Former U.S. Army sniper and current Florida Rep. Cory Mills may have said it best: “When you primarily go after DEI, you end up with DIE.”
Diversity, equity, and inclusion have come under fire for putting things like color and sex ahead of quality and merit, as extensively covered by The Dallas Express.
The nearly successful attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump on July 13 has been widely blamed on DEI measures instituted by former head of the Secret Service Kimberly Cheatle, who sought to have “30% women recruits by 2030.” She quickly stepped down following the catastrophic failure.
And it’s not just the Secret Service. The FBI and other critical agencies within the federal government also stand accused of sacrificing their recruitment standards in order to meet DEI requirements.
Even the de facto Democratic Party nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, has come under fire for being a DEI candidate. It’s hard to argue with the accusation when she has never even run in a Democratic primary. As Bill Maher recently said on his show Real Time: “You can count the number of delegates [Kamala Harris] won in the 2020 primaries on one hand … as long as that hand has no fingers.”
A recent video posted by Elon Musk on X called Harris “the ultimate diversity hire.”
This is amazing 😂
pic.twitter.com/KpnBKGUUwn— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 26, 2024
RealClearPolitics reports on how DEI “injects racism and sexism into a culture that rejects racism and sexism,” hurting everyone involved. Here’s the start of the story:
Kamala Harris’s sudden ascendancy within the Democrat Party, with nary a peep from other ambitious Democrats, spotlights the uncomfortable contradictions of identity politics and the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) movement.
Americans universally believe that everyone should have a fair shot at opportunities regardless of sex or race, which is why the kind of racism and sexism that was once so prevalent is so rare today.
Americans in 2024 embrace multiculturalism and diversity. This is the reason diversity and inclusion programs became ubiquitous. There’s virtue and no harm in gentle reminders to be sensitive and inclusive in light of our diversity. After all, our national motto is e pluribus unum.
Today’s Democratic Party, however, rejects this positive view of American progress. Democrats claim that America remains institutionally racist and paternalistic – a credo that provides the intellectual justification for identity politics and the grievance-based race-conscious demand for equity that animates the DEI movement.