While there seems to be an awakening (pun intended) in the education sector, the damage continues in the private sector as graduates progress their way up the corporate ladder. As an example, United Airlines has announced a five year plan to make half their staffing minorities. Alaska Airlines is in the same mode. Eliminating DEI will take a more than cleaning up the educational sector.
A bit of a bible quote to chew on here "John 3:19 "Here is the judgment. Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light. They loved darkness because what they did was evil. "
It’s going to take a lot more chutzpah from conservatives to drive a stake in the heart of DEI. Millions of graduates with Greivance Studies degrees are dining out on a huge DEI industry. It’s not going to evaporate without a fight.
I do not understand why it took so long for supposedly well meaning centrist people to see the dangers in DEI. It seems like the same people who are against it now were for it a few years ago, as is shown by the Republican! Governor mentioned in the article.
Is this sea change real? If so, is it merely a reaction to the public anti-Semitic DEI driven reaction to events in Israel? If these thought changes were driven by antisemitism, where was the reaction a few years ago when white men, Christian parents, Catholics and others were vilified? This started decades ago when “dead white men” were removed from college reading lists. When they got away with that they knew they had a weapon.
When the same people who are now horrified by the treatment of Jews at Harvard become equally horrified by the treatment of Catholics by the FBI and of parents at school board meetings, then I will be hopeful.
DEI, CRT et al have been used as weapons for over a decade. I fear that we are very selective about who we defend from that weapon. To destroy DEI, you must see it as a part of a larger offensive. It’s just one tool in a larger toolbox that includes climate change, COVID hysteria, trans rights for minors and whatever “cause” is invented tomorrow.
The same people who supported DEI screamed that I was racist for believing COVID came from a lab in China. Our elites have created many victims, not just Jews. It’s time to pay attention to them all.
It'll just get renamed. Too many people are making money from it; the ideology itself is too entrenched in people's consciousnesses, and the MSM pushes so hard the whole "privilege" framework. These things seem like minor setbacks or concessions on the march of "progress".
I attended the annual "DEI grand rounds" that is mandated by a prominent medical school. The attendees were exposed to an hour of drivel instead of receiving any medical education. It seems more important to promote DEI than to teach young physicians how to be more compassionate and empathetic toward their patients.
This same medical school has a massive banner plastered on one of their major buildings proclaiming "Black Lives Matter".
"Diversity, equity, and inclusion" and "Black Lives Matter" are both noble sentiments that have been distorted and perverted by intolerant ideologues whose goals are antithetical to American democracy.
It is hard to get left wing ideologies out of left wing establishments. For those of us with common sense and a brain, I include myself, the notion of DEI was absurd from the beginning. We watched as it slowly took on a life and oozed into every crevice of society. Everything is racist and everyone is oppressed, except the white people, particularly the white males. I just stopped playing the language game a couple of years ago. I now freely point out lunacy.
I've been breathing long enough to learn the lesson that "Progressives" never admit defeat. They just change the wording to hide their intentions. Vigilance is exhausting but it is necessary with this mind virus.
The neo communists in their critical theory ideology will regroup, retrench and continue the effort to marrch through the institutions and destroy our free society. DEI is just one horrible manifestation of this evil, secular religion. As spoken be a secular person that took way to l1ong to grasp critical theory for what it is.
Great to see some states are waking up to this nonsense, but the beast has hardly been vanquished. In fact, it’s nourished daily by the hundreds of thousands of elementary and high school teachers — public and private — who are members of their respective teacher councils and associations. The National Council for the Teachers of English. The National Council for the Teachers of Mathematics. the National Council for the Social Studies. The American Association for Teaches of Foreign Language. The National Association of Biology Teachers. The American Association of Chemistry Teachers. Every one of these groups commits itself to creating diverse, culturally responsive classrooms where inclusion, not skill building, is the order of the day.
I'm sorry, I'm going to be a bit of a Negative Nancy. As we learned with Roe v Wade and Dobbs, sometimes legislation makes things worse, not better. Just because Texas says "no DEI", it doesn't mean these depts won't re-fashion into a new acronym. We need a reckoning of larger proportions in the psyche of the American Left. I do think diversity (not just racial, but gender, faith, political views, etc), EQUALITY, and inclusion are important (yes, even in insectology), but the bureaucratic initiatives and depts that tout the end-all-be-all answers to how to get there have metastasized into something that does not achieve DEI, but Division, Exclusion, and Inciting hate for "out" groups (anyone who does not ascribe to DEI) in the name of racism. Can we not just agree to treat everyone like human beings? I'm not Pollyanna, I know that humans are flawed. But, expect the best in each other and confront with the mindset of innocent until proven guilty when someone "transgresses".
I'm concerned that the pendulum is swinging too far to the other side - we can't just leave a vacuum for something worse to come into practice. We need to address the root causes of the DEI bureaucracy.
As someone who was raised to respect all people and who has taught my children the same, I found this DEI trend incredibly condescending. Infantilizing. It seems those pushing it and teaching it see themselves as superior to think they need to instruct others in how to think and how to treat others.
While there seems to be an awakening (pun intended) in the education sector, the damage continues in the private sector as graduates progress their way up the corporate ladder. As an example, United Airlines has announced a five year plan to make half their staffing minorities. Alaska Airlines is in the same mode. Eliminating DEI will take a more than cleaning up the educational sector.
