I, along with many of my peers, are in a perpetual state of shock at how this cancerous program found its way into mainstream Academia. Private schools are not immune. On a personal level, I had the occasion recently to deal firsthand with a few DEI beneficiaries and I can tell you with great confidence it belongs in a Mel Brooks movie. It was breathtaking to witness the inefficiencies and indignation of these folks, their reasoning skills, information processing, and how they totally dismiss the precepts of "excellence".

I'm on a crusade to increase awareness of this insidious program and how it is undermining the quality of higher education.

These 2 guys (Jordan Peterson; Victor Davis Hanson) put DEI and it's blood-brother, tribalism, under the microscope and give an analytical view into how it came to be and the damage it's already done. The video was done over a year ago, and I think the pace of destruction has increased since then.

Video Podcast: LINK

Please share and increase awareness. Don't assume your friends, neighbors, and children already know.

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Posted by teke184

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Posted on 2/11/24 at 8:47 am to tigerpawl

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On a personal level, I had the occasion recently to deal firsthand with a few DEI beneficiaries and I can tell you with great confidence it belongs in a Mel Brooks movie.

If Blazing Saddles were made today, the incompetent governor controlled by the attorney general would be black and the unpopular sheriff appointed to piss people off would be white.

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Posted by Toomer Deplorable

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Posted on 2/11/24 at 1:01 pm to tigerpawl

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Victor Davis Hanson

The Left are like hyenas — they eventually will turn upon and consume their own.

The paradoxes inherent to their world view are an ideological dead end.

The only question is how much death and destruction will ultimately result from their failed ideological pursuits.

Victor Davis Hanson The DEI Ruse Is Imploding….

….Has there ever been a sane nation in the world that preferred “diversity” to “unity”? The former Yugoslavia was certainly “diverse,” and it finally stressed its diversity to the point of unending death and destruction. Ditto Rwanda. So what exactly was the advantage of ditching the melting pot for the tribalist salad bowl?

DEI’s idea of “equity” shares the Marxist boilerplate of just two classes at war with each other. The middle class does not or should not exist as the proletariat of the many battle the few property-holding and despised bourgeoisie. But DEI takes that old, tired binary of oppressed/oppressor and victimized/victimizer and now substitutes race for class. Why?

Marxist binaries never worked in the United States. America’s dynamic economy, upward mobility, and class fluidity ensured too often that yesterday’s supposedly doomed proletarian peasant will be tomorrow’s bourgeois owner of a car wash and landscaping business. But substitute immutable race as the barometer of oppression and then you have a supposedly permanent victimized class, one freed from the problem of an absence of class oppression.

Presto, suddenly, any non-white, non-male, or non-heterosexual is by fiat a victim—regardless of running their $40 million “Antiracist” center, or raking in $100 million from capitalist corporations, or holding a Princeton full-professorship, or Harvard presidency. By virtue of their supposed non-white status, Kamala Harris, Barack Obama, LeBron James, and Oprah Winfrey will never have privilege, even though they have more of it —vmoney, comfort, influence, and followings — than almost anyone in America.

In the end, DEI will implode because of its many contradictions: it is racist to the core; it destroys meritocracy; and it is utterly incoherent in adjudicating who and who not deserve racial preferences….

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