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 third and final episode in the series, Lindsay explains that “Inclusion” is an overarching value structure for the “Diverse and Equitable” commissar system that’s being installed. In fact, it’s a justification not for inclusion as most people understand it, but for censorship and purges, just like in any Communist state. Inclusion, and its extension in “Belonging,” are a manipulative strategy akin to Mao Zedong’s “unity, criticism, unity” formula for taking over not just institutions but the value structure of populations and bending them toward socialism (or, in this case, equity). Join James Lindsay as he breaks down “Inclusion” and makes it clear that it’s exactly the opposite of what it sells itself to be.
Session 1: Equity
Session 2: Diversity
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I am happy to see that James recognizes that the people behind Critical Theory have co-opted certain earlier work for their own purposes.
What I see in Critical Theory is a way for psychopaths to include themselves in “normal” society and eventually take over. This is a minority insurgency where the minority is essentially anti-human. Most minorities aren’t anti-human, but this one is. When sanity and common sense are accused of being “oppressive” then we have a rational inversion that favors failure over success, death over life.
You are brilliant. Thank you 👍🏻