A bit of a bible quote to chew on here "John 3:19 "Here is the judgment. Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light. They loved darkness because what they did was evil. "
It’s going to take a lot more chutzpah from conservatives to drive a stake in the heart of DEI. Millions of graduates with Greivance Studies degrees are dining out on a huge DEI industry. It’s not going to evaporate without a fight.
I do not understand why it took so long for supposedly well meaning centrist people to see the dangers in DEI. It seems like the same people who are against it now were for it a few years ago, as is shown by the Republican! Governor mentioned in the article.
Is this sea change real? If so, is it merely a reaction to the public anti-Semitic DEI driven reaction to events in Israel? If these thought changes were driven by antisemitism, where was the reaction a few years ago when white men, Christian parents, Catholics and others were vilified? This started decades ago when “dead white men” were removed from college reading lists. When they got away with that they knew they had a weapon.
When the same people who are now horrified by the treatment of Jews at Harvard become equally horrified by the treatment of Catholics by the FBI and of parents at school board meetings, then I will be hopeful.
DEI, CRT et al have been used as weapons for over a decade. I fear that we are very selective about who we defend from that weapon. To destroy DEI, you must see it as a part of a larger offensive. It’s just one tool in a larger toolbox that includes climate change, COVID hysteria, trans rights for minors and whatever “cause” is invented tomorrow.
The same people who supported DEI screamed that I was racist for believing COVID came from a lab in China. Our elites have created many victims, not just Jews. It’s time to pay attention to them all.
It'll just get renamed. Too many people are making money from it; the ideology itself is too entrenched in people's consciousnesses, and the MSM pushes so hard the whole "privilege" framework. These things seem like minor setbacks or concessions on the march of "progress".
Until the Civil Rights Act is repealed, lawsuits should be raining down on all of this DEI racial sorting
I attended the annual "DEI grand rounds" that is mandated by a prominent medical school. The attendees were exposed to an hour of drivel instead of receiving any medical education. It seems more important to promote DEI than to teach young physicians how to be more compassionate and empathetic toward their patients.
This same medical school has a massive banner plastered on one of their major buildings proclaiming "Black Lives Matter".
"Diversity, equity, and inclusion" and "Black Lives Matter" are both noble sentiments that have been distorted and perverted by intolerant ideologues whose goals are antithetical to American democracy.
It is hard to get left wing ideologies out of left wing establishments. For those of us with common sense and a brain, I include myself, the notion of DEI was absurd from the beginning. We watched as it slowly took on a life and oozed into every crevice of society. Everything is racist and everyone is oppressed, except the white people, particularly the white males. I just stopped playing the language game a couple of years ago. I now freely point out lunacy.
I hope you are correct about this, but I haven’t personally seen any retrenchment in deep blue Illinois.
I've been breathing long enough to learn the lesson that "Progressives" never admit defeat. They just change the wording to hide their intentions. Vigilance is exhausting but it is necessary with this mind virus.
The neo communists in their critical theory ideology will regroup, retrench and continue the effort to marrch through the institutions and destroy our free society. DEI is just one horrible manifestation of this evil, secular religion. As spoken be a secular person that took way to l1ong to grasp critical theory for what it is.
Bari against billions. (Tens or hundreds of billions). David vs Goliath. Good luck! Keep up the good work!
Great to see some states are waking up to this nonsense, but the beast has hardly been vanquished. In fact, it’s nourished daily by the hundreds of thousands of elementary and high school teachers — public and private — who are members of their respective teacher councils and associations. The National Council for the Teachers of English. The National Council for the Teachers of Mathematics. the National Council for the Social Studies. The American Association for Teaches of Foreign Language. The National Association of Biology Teachers. The American Association of Chemistry Teachers. Every one of these groups commits itself to creating diverse, culturally responsive classrooms where inclusion, not skill building, is the order of the day.
I'm sorry, I'm going to be a bit of a Negative Nancy. As we learned with Roe v Wade and Dobbs, sometimes legislation makes things worse, not better. Just because Texas says "no DEI", it doesn't mean these depts won't re-fashion into a new acronym. We need a reckoning of larger proportions in the psyche of the American Left. I do think diversity (not just racial, but gender, faith, political views, etc), EQUALITY, and inclusion are important (yes, even in insectology), but the bureaucratic initiatives and depts that tout the end-all-be-all answers to how to get there have metastasized into something that does not achieve DEI, but Division, Exclusion, and Inciting hate for "out" groups (anyone who does not ascribe to DEI) in the name of racism. Can we not just agree to treat everyone like human beings? I'm not Pollyanna, I know that humans are flawed. But, expect the best in each other and confront with the mindset of innocent until proven guilty when someone "transgresses".
I'm concerned that the pendulum is swinging too far to the other side - we can't just leave a vacuum for something worse to come into practice. We need to address the root causes of the DEI bureaucracy.
How refreshing. I'm a white, heterosexual, American, self-sufficient father and no longer on a downward trending path societally.
As someone who was raised to respect all people and who has taught my children the same, I found this DEI trend incredibly condescending. Infantilizing. It seems those pushing it and teaching it see themselves as superior to think they need to instruct others in how to think and how to treat others.