The best way to get rid of ants is to kill the queen. The most effective way to stop the spread of toxic progressive ideologies is to remove those who advocate them from positions of power.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion officers are like queens in the progressive corporate and university anthills. The good news? They are starting to die out.
The Wall Street Journal this month published an article by Te-Ping Chen and Lauren Weber titled “The Rise and Fall of the Chief Diversity Officer.” The findings will infuriate left-wing ideologues. Those who have wondered what happened to common sense can breathe a sigh of relief. Conservatives will probably cheer.
According to the Journal, Netflix, Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery recently reconsidered their forward-thinking stance on DEI, to the extent that high-profile diversity, equity, and inclusion executives will lose their jobs. Thousands of diversity-focused employees have been laid off since last year.
For those of us scratching our heads wondering how and why companies ever thought DEI, gender theory, critical race theory, and the rest of the progressive bullshit would make money, DEI’s demise not only makes sense, it was inevitable. Most people – no matter how often progressives pump their lies through established media – don’t believe in it, figuratively or literally.
In other words, while DEI is an effective method for radical progressives to spread their gospel, it is bad for business. It was only a matter of time before business stakeholders noticed that their investments suffered as corporate leaders chose to adopt postmodern vigilance in their ranks.
Miriam Warren, chief diversity officer for Yelp, told the Journal about some of the challenges facing DEI executives. “There’s a combination of sadness, being very tired, and being overwhelmed in some cases,” Warren said.
I don’t want to seem insensitive, but I don’t care how Warren feels. How many people has she damaged pushing her radical left agenda to the workplace? She will feel better in an honest job.
The DEI craze started in the wake of George Floyd’s passed away in May 2020. Companies scrambled to hire Chief Diversity Officers, according to the outlet. It doesn’t say why the stampede happened, but it must have been a misguided attempt to claim the moral high ground.
Less than half of S&P 500 companies employed chief diversity officers in 2018. By 2022, 75 percent of those companies had created a position, according to a survey by executive search firm Russell Reynolds cited by the Journal.
This is according to a study cited by Blaze mediathe DEI industry rose to $3.4 billion by 2020. Since then, Chief Diversity Officers have earned 40 percent more revenue than their human resources counterparts.
Another study found that searches for Chief Diversity Officers have dropped 75 percent in the past year. According to Blaze, a human resources expert claimed that this was the lowest demand he had seen in 30 years.
Business entities such as bud light And Goal must have been blinded by the noxious fumes of progressive excrement accumulating in their midst. They lost billions of dollars in revenue by continuing to push the progressive agenda this year.
It seems that the DEI craze is dying out in the corporate world, a major breeding ground of progressive vermin. Thank God. Why did it take so long?
One can only hope that the universities that serve as breeding grounds for these vermin are next. When will science realize that progressive education isn’t education indoctrination? When enrollment plummets because indoctrinated graduates are bad for business inside and outside academia?
According to Journal, when the High Council After affirmative action was quashed in June, companies began anticipating any spillover legal action that might hit them. Do the universities see what’s to come, or are they like Bud Light and Target and can’t see the wood for the trees anymore?
Be that as it may, the downtrend in DEI is a glimmer of hope on a dark horizon. It is a good practice to pray at daybreak.
This article originally appeared on The Western Journal.