While there seems to be an awakening (pun intended) in the education sector, the damage continues in the private sector as graduates progress their way up the corporate ladder. As an example, United Airlines has announced a five year plan to make half their staffing minorities. Alaska Airlines is in the same mode. Eliminating DEI will take a more than cleaning up the educational sector.
DEI has infected the culture in immeasurable ways. Even when we root it out of our institutions it could take decades for the casual adoption of DEI mindsets to fade from the culture.
My good friend, someone who I have been friends with since we were 12, recently told me with immense pride, “you know how it’s wrong now to be blind to people’s immutable characteristics?” I replied, “no, of course I don’t know that.”
The shocking part is she was speaking to me, a minority, about how I should be treated differently and she thought I would react to this statement with glee. All I want and all I ever ask for is that I be treated the same as any straight person. My sexuality is as important to my life as my ear lobes or toe nails. It’s just a fact of my biology and it’s not even a particularly interesting fact.
Please just treat me the same. Indifference is the goal. Do not celebrate me, do not shame me, just be indifferent.
My good friend told me she disagreed and we moved on, but I can’t get over how she can advocate for “lifting minority voices,” while at the same time condemning my minority voice simply because it contradicts her ideology. It proves she’s not acting out of empathy, just ideology.
It really annoys me when leftist do gooders lecture me about what gay people want, need and think, and how I should regard and treat "them." I always ask these thought police how they know what gay people want---like have they actually asked any gay people about those things? Have they received any gay person's authorization to speak on their behalf? The answer is always, of course they would never ask any gay person about matters that have been so painful to them, as it would be disrespectful and rude. I tell them they can ask me whatever they want to know, but don't presume to speak to anyone on my behalf. I can speak for myself, have been doing it for a very long time.
Good post. it brings to mind an old adage from years back that I remember: I don't need your help, but I could use with some respect. Of which I will earn.
Same situation with the Federal government. Everything now is DEI. It's in all the Executive Orders and all the policies and new laws that have come out of this administration. There have been who-knows-how-many high-paying (GS-15, for those familiar with the gov't pay system) jobs created to advance DEI in all areas--environmental management, for example. The stakes aren't as high as with the airlines (if the government screws up the environmental review process, no one really notices), but the wasted money is horrifying. Eliminating DEI that is funded by our tax dollars will take a different administration.
The Assistant Secretary of Health in the US is a transwoman, Rachel Levine. Dr. Levine thinks it's awesome to give kids puberty blockers, which can turn them into eunuchs, and cut the breasts off of healthy 15 year old girls.
I voted for Biden but his take on these issues turned me to RFK Jr.
Yep, Richard/Rachael Levine is a child mutilation enthusiast, divorced father of two, "first female admiral", buddy of luggage thief Sam Brinton, played high school football with General Miley... He promotes harm to children at conferences at places like Duke U.... It is super crazy - like the lobotomy era meets the eugenics era (we had that in the US). See "Eugenics in California: Never Again (just kidding lol)" THEN: Nonconsensual sterilizations in the 20th century"
Alaska Airlines that had a window blow out on a plane the other week and had an off-duty pilot go crazy in the cockpit he should not have been in and try and turn the engines off. Up on mass murder charges. You'd be advised not to fly with them NOW; certainly not ever if they implement that bollocks.
I live in PNW, that off duty pilot claims he had taken mushroom’s 2 days prior to when he tried to turn off engines, mid flight. Sorry bud, but magic shroom effects don’t last that long.
How about medical professionals graduated in the last few years? The ones who were admitted without any other than DEI qualifications and did not have to go through the rigor of the established training. They are going to be your doctors and nurses very soon. How will we differentiate between true professionals and the rabble?
This is why DEI is so harmful. The only way to differentiate would be to only go to white or asian doctors and nurses who were not subjected to this awful initiative which is a horrific outcome for EVERYONE. No one wants a dr operating on them that was allowed a pass for ANY reason. Thankfully we are finally waking up to this enlightenment that a majority of America agrees with is baseless and creates more division amongst us. Again, it took the wake up call of mass murder of Jews in Israel to bring this to light as the silent majority sat silent.
If it’s clear that race is being used as a significant qualification in hiring for professions, then the rational response is to avoid those preferred races when seeking services in the marketplace
The first airline crash piloted by a DEI hire costing that airline hundreds of millions in lawyer fees and death awards will put an end to the practice.
They’ll just say the outcry against the DEI practice is evidence of racism. But if it’s clear enough that it came from lack of workplace skill, then your are right.. maybe.
A bit of a bible quote to chew on here "John 3:19 "Here is the judgment. Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light. They loved darkness because what they did was evil. "
Which explains why the DEI grifters have been so cohesive and committed to ignoring the US Constitution, Bill of Rights, Rules of Law, public safety policing, education quality,...
Horrifically, the DEI grifters have convinced the world that "The Golden Rule" (to treat everyone as you hope to be treated) has no place in the modern world, countries, communities, businesses, families,...
Clearly, the DEI grifters are depending on others to accept the darkness for their own self-serving purposes.
Interesting, I was just looking at that verse and comparing the gospel and words of Jesus Christ to Marxian intersectionality. I don’t believe Marxian apologists would be friendly to Christianity in any way, as it gives atonement to all races, regardless of how white-adjacent they are.
It’s going to take a lot more chutzpah from conservatives to drive a stake in the heart of DEI. Millions of graduates with Greivance Studies degrees are dining out on a huge DEI industry. It’s not going to evaporate without a fight.
Many folks I know are soldiered up for that fight and have been for a while now. Not one tax dollar should be spent on public sector DEI programs that do nothing but discriminate based on skin color, gender or ethnicity. Just see recently how well that worked for our fellow Jewish citizens. Absolute no holds barred resistance from sane fair minded people is the only way to turn this evil ideology around.
Knowledge is power. Everyone should read Christopher Rufo’s new book, America’s Cultural Revolution. He explains the philosophical origins of DEI. Marxism reinvented by lefty radicals. But more than that, he shows how effective the left is at their game. We conservatives just don’t know how to do that. We gotta learn.
We need to come up with memes of our own, honest ones. They're more powerful these days than actual rational justifications. Marxism deinstitutionalized its concepts and aims, devolving them into American culture disguised as traditional American liberalism, hiding them behind words like "freedom" and "choice" they forced into us as ideals we can't argue with, but without the contextualization we need in order to act with real humanity. We need choice, freedom, agency and autonomy to do anything. We're not automatons or puppets. We can use them to commit evil too. The Nazis chose to use their bodies to murder 6 million Jews, in defiance of what society (i.e. our common humanity) told them they could and couldn't do. Their bodies, their rules. Where's the real moral issue there? It's not the one that Jewish Marxists, by their own logic, should be applauding them for choosing.
