The death of DEI? It’s becoming a reality.
But the battle for its demise is intense – and central to President Trump’s historic Make America Great Again transformation.
Here are 5 DEI realities that every American should know and understand.
Reality #1: DEI Means Different Things to Different Groups of People.
The terms Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion mean specific things and have specific applications to socialists and Leftists. And they have different meanings and call for different applications to those who think in terms of a Constitutional and Christian world view framework.
In their most basic forms:
Diversity means having a workforce composed of people with different backgrounds — different age ranges, different experiences, different demographic categories, etc.
Equity means treating others with fairness and impartiality.
Inclusion means creating a work environment in which everyone feels welcome and valued for who they are – and therefore, everyone feels comfortable being themselves.
The Left has hijacked these positive-sounding words, politicized their meanings, and then with brute regulatory force has mandated DEI programs throughout the U.S. that have caused division, discrimination, envy, and insanity.
How has Leftist ideology redefined the three DEI terms?
To Diversity, race and sex have been inserted and have made the most important factors in choosing which job applicants to hire. Under DEI programs, racial and sexual quotas must be met by companies and the federal government.
To Equity has been added that it means acknowledging that not everyone is starting from the same place. Thus, DEI programs must make up for the reality that some people face more barriers and obstacles to attaining success than others.[1] This leads to discrimination based on environmental and other factors.
To Inclusion, DEI adds LGBTQ+ and transgender factors into hiring requirements and encourages workforce groups to celebrate and value people for their differences rather than because of our shared humanity.
This is why DEI as it exists today must die.
Reality #2: President Trump is at War Against DEI.
The president has recognized the negative impact of DEI on individual freedom and liberty, and has declared DEI programs “illegal” within the federal government. Also, any organization receiving federal funds must end their DEI training and programs.
Following a flurry of first-week-in-office executive orders, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) ordered all government agency heads within the executive branch to put all federal employees at DEI offices on paid leave by the end of the following work day.
Trump also directed the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to end all DEI initiatives in hiring, which effectively rescinded a 1965 executive order of President Lyndon B. Johnson that established affirmative action within the federal government.
Andrea Lucas of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), said the commission must “reject the twin lies of identity politics: that justice is measured by group outcomes, and that civil rights exist solely to remedy harms against certain groups.”
These actions of abolishing DEI and affirmative action mandates mean that federal government hiring decisions – for the first time in 60 years – will no longer be determined by race-based and sex-based quotas, but by merit.
Reality #3: The Ideological Left is Going Ballistic.
Proponents of DEI will not give up their cause without a fight, however.
Fueled by the reality of past racial discrimination in America, plus the Marxist philosophy of class struggle, the leftists have been able to spread their ideology of racial tension throughout higher education, the news media, business, the entertainment and sports industries, and the federal government for the past 50 years under the guise of “social justice.”
These are the dedicated DEI “missionaries” who have convinced most Democrats that the purpose of government is to ensure “equitable” outcomes for all – regardless of education or effort or skill, or even self-discipline.
They accuse President Trump of being racist and of working to eliminate diversity, when in reality he is working to eliminate Marxism and its inherent racial prejudices, both of which claim that personal productivity and a merit-based economy are immoral.
The stated goal of DEI is to “create a workplace culture within companies where people of all genders, ages, races, religions, abilities, identities and sexual orientations feel welcome, supported, and valued.”
In response to this, President Trump stated in his inaugural address, “This week, I will also end the government policy of trying to socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life. We will forge a society that is colorblind and merit-based. As of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders: male and female.”
In addition to eliminating DEI programs within the federal government, Trump also wants to purge DEI from the private sector. The total death of DEI will save potentially billions of federal taxpayer dollars. For example:
- A report from Parents Defending Education (PDE) said the federal Department of Education spent $1 billion on DEI during the Biden administration.
- Harvard public policy professor Iris Bohnet reports that the U.S. spends $8 billion each year on DEI training.
- Vivek Ramaswamy, President Trump’s nominee to head the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) reported that President Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) had 207 DEI employees across seven offices, and 294 taxpayer-funded DEI staffers, at a cost of $67 million in taxpayer funds just for salaries.
- The Pentagon’s budget requests for DEI over the past three years have ranged from $86.5 million in FY 2023 to $162 million in FY 2025.
How are private corporations reacting to President Trump’s rollback of DEI?
Tractor Supply, Walmart, McDonald’s, Meta (Facebook’s parent company), Lowe’s, Toyota, Ford, Target, and others have dropped their DEI programs and goals.
