End DEI - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Article subtitle: 
It is about arrogating power to a movement that threatens not just Jews - but America itself.
Article author: 
Bari Weiss
Article publisher: 
Bari Weiss
Article date: 
6 November 2023
Article category: 
Our American Future
Medium
Article Body: 

... It is possible I would not have perceived the nature of this ideology - or rather I would have been able to avoid seeing its true nature - had I not been a Jew. But I was. I am. And in noticing the way I had been written out of the equation, I started to notice that it wasn’t just me, but that the whole system rested on an illusion.

What I saw was a worldview that replaced basic ideas of good and evil with a new rubric: the powerless (good) and the powerful (bad). It replaced lots of things. Color blindness with race obsession. Ideas with identity. Debate with denunciation. Persuasion with public shaming. The rule of law with the fury of the mob. 

People were to be given authority in this new order not in recognition of their gifts, hard work, accomplishments, or contributions to society, but in inverse proportion to the disadvantages their group had suffered, as defined by radical ideologues...

Over the past two decades I saw this inverted worldview swallow all of the crucial sense-making institutions of American life...

It is strivers of every race, ethnicity, and class. That is why Asian American success, for example, is suspicious...

But whatever term you use, what’s clear is that it has gained power in a conceptual instrument called "diversity, equity, and inclusion,"or DEI... We have been seeing for several years now the damage this ideology has done: DEI, and its cadres of enforcers, undermine the central missions of the institutions that adopt it...

... DEI is about arrogating power... An ideology that pathologizes these fundamental human virtues is one that seeks to undermine what makes America exceptional...

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