I agree. We don’t need to stoop down to their games and tactics, but we need to be more aware of what they are in order to call them out on it. James Lindsay talks about how to do this in some of his podcasts. When the Left plays a game, we need to call out exactly what game they are playing for all to see.
It's true. The MIT Free Speech Alliance (MFSA) has, among other tools, extreme satire. Our Babbling Beaver* comes out several times a week and generally skewers villains hilariously. Well, it's funny if you’re not the villain. The goal is to subject the baddies to unrelenting derision as a means to expose them. Subscriptions are free, and none of the episodes take a whole minute to read. Even if you move your lips.
* Tim, the beaver, is the MIT mascot. Big surprise. Other universities have followed suit. One school, for example, has the Flickering Beacon. If you’re among the current baddies, you’re fair game. It’s a target-rich environment. Pull!!
It is very tempting and has a satisfying ring of justice to it. I too am sickened by the divisiveness caused by DEI, CRT and wokeness and want it stopped cold. But it was this same manner of repetitious belittling & attack that got us into trouble. Starting with the quickly escalating pattern of ridicule, belittling, terrifying fearporn, and just plain outrageous lying to eradicate “orange man bad” & any other behavior deemed bad by the “in-crowd” elites.
It’s chicken-pecking-a-victim to death a la Mao’s cultural revolution. The recipe is to gang up, cancel, censor, shame, loudly denounce, create horrific fear, incite an air of “justifiable” violence, get folks to run like lemmings to the beating of the Tik Tok drum accompanied by a voice of reason authoritarian voice. Keep it up until the target is isolated & destroyed and a confession thrown in.
It’s very effective and it’s especially amazing how it gets folks to accept and embrace absurdities as reality.
It’s Soros & Davos, the “kill the Jews” chants and unhinged Rachel Maddow rants. It’s the creepy radio silence & abetting by major media in not reporting the threatening pro Hamas demonstrators in front of the White House. Contrast this with the bleating siren alert, political roundup & lynching behavior in response to the Jan 6 mostly peaceful protest.
It’s thd creepily reasonable “warning” voice combined with the strange generic assurance of Orwellian “fact checking”. We saw it in spades during the covid capers.
It’s made me furious & even fearful. It’s a powerful tool but this has to stop.
Just tell them that you want to subscribe. Its free.
While you’re at it, you might consider signing up to be a member of MFSA. It’s also free. Not necessary to be an alum, prof, student, or be otherwise affiliated with the Institute.
Hundreds of thousands? Wow, that IS scary. I, unfortunately, get my news now from the three big network stations in NYC, so this fact did not show up on my TV set.
Agree numbers were a huge misreport on my part so deleted reference immediately-but this event was reported on many alternative news sites including CFP, Breitbart, X, and by relative in DC ..fyi not the best but one of many: https://x.com/aliifil1/status/1746335260315439462?s=20 As with BLM riots & repeated protests, disruption & aggression from this group was treated far differently than J6-no arrests, no sanctions.
True. When people are laughing, their defenses are down, and they're ultra-receptive to implied (or even stated) far-left dogma. Gutfeld has been staging a limited counterattack. Tucker Carlson openly laughs at the Left's absurdities. But we need more.
The problem is "who decides who the baddies are?" You see, the people you are deriding are the oppressed. Making fun of them is punching down, which is wrong, don'tcha know?
Tongue in cheek, but I could see some schools getting such publications shut down and the people making them getting hounded if they pick the wrong subjects to make fun of. That said, I think the people making the Beaver should keep going until they are forced to stop.
Well, as we have seen over and over, there are many ways to shut people down. Like finding out where you work and harassing until they fire you. Or keeping you from getting a job by finding something you said 20 years ago. They have a ton of tools to try to silence anyone that says things they don't like.
I agree with you and I am glad someone is doing this kind of thing. We need more people to just ignore DEI and all of the crap related to it (not to mention tons of other stuff). Once you ignore the shrieking harpies, they lose most of their power.
Ideally the pushback against divisive DEI would be a cross-partisan alliance of the “adults in the room” who endorse values like free speech and meritocracy. There are plenty who used to consider themselves broadly of the left who recoil at what the current wave of progressivism has wrought
I retired from PwC in 2017. Glad to see that the Firm is being proactive to eliminate policies that could potentially reduce the focus on merit (performance) in hiring and/or promotions. I was fortunate to work with a very diverse group of people who were brilliant, at the top of their profession. Take away merit (performance) and you eliminate the first ingredient of the special sauce, the second being culture, which is awesome.
I do not understand why it took so long for supposedly well meaning centrist people to see the dangers in DEI. It seems like the same people who are against it now were for it a few years ago, as is shown by the Republican! Governor mentioned in the article.
Is this sea change real? If so, is it merely a reaction to the public anti-Semitic DEI driven reaction to events in Israel? If these thought changes were driven by antisemitism, where was the reaction a few years ago when white men, Christian parents, Catholics and others were vilified? This started decades ago when “dead white men” were removed from college reading lists. When they got away with that they knew they had a weapon.
When the same people who are now horrified by the treatment of Jews at Harvard become equally horrified by the treatment of Catholics by the FBI and of parents at school board meetings, then I will be hopeful.
DEI, CRT et al have been used as weapons for over a decade. I fear that we are very selective about who we defend from that weapon. To destroy DEI, you must see it as a part of a larger offensive. It’s just one tool in a larger toolbox that includes climate change, COVID hysteria, trans rights for minors and whatever “cause” is invented tomorrow.
The same people who supported DEI screamed that I was racist for believing COVID came from a lab in China. Our elites have created many victims, not just Jews. It’s time to pay attention to them all.
"To destroy DEI, you must see it as a part of a larger offensive. It’s just one tool in a larger toolbox that includes climate change, COVID hysteria, trans rights for minors and whatever “cause” is invented tomorrow
So true. They are all part of sinister web being woven by Marxist progressives determined to take away our freedom.
Marxism is an inapt description of this phenomenon. Marxism is based upon class struggle and economic power. The DEI /woke cult is based on race, sex, gender, and other immutable characteristics. In the woke cult, a deeply impoverished white person is privileged over a wealthy black person. A reasonable argument could be made that the reason why so many billionaires have funded the woke cult is to take our attention off of the vast increase in wealth inequality in recent decades.
I read something a couple of years ago that drew the path between those two things. I forget the whole argument, but it started with the industrial decline of the West in the 1970s, when the working class started to realize that unions were not their friends. The Left needed a new political base, and it turned to minority groups, selling them the line that the West is inherently racist. Of course, being the Left, they have only one ultimate solution for any problem: violent revolution and purging the out-groups. They are on the verge of that last step now, with their open calls for violence against Jews.
Looks like you forgot the "equity" part of DEI which sounds a lot like "class struggle and economic power' for the "oppressed" class. However you choose to define them, Marxism and DEI have the same goals perpetrated by the same mind set. That is, control of the masses.
