The implication here that the DEI movement had done nothing wrong is rather naive… it wasn’t all bad, but there was a lot of bad things happening to answer for.
These programs were, in theory, well intentioned but to suggest they did nothing wrong is simply factually incorrect.
Maybe a few naive people in the movement had good intentions but they were clearly dupes for what was at its core a right-wing white supremacist and incel ideology.
And the proof is in the pudding. Has the anti-DEI movment (and current administration) created a truly fair and equitable society that focuses on merit in the absence of gender and race? No. It has created a society in which the contributions of anyone other than white men are systemically attacked, torn down and even erased from the public record.
People who crusade against DEI generally think that the concept is corruption, rather than being an unrelated side matter.
> There were already laws on the books against hiring discrimination.
Those are exactly the laws being used to attack DEI practices, though they were by consensus not previously wielded against clear violations that were intended virtuously.
Has the DEI movment (and previous administration) created a truly fair and equitable society that focuses on merit in the absence of gender and race? No.
>It has created a society in which the contributions of anyone other than white men are systemically attacked, torn down and even erased from the public record.
It has created a society in which the contributions of anyone other than white men are systemically exalted, praised and even defended from the public record.
Jason Arday.