Category Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)

May 20 2024

MIT Abandons DEI Program


Posted May 20, 2024 By Martin Armstrong 

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We are equal in all ways besides talent. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced that it will end its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs because they simply do not work. Faculty at MIT will no longer be required to attend race-based training or be screened for such during the hiring process.

MIT President Dr. Sally Kornbluth explained the obvious – looking at race alone does not attract the top candidates. Instead, it skews scores in favor of race, gender, or sexual orientation and the most qualified candidates are often overlooked due to reverse racism and open discrimination that is permitted toward majority groups.

“My goals are to tap into the full scope of human talent, to bring the very best to MIT, and to make sure they thrive once here,” Kornbluth said. “We can build an inclusive environment in many ways, but compelled statements impinge on freedom of expression, and they don’t work.”

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DEI is akin to Affirmative Action on steroids. It permits the open discrimination of White and Asian straight males, plain and simple. This is another reason why we are seeing an outlash across US universities over the Palestine-Israel conflict of which they have no core understanding.

Bill Ackman wrote a piece on X that explains the situation well:

“I came to learn that the root cause of antisemitism at Harvard was an ideology that had been promulgated on campus, an oppressor/oppressed framework, that provided the intellectual bulwark behind the protests, helping to generate anti-Israel and anti-Jewish hate speech and harassment. Then I did more research. The more I learned, the more concerned I became, and the more ignorant I realized I had been about DEI, a powerful movement that has not only pervaded Harvard, but the educational system at large. I came to understand that Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion was not what I had naively thought these words meant.”

The schools, funded by the left, are training school faculty that the majority population is inherently bad and privileged. They pass that message down to the impressionable kids who either walk away with a sense of entitlement or a savior complex as if anyone cares when it actually comes to business. The most qualified and intelligent people will succeed in the real world. This is the entire issue with Critical Race Theory (CRT) as well since they are brainwashing children from the time they are five years old to believe their sex, gender, or skin color somehow puts them on a social caste system in America.

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DEI operates on exclusivity and not inclusivity as it champions the notion of entitlement for a select few and is simply unethical. It has become a political weapon that the left will not allow to be questioned. If we want society to advance, we must accept that those who work hard and are born with natural talent and intelligence will excel. Identity politics use tools like DEI initiatives to divide the people when our neighbor is not the enemy.

Jan 19 2024

DEI Ignores Demographic Composition of USA


Posted originally on Jan 18, 2024 By Martin Armstrong 

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Diversity! Equality! Inclusivity! All of these power words intended to provoke an emotional response ignore logic entirely. America is a melting pot, but it is still a predominately White nation. We must look at the statistical composition of America to understand why DEI and other race-based initiatives are detrimental.

Let’s check in with the US Census Bureau. The most recent data from 2023 shows the demographics of America by race on a percentage basis as follows:

  • White alone, percent: 75.5%
  • Black or African American alone, percent: 13.6%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native alone, percent: 1.3%
  • Asian alone, percent: 6.3%
  • Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone, percent: 0.3%
  • Two or More Races, percent: 3.0%
  • Hispanic or Latino, percent: 19.1%
  • White alone, not Hispanic or Latino, percent: 58.9%

The US Census Bureau considers Arabs to be White and not a protected class.

As for the LGBTQ+ community, around 7.2% of Americans identify as something other than heterosexual. A bit over 1% of Americans identify as transgender. Based on birth assignment and biology, 50.47% of the population is female (XX) and 49.5% is male (XY).

Companies are increasingly setting numerical diversity goals or targets to address “underrepresentation” and promote diversity in the workforce. They can manipulate the data as they see fit.

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For example, International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) Chief Executive Officer and Board Chairman Arvind Krishna warned staffers that their bonuses depended on racial hiring quotas. Asians are only 6.3% of the nation, but Krishna said the company did not want to hire more Asians. Countless people have admitted they were forced to choose a diverse candidate over the more qualified one. This is blatant discrimination and prohibited under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.

Using racial data to influence hiring decisions is illegal. The Supreme Court has taken on individual cases but has yet to condemn DEI as a whole. DEI and racial hiring initiatives are inherently racist and bad for business. Companies should aim to hire the best and brightest to succeed.

Jan 19 2024

DEI in America – Open Racism


Posted originally on Jan 17, 2024 By Martin Armstrong 

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Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) protects “the fair treatment and full participation of all people”, mainly groups “who have historically been underrepresented or subject to discrimination.” In other words, DEI is akin to Affirmative Action on steroids. It permits the open discrimination of White and Asian straight males, plain and simple.

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Google has been providing its employees with DEI civil rights training for many years. A video from 2017 from a Google DEI training seminar has gone viral. This was BEFORE George Floyd and the rise of race politics. “This white anxiety is a public health crisis,” the DEI trainer told those hoping to be employed by Google. He then brings up America’s opioid and mental health crisis and teaches that it is no different than someone voting Republican.

“Increasingly white working class folks who are, you know, using heroin, using over the counter opioids, but they’re political opioids. Turning to a candidate who says “you vote for me and I will take away your pain, I will bring back those jobs, I will make your life better” that’s a form of an opiate as well.”

So Google has been training employees to believe Republicans are merely political junkies.

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This line of thinking clearly impacted Google’s search results. We saw what they did during the 2020 US Presidential Election, from censorship to a skewed algorithm that favors far-left views. Harvard published a top-down DEI strategy described in five stages: aware, compliant, tactical, integrated, and sustainable. These words are utterly meaningless, but DEI is precisely why they waited so long to oust former Harvard President Gay amid plagiarism scandals and pro-Hamas protests.

Bill Ackman wrote a piece on X that explains the situation well:

"I came to learn that the root cause of antisemitism at Harvard was an ideology that had been promulgated on campus, an oppressor/oppressed framework, that provided the intellectual bulwark behind the protests, helping to generate anti-Israel and anti-Jewish hate speech and harassment. Then I did more research. The more I learned, the more concerned I became, and the more ignorant I realized I had been about DEI, a powerful movement that has not only pervaded Harvard, but the educational system at large. I came to understand that Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion was not what I had naively thought these words meant."

He went on to say:

"Under DEI, one’s degree of oppression is determined based upon where one resides on a so-called intersectional pyramid of oppression where whites, Jews, and Asians are deemed oppressors, and a subset of people of color, LGBTQ people, and/or women are deemed to be oppressed. Under this ideology which is the philosophical underpinning of DEI as advanced by Ibram X. Kendi and others, one is either an anti-racist or a racist. There is no such thing as being “not racist.” Under DEI’s ideology, any policy, program, educational system, economic system, grading system, admission policy, (and even climate change due its disparate impact on geographies and the people that live there), etc. that leads to unequal outcomes among people of different skin colors is deemed racist."

Companies are NOT employing Asians under DEI rules. “DEI initiatives often focus on Black and Latino communities, but exclude AAPI [Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders] professionals from considerations” because there is a perception that there are “too many Asians,”’ the Association of Asian American Investment Managers (AAAIM) noted. It does not matter that Asians are, in fact, a minority group because the far-left has deemed their race too successful and prominent in business.

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Every search result for “DEI” will explain that it was paramount in the wake of George Floyd’s death that sparked the Black Lives Matter riots, but this program clearly began long before. Companies are no longer focused on hiring the best and brightest. Why? Because their major donors demand it.