening. It also included talk of the “culture of emergency management.”

Maggie Jarry, the emergency coordinator for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, contended, “The shift that we’re seeing right now is a shift in emergency management from utilitarian principles, where everything is designed for the greatest good for the greatest amount of people, to disaster equity.”

“But we have to do more,” she insisted. “We have to look at policies and understand what extent they have disadvantaged communities that have less assets, communities that have pre-existing vulnerabilities in accessing disaster-related recovery supports.”

The call, which included directors from FEMA’s Office of External Affairs and Homeland Security’s Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, referenced a 2022 article titled, “Queer and present danger: understanding the disparate impacts of disasters on LGBTQ+ communities,” that alleged a “systemic bias” limited access to disaster relief for people who waved the rainbow standard.

Last year, as a wildfire ravaged the community of Lahaina in Maui, Hawaii, the danger of prioritizing equity was readily apparent when the metric impacted the use of water to curb the devastation.

“Equity? Are you freaking kidding me?” former FEMA Administrator Michael Brown said to Fox News host Laura Ingraham as officials in Hawaii were accused of delaying their response to a request to refill reservoirs to fight the fire. “With regard to actually releasing water for firefighters during a wildfire, and you’re talking about equity? My God, Laura, I didn’t expect to hear that on the program tonight. That’s absolutely unbelievable.”

The agency’s positions had hardly changed under the current administration, seeking to maintain the woke stranglehold on the use of American taxpayer dollars through Vice President Kamala Harris, as a report on the 2022-2026 strategic plan listed FEMA’s first goal as being to “instill equity as a foundation of emergency management.”

From there, FEMA saw its second goal as being to “lead the whole community in climate resilience” with the third seeking to “promote and sustain a ready FEMA and a prepared nation.”

“Disgusting” was a consensus among reactions to the government’s priorities as bureaucrats behind desks far from the disaster seemingly debated valuing one life over another based on sexual orientation.

Kevin Haggerty

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