The GOP-led Equal Employment Opportunity Commission voted Tuesday to end the agency’s collection of racial and gender employment data. The move comes as the panel’s conservative commissioners try to portray white men as an aggrieved group in corporate America.

The EEOC’s Republican members overruled the panel’s sole Democrat en route to a 2-1 decision to end the decadeslong practice — and you’d be hard-pressed to find a move that better encapsulates the MAGA movement’s aversion to facts and adhesion to bigoted ideology.

PBS summed up the likely impact well:

How many women hold executive-level positions at top U.S. companies? What is the racial and ethnic breakdown of those roles? What is the gender and racial breakdown of the lowest-paid roles at those companies?

The Trump administration is making it harder for the public to know, moving to toss aside a 60-year-old requirement for tens of thousands of private sector employers to submit workforce demographic reports each year to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the agency responsible for enforcing anti-discrimination laws in the workplace.

EEOC Chairwoman Andrea Lucas, a Trump appointee, has openly called on white men to submit claims of corporate discrimination that can fuel the Trump administration’s bogus propaganda. Unsurprisingly, the EEOC reportedly has struggled to find legitimate claims.

Prior to the vote, Lucas baselessly said the EEOC’s collection of racial and gender data “may promote racial stereotyping at work, and it may encourage employers to engage in discrimination.” After voting to end the practice, Lucas was quoted in an EEOC press release as saying the data collection risked violating a provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 because it’s not “colorblind.”

Ja’han Jones

Ja’han Jones is an MS NOW opinion blogger. He previously wrote The ReidOut Blog.