Posted on 09/16/2022 5:04:49 AM PDT by MtnClimber
If we once thought we could afford to scoff at the woke antics of professors, the looming conquest of the corporate world by the Left should be seen for the grave threat to America that it is.
Higher education’s abject submission to the gods of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” is now assured. Many colleges and universities are building into their hiring, promotion, and tenure schemes a requirement that candidates show “DEI competencies” in order to advance. What’s more, the rubrics assessing whether a candidate has hit the mark are saturated with the terminology of leftist identity politics. More importantly, they take for granted the central assumptions of modern cultural Marxism and critical race theory.
DEI holds that treating people equally, regardless of race, ethnicity, sex, or sexual orientation, is somehow perverse and wrong. Social justice requires dismantling old “systems of oppression” in the name of “equity”—that is, equal outcomes. If that means discriminating in favor of protected classes, and against everyone else, so be it. It’s a demented and profoundly un-American point of view.
Admissions quotas, which mainstream Democrats largely abandoned back in the 1990s as voters awakened to how unfair they were, have returned with a vengeance, again in the name of “equity.” What’s more troubling, though, is not merely that higher education has succumbed to identity politics. Given the ivory tower’s increasingly leftist tilt, that was inevitable. Rather, it’s the rapid progress DEI is making outside of the education establishment.
Corporate America, which was long a bastion of free market conservatism, is now undergoing a fundamental and sweeping cultural shift. Corporate human resources offices, full of recent college graduates, now focus on cajoling hapless employees into taking on the role of “social justice warriors,” and remolding the corporate workforce to ensure that hiring and promotion decisions are made with an eye to achieving numerical (and generally arbitrary) “equity” goals.
Sadly, the NASDAQ stock exchange, in collusion with the Biden Administration’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has recently committed to enforcing these perverse and un-American dogmas by requiring any U.S. company listed on the exchange to have a minimum number of minorities, women, and members of the LGBT community on its board—or else submit to mandatory Maoist self-denunciation.
The simple fact that discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, sex, gender identity, or sexual orientation is banned by state and federal law seems not to trouble those pushing such efforts at radical transformation—presumably because they assume (correctly) that the prosecutors and bureaucrats charged with upholding such laws have no interest in protecting the rights of anyone outside the Left’s cherished protected classes.
In all likelihood, then, the DEI advocates at NASDAQ will succeed in their effort to embed the twisted logic of cultural Marxism in corporate America, even more deeply than it is now. Companies that cling stubbornly to the principles of nondiscrimination and meritocracy will find themselves delisted, vilified, and excluded from the new, aggressively woke brand of state capitalism that the Left is forging—underwritten, as usual, with public funds.
The stakes are high, and not just for corporations. Conservatives and Republicans should ask themselves: if every institution in modern society submits to cultural Marxism and identity politics—from education and entertainment to big business and even mainline Christianity—then what are the long-term prospects of a political movement that dares to dissent from such a pervasive orthodoxy?
If we once thought we could afford to scoff at the woke antics of professors, the looming conquest of the corporate world by the Left should be seen for the grave threat to America that it is. In the battle for corporate America’s soul, failure simply cannot be an option.
DEI competencies? I view everybody as an individual. The opposite of DIE. These people are insane.
DEI is a form of reparation.
Arguably and just my take having come from 8 years teaching as a uni/college professor (so admittedly, I am a bit biased in saying this AND am no longer teaching at that level) after getting out of military, I believe the education system, both on the K12 level and uni/college level is purposely being degraded by such things as DEI, reducing SAT/ACT score requirements, etc., etc. Again, from my perspective, a dumbed down youth and young adults makes it sooooooo much easier to indoctrinate them, to manipulate them, to make them compliant, and ultimately to keep them uninformed.
Again, from my perspective, a dumbed down youth and young adults makes it sooooooo much easier to indoctrinate them, to manipulate them, to make them compliant, and ultimately to keep them uninformed.
It is amazing how different these kids are from when I was growing up. Not all, but most. Many of the White men seem downright neutered.
DEI is part of critical theory….a communist view of the world and everything as from a view of oppressor and oppressed
Ask the poor little thing who is oppressing her and how. Then check to eee if they have a phone, shoes, and a full belly
Dabney Eats It...
(Please Freepmail me if you knew the reference without looking it up.)
We have reality and natural law on our side. The Wokesters, not so much.
Its gotten into the corporate world and Gubbermint as well.
The acronym should be DIE—Diversity, Inclusion & Equity.
It’s AFFIRMATIVE ACTION....just a different name.
It’s worse that that: it makes people of European ancestry the irredeemable evil in the world.
‘Higher education’s abject submission to the gods of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” is now assured. Many colleges and universities are building into their hiring, promotion, and tenure schemes a requirement that candidates show “DEI competencies” in order to advance.’
As I’ve said before. Universities have morphed from institutes of higher learning into cesspools of disinformation.
We have reality and natural law on our side. The Wokesters, not so much.
...and that is why I wish to be a discriminating individual as I was many years ago. I have the God given right to decide what principles I believe in. Government has usurped those rights for the purpose of ruling over “We the People”.
99.9% of the racial dystopia we’re living can be attributed to one false assumption - “all races on AVERAGE are equal”.
Once you accept that assumption every perversion and insanity you see follow as surely as day follows night.
And so when an easily identifiable group of peoplee, on average, performs significantly worse in life than another (and they’re supposedly EQUAL ), someone or something must be intentionally keeping the poorly performing group down. And who else could that be than the well performing group?
dei/bds = thw sides of the same coin
If it’s that damn serious, maybe you should spell it out in the headling instead of using an acronym 95% of readers won’t understand.
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