The University of Michigan Board of Regents has expressed concern over how, to borrow a term, safe and effective its DEI program has been. Much like the pharmacological “answer” to the Wuhan flu, the investment in betterment promised by the flying Diversity and Inclusion monkeys is not living up to its glossy tri-fold pamphlet promises. Eight years and 250 million dollars later, the campus climate has deteriorated into a “culture of grievance.”
It appears that experts could not see how a nonstop propaganda campaign to tribalize everything could deteriorate into a miserable swamp of self-segregated cranks while knuckle-dragging laymen saw it coming more than a mile away. The only thing more absurd than the ignorance required to believe that Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion were about anything else is that somewhere along the way, someone thought it necessary to add the words ‘and Belonging.’ Isn’t that what Inclusion means?
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I understand, to some degree, the confusion. Intellectuals can be some of the dumbest people in existence. Who else would believe that the near-obsessive requirement that we see and recognize everything that makes us different is the building block for us all just getting along? Add to this the poison of Critical Race Theory, which operates in opposition to everything DEI claims to represent, and someone’s V8 was bound to throw a piston. At the U of M, that day has arrived.
The finest recent example of why DEI can’t work followed October 7.
“It became clear that a part of the problem was we have these massive bureaucracies that should ostensibly promote treating people well,” Sailer continued. “And it was in fact a lot of people most involved with the DEI complex who were supporting these kind of radically anti-Israel, radically anti-West, at times, rudely antisemitic demonstrations.”
The Mountebanks couldn’t help but reveal the truth about themselves, and DEI has been taking a beating ever since. Robby Starbuck has become infamous in boardrooms across the country for exposing destructive woke policies that run contrary to the interests of employees and customers. Things that, given the economic conditions, are easily discarded, their budgets redirected to a more productive purpose. The fact that universities might think this in the absence of legislative force is probably the most equitable thing to come out of DEI. We can only hope that the contagion spreads and this weird experiment with human nature becomes a quickly forgotten part of our past.
