Banning DEI doesn’t necessarily end DEI.
So-called diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies mandate guilt-inducing collectivist indoctrination about race and sex and/or impose race and sex quotas. The Texas legislature rightly concluded that DEI indoctrination is pernicious and required that it be removed from public universities in the state.
Suspecting that the law would not be obeyed with perfect grace, the organization Accuracy in Media (AIM) has been doing undercover work to gather evidence on whether university staffers formerly determined to propagandize for DEI and impose DEI-based requirements are now backing off.
Many are not.
Two of the renegades recently caught on video:
“Rest assured, the work that we do is still the same. It’s just classified differently,” bragged Melissa Cruz, an academic recruiter at the University of Texas at Arlington at the time the AIM investigator talked to her. “The intention is still the same. The research is still the same. The practice is still the same. It’s just called something different now. Our job is to push back and to cause some good trouble and all of those things.”
At the University of North Texas, Paige Falco, gave the same explanation. “Our class might be titled something a little different to just not specifically have DEI as the class name,” she told the AIM investigator. “But it’s still an element that’s taught. It’s definitely still a focus.”
These two have been fired.
Thankfully.
But while these two were caught in the sting, many more no doubt exist, breaking the law of the state that employs them.
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3 replies on “Die, DEI, Die!”
Actions such as those of Ms Cruz and Ms Falco should be treated as torts, with individual employees held liable. Weeping should be treated as aggravating behavior.
You can’t ban an idea. At one job, I had ‘diversity training’, long before DEI. DEI is here to stay. Calling it something else won’t change it. It will show up in business management classes and in the workplace as well. You’ll hear about a ‘well-rounded’ workforce.
The irony of DEI is that it most hurts those it claims to help. Women and blacks who are actually competent will always be suspected of getting hired only because of DEI, while women and blacks who are NOT competent for the roles they are given will reinforce the notion that as a group they are inferior to white men.