by Greg Salsbury, American Thinker:
It is as though America has suddenly woken up from a bad dream—ironically and perhaps appropriately, the opposite of “going woke.” The list of companies and individuals dialing back from and/or disavowing DEI- and CRT-related initiatives has taken a sharp uptick. Walmart is the largest of the recent companies joining the list, and even Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has quietly and without explanation removed her pronouns from her X biography. We also see a growing number of women athletes finding their voices in protesting biological males in their locker rooms, showers, and competitions.
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Now, with President Trump’s decisive victory, it is as though a once-silent majority feels unmuzzled with regard to DEI and CRT. Finally, they can say that the emperor has no clothes. People feel free to call these preposterous and racist philosophies what they really are—hokum. They are warmed-over Marxism with race, gender, and sexual identification substituting for social class for purposes of establishing the oppressed and oppressors and creating maximum chaos.
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We are now beginning to see results that counter years of the unquestioned brilliance of “wokeism.” We are seeing that these disastrous policies have promoted precisely the opposite of what they purported to oppose—discrimination, racism, hatred, injustice, and lower quality.
Nowhere is this on greater display than in our military. DEI/CRT policies have devastated recruitment, savaged morale, dramatically reduced our war-fighting readiness, and put our national security in danger. The Heritage Foundation—which conducts one of the only comprehensive, non-governmental assessments of our military readiness—for the first time provided an overall rating for 2024 of “weak,” down from “marginal” in 2023.
One of the most touted studies by DEI/CRT charlatans over the last decade was a 2015 study by McKinsey & Company, which claimed to have found a link between company profitability and the numbers of executive women and minority personnel. The Wall Street Journal recently reported on the inability of accounting professors John Hand and Jeremiah Green to replicate McKinsey’s results and claims. The authors concluded,
Combined with the erroneous reverse-causality nature of McKinsey’s tests, our inability to quasi-replicate their results suggests that despite the imprimatur given to McKinsey’s studies, they should not be relied on to support the view that US publicly traded firms can expect to deliver improved financial performance if they increase the racial/ethnic diversity of their executives.
McKinsey felt compelled to respond, pointing out that it had never claimed a causal relationship, only a correlation, and pointing out that those are quite different. Very true, but as the WSJ rightly observed, McKinsey behaved as if there were indeed a causal relationship, frequently referring to the “benefits of diversity” as if that fact were well established. And of course, McKinsey never stopped Democrat Representative Jasmine Crockett from citing the flawed study yet again earlier this month as a reason to oppose the Republican “Dismantle DEI” bill.
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