Posted on 11/29/2024 7:00:57 AM PST by george76
A report in The New York Times Magazine found that the University of Michigan's decade-long, roughly $250 million experiment in DEI has been a failure. .
DEI is a bad idea whose time came with a vengeance several years ago, but now its continued ascendancy is in doubt.
Perhaps the most important event this year outside of the presidential election is the intellectual collapse of so-called diversity, equity and inclusion, which is poisonous hokum that is finally being exposed as such.
DEI has been one of the most morally perverse and damaging fads in recent American history.
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We’ve been spending an estimated $8 billion a year telling Americans in training sessions, workshops and educational material that they are, depending on their race or gender, victims or oppressors, and that the country is shot through with white supremacy.
The DEI mindset is dominant in human resources departments and on college campuses.
Common sense say that this racialist hectoring — often administered by people who brook no dissent — must be unhealthy, and, sure enough, evidence is beginning to pile up.
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DEI can create negative feelings or make people afraid to speak their minds.
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DEI amplified “perceptions of prejudicial hostility where none was present, and punitive responses to the imaginary prejudice.”
In other words, if its goal is to create illiberal racial paranoiacs, DEI is succeeding brilliantly.
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DEI has been tried, and the dismal results are now becoming known.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
MERIT is all that has ever moved ANY civilization FORWARD.
“DEI is a bad idea whose time came with a vengeance several years ago”
Well, I tend to disagree with that actually.
Having been in the DoD for 31 years I saw dei type practices a long time ago.....it just didn’t have a name.....although partially kept in check due to my activity being aviation maintenance and flight crew safety related.....it still existed to a certain extent.
DEI a make work program for useless very angry people
“Pants up, don’t loot.”
The truth has been exposed.
Formula 1 - Diversity & Inclusion Charter: All Ten Teams and The FIA Agree
https://www.everythingf1.com/diversity-inclusion-charter-all-ten-teams-and-the-fia-agree/
True, but are we going forward? Or still diving? Sometimes things get so bad, they have to get worse, and clear the field before merit has room to work.
Name them.
Shame them.
Make them accountable.
That communist b******* should have been stopped long ago. The misfits who came up with all this should have been publicly mocked and scorned relentlessly.
Crowing about how some have backed away from DEI crappola is like soldiers finding Auschwitz and politicos saying: “Well, that was an aberration and it is stopped now, so ‘At this point what difference does it make?’”.
No, it was all, every bit, racist hatred and its promoters must be punished if they are not to come back.
If athletic scholarships can be awarded solely on merit, why should admissions be based on anything other than merit?
Riiiiight. I remember the last time the Marxists stopped doubling down on stupid ideology. It will just fly under anew name for grant purposes.
Seems like there is a henhouse full of chicks in the upcoming administration.
We have waited a long time for the death of this very bad idea, but then, we are patient.
Heck, we have waited for 200 years for the death of another bad idea...the democrat party.
DEI will DIE!!! Depravity will beaten.
My then rich NYC sister explained it thus:
If we give the blacks what they want they will not bother us.
The old saying applies here: “If you give someone an inch they will take a mile.”
Another old saying:
“If you are not playing offense you are playing defense.”
One more:
“Politics consists of the struggle for power and nothing else.”
That last quote is from James Burnham
“Didn’t Earn it” going away would be a good thing.
Just 1 reason that America collectively is breathing sighs of relief after the election.
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