Nice reply. Distinction is necessary. Good ole Marx - the 19th century bad boy who never seems to go away, especially here in the comments where communists are routinely confused with Democrats, and socialists/globalists from Europe are hiding under our beds in Middle America..
i think Marx would be aghast at the DEI movement if he were to see it..
I agree with this. Race is not a Communist/Marxist issue, except as a divisive tactic. Class is the only real issue to a Marxist.
Frankly, in today’s USA, Marxists would gain more political traction if they used class rather than race. The Democratic fear of Trumpism is that Trumpism is really a class based populist message that can create a broader coalition than the Democratic race focused strategy. In doing so, it would replace the entire establishment Democratic power base. From a policy standpoint, Trump and Sanders have more similarities than differences.
A large part of this is orphan code: the USSR set this running and it 'lives' on, undead. It was designed to be autonomous and self-replicating. It is probable, given Maoists in 1968, that there is similar code running that outlived the yellow pervert. Then there is the Frankfurt School strain, running on the Jewish IQ ironically enough. You know some korisne budale and low level drones; like you say: not much cop on their own.
That's a good analogy. It's taken American liberals a long time to face the fact that their movement was hijacked decades ago. If you ask the Left and they're being honest with their answer, they will tell you that the wrong side won the Cold War.
I think it's apathy. People just go along as long as it doesn't involve them. Easier to turn a blind eye, put up with bullshit, and get on with your own life than to pick fights and risk the mob coming after you. Much easier.
It's the same reason why everyone can see males taking over female sports and gobbling up awards and prizes to continue to do nothing even when the blatant unfairness is right before their eyes. Easier to do nothing than to poke the beast.
Yes it does. I mean they avoid being involve on the micro level with specific incidents. Just move along, nothing to see here, go home to hide from the tide, until the mob comes for them or if they're totally beaten into submission.
I do not dispute that it is the way most humans react. I suppose it is even justified under a pick your battle/live to fight another day theory. But the truth is once so debilitated that your spirit is broken you will never fight again. If modern humans have evolved to that point we are done as a species.
Apathy may be just another word for cowardice. The cowardice of the ADL and other Jewish groups or traditional liberal groups suddenly seeing the light now that DEI affects them negatively is astounding to me. I know it must tough for them to admit that their only real allies have been the very people that they demonized as Nazis literally 6 months ago but some acknowledgment of that fact would be nice.
I see the Jewish response to the pro-Palestine activists as self-centered. Americans in general have revealed themselves to be very preoccupied with whatever directly affects them, and not particularly interested in much else.
Sadly I agree with your statement but I was hoping for more from them. The November election will tell us more. They can vote with either the people who have shown that they wish them dead or the people who have always stood by them and their values. I thinks it’s 80/20 towards them voting for their own murders.
Yes, many Americans have become very confused about which people are the real enemies. No matter how much they are told about the critical theory takeover of Western Civ, and the dangers thereof, they end up saying, "Okay, I understand better why you are afraid of that happening, but the 'other side' is far more dangerous."
The pendulum will swing there too. The more trans athletes win women's events, mainstream media will have to address it. Because people will complain (eventually) and make too much noise. Media loves noise..
It’s hard for people to admit that a huge evil scheme was put in place over decades under their noses. They saw glimmers of it, but shrugged it off as a passing fad. Now we need to educate people to the fact that there IS a long term goal here, and unfortunately it’s been about 95% achieved. It’s a hard realization to accept. And harder to imagine how to unravel it all.
I think they shrugged because they thought they could control it, like the AntiDefamation League thought, or it wouldn’t affect them, like a moderate suburban mom thought.
We all have our reasons for not actively fighting DEI and CRT. In my mind, the basic underpinning (EVERYTHING is racist) is so absurd, so stupid, so ridiculous, that I have been sure that the entire movement would collapse of its own stupidity. Alas, I gave people too much credit - that they would see through it and reject it. Clearly that has not happened. Group-think stupidity has almost no limits (is this what happened in Germany?), and from the hoodwinked faculty (yay boomers), the pitch to naive students goes over easily. And so we are where we are. Returning to the land of common sense is going to be a tough proposition.
Everything comes down to power. Who has it, who doesn’t, and how those who don’t have it go about getting it. The race hussle isn’t new, DEI is just the latest version. Our mistake was allowing their narratives to take root: America is irredeemably racist, white supremacy is rampant and explains everything, our heroes need to be erased.
We didn’t push back hard enough against these. 1619 BS is in our school curriculum. Statues of Washington were torn down while we stood by. White men in the work force are ridiculed and accused. It’s not enough to slow their progress. The whole ideology has to be repudiated. I am starting to see it happening.
The Left is very good at leading its supporters down the primrose path. They put on the mask and convince people that they are simply in favor of civil rights and correcting historic wrongs. Of course, those things are just pretenses. I think part of the problem is that we don't teach children enough about the nature of evil, because it's hard for us to confront its existence.
"I think part of the problem is that we don't teach children enough about the nature of evil, because it's hard for us to confront its existence."
Your comment is so accurate! The "progressives" I know are walking examples of what happens when children are taught to "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil." They all grew up in very sheltered circumstances in upper income families in upper income neighborhoods. They refuse to recognize that there are such things as sociopaths, except for our former president and his supporters. Anyone who does see evil and names it accurately is in their philosophy the source of it.
I agree. Plus what is to say that those proclaiming that they now see the light, over many, many issues, will not revert to their former values? Leopards and spots you know. Which is why I am very reluctant to embrace newcomers.
It'll just get renamed. Too many people are making money from it; the ideology itself is too entrenched in people's consciousnesses, and the MSM pushes so hard the whole "privilege" framework. These things seem like minor setbacks or concessions on the march of "progress".
Just the young ones mostly. Large firms may be compromised as well because they operate the same way Social Security does -?have to have the new grunts to keep the old ones living well. So if you have need look for that crusty old solo practitioner or small firm with lots of litigation experience. Civil lawsuits are costly though so build a war chest.
I attended the annual "DEI grand rounds" that is mandated by a prominent medical school. The attendees were exposed to an hour of drivel instead of receiving any medical education. It seems more important to promote DEI than to teach young physicians how to be more compassionate and empathetic toward their patients.
This same medical school has a massive banner plastered on one of their major buildings proclaiming "Black Lives Matter".
"Diversity, equity, and inclusion" and "Black Lives Matter" are both noble sentiments that have been distorted and perverted by intolerant ideologues whose goals are antithetical to American democracy.
