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DEI has been around in one form or another for a very long time. What has changed is its enshrinement in public policy, both in private industry and in government. The creation of privileged classes was the first step into the abyss we're now sliding into, but the government itself has always been the most privileged class of all.

Privileged versus Oppressed is only a particularly primitive social model but it plays on the human emotion of resentment very effectively. It used to be common sense that switching the roles does nothing to reduce the oppression, which is the real object of a just society, and that institutional revenge only prolongs the cycle. Now revenge is serious social policy. That won't end well.