The cottage industry, built around Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), seems to have collapsed almost as fast as it has risen, reports The Wall Street Journal. The left-wing con artists steadily gained the upper hand over American executives, but their influence never lasted. Their facilities are too flawed and un-American. Their prescription is too radical and alienating. If something can’t last forever, it doesn’t last.
Conservatives understandably welcome the development, with some even saying: take credit to outlaw Corporate training program It denounces America as a racist empire and divides workers into victims and oppressors. But it’s unclear if this is the big win conservatives want. Is this a sign that the awakening in the workplace, and broader American culture, has finally reached its peak?
Kamala Harris: “Look what’s happening to the so-called leaders who are trying to say that ‘diversity’ and ‘equity’ and ‘inclusion’ is somehow a bad thing…they want the DEI program They are trying to abolish it!” pic.twitter.com/jcH8dSaW92
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 30, 2023
in the piece The WSJ, aptly titled “The Rise and Fall of Chief Diversity Officers (CDOs),” shows how companies quickly embraced a broad DEI sector in the wake of the 2020 George Floyd riots. . In 2018, less than half of the S&P 500 companies had a CDO, but by 2022 about 75% had this position. Now, big companies like Netflix, Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery are laying off DEI executives.in the midst of confusion technology sector And the anticipation of legal challenges.”[t]Thousands of diversity-focused workers have been laid off since last year as companies reassess their priorities.
The WSJ cites two main reasons for the decline.
On the other hand, companies are less interested in hiring for the position. As one executive recruiting expert told the WSJ: [for CDOs] That’s the lowest he’s been in recruiting for 30 years. A hiring company wants his CDO to help mitigate the expected “repercussion legal action” by the recent Supreme Court. Determination of affirmative action Not just to promote comfort policies.
On the one hand, “business interference” has caused DEI staff to become disillusioned with their role.a investigation of diversity executives said they see less support and influence from middle management to get the job done year-over-year. With layoffs looming, many former CDOs say, “The only way to get another role at DEI is if it has something else in it.” (Related: Only 3 companies are at the forefront of the Marxist takeover of America)
In other words, DEI supply and demand are out of order. It’s not surprising that the WSJ’s analysis is done from an economic perspective. But in doing so, the deeper cultural issues at stake are overlooked.
Perhaps it is more and more evident that diversity is ultimately profitable for both employers and employees, and may be an economic issue at heart. Companies are looking for a paradigm shift as DEI commitments become a potential liability rather than a cheap signal of virtue. Left-wing activists see their prestige beginning to wane and must move to new transplants. This suggests an atmosphere of inevitability. A toxic ideology is finally making a big impact as management makes a deliberate shift away from running a company like Oberlin College’s Gender Studies Unit.
But it also speaks to the issue of susceptibility, the corruption of the American corporate civic culture that has allowed such un-American ideology to become preoccupied in the first place. Companies are tightening their grip now, but if the DEI’s profitability calculations change, they will undoubtedly embrace it again. In America, there is always one and only one vicious police incident (or presidential election) before corporations turn their chief executives back on leftist agitators.
In addition, conservative pressure may have also played a role in pushing culture away from DEI acceptance. Anticritical theory activists such as Chris Rufo have helped reshape American thinking about these programs. While the Left managed to institutionalize the DEI as a neutral training program over the years, Rufo’s work helped expose their Marxist roots and motivations.
As a result, millions now recognize how America has become a political enterprise and do not want it to continue. Brands like Bud Light, Target and Disney are likely to be permanently stigmatized for their diversity threats. Perhaps this is partly why diversity executives felt their influence and acceptance were waning.
good. We politicized his DEI division to expose its ideological nature and provide room for executives to break away from it. Please be prepared. As the economy tightens, attacks accelerate, throwing the entire “diversity and inclusion” business into turmoil. pic.twitter.com/qsQn4we25G
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) July 30, 2023
It’s a good sign that conservative pressure likely contributed to the CDO’s downfall. This offsets the economic pressure that will help companies change their calculations should they face left-wing backlash over the DEI. Conservatives must be able to influence American corporate earnings as much as the traditionally more organized and vengeful Left. (Related: Bud Light Maker Quietly Hosts Top Secret DC Event To Elect Democrats)
It’s too early to tell what the CDO purge will mean for American society in the long run, but a win is a win. All unemployed diversity officers are a step towards a freer, more united America.