It doesn't matter. Since the whole hog embrace of the insurance model medical decisions are made by algorithms to serve the interest of the corporate bottom line. The only reasons doctors matter at all is because people currently accept that it is necessary because doctors deserve substantial fees. But the days of doctors as esteemed professionals are numbered. And they will have done it to themselves, starting with the abandonment of the Hippocratic Oath
"Black Lives Matter" is a classic piece of Communist deflection. It's actually meant to make us focus on the notion that there are people, better yet, institutions, who don't think they matter. That claim will, or should, come as a big surprise to all the black people who have been helped by white police, white lawyers, white judges, white doctors, white nurses, white psychiatrists, etc. The BLM meme, like all memes designed to appeal to our worst emotions and stop us thinking beyond the point where the ideologues need our thinking to stop (like Orwell's "slogans") , was promoted by people who publicly declared they were "trained Marxists". Trained to do what? What else but to bring the Revolution to America, and make it look morally imperative, in fact, "American"?
It is hard to get left wing ideologies out of left wing establishments. For those of us with common sense and a brain, I include myself, the notion of DEI was absurd from the beginning. We watched as it slowly took on a life and oozed into every crevice of society. Everything is racist and everyone is oppressed, except the white people, particularly the white males. I just stopped playing the language game a couple of years ago. I now freely point out lunacy.
I left Illinois about thirteen years ago. I watched it go from bad to worse just in news stories and op-eds. Your current governor needs to go. Chicago is so lost. I can’t believe they voted that idiot for a mayor.
I've been breathing long enough to learn the lesson that "Progressives" never admit defeat. They just change the wording to hide their intentions. Vigilance is exhausting but it is necessary with this mind virus.
Heterodox Xtianities claiming to bring the New Jerusalem down to Earth. They jettisoned God along the way, thinking they are It. Abomination standing where it ought not. I think I get the point now, Father: you are 'Chesterton's Church'; don't demolish it 'til you know what it is FOR.
The neo communists in their critical theory ideology will regroup, retrench and continue the effort to marrch through the institutions and destroy our free society. DEI is just one horrible manifestation of this evil, secular religion. As spoken be a secular person that took way to l1ong to grasp critical theory for what it is.
Hardly anyone grasps that story correctly: the sling is a ranged armour-peircing weapon that will kill at one hundred yards. Goliath's spear had at most a 4 yard reach. He was dead before David selected his pebble.
Great to see some states are waking up to this nonsense, but the beast has hardly been vanquished. In fact, it’s nourished daily by the hundreds of thousands of elementary and high school teachers — public and private — who are members of their respective teacher councils and associations. The National Council for the Teachers of English. The National Council for the Teachers of Mathematics. the National Council for the Social Studies. The American Association for Teaches of Foreign Language. The National Association of Biology Teachers. The American Association of Chemistry Teachers. Every one of these groups commits itself to creating diverse, culturally responsive classrooms where inclusion, not skill building, is the order of the day.
And anti-semitism. There's anti-Israel language written in some of their charters, guised as a concern for children - not American children, not children suffering in Syria, not Kurdish children, just Palestinian. Their remit no longer seems to be educating young Americans to read, write, be competitive and enlightened, but rather to indoctrinate them to fulfill their own (the teachers') evangelistic, narcissistic quest to fulfill some (uninformed/ignorant, unjust, hypocritical) "social justice" delusion of grandeur. Teachers have sold out America's future. We already see it.
I'm sorry, I'm going to be a bit of a Negative Nancy. As we learned with Roe v Wade and Dobbs, sometimes legislation makes things worse, not better. Just because Texas says "no DEI", it doesn't mean these depts won't re-fashion into a new acronym. We need a reckoning of larger proportions in the psyche of the American Left. I do think diversity (not just racial, but gender, faith, political views, etc), EQUALITY, and inclusion are important (yes, even in insectology), but the bureaucratic initiatives and depts that tout the end-all-be-all answers to how to get there have metastasized into something that does not achieve DEI, but Division, Exclusion, and Inciting hate for "out" groups (anyone who does not ascribe to DEI) in the name of racism. Can we not just agree to treat everyone like human beings? I'm not Pollyanna, I know that humans are flawed. But, expect the best in each other and confront with the mindset of innocent until proven guilty when someone "transgresses".
I'm concerned that the pendulum is swinging too far to the other side - we can't just leave a vacuum for something worse to come into practice. We need to address the root causes of the DEI bureaucracy.
I no longer think diversity of races is a social priority. In reality, I think the battle on that front has been won. The left just won't admit it. We need to move on to diversity of thoughts, and diversity of economic classes. A roomful of Ivy Leaguers of different skin colors but all with the same privileged socio-economic class and politics is not diversity.
As someone who was raised to respect all people and who has taught my children the same, I found this DEI trend incredibly condescending. Infantilizing. It seems those pushing it and teaching it see themselves as superior to think they need to instruct others in how to think and how to treat others.
While there seems to be an awakening (pun intended) in the education sector, the damage continues in the private sector as graduates progress their way up the corporate ladder. As an example, United Airlines has announced a five year plan to make half their staffing minorities. Alaska Airlines is in the same mode. Eliminating DEI will take a more than cleaning up the educational sector.
DEI has infected the culture in immeasurable ways. Even when we root it out of our institutions it could take decades for the casual adoption of DEI mindsets to fade from the culture.
My good friend, someone who I have been friends with since we were 12, recently told me with immense pride, “you know how it’s wrong now to be blind to people’s immutable characteristics?” I replied, “no, of course I don’t know that.”
The shocking part is she was speaking to me, a minority, about how I should be treated differently and she thought I would react to this statement with glee. All I want and all I ever ask for is that I be treated the same as any straight person. My sexuality is as important to my life as my ear lobes or toe nails. It’s just a fact of my biology and it’s not even a particularly interesting fact.
Please just treat me the same. Indifference is the goal. Do not celebrate me, do not shame me, just be indifferent.
My good friend told me she disagreed and we moved on, but I can’t get over how she can advocate for “lifting minority voices,” while at the same time condemning my minority voice simply because it contradicts her ideology. It proves she’s not acting out of empathy, just ideology.
"Please just treat me the same. Indifference is the goal. Do not celebrate me, do not shame me, just be indifferent."
yep celebrate accomplishments not immutable characteristics
It really annoys me when leftist do gooders lecture me about what gay people want, need and think, and how I should regard and treat "them." I always ask these thought police how they know what gay people want---like have they actually asked any gay people about those things? Have they received any gay person's authorization to speak on their behalf? The answer is always, of course they would never ask any gay person about matters that have been so painful to them, as it would be disrespectful and rude. I tell them they can ask me whatever they want to know, but don't presume to speak to anyone on my behalf. I can speak for myself, have been doing it for a very long time.
Good post. it brings to mind an old adage from years back that I remember: I don't need your help, but I could use with some respect. Of which I will earn.
Indifference, Mr. Geller would spell the end of virtue signaling, and we all know that that won't happen.
I don't care.
Thanks! That’s kind.
I read what you said carefully. :)
Same situation with the Federal government. Everything now is DEI. It's in all the Executive Orders and all the policies and new laws that have come out of this administration. There have been who-knows-how-many high-paying (GS-15, for those familiar with the gov't pay system) jobs created to advance DEI in all areas--environmental management, for example. The stakes aren't as high as with the airlines (if the government screws up the environmental review process, no one really notices), but the wasted money is horrifying. Eliminating DEI that is funded by our tax dollars will take a different administration.
