Dismantling DEI Should Top Trump’s First 90-Day Agenda .
The DEI Construct
DEI, the Discrimination, Equity and Inclusion construct was injected into the academy from leftist American politics. It is a one-sided construct about what is wrong with America and how to fix it, first introduced into American politics by Barack Obama in 2011 with executive order 13583. It was designed to be the amelioration of affirmative action.
To this day, Title IV of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 remains the law of the land. It prohibits any discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. Ironically, DEI every year penalizes Americans simply for being non-Jewish white or Asian, but rewards millions of undeserving people in Federal and many state governments.
DEI, The Progressive Holy Grail
Since the beginning of the Biden presidency, DEI has become the new holy grail of government and corporate purpose–the Progressive penultimate construct. As Christopher Rufo states, “The answer to left-wing racialism is not right-wing racialism—it is the equal treatment of individuals under law, according to their talents and virtues, rather than their ancestry and anatomy.” In other words, you don’t favor someone because of the color of their skin or ancestry, but because they are the most meritorious fit for the job.
Sadly, this is no longer the case, in workplaces throughout America, the Federal government and the academy. Fortunately, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis saw this twisted reverse discrimination in the Florida State University System and appointed Rufo to study each of the twelve state universities, with more than 60,000 faculty and staff, and an annual operating budget of more than $8.5 billion. In a series of findings published in CitiJournal, Rufo discovered that DEI had metastasized rampantly across Florida’s state university system. What he found resembled The View television show more than serious places of higher learning.