Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) is quick rising as one of many brightest younger stars of the Republican Social gathering with a collection of star-turning performances at congressional hearings.
On Wednesday, he displayed this expertise whereas going through off in opposition to a so-called “DEI professional” named Dr. Shaun Harper throughout a congressional listening to called “Sacrificing Excellence for Ideology: The Actual Price of DEI.”
Harper is a College of Southern California professor who specializes in analysis targeted on racial and gender fairness and inclusion, in accordance with his faculty biography. Naturally, he served because the Home Democrats’ witness through the listening to.
Gill instantly sought to show Harper as an entire fraud by asking a handful of easy questions that somebody along with his expertise ought to be capable to reply with out problem.
These included:
Do you imagine America needs to be a color-blind society?
Ought to race be thought-about in employment practices?
Which race needs to be most popular in hiring practices?
Harper did not correctly reply these questions as soon as and was left stumped utterly at one level. On account of this, Gill was capable of make an entire mockery of the witness and the entire racist follow of DEI.
WATCH:
MUST WATCH: Rep. Brandon Gill (R) RIPS into “DEI professional” and exposes his racist DEI practices: @RepBrandonGill: “Ought to folks be handled in another way based mostly on their race? Sure or no.”
Dr. Harper: “It’s not a sure or no query…Individuals ought to obtain the companies, help, and… pic.twitter.com/Pgw2xmSJ8H
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 25, 2025
TRANSCRIPT
GILL: Do you imagine that America needs to be a color-blind society?
HARPER (hesitates): I…
GILL: Ought to folks be handled in another way based mostly on their race? It’s a sure or no query.
HARPER: It’s not a sure or no query…Individuals ought to obtain the companies, help, and treatments which can be owed to them due to systemic racism (in our society).
GILL: Do you imagine that race needs to be thought-about in employer hiring practices”
HARPER: I don’t imagine that white individuals are the one certified folks…
GILL: I didn’t ask that. I requested if race needs to be thought-about in employer hiring practices. And also you’re not going to intimidate me by slandering me as a racist.
HARPER: I didn’t name you a racist…
GILL: It’s a sure or no query. Ought to race be thought-about in employer hiring practices?
HARPER: I imagine that range needs to be thought-about by corporations and different organizations…
GILL: I’ll take that as sure. Which race do you suppose needs to be most popular?
HARPER: I don’t imagine {that a} single race needs to be most popular.
GILL: You simply stated that race needs to be thought-about in employer hiring practices.
HARPER: There’s going to be a transcript of this listening to. I didn’t say that.
GILL: Why don’t you clarify what you imagine?
HARPER: What I imagine is the demographic composition of workplaces in our nation’s army…Our Congress should mirror…
GILL: The racial demographic composition. Is that what you’re saying?
HARPER: Race, gender…
GILL: So, race needs to be a consider employer hiring practices. Is that what you’re saying?
(crosstalk)
GILL: You’re dodging the query. Who will get to find out which races are most popular?
HARPER (lengthy pause): I,I, already instructed you I don’t have a single…
GILL: You simply instructed me that the racial demographic needs to be taken under consideration in hiring practices.
HARPER: And it needs to be mirrored in all corporations and ranges of hiring organizations.
GILL: If two individuals are making use of for school. One is white and one is black. Ought to they be evaluated based mostly on the identical goal standards?
HARPER: I can’t reply that query for you as a proponent of holistic training.
What an embarrassing efficiency by Harper and a powerful line of questioning for Rep. Gill.
