The DEI mania, designed to undermine America’s foundations, has done much but is running out of steam. Therefore, say two authors, it needs a makeover.
In today’s Martin Center article, Professor Stanley Ridgley reviews How Equality Wins.
He writes, “Authors Kenji Yoshino and David Glasgow have at least one foot rooted in the reality we all experience. Their central message, in How Equality Wins: A New Vision for an Inclusive America, is that, for DEI to maintain any presence in corporate, government, or higher-ed circles, the diversity faithful must adjust their expectations to the new social, economic, and legal environment. Otherwise, they risk evisceration by the law and shunning by the public at large.”
Yoshino and Glasgow are dedicated diversiphiles and want to keep their “equality project” moving with a makeover. Equality for them means group equality, not equality of opportunity based on individual ability.
Ridgley continues, “While the authors cast themselves as DEI folk who even run their own DEI center, their book represents a distinctly minority view of DEI. It is an outlier in the genre. Those whom Yoshino and Glasgow call DEI ‘extremists,’ who pay fealty to DEI orthodoxy, constitute the DEI mainstream — coarse, uncompromising, pseudo-academic, and racialist to the core.”
Furthermore, they try to downplay the radicalism that lies at the core of the DEI movement.
Ridgley expects the book to achieve nothing: “While Yoshino and Glasgow reject the race-essentialism that drives much of the movement, as well as the blatant anti-intellectualism of its most extreme proponents, they represent a distinct minority in the DEI ecosystem.”
Read the whole thing.