Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives have taken over the country, reaching into every aspect of our work, school, and lives. What is “DEI,” though? New Discourses founder James Lindsay explains the idea and its history in unprecedented depth in this new series from an in-person workshop in Miami, Florida, breaking down each of the three letters in detail. What we’ll find is that it’s a contemporary and managerial repackaging of socialism.
In this first episode of the series, Lindsay dives into the concept at the center of DEI: Equity. It is not possible to understand DEI initiatives without realizing that equity is what drives them. Equity is the goal of all DEI programs, which is to say that DEI programs exist to force captive audiences of people to achieve “equitable” redistribution of resources, status, and wealth according to neo-Marxist Identity Theories like Critical Race Theory. Equity is an administered political economy in which shares are adjusted so that citizens are made equal, including shares of social and cultural capital. In other words, it’s an expansion of socialism. Once we understand what equity is about, the purposes of “Diversity” and “Inclusion” initiatives become clear. Join James Lindsay as he walks you through the roots and true meaning of “Equity.”
Session 2: Diversity
Session 3: Inclusion
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In this (and/or another) episode, Lindsay gives a primary source example (from the Wokeist side) of a definition of ‘equity’ that was (or close to) that mentioned above: ‘an administered political economy in which shares are adjusted so that citizens are made equal’. I cannot locate the name of this source. It would be great to have in my daily discussions with victims of Woke brainwashing.
My Motto has been, “I Will Not Conform”. Unfortunately, and hopefully I’m wrong, but it seems like there are too many people’s minds cannot be changed from this poisonous ideology, as they are in lockstep and have become the States’ Useful Idiots. We need to revert back to our Constitutional Representative Republic and Capitalism.
It’s not just Washington State – Bidens February 16th 2023 Executive Order on Further Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through The Federal Government https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/02/16/executive-order-on-further-advancing-racial-equity-and-support-for-underserved-communities-through-the-federal-government/ is the Washington State law imposed on whole country now. How is this not being challenged in it’s utter unconstitutional, completely unequal government agency treatment of Americans based on race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation etc.?!?. It also talks about controlling data use and analysis, “digital algorithms”, research, and even AI development to support the “equity agenda” thus guaranteeing there will be no competing point of view allowed in the analysis or information disseminated by any entity of the federal government OR any non-governmental entity that receives any government funding.
Rich Lowry – good article on (where are others noticing this?):
https://nypost.com/2023/02/20/bidens-shocking-push-to-radicalize-the-federal-bureaucracy/
Always great info , James .
Just amazing the amounts of people lock stepping with this horrible ideology .
Its going to take longer than people would like to dismantle this brick by brick.
Or , they win and run it
Equity will never work unless the spirit of the population is crushed.
The pro-Woke factions have already had their spirits crushed. So they’re ready to impose this on the rest of us, so we can “feel the pain” as much as anything else.
High-spirited people will be fine with a wide range of outcomes. They will consider it as a great inspiration to play the games of life. Crushed people are already defeated and want the rest of us in the same position. If we want to preserve the freedoms of a higher game, then we need to take the responsibility for bringing all those crushed spirits up and out of their perception of being defeated. That mens we have to identify the real criminals and take away their power. My proposition is that the real criminals are the ones busily crushing the spirits of the general population.
Our challenge is to find and use workable ways to take power away from psychopaths and bring people who feel defeated up out of their funk.