There is a glimmer of hope on the cultural horizon. Parents are fighting like the dickens to get pornography out of public schools. “Trans”-cultism is being exposed for the horrific medical and mental health abuse scandal it is. And the racist, sexist, heterophobic, bio-phobic DEI movement appears to be on its heels.
The secret that DEI—short for “diversity, equity, and inclusion”—is yet another failed leftist scheme to socially reconstruct culture in the image of leftists has been leaking out for some time while leftists have been desperately trying to plug the leaks with their big blue thumbs.
Corporate America is becoming increasingly disenchanted with DEI nonsense. The research website Glassdoor reported in November 2023 that the “share of employees reporting that their company offered a Diversity Program declined by 0.4 percentage point to 43 percent between 2022 and 2023,” which followed another drop between 2021-2022. Apparently, the lousy Biden economy has led to budgetary reviews that in turn resulted in worthless token-y jetsam being tossed overboard.
One of the tiny gods of the Critical Race Theory/ DEI universe, Henry Rogers—aka Ibram X. Kendi, got caught in a swirling tempest of his own making when, following complaints from his own staff—50 percent of whom he had to fire—Boston University launched a formal inquiry into his scammy Center for Antiracism Research that produced nothing of value and saw little of Kendi.
On March 18, the Wall Street Journal published an opinion piece by nephrologist Dr. Stanley Goldfarb and urologist Dr. Greg Murphy, who is also a member of Congress and has just introduced the Educate Act, which, if passed,
would cut off federal funding to medical schools that force students or faculty to adopt specific beliefs, discriminate based on race or ethnicity, or have diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices or any functional equivalent. The bill would also require accreditation agencies to check that their standards do not push these practices.
Medical schools that preach about “‘intersectionality,’ ‘colonization,’ and ‘white supremacy’ while promoting the idea that people are either ‘oppressors’ or ‘oppressed’” would no longer receive federal funds, as they shouldn’t. These ideas derived from CRT reflect arguable assumptions—not objective facts.
No more segregationist “affinity groups,” weird cult-like “loyalty oaths,” or DEI offices. If medical schools are committed to promoting doctrinaire leftist dogma about race, sex, and “gender,” they will have to use their own funds.
The two physicians rightly claim that promoting socio-political ideology jeopardizes the future of health care:
Accrediting institutions are pushing all of America’s 158 accredited medical schools to train future physicians in political activism, wasting precious time and resources that could be spent on rigorous coursework and preparation for medical practice. The result will likely be future physicians less qualified to meet patients’ needs.
At the state level, Alabama has just passed and Governor Kay Ivey just signed into law a bill, SB 129, that will do the following:
· Prohibit public colleges and universities from maintaining diversity, equity, and inclusion offices and from sponsoring diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.
· Require public institutions of higher education to designate restrooms on the basis of biological sex.
· Prohibit public colleges and universities from promoting, endorsing, and affirming “certain divisive concepts.” For example, public colleges and universities may not teach that “any race, color, religion, sex, ethnicity, or national origin is inherently superior or inferior,” or that “by virtue of an individual’s race, color, religion, sex, ethnicity, or national origin, the individual is inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or subconsciously,” or that “individuals, by virtue of race, color, religion, sex, ethnicity, or national origin, are inherently responsible for actions committed in the past by other members of the same race, color, religion, sex, ethnicity, or national origin,” or that “meritocracy or traits such as a hard work ethic are racist or sexist.”
Bummer for CRT/DEI ideologues.
Leftism has grown into a behemoth, and as its cultural cachet and power grew, so did the egos of those promoting ludicrous ideas with destructive impact. Leftists have outgrown their little gender-neutral britches but refuse to put on their big-boy pants—the ones that signify maturity, wisdom, compassion, humility, and sound judgment.
Fortunately, conservatives willing to take on the colossus in his tiny drawers are growing in number. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote this in his Letter from Birmingham Jail:
So often the contemporary church is a weak, ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound. So often it is an archdefender of the status quo. Far from being disturbed by the presence of the church, the power structure of the average community is consoled by the church’s silent—and often even vocal—sanction of things as they are.
That’s what the church has been too many times in history. But then soldiers rise up. About them, Dr. King wrote,
There was a time when the church was very powerful—in the time when the early Christians rejoiced at being deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society. Whenever the early Christians entered a town, the people in power became disturbed and immediately sought to convict the Christians for being “disturbers of the peace” and “outside agitators.”‘ But the Christians pressed on, in the conviction that they were “a colony of heaven,” called to obey God rather than man. Small in number, they were big in commitment. They were too God-intoxicated to be “astronomically intimidated.” By their effort and example they brought an end to such ancient evils as infanticide and gladiatorial contests.
Thank God, we are now witnessing a movement of Americans who are willing to disturb the people in power, who are willing to suffer in an effort to transform a society that no longer facilitates human flourishing.