A top Oregon state government official was abruptly suspended and placed on administrative leave after a former employee complained about his discriminatory hiring practices by basing selection decisions on merit and not gender identity.
Mike Shaw, who is the second-in-command under State Forester Cal Mukumoto at the Oregon Department of Forestry, was yanked from duty in early August at the height of the largest wildfire season in the state’s history following the complaint by the agency’s former DEI strategy officer Megan Donecker.
An obese tattooed Salem resident with purple hair, Donecker accused Shaw of looking “beyond gender and identity in hiring, seeking only candidates most qualified for the job,” Fox News reported, citing OregonLive.
Megan Donecker, a pink-haired DEI trainer, filed a complaint against Oregon’s forestry department deputy head Mike Shaw for hiring ‘candidates most qualified for the job’ rather than because of identity.
She also complained that queer staff felt unsafe because they couldn’t have… pic.twitter.com/VwrMBTIfJy
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 11, 2024
Donecker, who headed up the department’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion team, said that half a dozen queer staff members did not “feel safe or comfortable” on the job because they couldn’t have “conversation around pronouns.”
She reportedly first became irritated with Shaw for his favoring a slow and easy approach to incorporating DEI, suggesting that rapidly making changes was akin to driving at high speed on “an icy road.” Donecker claimed that her boss used the offensive metaphor to warn, “We don’t go 60 (mph) out of the gate, or we’re gonna crash the car.”
A self-described “accomplice to marginalized communities,” Donecker’s complaint was among several from employees and others who asserted that the department amounts to an “old boys’ club,” the Daily Mail reported. Since “standing down” at the Oregon Department of Forestry she has continued to work as a DEI consultant.
The complaint was among files released in response to a public records request by OregonLive.
Oregon’s lesbian left-wing Governor Tina Kotek, who was accused of corruption over hiring her wife, has weighed in on the matter with her office saying that it is fully behind efforts to “advance DEI.”
DEI has taken root in organizations like cancer in recent years and X users weighed in on the gross injustice in Oregon.
I hope he files a lawsuit and is awarded millions and millions of dollars. The only way this nonsense will end is when it starts costing the DEI cabal lots and lots of money.
— Mystery (@MysTery46787439) October 11, 2024
All of this is running head on into the Civil Rights Act
The lawsuits in the works showing the absurd Woke discrimination are going to hit SCOTUS soon
Then the Queer/DEI house of cards comes tumbling down— Jim Hanson (@JimHansonDC) October 11, 2024
Of course they put him on leave. It is ridiculous for him to think he can hire the best people for the job and then use science and proper English to decide what pronoun to address them by.
— Nice Guy Eddie (@pompousgrass) October 11, 2024
Oregon is pink lady land.
I wanna see her climb a tree and prune a branch.
But of course, they won’t do any of that, just collect the checks.
— Hector perdomi (@HPerdomi) October 11, 2024
Don’t get what you want, cry gender, pronoun and my tootie hurts and the first white guy in charge is gone.. This has to end, the left breeds fear, the best way to breed fear is allow the criminals and lunatics to take control and then tell people you’re the only one who can…
— FederalistIII (@FederalistIII) October 11, 2024
If Kamala wins people like Megan will be in charge.
— Shelley G (@ShelleyGldschmt) October 11, 2024
“Donecker, who describes herself as an avid Dungeons and Dragons player who lives with her wife, Jai, an adopted nine-year-old, and two cats, quit her job at the department in March after falling out with bosses,” the Daily Mail reported. ‘It is bad for women at forestry,’ Donecker said in an interview. ‘It is even worse if you are queer.'”
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