Minorities Don’t Need DEI If They’re Actually Qualified for the Job
1st April 2024
Woke progressives have spent a considerable amount of time and energy over the past several years trying to hide and deny the existence of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion agenda. The reasons are obvious – The philosophy removes all merit from society and replaces it with a cult of perceived oppression. Academic prowess, mental drive, personal success, inherent intelligence or toughness; none of these things matter anymore when it comes to college admissions, corporate employment, municipal job access or political promotion.
All that has mattered for almost a decade is skin color, gender, sexual orientation and how much a person’s minority status raises the ESG score of a particular institution.
DEI goes far beyond the notion of Affirmative Action. While the value of AA alone is questionable in western societies today, it is simply a legal affirmation that companies should hire minorities that have the correct qualifications and not ignore them based merely on their ethnicity. Does AA still lead to unqualified hires? Yes. But DEI takes the problem to a whole new level by incentivizing the erasure of merit as a “social construct.”