This Washington Post article is called “Civil rights agencies that once promoted DEI now work to wipe it out.” The Post seems to find this development ironic and unfortunate.
One thing we shouldn't do is to mixup the term DEI with classic reverse discrimination in the form of Affirmative Action. The latter is illegal and often deeply unfair. DEI is the child of the Marxist Critical Race Theory movement. It holds that Western society is inherently deeply racist and divided into the races that oppress and the races that are oppressed and all whites (and whatever other groups they feel like hating on like Jews) are oppressors and automatically racist. DEI programs are separate from AA hiring programs. They are designed to teach white employees (or students) that they are racist oppressors who are always wrong and black or other favored minorities (trans have become popular with DEI people often to the detriment of gays and women) that they are victims who cannot be wrong. These programs we all agree are divisive, corrosive, dangerous and evil. They should all be stopped immediately, particularly in schools. But they are different than affirmative action hiring and admission discrimination and the two should not be conflated.
Discrimination against whites certainly is part of DEI. It is how diversity, equity, and inclusion are achieved when merit selection is not sufficient.
It's also the illegal part of DEI, which is why the Trump EEOC and other federal agencies are attacking it, to the consternation of the Washington Post. There's nothing illegal about teaching that whites oppress blacks and that blacks are always victims. This part of DEI, the ideological underpinning of all the "reverse discrimination" our institutions have been carrying out, has to be attacked differently.
One thing we shouldn't do is use the term "affirmative action." It is a euphemism for imposing diversity, equity, and inclusion through discrimination against whites.
One thing we shouldn't do is to mixup the term DEI with classic reverse discrimination in the form of Affirmative Action. The latter is illegal and often deeply unfair. DEI is the child of the Marxist Critical Race Theory movement. It holds that Western society is inherently deeply racist and divided into the races that oppress and the races that are oppressed and all whites (and whatever other groups they feel like hating on like Jews) are oppressors and automatically racist. DEI programs are separate from AA hiring programs. They are designed to teach white employees (or students) that they are racist oppressors who are always wrong and black or other favored minorities (trans have become popular with DEI people often to the detriment of gays and women) that they are victims who cannot be wrong. These programs we all agree are divisive, corrosive, dangerous and evil. They should all be stopped immediately, particularly in schools. But they are different than affirmative action hiring and admission discrimination and the two should not be conflated.
Discrimination against whites certainly is part of DEI. It is how diversity, equity, and inclusion are achieved when merit selection is not sufficient.
It's also the illegal part of DEI, which is why the Trump EEOC and other federal agencies are attacking it, to the consternation of the Washington Post. There's nothing illegal about teaching that whites oppress blacks and that blacks are always victims. This part of DEI, the ideological underpinning of all the "reverse discrimination" our institutions have been carrying out, has to be attacked differently.
One thing we shouldn't do is use the term "affirmative action." It is a euphemism for imposing diversity, equity, and inclusion through discrimination against whites.