DEI Was the Biggest Con of the Century
This article is adapted from the author’s new book, "DEI Exposed: How the Biggest Con of the Century Almost Toppled Higher Education"...
The DEI Con has enriched thousands of hustlers nationwide. It has embedded many hundreds of apparatchiks and supernumeraries in college bureaucracies, and it will require herculean efforts to root them all out...
“Diversity” had already been around for many years, its hustler scratching at the university door. Not actual diversity, mind you, but the skin-deep diversity of noxious racialism tarted-up with fake Enlightenment discourse. This concept of “diversity, equity, inclusion” quickly metastasized until it was everywhere, and this was no accident...
It was no accident that it was violence and the threat of violence that opened the door for this effervescence of DEI...
This was the madness of crowds brought en masse onto the campuses, and it was wildly successful...
It was one thing to the public, and it was another altogether when enacted on the campuses... It was the classic Potemkin village offering, with a façade masking a brute, racialist substance...
Already, “inclusive excellence” is supplanting DEI as this trusty acronym becomes freighted with failure...
Con Stories are essential to convincing gullible people to act in ways that simply make no sense to a normal person who is tethered to reality...
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