A different administration and probably help from the court to root it out.
The Assistant Secretary of Health in the US is a transwoman, Rachel Levine. Dr. Levine thinks it's awesome to give kids puberty blockers, which can turn them into eunuchs, and cut the breasts off of healthy 15 year old girls.
I voted for Biden but his take on these issues turned me to RFK Jr.
Yep, Richard/Rachael Levine is a child mutilation enthusiast, divorced father of two, "first female admiral", buddy of luggage thief Sam Brinton, played high school football with General Miley... He promotes harm to children at conferences at places like Duke U.... It is super crazy - like the lobotomy era meets the eugenics era (we had that in the US). See "Eugenics in California: Never Again (just kidding lol)" THEN: Nonconsensual sterilizations in the 20th century"
https://www.pittparents.com/p/eugenics-in-california-never-again
If interested in the "trans" topic I highly recommend Helen Joyce's book: "Trans, when Ideology Meets Reality".
Fun fact - minority-owned businesses get a 10% discount on their bids for many federal contracts. See here:
https://www.fedmarket.com/contractors/Minority%252dOwned-Business-Contracting
How is this discrimination legal?
It isn't but it will not be prosecuted. There is a long list of things that nolonger get prosecuted.
And you wonder why the administrative state is so viscerally against Donald Trump?
My public sector employer is completely captured. It will take years to undo the damage, if possible at all.
Alaska Airlines that had a window blow out on a plane the other week and had an off-duty pilot go crazy in the cockpit he should not have been in and try and turn the engines off. Up on mass murder charges. You'd be advised not to fly with them NOW; certainly not ever if they implement that bollocks.
I live in PNW, that off duty pilot claims he had taken mushroom’s 2 days prior to when he tried to turn off engines, mid flight. Sorry bud, but magic shroom effects don’t last that long.
Far out! Don't take mind altering drugs when you fly passenger planes for a living. It's not that difficult to do.
How about medical professionals graduated in the last few years? The ones who were admitted without any other than DEI qualifications and did not have to go through the rigor of the established training. They are going to be your doctors and nurses very soon. How will we differentiate between true professionals and the rabble?
This is why DEI is so harmful. The only way to differentiate would be to only go to white or asian doctors and nurses who were not subjected to this awful initiative which is a horrific outcome for EVERYONE. No one wants a dr operating on them that was allowed a pass for ANY reason. Thankfully we are finally waking up to this enlightenment that a majority of America agrees with is baseless and creates more division amongst us. Again, it took the wake up call of mass murder of Jews in Israel to bring this to light as the silent majority sat silent.
If it’s clear that race is being used as a significant qualification in hiring for professions, then the rational response is to avoid those preferred races when seeking services in the marketplace
Thank you for reminding me which airlines not to fly.
Makes me think Delta might be a better choice for my next trip.
The first airline crash piloted by a DEI hire costing that airline hundreds of millions in lawyer fees and death awards will put an end to the practice.
They’ll just say the outcry against the DEI practice is evidence of racism. But if it’s clear enough that it came from lack of workplace skill, then your are right.. maybe.
A bit of a bible quote to chew on here "John 3:19 "Here is the judgment. Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light. They loved darkness because what they did was evil. "
Which explains why the DEI grifters have been so cohesive and committed to ignoring the US Constitution, Bill of Rights, Rules of Law, public safety policing, education quality,...
Horrifically, the DEI grifters have convinced the world that "The Golden Rule" (to treat everyone as you hope to be treated) has no place in the modern world, countries, communities, businesses, families,...
Clearly, the DEI grifters are depending on others to accept the darkness for their own self-serving purposes.
Interesting, I was just looking at that verse and comparing the gospel and words of Jesus Christ to Marxian intersectionality. I don’t believe Marxian apologists would be friendly to Christianity in any way, as it gives atonement to all races, regardless of how white-adjacent they are.
It’s going to take a lot more chutzpah from conservatives to drive a stake in the heart of DEI. Millions of graduates with Greivance Studies degrees are dining out on a huge DEI industry. It’s not going to evaporate without a fight.
Many folks I know are soldiered up for that fight and have been for a while now. Not one tax dollar should be spent on public sector DEI programs that do nothing but discriminate based on skin color, gender or ethnicity. Just see recently how well that worked for our fellow Jewish citizens. Absolute no holds barred resistance from sane fair minded people is the only way to turn this evil ideology around.
Knowledge is power. Everyone should read Christopher Rufo’s new book, America’s Cultural Revolution. He explains the philosophical origins of DEI. Marxism reinvented by lefty radicals. But more than that, he shows how effective the left is at their game. We conservatives just don’t know how to do that. We gotta learn.
Maybe not learn how to do it, per se. Perhaps, how to counter it and stop it is its tracks.
James Lindsay has some good insights into how to fight against these tactics that the Left tends to use.
We need to come up with memes of our own, honest ones. They're more powerful these days than actual rational justifications. Marxism deinstitutionalized its concepts and aims, devolving them into American culture disguised as traditional American liberalism, hiding them behind words like "freedom" and "choice" they forced into us as ideals we can't argue with, but without the contextualization we need in order to act with real humanity. We need choice, freedom, agency and autonomy to do anything. We're not automatons or puppets. We can use them to commit evil too. The Nazis chose to use their bodies to murder 6 million Jews, in defiance of what society (i.e. our common humanity) told them they could and couldn't do. Their bodies, their rules. Where's the real moral issue there? It's not the one that Jewish Marxists, by their own logic, should be applauding them for choosing.
I do not want to become what I abhor to resist it
I agree. We don’t need to stoop down to their games and tactics, but we need to be more aware of what they are in order to call them out on it. James Lindsay talks about how to do this in some of his podcasts. When the Left plays a game, we need to call out exactly what game they are playing for all to see.
Thanks. I will check him out.
It's true. The MIT Free Speech Alliance (MFSA) has, among other tools, extreme satire. Our Babbling Beaver* comes out several times a week and generally skewers villains hilariously. Well, it's funny if you’re not the villain. The goal is to subject the baddies to unrelenting derision as a means to expose them. Subscriptions are free, and none of the episodes take a whole minute to read. Even if you move your lips.
* Tim, the beaver, is the MIT mascot. Big surprise. Other universities have followed suit. One school, for example, has the Flickering Beacon. If you’re among the current baddies, you’re fair game. It’s a target-rich environment. Pull!!
It is very tempting and has a satisfying ring of justice to it. I too am sickened by the divisiveness caused by DEI, CRT and wokeness and want it stopped cold. But it was this same manner of repetitious belittling & attack that got us into trouble. Starting with the quickly escalating pattern of ridicule, belittling, terrifying fearporn, and just plain outrageous lying to eradicate “orange man bad” & any other behavior deemed bad by the “in-crowd” elites.
