BREAKING: Racial Equity Mandatory, Harris County Employees

Harris County has added Marxism to the conditions of employment

Harris County requires employees to advance “racial, social, and economic equity” as a condition of employment.

This revelation was discovered by Cowtown Caller in a recent Graphic Designer job description, posted by the county on Indeed.

“We work every day to build consensus for policies that advance racial, social, and economic equity,” the job listing says.

Racial equity is one of several Neo-Marxist phrases that has become popular in leftist circles since the Second Summer of Rage in 2020.

Racial equity differs from racial equality in that it requires institutions–– usually the government–– to discriminate based on arbitrary classes of perceived privilege. Equity is not about everyone getting the same opportunity but treating some people differently because of perceived past grievances.

Rather than abolishing discrimination, equity necessitates it. “Privileged classes”, often identified as white people, biological males, and/or heterosexuals, must be treated adversely compared to “protected class” so that these groups can be ostensibly helped.

Equity is one of many academic concepts like Critical Race Theory, that parents have fought against in Texas public school districts, in recent years.

Although the listing does not explicitly say ‘you must support racial equity’, by including the ideology in the position overview it makes it clear that this is an expectation.

Requiring a commitment to racial equity as part of employment requires public employees to assume a political ideology.

This is unconscionable for a bureaucrats’s role.

The machinery of government is supposed to be apolitical. Agencies are not supposed to promote ideologies by making them part of a job description.

Likewise, it is bizarre that a civilian institution would be interested in an employee’s political beliefs beyond rare circumstances like wartime where it is important to know if an agent in a relevant bureau is sympathetic to an enemy power.

Moreover, racial equity is wholly unrelated to the essential functions of a graphic designer. One does not need to have any particular ideology to make infographics for the county precint.

This requirement to work toward’s racial equity was not an accidental garbling of a job description by job board aggregator, identical language is used in the job description made available on Harris County’s official website (screenshot above).

This comes after several efforts to purge marxist and racist ideologies from public institutions.

Governor Abbott signed legislation to ban Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) offices at state agencies like universities, in 2023.

Similarly, Texas A&M banned DEI statements from the employment application process last summer.

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