On the flip side, Costco has reaffirmed its commitment to DEI, as its shareholders recently voted strongly against a proposal urging the company to reevaluate its DEI policies.
Some DEI programs are being renamed in an attempt to hide them from detection by those who are being tasked to enforce Trump’s executive orders (EOs). But DEI as a whole is in major retreat and cancellation.
Reality #4: Side Effects and Takeaways.
So what are the side-effects and the takeaways we should anticipate in the battle between the DEI proponents and detractors?
At the root of the division and conflict within our country and within our two political parties is the philosophical battle between Marxism and meritocracy – between individual liberty and strict government control.
DEI is inherently against the principles of individual liberty and responsibility upon which the United States of America was founded.
“The danger of DEI has nothing to do with whether people of any skin color can do a particular job. The problem is choosing people based on their color instead of their competence.”
Instead of seeking to unite people on the basis of their common humanity, DEI divides people based on their racial and/or sexual and/or political identity group differences and then applies broad sweeping prejudices on these different groups using the Marxist strategy of oppressor versus oppressed.
Martin Luther King warned about this in his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. Merit, or as King put it, “the content of their character” should be the measure by which each person is judged.
DEI doesn’t produce the colorblind society King dreamed of. Instead, it encourages an attitude of prejudice against white people, Asian people, heterosexual people, and men. A heterosexual white male is inherently and unavoidably the worst oppressor, and therefore must be discriminated against in favor of someone with “victimhood credit.”
Reality #5: A Different Version of DEI Can Be Found in the Bible.
As mentioned at the beginning of this article, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion have different meanings and applications for those who think and live on the basis of a Constitutional or Biblical world view. It’s instructive to note how the three DEI terms are illustrated in the Biblical narrative in a positive light.
Diversity is illustrated in the original twelve disciples that Jesus chose to follow him, as well as in the larger group of followers. There were women as well as men; there were young men as well as older men.
There was a widely-hated tax collector, working for the Roman government, as well as fishermen. There was also a thief among the twelve – Judas Iscariot – and there was a diversity of personalities. While most of the disciples were of Jewish heritage, Mark was Roman, as was the apostle Paul. And Luke – one of the four gospel authors – was a Greek doctor and historian.
A great example of Equity in Scripture is a parable about a landowner that Jesus told in Matthew 20. A man who owned a vineyard hired workers first thing in the morning to work in his vineyard, and agreed to pay them each a denarius – the standard wage for a day’s work. He hired additional workers at 9am, at noon, at 3pm, and at 5pm, promising to pay them all “whatever is right” (Matthew 20:4).
At the end of the day, the landowner paid the workers who had only worked for one hour the same amount that he paid those who had worked all day. He did this voluntarily, by the generosity of his own free will, not because he was required by law to do so.
The principle of Inclusion is illustrated by the composition and makeup of the early church. On the Day of Pentecost, when the early church was born in Jerusalem, people from 14 different ethnic groups, representing just as many different languages, heard and believed the gospel message preached by Peter
(Acts 2:8-11, 37-41). Three thousand became believers in Christ that day.
The remainder of Acts chapter two describes the inclusive nature of the church in Jerusalem. The passage is too long to quote here; however, the key statement of Inclusion is, “And all those who had believed were together and had all things in common…” (Acts 2:44).
So how has Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion deteriorated from the Biblical model of the first century Christian church into the corrupt, government-mandated version that we have today?
One of the major changes is that in today’s world, DEI elevates racial, ethnic and sexual differences above all other factors in hiring and promoting employees. Your social and political “identity group” determines your credibility – whether or not you have a right to be heard in discussions and debates about politics or company policy – your character, your level of understanding, empathy and tolerance, your skill level – everything about you that’s important to an employer.
This pits ethnic groups against each other, which creates division, not unity.
A unified and fair society – and those who create its laws and regulations – would view racial differences as being no more significant than eye color.
Instead, those who are pushing for DEI want to use it to correct past racial discrimination by mandating racial quotas within corporations and the federal government. But this is reverse discrimination, pure and simple. And it’s why the DEI movement is inherently unjust.
The fairest and most ideal way to make hiring decisions is to be “color-blind and merit-based.”
Conclusion:
There will no doubt be forthcoming lawsuits and legal battles to try to stop President Trump from succeeding in eliminating DEI altogether.
GianCarlo Canaparo, senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, predicts that Trump will be on the right side of any potential legal challenges, noting that he has “only recommitted America to the Equal Protection Clause and the Civil Rights Act, which require the government to treat people fairly without regard to race, color, or ethnicity.”
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