It’s chicken-pecking-a-victim to death a la Mao’s cultural revolution. The recipe is to gang up, cancel, censor, shame, loudly denounce, create horrific fear, incite an air of “justifiable” violence, get folks to run like lemmings to the beating of the Tik Tok drum accompanied by a voice of reason authoritarian voice. Keep it up until the target is isolated & destroyed and a confession thrown in.
It’s very effective and it’s especially amazing how it gets folks to accept and embrace absurdities as reality.
It’s Soros & Davos, the “kill the Jews” chants and unhinged Rachel Maddow rants. It’s the creepy radio silence & abetting by major media in not reporting the threatening pro Hamas demonstrators in front of the White House. Contrast this with the bleating siren alert, political roundup & lynching behavior in response to the Jan 6 mostly peaceful protest.
It’s thd creepily reasonable “warning” voice combined with the strange generic assurance of Orwellian “fact checking”. We saw it in spades during the covid capers.
It’s made me furious & even fearful. It’s a powerful tool but this has to stop.
You’d like the Beaver. We don’t take prisoners.
can you share a link?
Most recent is
babblingbeaver.com/2024/01/16/an-mit-dei-tea-party/
Babblingbeaver@babblingbeaver.com
Just tell them that you want to subscribe. Its free.
While you’re at it, you might consider signing up to be a member of MFSA. It’s also free. Not necessary to be an alum, prof, student, or be otherwise affiliated with the Institute.
Hundreds of thousands? Wow, that IS scary. I, unfortunately, get my news now from the three big network stations in NYC, so this fact did not show up on my TV set.
Agree numbers were a huge misreport on my part so deleted reference immediately-but this event was reported on many alternative news sites including CFP, Breitbart, X, and by relative in DC ..fyi not the best but one of many: https://x.com/aliifil1/status/1746335260315439462?s=20 As with BLM riots & repeated protests, disruption & aggression from this group was treated far differently than J6-no arrests, no sanctions.
Love it! Like Triumph the Insult Comic Dog aimed at DEI. Ridicule, per Saul Alinsky, is a highly effective weapon.
It most definitely is. Two can play that game. And we’re locked and loaded.
True. When people are laughing, their defenses are down, and they're ultra-receptive to implied (or even stated) far-left dogma. Gutfeld has been staging a limited counterattack. Tucker Carlson openly laughs at the Left's absurdities. But we need more.
The problem is "who decides who the baddies are?" You see, the people you are deriding are the oppressed. Making fun of them is punching down, which is wrong, don'tcha know?
Tongue in cheek, but I could see some schools getting such publications shut down and the people making them getting hounded if they pick the wrong subjects to make fun of. That said, I think the people making the Beaver should keep going until they are forced to stop.
We’re alumni, and it’s not a school publication. They couldn’t do anything to us if they wanted to. We’re untouchable.
Nice position. Punching down? Screw that. They shouldn’t have started the fight. We aren’t obligated to be their punching bags.
Well, as we have seen over and over, there are many ways to shut people down. Like finding out where you work and harassing until they fire you. Or keeping you from getting a job by finding something you said 20 years ago. They have a ton of tools to try to silence anyone that says things they don't like.
I agree with you and I am glad someone is doing this kind of thing. We need more people to just ignore DEI and all of the crap related to it (not to mention tons of other stuff). Once you ignore the shrieking harpies, they lose most of their power.
I’m almost 77 years old and a retired surgeon. Like I said: pretty much untouchable. But anyone can certainly try. They won’t like what happens.
Then have at them, sir!
So expose their hussle. BLM is just the latest hussle, a retread of the Black Liberation Movement of the 60s and ‘70s.
Ideally the pushback against divisive DEI would be a cross-partisan alliance of the “adults in the room” who endorse values like free speech and meritocracy. There are plenty who used to consider themselves broadly of the left who recoil at what the current wave of progressivism has wrought
And this was reported in the Telegraph today -- PWC have scrapped its race requirements for its scholarships (ie preventing white people from applying for them) in the US after a discrimination row.. It is now applying rigour to its process according its latest Diversity and Inclusion report. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/01/17/race-row-forces-pwc-let-white-students-apply-scholarship/ or https://archive.is/ePoRK
I retired from PwC in 2017. Glad to see that the Firm is being proactive to eliminate policies that could potentially reduce the focus on merit (performance) in hiring and/or promotions. I was fortunate to work with a very diverse group of people who were brilliant, at the top of their profession. Take away merit (performance) and you eliminate the first ingredient of the special sauce, the second being culture, which is awesome.
Pfizer? So some part of The Stupid jab is down to them hiring stupid people who didn't grasp what they were doing. Figures.
PWC from the article but other corporations are quietly cutting programmes which were potentially promoting illegal discrimination as well.
If you read on Pfizer is one of those mentioned.
DEI dies on the street. It dies a natural death, outside of academia, corporate offices, and the government.
It is worth billions. People and companies are not going give up that money voluntarily.
I do not understand why it took so long for supposedly well meaning centrist people to see the dangers in DEI. It seems like the same people who are against it now were for it a few years ago, as is shown by the Republican! Governor mentioned in the article.
Is this sea change real? If so, is it merely a reaction to the public anti-Semitic DEI driven reaction to events in Israel? If these thought changes were driven by antisemitism, where was the reaction a few years ago when white men, Christian parents, Catholics and others were vilified? This started decades ago when “dead white men” were removed from college reading lists. When they got away with that they knew they had a weapon.
When the same people who are now horrified by the treatment of Jews at Harvard become equally horrified by the treatment of Catholics by the FBI and of parents at school board meetings, then I will be hopeful.
DEI, CRT et al have been used as weapons for over a decade. I fear that we are very selective about who we defend from that weapon. To destroy DEI, you must see it as a part of a larger offensive. It’s just one tool in a larger toolbox that includes climate change, COVID hysteria, trans rights for minors and whatever “cause” is invented tomorrow.
The same people who supported DEI screamed that I was racist for believing COVID came from a lab in China. Our elites have created many victims, not just Jews. It’s time to pay attention to them all.
"To destroy DEI, you must see it as a part of a larger offensive. It’s just one tool in a larger toolbox that includes climate change, COVID hysteria, trans rights for minors and whatever “cause” is invented tomorrow
So true. They are all part of sinister web being woven by Marxist progressives determined to take away our freedom.
Marxism is an inapt description of this phenomenon. Marxism is based upon class struggle and economic power. The DEI /woke cult is based on race, sex, gender, and other immutable characteristics. In the woke cult, a deeply impoverished white person is privileged over a wealthy black person. A reasonable argument could be made that the reason why so many billionaires have funded the woke cult is to take our attention off of the vast increase in wealth inequality in recent decades.
