Posted on 08/07/2025 4:59:51 AM PDT by MtnClimber
DEI is collapsing under its own contradictions—no longer able to define who qualifies, who deserves preference, or why identity should outweigh merit.
Donald Trump’s executive orders banning Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI)-related racial and gender preferencing have ostensibly doomed the DEI industry.
But DEI was already on its last legs. Half of all Americans no longer approve of racial, ethnic, or gender preferences.
DEI had enjoyed a surge following the death of George Floyd and the subsequent 120 days of nonstop rioting, arson, assaults, killings, and attacks on law enforcement during the summer of 2020.
In those chaotic years, DEI was seen as the answer to racial tensions.
DEI had insidiously replaced the old notion of affirmative action—a 1960s-era government remedy for historical prejudices against black Americans, from the legacy of slavery to Jim Crow segregation.
But during the Obama era, “diversity” superseded affirmative action by offering preferences to many groups well beyond black Americans.
Quite abruptly, Americans began talking in Marxist binaries.
On one side were the supposed 65–70 percent white majority “oppressors” and “victimizers”—often stereotyped as exuding “white privilege,” “white supremacy,” or even “white rage.”
They were juxtaposed to the 25–30 percent of “diverse” Americans, the so-called “oppressed” and “victimized.”
Yet almost immediately, contradictions and hypocrisies undermined DEI.
First, how does one define “diverse” in an increasingly multiracial, intermarried, assimilated, and integrated society?
DNA badges?
The old one-drop rule of the antebellum South?
Superficial appearance?
To establish racial or ethnic proof of being one-sixteenth, one-fourth, or one-half “non-white,” employers, corporations, and universities would have to become racially obsessed genealogists.
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I don’t think the left is giving up cultural marxism so easily. They will just change the name and keep going.
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It wasn't a "surge" - it was completely manufactured by Democrats and their Globalist cohorts in order to throw an election.
I agree they never give up. They just repackage and keep moving forward.
DEI is killing more Americans than drugs. I don’t know why they swapped positions of the vowels. It’s DIE!
All evil does. God doesn’t let it stand long.
BTTT
DEI was masterminded by Obama and his cannibal acolytes.
It should NEVER have been implemented in ANY organization. At the core, it is a racial, tribal policy where the low IQ, goon squads take over a company, school and government agency.
Obama put hundreds of thousands of progressive mental retards in every sector of society. The master plan was to turn the USA into a communist Planet of the Apes.
Now the hunters have become the hunted.
BECAUSE DIVERSITY IS AN OBSTACLE TO OVERCOME, NOT A GOAL TO ACHIEVE
Fourth, does the word “minority” still carry any currency?
In today’s California, the demography breaks down as 40% Latino, 34% White, 16% Asian American or Pacific Islander, 6% Black, and 3% Other—with no significant majority and Whites fewer than the Latino “minority.”
Are Latinos the new de facto “majority” and “whites” just one of the four other “minorities?”
Intriguing essay on being a minority in a mixed-up world.
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“I don’t think the left is giving up cultural marxism so easily.”
They won’t. They can’t. I don’t know if it’s because it’s in their DNA, or demonic possession, or what else but they can’t stop.
“They will just change the name and keep going.“
One problem they are going to have is that they’ve painted themselves into an insane ideological corner. The base is real real gone.
DEI / CRT in one image:
https://media.patriots.win/post/ZTvXIF9b.jpeg
Barf warning. You’ve been warned. Imagine having to sit through that struggle session.
“DEI is collapsing under its own contradictions—no longer able to define who qualifies, who deserves preference, or why identity should outweigh merit.”
As far as I could tell the only requirements for filling a DEI positions was to be non-white and have a TikTok account.
“I don’t think the left is giving up cultural marxism so easily. They will just change the name and keep going.”
They’re already having DEI conferences which teach them how to impose covertly DEI. That’s why I never uncorked any champagne based on directives or laws. DEI is more a symptom of hiring Leftists, not the disease...which is the hiring of Leftists to begin with.
My take on DEI is it was pushed by academia to justify some of their more useless academic programs. They got governments and large corporations to hire those people in order to keep those programs accredited.
Cancel culture got started in academia as well. Once they got their scalps for banning Indian mascots, they went on to canceling civil war confederate generals, etc...
DEI gives aid and comfort to the domestic and foreign enemies of the United States.
DEI needs to die at the end of a rope.
Kalifornia is gone.
In truth, DEI had long ago become corrupt.
DEI was always corrupt, from the moment of its inception. It was created by corrupt, despicable people.
Don’t think the left is giving up cultural marxism so easily.
Again, “They will just change the name and keep going.”
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