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Corporate DEI Leaders Are In a Panic Over Trump's Executive Orders
Hot Air ^ | 23 Jan, 2025 | John Sexton

Posted on 01/24/2025 6:57:38 AM PST by MtnClimber

As we've covered here in the last couple days, Trump's executive order on DEI ordered the suspension of DEI employees and the closing of their offices. He also included a plan to keep these offices from simply rebranding under a different name and carrying on as usual. That was smart because rebranding is how many academic DEI offices have tried to get by laws aimed at them in the recent past.

While Trump's executive order is aimed at government employees, it is also a warning to their corporate counterparts.

"These actions freeze DEI operations in the federal government with the anticipation of the end of such programs," said Jonathan Butcher, a senior research fellow with the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank.

"Corporations," he said, "should recognize that racial discrimination and racial preferences will no longer go unchallenged by Washington."...

"This is going to start a tidal wave of companies self-censoring and cutting back on those types of DEI efforts for fear of litigation with the federal government on the other end of that," said Joseph Seiner, a law professor at the University of South Carolina. "Even if they're doing everything that complies with federal law, they could still find themselves subject to an investigation, which can be expensive and timely to defend against."

In addition, Trump's revocation of an affirmative action executive order put in place in 1965 is another indication that the anti-DEI push will go beyond government employees to government contractors.

The NY Times published a story today titled "Trump’s D.E.I. Order Creates ‘Fear and Confusion’ Among Corporate Leaders." In other words, corporate DEI leaders are getting the message...SNIP


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; Society
KEYWORDS: wokeism

1 posted on 01/24/2025 6:57:38 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Good, DEI is racism and sexism.


2 posted on 01/24/2025 6:57:48 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

End Racism. End DEI.


3 posted on 01/24/2025 6:58:37 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (For a good time, call Lisa M. 123-4567)
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To: MtnClimber

my company has dropped the E in its external publications but keeps it internally.


4 posted on 01/24/2025 7:00:21 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: MtnClimber

5 posted on 01/24/2025 7:07:01 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: MtnClimber

It’s a corrupt fraud. It’s why deepstates have to collapse. The number of people who have to be bought off to sustain the corruption expands until it cannot be sustained any more. The next round of corruption increase cannot be funded and those chaffing because they are paying for the corruption expands to the point of collapse.


6 posted on 01/24/2025 7:07:14 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: MtnClimber

DEI - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
ESG - Environmental, Social, and Governance
BDS - Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
CRT - Critical Race Theory


7 posted on 01/24/2025 7:09:34 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("All he had was a handgun. Why did you think that was a threat?" --Rittenhouse Prosecutor)
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To: MtnClimber

bttt


8 posted on 01/24/2025 7:09:42 AM PST by linMcHlp
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To: MtnClimber

9 posted on 01/24/2025 7:12:44 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: MtnClimber

10 posted on 01/24/2025 7:13:13 AM PST by BipolarBob (DEIs pronouns are was/were/has been.)
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To: ealgeone

Why don’t they just change it to a more accurate acronym:
DIE.


11 posted on 01/24/2025 7:13:32 AM PST by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement! Thereon)
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To: milagro

That’s what I’ve been calling it....because IF we’d continued on the course of 2020 and didn’t embrace this we’d DIEd.


12 posted on 01/24/2025 7:14:55 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: MtnClimber

Something to watch for is when colleges and universities start shutting down their DEI training programs, of which there are a lot. This will likely be done from the bottom up, that is, students rejecting them as easy credit hours.

This is because they will strongly resist shutting down such crapola from the top down.


13 posted on 01/24/2025 7:16:28 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("All he had was a handgun. Why did you think that was a threat?" --Rittenhouse Prosecutor)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

Your post offer what the Left loves to feed us with their letter salads so we can all
E. S. & D.


14 posted on 01/24/2025 7:21:21 AM PST by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement! Thereon)
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To: MtnClimber

They should worry. The entire DEI is discriminatory which is against the law. It is their own literature and practices that will be used to convict them.

Anyone that was denied employment because of DEI should sue on grounds the business violated their civil rights.

They no longer have the Federal Government protecting their discriminating practices.


15 posted on 01/24/2025 7:51:41 AM PST by CIB-173RDABN (I’ll take a wait and see...)
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To: MtnClimber

Indeed.


16 posted on 01/24/2025 8:05:41 AM PST by sauropod ("You didn't take a country. You only won a football game!" - Dan Dakich Ne supra crepidam)
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To: MtnClimber

Toss in speech and thought crimes too. Pronoun enforcement and forbidden words have to go.


17 posted on 01/24/2025 8:09:47 AM PST by lurk (u)
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To: MtnClimber

Why are corporate leaders upset? Closing a non-revenue producing administrative component of your company will probably save millions.

Time to take a good look at all H.R. departments.


18 posted on 01/24/2025 8:15:33 AM PST by ByteMercenary (Liberalism is a mental disorder.)
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To: MtnClimber

If y’all support racism you get no guv’mt contracts. Ditto for every one of your affiliates, too.

Every company you hire for any job (e.g., office cleanup) must be squeekie clean. Otherwise, you lose it all.


19 posted on 01/24/2025 10:24:49 AM PST by bobbo666
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To: MtnClimber

Excellent.
Waiting for some WHITE GUY to land a hard, direct blow into the face of a company in court from a lawsuit based on discrimination. This EO should hasten that event.

Sick of time, energy, resources being totally wasted buying mandatory brainwashing materials from this company:

https://www.traliant.com/courses/diversity-equity-inclusion-at-work/

Boss and co-workers are sick of it also. Hiring on anything except competence is asking for trouble or a disaster(i.e. parts falling off of airplanes, cars that fail fatally, etc).


20 posted on 01/24/2025 10:46:25 AM PST by JCL3 (As Richard Feynman might have said, this is reality taking precedence over public relations.)
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