I read something a couple of years ago that drew the path between those two things. I forget the whole argument, but it started with the industrial decline of the West in the 1970s, when the working class started to realize that unions were not their friends. The Left needed a new political base, and it turned to minority groups, selling them the line that the West is inherently racist. Of course, being the Left, they have only one ultimate solution for any problem: violent revolution and purging the out-groups. They are on the verge of that last step now, with their open calls for violence against Jews.
Looks like you forgot the "equity" part of DEI which sounds a lot like "class struggle and economic power' for the "oppressed" class. However you choose to define them, Marxism and DEI have the same goals perpetrated by the same mind set. That is, control of the masses.
Nice reply. Distinction is necessary. Good ole Marx - the 19th century bad boy who never seems to go away, especially here in the comments where communists are routinely confused with Democrats, and socialists/globalists from Europe are hiding under our beds in Middle America..
i think Marx would be aghast at the DEI movement if he were to see it..
I agree with this. Race is not a Communist/Marxist issue, except as a divisive tactic. Class is the only real issue to a Marxist.
Frankly, in today’s USA, Marxists would gain more political traction if they used class rather than race. The Democratic fear of Trumpism is that Trumpism is really a class based populist message that can create a broader coalition than the Democratic race focused strategy. In doing so, it would replace the entire establishment Democratic power base. From a policy standpoint, Trump and Sanders have more similarities than differences.
I think the Marxists are themselves a tool for a larger cause. The Marxists I know are candidly not smart enough to create this level of destruction.
A large part of this is orphan code: the USSR set this running and it 'lives' on, undead. It was designed to be autonomous and self-replicating. It is probable, given Maoists in 1968, that there is similar code running that outlived the yellow pervert. Then there is the Frankfurt School strain, running on the Jewish IQ ironically enough. You know some korisne budale and low level drones; like you say: not much cop on their own.
That's a good analogy. It's taken American liberals a long time to face the fact that their movement was hijacked decades ago. If you ask the Left and they're being honest with their answer, they will tell you that the wrong side won the Cold War.
I think it's apathy. People just go along as long as it doesn't involve them. Easier to turn a blind eye, put up with bullshit, and get on with your own life than to pick fights and risk the mob coming after you. Much easier.
It's the same reason why everyone can see males taking over female sports and gobbling up awards and prizes to continue to do nothing even when the blatant unfairness is right before their eyes. Easier to do nothing than to poke the beast.
But it does involve them. It is fundamentally transforming our culture.
Yes it does. I mean they avoid being involve on the micro level with specific incidents. Just move along, nothing to see here, go home to hide from the tide, until the mob comes for them or if they're totally beaten into submission.
Which is so debilitating I think.
But that is how most humans behave, most of the time. How else would horrible people keep getting into power the world over throughout history?
Yeah, the king is horrible, but he mostly does stuff "over there" so I can just keep farming and worry more about where my next meal comes from.
I do not dispute that it is the way most humans react. I suppose it is even justified under a pick your battle/live to fight another day theory. But the truth is once so debilitated that your spirit is broken you will never fight again. If modern humans have evolved to that point we are done as a species.
Apathy may be just another word for cowardice. The cowardice of the ADL and other Jewish groups or traditional liberal groups suddenly seeing the light now that DEI affects them negatively is astounding to me. I know it must tough for them to admit that their only real allies have been the very people that they demonized as Nazis literally 6 months ago but some acknowledgment of that fact would be nice.
I see the Jewish response to the pro-Palestine activists as self-centered. Americans in general have revealed themselves to be very preoccupied with whatever directly affects them, and not particularly interested in much else.
Sadly I agree with your statement but I was hoping for more from them. The November election will tell us more. They can vote with either the people who have shown that they wish them dead or the people who have always stood by them and their values. I thinks it’s 80/20 towards them voting for their own murders.
Yes, many Americans have become very confused about which people are the real enemies. No matter how much they are told about the critical theory takeover of Western Civ, and the dangers thereof, they end up saying, "Okay, I understand better why you are afraid of that happening, but the 'other side' is far more dangerous."
The pendulum will swing there too. The more trans athletes win women's events, mainstream media will have to address it. Because people will complain (eventually) and make too much noise. Media loves noise..
It’s hard for people to admit that a huge evil scheme was put in place over decades under their noses. They saw glimmers of it, but shrugged it off as a passing fad. Now we need to educate people to the fact that there IS a long term goal here, and unfortunately it’s been about 95% achieved. It’s a hard realization to accept. And harder to imagine how to unravel it all.
I think they shrugged because they thought they could control it, like the AntiDefamation League thought, or it wouldn’t affect them, like a moderate suburban mom thought.
We all have our reasons for not actively fighting DEI and CRT. In my mind, the basic underpinning (EVERYTHING is racist) is so absurd, so stupid, so ridiculous, that I have been sure that the entire movement would collapse of its own stupidity. Alas, I gave people too much credit - that they would see through it and reject it. Clearly that has not happened. Group-think stupidity has almost no limits (is this what happened in Germany?), and from the hoodwinked faculty (yay boomers), the pitch to naive students goes over easily. And so we are where we are. Returning to the land of common sense is going to be a tough proposition.
Everything comes down to power. Who has it, who doesn’t, and how those who don’t have it go about getting it. The race hussle isn’t new, DEI is just the latest version. Our mistake was allowing their narratives to take root: America is irredeemably racist, white supremacy is rampant and explains everything, our heroes need to be erased.
We didn’t push back hard enough against these. 1619 BS is in our school curriculum. Statues of Washington were torn down while we stood by. White men in the work force are ridiculed and accused. It’s not enough to slow their progress. The whole ideology has to be repudiated. I am starting to see it happening.
The Left is very good at leading its supporters down the primrose path. They put on the mask and convince people that they are simply in favor of civil rights and correcting historic wrongs. Of course, those things are just pretenses. I think part of the problem is that we don't teach children enough about the nature of evil, because it's hard for us to confront its existence.
"I think part of the problem is that we don't teach children enough about the nature of evil, because it's hard for us to confront its existence."
Your comment is so accurate! The "progressives" I know are walking examples of what happens when children are taught to "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil." They all grew up in very sheltered circumstances in upper income families in upper income neighborhoods. They refuse to recognize that there are such things as sociopaths, except for our former president and his supporters. Anyone who does see evil and names it accurately is in their philosophy the source of it.
I agree. Plus what is to say that those proclaiming that they now see the light, over many, many issues, will not revert to their former values? Leopards and spots you know. Which is why I am very reluctant to embrace newcomers.
It'll just get renamed. Too many people are making money from it; the ideology itself is too entrenched in people's consciousnesses, and the MSM pushes so hard the whole "privilege" framework. These things seem like minor setbacks or concessions on the march of "progress".
Unv Texas simply renamed its department and retained all employees.https://www.statesman.com/story/news/education/2023/12/18/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-ut-alters-programs-to-comply-with-ban/71801870007/
The Presidents and CEO have to fire people or it wont work.
