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Trump’s DEI Move Is One to Celebrate
The two-year campaign for colorblind equality just notched its biggest win yet.
Trump Executive Order on DEI Is One to Celebrate
The two-year campaign for colorblind equality just notched its biggest win yet.
www.city-journal.org
Yesterday, President Trump signed an executive order abolishing the “diversity, equity, and inclusion” bureaucracy in the federal government.
The move marks a stunning reversal of fortune from just four years ago, when Black Lives Matter, critical race theory, and DEI seemed unstoppable. Following the death of George Floyd, left-wing race activists made a blitz through America’s institutions, rewriting school curricula, altering government policy, and establishing DEI offices in major universities, big-city school districts, and Fortune 100 companies. The Biden administration immediately followed suit, mandating a “whole-of-government equity agenda” that entrenched DEI in the federal government.
No more. President Trump has rescinded the Biden executive order and instructed his Cabinet to “terminate, to the maximum extent allowed by law, all DEI, DEIA, and ‘environmental justice’ offices and positions,” and “all ‘equity action plans,’ ‘equity’ actions, initiatives, or programs.” In other words, President Trump has signed the death warrant for DEI within the federal government.
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In one way, Trump’s executive order yesterday was priced in—people knew it was coming. Still, it is a crowning achievement for those who have built this campaign from the ground up. There will be many fights ahead—the bureaucracy will attempt to evade the order, and more needs doing on civil rights reform in general—but, for the moment, we should celebrate. The forces of left-wing racialism are on the defensive, and the forces of colorblind equality are on the move.
None of it was inevitable—and nothing will be going forward, either. It has taken courage, hard work, and more than a little luck. But this is undoubtedly a moment to feel optimistic. America’s institutions are not beyond correction, as many feared. The American people were wise enough to realize that their country might not have survived four or eight more years of government by DEI. They spoke on November 5, and now President Trump is acting accordingly.
Commentary:
What the Left refuses to understand is just how corrosive and destructive DEI and Affirmative Action are to the very people those things are supposed (in their minds) to aid.
In my mind, the very worst (to them) is that if someone of one of those groups holds a position of any kind, they will always have the sword of "Affirmative Action Hire" hanging over their head either justifiably or unjustifiably.
When you see disaster occur to a place like Los Angeles due to extremely poor mismanagement or mismanagement and you find that the three most important positions bearing on the disaster are all lesbians, hired by people whose goal was not to manage the threat of fire, but to have more "representation" in positions of authority. Then there's Biden appointees like Sam Brinton
Then it isn't homophobia, racism, or sexism that causes people to think that people were hired not primarily on their suitability, aptitude, or competence at a given job, but for the various checkboxes that were checked in the hiring process.
