• [deleted]@piefed.world
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          The FBI quietly issued guidance this past spring lifting a categorical hiring ban on applicants who had previously engaged in prostitution, and said that it would instead consider the context of the behaviour in at least some cases. The bureau made a similar change regarding bestiality.

          "We did not want to punish victims of bestiality, victims who were trafficked. We did not want to make it an automatic disqualification for the FBI to consider you,” Patel said.

          If thay was what they meant they should have written about ‘not excluding victims of’ instead of ‘consider the context’.

          Thank you for the link!

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            If that was actually the intent they could have avoided all the drama by adding broader language to the entire document allowing exceptions on a case by case basis for prohibited behaviors which occurred while the applicant was a victim of trafficking and coercion. This sounds a lot more like an excuse made after the fact to defend an indefensible decision.

            I really hope someone in congress follows up on this and demands to know how many agents were hired with these behaviors on their record, and of those how many had been identified as victims of trafficking. Make them go on record with it.

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    Alternative interpretation:

    This entire incident was a misguided, half-drunk attempt to make the FBI inclusive and welcoming for furries.

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      This feels like misdirection away from something else going on, but there’s so many dumpster fires all going on at the same time, it’s hard to say.

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        Oh I know, but try to put yourself in the mindset of someone who is prevalent to making snap judgments based on aesthetics, who has never actually interacted with any furries, looking at the furry community from the outside.

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      they looked at their IT department and decided they should have more of those kind of people

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        Exactly, they were like, “shit all the people who know how to actually make computers work hate our fucking guts, how do we seem more friendly to them?”

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      Maybe include that elon still wants to make catgirls but they do want them to have human rights so lable them as animals but then you have to worry about beastiality

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        “Human” catgirls would still be women and they’re already attacking women’s rights as it is. They would first need to overturn Bush II’s ban on human-animal hybrids that promised better organ transplants.