“Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is terminating major DEI programs, effective immediately — including for hiring, training and picking suppliers,” reports Axios.
“Meta said it was changing course because the ‘legal and policy landscape surrounding diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in the United States is changing,’ per a memo by Janelle Gale, vice president of human resources.”
And yes, changing is indeed what the legal landscape is: “Meta is not alone,” explains Techcrunch: “Microsoft and Zoom have also rolled back their DEI efforts. Lawsuits have emerged against programs that were targeted toward the Black and Latino communities.”
Behind all this is a landmark Supreme Court decision of June 29, 2023, Students for Fair Admission v. Harvard. That decision seemed to put the kibosh on what we used to call “reverse discrimination” at least in college acceptance policies regarding students of various races. The whole apparatus of student enrollment and fixation on race had been acceptable in the past to make up, for a time, for past discriminatory behavior based on animus against whites. But Justice Roberts saw no “going back to normal” in Harvard’s admissions policies: “Harvard concedes that its race-based ad- missions program has no end point.… And it acknowledges that the way it thinks about the use of race in its admissions process ‘is the same now as it was’ nearly 50 years ago.… In short, there is no reason to believe that respondents will — even acting in good faith — comply with the Equal Protection Clause any time soon.” So the court ruled against Harvard.
Much more recently, however, is the big news relating to sex and/or gender aspect of the DEI agenda: “A federal judge in Kentucky blocked the Biden administration’s attempt to redefine sex in Title IX as ‘gender identity,’ striking down the change nationwide,” according to Fox News’s Ryan Gaydos. “The U.S. District Court Eastern District of Kentucky Northern Division made the ruling in Cardona v. Tennessee on Thursday.”
This cover’s the inclusive aspect of DEI, where men [biological human males] were to be required to be allowed in women’s restrooms and locker rooms if they said they were (or somehow dressed up o “identified as” women. “The court’s order is resounding victory for the protection of girls’ privacy in locker rooms and showers, and for the freedom to speak biologically-accurate pronouns,” tweeted Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti. “The court’s ruling is yet another repudiation of the Biden administration’s relentless push to impose a radical gender ideology through unconstitutional and illegal rulemaking.”
And with the re-election of President Donald Trump, the Democrats’ favored “minorities” and “marginalized” policy has hit upon hard times. So the major corporations are blowing with the wind.
Even MacDonald’s is moving against DEI.