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President Donald Trump’s executive orders banning Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI)-related racial and gender preferencing have ostensibly doomed the DEI industry.
But DEI was already on its last legs. Half of all Americans no longer approve of racial, ethnic, or gender preferences. DEI had enjoyed a surge following the death of George Floyd and the subsequent 120 days of nonstop rioting, arson, assaults, killings, and attacks on law enforcement during the summer of 2020.
In those chaotic years, DEI was seen as the answer to racial tensions. DEI had insidiously replaced the old notion of affirmative action — a 1960s-era government remedy for historical prejudices against black Americans, from the legacy of slavery to Jim Crow segregation.
But during the Obama era, “diversity” superseded affirmative action by offering preferences to many groups well beyond black Americans. Quite abruptly, Americans began talking in Marxist binaries. On one side were the supposed 65-70 percent white majority “oppressors” and “victimizers” — often stereotyped as exuding “white privilege,” “white supremacy,” or even “white rage.”
They were juxtaposed to the 25-30% of “diverse” Americans, the so-called “oppressed” and “victimized.” Yet almost immediately, contradictions and hypocrisies undermined DEI.
First, how does one define “diverse” in an increasingly multiracial, intermarried, assimilated, and integrated society?
DNA badges?
The old one-drop rule of the antebellum South?
Superficial appearance? To establish racial or ethnic proof of being one-sixteenth, one-fourth, or one-half “non-white,” employers, corporations, and universities would have to become racially obsessed genealogists.
Yet refusing to become racial auditors also would allow racial and ethnic fraudsters — like Senator Elizabeth Warren and would-be new mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani — to go unchecked. Warren falsely claimed Native American heritage to leverage a Harvard professorship. Mamdani, an immigrant son of wealthy Indian immigrants from Uganda, tried to game his way into college by claiming he was an African-American.
Second, in 21st-century America, class became increasingly divergent from race. Mamdani, who promised to tax “affluent” and “whiter” neighborhoods at higher rates, is himself the child of Indian immigrants, the most affluent ethnic group in America.
Why would the children of Barack Obama, Joy Reid, or LeBron James need any special preferences, given the multimillionaire status of their parents?
In other words, one’s superficial appearance no longer necessarily determines one’s income or wealth, nor defines their “privilege” or lack thereof.
Third, DEI is often tied to questions of “reparations.” The current white majority supposedly owes other particular groups financial or entitlement compensation for the sins of the past.
Yet in today’s multiracial and multiethnic society, in which over 50 million residents were not born in the U.S. and many have only recently arrived, what are the particular historical or past grievances that would earn anyone special treatment? What injustices can recent arrivals from southern Mexico, South Korea, or Chad claim, as they would know little about, and have experienced firsthand nothing prior from Americans, the United States, or its history?
Is the DEI logic that when a Guatemalan steps one foot across the southern border, she is suddenly classified as a victim of white oppression and therefore entitled to preferences in hiring or employment as someone diverse or victimized?
Fourth, does the word “minority” still carry any currency? In today’s California, the demography breaks down as 40% Latino, 34% White, 16% Asian American or Pacific Islander, 6% Black, and 3% Other — with no significant majority and whites fewer than the Latino “minority.”
Are Latinos the new de facto “majority” and “whites” just one of the four other “minorities?” Do the other minorities, then, have grievances against Latinos, given that they are the dominant population in the state? Fifth, when does DEI “proportional representation” apply, and when does it not? Are whites “overrepresented” among the nation’s university faculties that are reportedly 75% white, when they comprise only about 70% of the population?
Or, are whites “underrepresented” as making up only 55% of all college students and thus in need of DEI action to bump up their numbers? Black athletes are vastly overrepresented in lucrative and prestigious professional sports. To correct such asymmetries, should Asians and Hispanics be given mandated quotas for quarterback or point guard positions to ensure proper athletic “diversity, equity, and inclusion?”
