<p>One of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttgieg&#8217;s main objectives is to push equity into every facet of his department&#8217;s actions and policies. He received those marching orders from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-unleashes-total-transformation-of-government-with-equity-action-plans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Joe Biden</a>, who signed an executive order on day one in office mandating that the whole of the federal government be used to advance racial equity.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s why if it seems like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ilhan-omar-pushes-buttigieg-for-direct-action-after-ohio-train-derailment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Buttigieg</a> is a bit slow to address safety issues that actually matter to the average American — such as the hazardous train derailment in<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/we-basically-nuked-a-town-with-chemicals-critics-blast-detonation-from-train-derailment" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> East Palestine, Ohio</a> — it&#8217;s because he is. In fact, the &#8220;Safety First&#8221; portion of the Department of Transportation&#8217;s <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230214190430/https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/safetyfirst/us-department-transportation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> hasn&#8217;t been updated since May 2020 — which speaks volumes about how much the president&#8217;s administration actually care about preventing harm.</p>
<p>Instead, their focus is on making sure that the federal government uses its might and power to redistribute tax dollars toward &#8220;underserved communities&#8221; and make sure that agencies use hiring practices that focus not on merit, but on skin color and other immutable traits.</p>
<p>On Monday, Buttigieg made it a point to address the racial makeup of construction workers before even addressing the situation in East Palestine.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">While at the National Association of Counties Conference, Buttigieg <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/buttigieg-white-construction-workers-taking-jobs-communities-color" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bemoaned</a>, &#8220;We have heard way too many stories from generations past of infrastructure where you got a neighborhood, often a neighborhood of color, that finally sees the project come to them, but everyone in the hard hats on that project, doing the good paying jobs, don&#8217;t look like they came from anywhere near the neighborhood.&#8221;</p>
<p>What does it matter if the person wielding a jackhammer is black, brown, yellow, or white? It doesn&#8217;t. What should matter is that he has the competency to not hurt himself, his coworkers, or the public.</p>
<p>Well, to the Democrats it matters a great deal. In fact, equity is one of the Department of Transportation&#8217;s four main priorities according to the website: Climate and Sustainability, Equity, Safety, and Transformation.</p>
<p>As mentioned, the Department&#8217;s &#8220;Safety First&#8221; website still touts the goals of Secretary Elaine Chao, who was running the show for former President Donald Trump.</p>
<p>That sort of speaks for itself as to where Buttgieg&#8217;s priorities are.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the equity tab <a href="https://www.transportation.gov/priorities/equity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proudly proclaims</a>, &#8220;For the first time, DOT has centered Equity as a Department-wide strategic goal. This is a critical step to institutionalizing equity across the Department’s policies and programs, with the aim of reducing inequities across our transportation systems and the communities they affect.&#8221;</p>
<p>Equity is their central focus and they are quite proud of it. What does that entail for Americans?</p>
<p>As Professor Victor Davis Hanson explained to The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-unleashes-total-transformation-of-government-with-equity-action-plans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">last spring</a>, what that means is that &#8220;in reductionist fashion, any inequality is due to racism or bias and the government must have the wisdom and morality to punish perceived victimizers and redistribute to supposed victims.”</p>
<p>“All else does not count — not merit, not tragedies, not health, not class, not work ethic, not family structures, not culture, not anything — except the elite in charge will always be exempt from the ramifications of their own equity ideology,” he explained.</p>
<p>So maybe that&#8217;s why Buttigieg waited 10 days before commenting on the train crash in East Palestine. It just didn&#8217;t affect him. As Hanson explained, he&#8217;s immune from the ramifications of his own policies. What moved Buttigieg to comment on it wasn&#8217;t a concern for the matter at hand, but that conservative media and even some Democrats were hounding him for a response.</p>
<p>More likely than not, he will probably quickly go back to focusing on justifying racial discrimination through the lens of equity. But perhaps his team will update the &#8220;Safety First&#8221; tab to at least give off the appearance that they are concerned with, well, putting safety first.</p>
<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.</em></p>

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