Posted on 01/20/2024 7:41:15 PM PST by MtnClimber
The battle against DIE (diversity, inclusion, equity) in America’s educational institutions isn’t about the obvious abuses of academic integrity, disregard for achievement, or embrace of institutional racism. It’s about power and money. The same goes for DIE’s offspring, ESG (environmental, social and governance), whose proponents have forced public and private companies to adopt policies that are antithetical to their basic missions.
Much of our academic, political, and corporate elite are heavily invested in DIE because its doctrines have enabled them to acquire their positions of power absent competitive merit or achievement. They will cling to their privileges in the face of embarrassment and exposure.
Accordingly, eradicating DIE’s adverse effects on education and corporations will require an offensive, not a defensive, strategy focused on eliminating the policies and funding that sustain it, in addition to the continuing aggressive efforts to expose DIE’s corruption and adverse consequences. DIE is based on many false premises. Accepting them as the terms of battle will result in defeat.
Many years ago, public school administrators, teachers’ unions, and their political collaborators realized that the accusation of racism was a useful tool to obfuscate their roles in failing school systems and wretched student achievement by removing all accountability for the incompetence of the teachers and administrators. They created subjective goals that were completely unquantifiable and undefinable, like antiracism.
DIE has been used to limit admittance to only likeminded faculty and students by degrading standards and expanding course offerings into squishy subjects for which grades are irrelevant. The DIE gatekeepers have been most successful at America’s top colleges and universities, where demand far outstrips available places. These policies have not gone unnoticed by students.
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How to fight it when the left has no boundaries on their behavior?
Word.
DIE
Discrimination, Inequity & Exclusion
It’s DEI, not DIE.
DIE is much more accurate.
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