‘Dei Watch List’ label the names of health workers as ‘objectives’

February 5, 2025

This scares …

Federal health workers, mostly black, fear what come after their names were listed as objectives On a website called “Dei Surveillance List” NBC news reported.

It is not clear when the website appeared listing photos, names and public information of workers in health agencies, labeling them as “objectives.” The crimes of the workers that appear on the website include working in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Initiativessending donations to democratic elected officials and using pronouns in the BIOS.

The executive director of the American Public Health Association, Dr. Georges Benjamin, described the website as “fear tactic” After a colleague sent it. “This is a fear tactic to try to intimidate people who try to do their job and do it admirably,” said Benjamin.

“It is clear racism.”

On February 4, the site, with a note in the lower part that said: “A project of the American Charing Chentils”, a conservative surveillance group, linked more information about the workers under the head of the “objectives.” Later, the headlines changed to “files.” A worker who discovered his name was on the list called “disconcerting” feeling. “My name and my photo are there, and in 2025, it is very simple to search Google and look for someone’s house address and all kinds of things that potentially put me at risk,” said the unidentified person.

“I don’t know what the intention of the list is for. It’s just a scary place to be. “

As for acts of online harassment, Benjamin suggests that the police should be investigating the lists. After the executive order of President Donald Trump to dismantle the Federal level programs, a sense of anxiety and anger has assumed the position of DEI professionals related to the state of the industry and the changes that affect their future, according to CNN. “They (Dei professionals) are so incredibly frustrated that they are being lied and misrepresented as people too awakened and divisive that hate the United States,” said Shaun Harper, founder of the center of race and equity of the University of Southern South of California.

“And that is not those who are those people.”

This is not the first time that conservative groups have created such lists. In December 2024, Names of people in the army that were considered too centered on Dei They were sent to Pete Hegesh, the now new secretary of the Department of Defense. The employees of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed that they received “threats” Memos of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that direct them to put an end to any activities, works and research related to DEI. “The tone is aggressive. It is threatening consequences if we are not obedient. He asks us to inform the co -workers who do not meet, ”said a CDC doctor.

“There is a lot of fear and panic.”