Elon Musk made heads explode by asking federal employees what they did last week. AP sputters that this has caused “confusion and anger,” not to mention “turmoil.” HHS shrieks that lists of activities/accomplishments will be read by “malign foreign actors.” Why all the hysteria over asking Swamp bureaucrats what they have been doing with the time we pay them for? A chatroom frequented by members of federal intelligence agencies offers a clue:

Apparently DEI selects for degeneracy and depravity in federal hiring.

Rufo reports:

According to our sources, the sex chats were legitimized as part of the NSA’s commitment to “diversity, equity and inclusion.” Activists within the agency used LGBTQ+ “employee resource groups” to turn their kinks and pathologies into official work duties. According to the current NSA employee, these groups “spent all day” recruiting activists and holding meetings with titles such as “Privilege,” “Ally Awareness,” “Pride,” and “Transgender Community Inclusion.” And they did so with the full support of NSA leadership, which declared that DEI was “not only mission critical, but mission imperative.”

In this case, “diversity” was not a byword for racialism, but rather a euphemism for sex talk.

Just as anything liberals don’t like is “bigoted,” anything they do like is “diverse.”

Not all government employees are on board:

The active source at the NSA claimed to have witnessed hundreds of sexually provocative discussions, which, he added, occurred mostly on taxpayer time. The former NSA source who was familiar with the chats recalled being “disgusted” by a particularly shocking thread discussing weekend “gangbangs.”

In intelligence agencies as elsewhere, normal people have been increasingly marginalized — by the militantly “marginalized.”

Warns Rufo,

NSA chat logs suggest the presence of at least hundreds of gender activists within the intelligence services who cannot distinguish between male and female, and who believe that discussing castration, polyamory, and “gangbangs” is an appropriate use of public resources. For psychological and ideological reasons, these kinds of people will not be easily sidelined.

An NSA spokesman has confirmed the sex chats are for real.

On tips from Barry A and Mr. Freemarket.