If it quacks and waddles like a duck it is a duck. A=B, B=Z :- A=Z. Same wheeze as 'bump stocks' to get around automatic weapon bans.
Yes, it’s already being renamed. Look for departments of “well-being”, “belonging”, etc….
Until the Civil Rights Act is repealed, lawsuits should be raining down on all of this DEI racial sorting
Yeah except the lawyers were all required to swear allegiance to DEI, and are actively hostile to those who don't.
Just the young ones mostly. Large firms may be compromised as well because they operate the same way Social Security does -?have to have the new grunts to keep the old ones living well. So if you have need look for that crusty old solo practitioner or small firm with lots of litigation experience. Civil lawsuits are costly though so build a war chest.
I attended the annual "DEI grand rounds" that is mandated by a prominent medical school. The attendees were exposed to an hour of drivel instead of receiving any medical education. It seems more important to promote DEI than to teach young physicians how to be more compassionate and empathetic toward their patients.
This same medical school has a massive banner plastered on one of their major buildings proclaiming "Black Lives Matter".
"Diversity, equity, and inclusion" and "Black Lives Matter" are both noble sentiments that have been distorted and perverted by intolerant ideologues whose goals are antithetical to American democracy.
It doesn't matter. Since the whole hog embrace of the insurance model medical decisions are made by algorithms to serve the interest of the corporate bottom line. The only reasons doctors matter at all is because people currently accept that it is necessary because doctors deserve substantial fees. But the days of doctors as esteemed professionals are numbered. And they will have done it to themselves, starting with the abandonment of the Hippocratic Oath
"Black Lives Matter" is a classic piece of Communist deflection. It's actually meant to make us focus on the notion that there are people, better yet, institutions, who don't think they matter. That claim will, or should, come as a big surprise to all the black people who have been helped by white police, white lawyers, white judges, white doctors, white nurses, white psychiatrists, etc. The BLM meme, like all memes designed to appeal to our worst emotions and stop us thinking beyond the point where the ideologues need our thinking to stop (like Orwell's "slogans") , was promoted by people who publicly declared they were "trained Marxists". Trained to do what? What else but to bring the Revolution to America, and make it look morally imperative, in fact, "American"?
It is hard to get left wing ideologies out of left wing establishments. For those of us with common sense and a brain, I include myself, the notion of DEI was absurd from the beginning. We watched as it slowly took on a life and oozed into every crevice of society. Everything is racist and everyone is oppressed, except the white people, particularly the white males. I just stopped playing the language game a couple of years ago. I now freely point out lunacy.
I hope you are correct about this, but I haven’t personally seen any retrenchment in deep blue Illinois.
I left Illinois about thirteen years ago. I watched it go from bad to worse just in news stories and op-eds. Your current governor needs to go. Chicago is so lost. I can’t believe they voted that idiot for a mayor.
Or any blue states or cities for that matter.
I've been breathing long enough to learn the lesson that "Progressives" never admit defeat. They just change the wording to hide their intentions. Vigilance is exhausting but it is necessary with this mind virus.
Heterodox Xtianities claiming to bring the New Jerusalem down to Earth. They jettisoned God along the way, thinking they are It. Abomination standing where it ought not. I think I get the point now, Father: you are 'Chesterton's Church'; don't demolish it 'til you know what it is FOR.
The neo communists in their critical theory ideology will regroup, retrench and continue the effort to marrch through the institutions and destroy our free society. DEI is just one horrible manifestation of this evil, secular religion. As spoken be a secular person that took way to l1ong to grasp critical theory for what it is.
Bari against billions. (Tens or hundreds of billions). David vs Goliath. Good luck! Keep up the good work!
Hardly anyone grasps that story correctly: the sling is a ranged armour-peircing weapon that will kill at one hundred yards. Goliath's spear had at most a 4 yard reach. He was dead before David selected his pebble.
That is true but TSs point is that the small can destroy the large. Your point is that small does not mean weak.
Great to see some states are waking up to this nonsense, but the beast has hardly been vanquished. In fact, it’s nourished daily by the hundreds of thousands of elementary and high school teachers — public and private — who are members of their respective teacher councils and associations. The National Council for the Teachers of English. The National Council for the Teachers of Mathematics. the National Council for the Social Studies. The American Association for Teaches of Foreign Language. The National Association of Biology Teachers. The American Association of Chemistry Teachers. Every one of these groups commits itself to creating diverse, culturally responsive classrooms where inclusion, not skill building, is the order of the day.
And anti-semitism. There's anti-Israel language written in some of their charters, guised as a concern for children - not American children, not children suffering in Syria, not Kurdish children, just Palestinian. Their remit no longer seems to be educating young Americans to read, write, be competitive and enlightened, but rather to indoctrinate them to fulfill their own (the teachers') evangelistic, narcissistic quest to fulfill some (uninformed/ignorant, unjust, hypocritical) "social justice" delusion of grandeur. Teachers have sold out America's future. We already see it.
I'm sorry, I'm going to be a bit of a Negative Nancy. As we learned with Roe v Wade and Dobbs, sometimes legislation makes things worse, not better. Just because Texas says "no DEI", it doesn't mean these depts won't re-fashion into a new acronym. We need a reckoning of larger proportions in the psyche of the American Left. I do think diversity (not just racial, but gender, faith, political views, etc), EQUALITY, and inclusion are important (yes, even in insectology), but the bureaucratic initiatives and depts that tout the end-all-be-all answers to how to get there have metastasized into something that does not achieve DEI, but Division, Exclusion, and Inciting hate for "out" groups (anyone who does not ascribe to DEI) in the name of racism. Can we not just agree to treat everyone like human beings? I'm not Pollyanna, I know that humans are flawed. But, expect the best in each other and confront with the mindset of innocent until proven guilty when someone "transgresses".
I'm concerned that the pendulum is swinging too far to the other side - we can't just leave a vacuum for something worse to come into practice. We need to address the root causes of the DEI bureaucracy.
I no longer think diversity of races is a social priority. In reality, I think the battle on that front has been won. The left just won't admit it. We need to move on to diversity of thoughts, and diversity of economic classes. A roomful of Ivy Leaguers of different skin colors but all with the same privileged socio-economic class and politics is not diversity.
I also don't want inclusion of "gender identity" that result in this kind of farce and nonsense: https://reduxx.info/spain-male-soldier-claims-he-is-being-discriminated-against-after-being-prevented-from-using-female-changing-rooms/
How refreshing. I'm a white, heterosexual, American, self-sufficient father and no longer on a downward trending path societally.
Not personally maybe but do not kid yourself, the entire nation is on that trend now.
Actually, Europe too!
As someone who was raised to respect all people and who has taught my children the same, I found this DEI trend incredibly condescending. Infantilizing. It seems those pushing it and teaching it see themselves as superior to think they need to instruct others in how to think and how to treat others.