Sixth, DEI determines good and bad prejudices, as well as correct and incorrect biases. “Affinity” segregationist graduations — black, Hispanic, Asian, and gay — are considered “affirming.”
But would a similar affinity graduation ceremony for European-Americans or Jews be considered “racist?” Is a Latino-themed house on a California campus — that is de facto segregated — considered “enlightened,” while a European-American dorm would be condemned as incendiary?
In truth, DEI had long ago become corrupt. It is falling apart under the weight of its own paradoxes and hypocrisies. It is a perniciously divisive idea — unable to define who qualifies for preference or why, who is overrepresented or not, or when bias is acceptable or unjust. And it is past time that it goes away.
Division
Exclusion
Inequality
Socialism in action.
Destroying
Education through
Indoctrination.
DEI’s existence has turned out to be a bonus for the GOP. I’m guessing many Democrats don’t like watching their daughters competing in sports against males and don’t like someone with a penis in the shower with their daughters. Worse yet, many Dems likely have a problem with schools teaching children they are either the oppressed or the oppressor, depending on the color of their skin.
As is the case for “affirmative action,” DEI is systemic racism.
Elizabeth Warren also gain privileged access in academia by being a member of the sex that comprises over 60% of university students.. She also falsely claimed she lost a job due to pregnancy. Her lies about being a Native American (while being “possibly 1/1024th indigenous by DNA”) were obvious as her claims that her proposed give aways during her presidential campaigns would be financed without tax increases for the vast majority of voters. Even among politicians she is notoriously mendacious, along with Joe Biden (who’s cranial mush can no longer distinguish truth from fiction) and Barack Hussein Osama, the most successful snake oil salesman in history.
Cut the grifting bitch some slack.
It’s legitimate that she felt possibly indian, because the press told us Shane Tamura was “possibly white” while at the EXACT SAME TIME showed the photo of someone who clearly wasn’t.
Also; the press described George Zimmerman as a “white Mexican”,.
So we know it’s okay for race to be flexible . . . but only if it slanders whites, or benefits idiots like “you didn’t build that” Warren.
It was Bareback Hasbeen Osama who stupidly said “you didn’t build that.”
And she also said it once, before campaigning to unseat lackluster Senator Scott Brown.
We all are aware of the group-think that prevails among leftists.
(That “you didn’t build it” cliché must not have polled well in focus groups. Warren & Barry are the only ones I’ve heard say it.)
Let’s give Little White Dove her due …
How do get all those video clips and videos posted? I fail every time I try.
Every Thursday, we Jooos have a secret strategy meeting ….
😏
The picture of Comrade Warren says it. All she is a big mouth and lots of decisive hand gesturing and fist pumping.
That’s it. Talk about an empty suite. My God, There have many very annoying politicians in history. Warren is in a class by herself.
Fauxcahontas really mad now. She go on heap big warpath. Make war drums speak. Raise her arms high so we smell her B.O.
Fauxcahontas upset because she no longer have DEI fraud to hide behind.
Fauxcahontas so upset she fall over on Senate floor.
Have to raise wampum to fund campaign when she run again. Tell us she 1.364 indian and to spread more sack-a jowea lies.
She old white woman. Always will be. She gonna get her a beer now.
DUM dum dum dum. DUM dum dum dum.
Still visiting gloryhole buffets, Sebastard?
She is trying to call Mr. Mander but he isn’t in the Office today Mr. Gerry Mander is out of Town
Moron Mommydaddy lives in a luxury apartment for only $2200.00 a month. It’s worth five times that. He’s a hypocrite. He’s also white. People from India are not a separate race. People lie but genetics don’t.
Governor of Md. says DEI is here to stay. Just look at the condition of his state, California East.
If you changed round the last two words so that it was Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, the acronym DIE would support the headline. Or we could have an Islamophilic version – EID.
Regarding the title of the article: I hope that all of the proponents and practitioners of this DEI con join in the passing.
Sorry not sorry.