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Do You Support DEI Programs?
Do You Support DEI Programs?
Here’s The Scoop
The Department of Defense (DoD) and a contracting organization were forced to abandon a racially-driven hiring pipeline after the Supreme Court’s landmark 2023 decision striking down affirmative action, The Daily Wire has learned.
In a shocking revelation, the DoD funneled nearly $760,000 of taxpayer money to the University of Missouri-Kansas City to set up a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) career pipeline program that blatantly discriminated against white and male students. The program’s goal? To reach so-called “equity-focused” targets.
This discriminatory DEI pipeline crumbled when the Supreme Court ruled in June 2023 that affirmative action policies were unlawful in the Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard case.
“Immediately following the summer 2023 Supreme Court decision, the internship criteria was revised in compliance with the ruling,” explained Stacy Downs, Director of Strategic Communications for the University of Missouri-Kansas City, to The Daily Wire.
This revision comes amid a broader push by public and private institutions to embrace the DEI agenda. This agenda often justifies using discriminatory selection criteria in jobs and internships under the guise of addressing what it calls systemic racism in American society.
Prior to the Supreme Court’s ruling, the university’s intention to aid the DoD in discriminating against white and male students was crystal clear.
“To meet our equity-focused programmatic goals, campus internship selection will be equitable such that qualified applicants from underserved and underrepresented cohorts … will be provided first choice,” the program designers stated.
According to Downs, the new criteria for the program no longer include race or sex-based requirements. Instead, they now focus on applicants being full-time students, grade-point average, and specific coursework.
However, this program is just one example of several contracts between the DoD and external organizations pushing the leftwing DEI agenda.
The RAND Corporation, for instance, received an undisclosed sum from the DoD to guide the Pentagon in implementing controversial DEI policies. RAND’s report suggested ways the Pentagon could advance DEI policies and mitigate resistance, claiming that “resistance to DE&I is growing, while discriminatory and xenophobic expressions are increasing.”
The report went further to note “denial perspectives” and “diversity defiance,” or “White fatigue,” warning the DoD to “exercise caution to guard against” resistance to this leftwing ideology.
Other contracts, revealed by the Functional Government Institute and reported by The Daily Wire, include a staggering $2 million deal with a consulting organization to create a “DEI Action Plan” and a $202,000 contract with Cornell University for DEI training.
Under the Biden-Harris administration, the far-left DEI agenda has been deeply embedded throughout the federal government, influencing the military, intelligence community, and broader bureaucracy. An exclusive report from The Daily Wire discovered that the Pentagon requested nearly $270 million in taxpayer funding for the DEI agenda between 2022 and 2024.
President Joe Biden has signed numerous executive orders to institutionalize the DEI agenda, including measures that support gender transition attempts among government employees and bar the use of biologically accurate pronouns.
The federal government’s DEI agenda might face significant changes depending on the November election’s outcome. Former President Donald Trump has vowed to dismantle the bureaucratic machinery if re-elected, slashing its size through executive orders and firing those who might oppose his policy objectives.
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Disruptive Element
August 14, 2024 at 7:17 am
It is interesting that the vast majority of people do not agree with DEI yet accept the radical elements without a murmur– well maybe a yell yet let it go forward implementing it. Compared to our numbers, with us in the majority and the implementers of all the wrongs being foisted on us by government and the rulers of society, why do they get away with all this. Just say no, people.
Joseph Ketry
August 14, 2024 at 8:01 am
It takes nothing but common sense to know that the so-called “systematic racism,” that might have existed a 100 yrs., or so ago, had been vanquished, or eliminated in the majority of Americans minds since then. There IS NO systematic racism in our institutions anymore, BUT, affirmative action that has been in place for about 50+ yrs., & this new form of “racism” called DEI is continually causing I’ll feelings, & anger amongst the majority population!!! I know that affirmative action helped, if not kept me from getting a federal job in the 70’s, after I had done good intermittent work in three different federal agencies, as well as good a couple of good grades in the civil service tests at the time. It has angered me to this day, & why should people that had “nothing” to do with being racist in society many decades later have to pay for ANY malicious intent by people 75-200 yrs. later? Not only that, but a huge segment of today’s American society’s descendents came from southern, & eastern Europe approximately 40-50 yrs. after the civil war, so how could those people have had much, if anything to do with this so-called “racist society?” But,we also have to start at the beginning of history to see that the evil called “slavery,” started in Africa amongst African tribes, & societies, then picked up by Arab traders, etc., need more be said?
Sam Houston
August 14, 2024 at 9:17 am
The problem is that no matter what the “people” or even the Supreme Court has ruled the DEI pushers, basically racists and mentally ill, still go ahead with their Prime Objective which is to force themselves and programs on an unwilling public regardless if they are qualified for a position. The US tax payer is entitled to have the best qualified and most trustworthy levelheaded people in place instead of someone who is obviously looking for ways to discriminate against others usine any means necessary.
The current federal administration is not working for the American Tax payers, it’s working against them for the 1% who ae nuttier than a fruit cake.
Jerry C.
August 14, 2024 at 6:46 pm
I support Meritocracy! DEI programs are just a new name for an expanded Affirmative Action and are just as much a violation of the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection guarantee.
Matt
August 18, 2024 at 12:41 pm
Exactly, Affirmative Action of the 70’s and 80’s has come back with a new and improved, politically correct name. My whole life, I have been hearing about how we need to help the helpless. Help YOURSELF. I put myself through school and suffered working two or three part time jobs at a time because an unfair preference was given to others. It took a long time and a lot of effort to finally get into the career I selected with a full time job that I loved going to. Hiring practices should emphasize MERIT, and all persons applying for work should be given the same opportunity. No group should start out with the unfair advantage of an extra 10 points on the civil service exam except Military Veterans, they earned that preference through service.
Rollie Rinker
August 28, 2024 at 1:25 pm
Don’t change the policy!