Today’s psychobabble is breathtaking. A letter headline recently proclaimed that “Diversity is Progress…” Huh? “Backward?” “Forward?” Our Constitution embodies no notions of movement, one way or another. It specifies equality under law. There is no sense of time or physical space, nor any specified end, as there is in classical communism. Thus, there can be no “progress” because there is no end goal.
To be considered or hired for a position based on a birth attribute of race, gender, ethnicity or color is absurd. It’s certainly not “progress.” I could label it many things, but “progress” doesn’t fit. “Royalty” was based on mere birth. Is that what is right for America today?
When factors other than competence, past behavioral history and references enter into the job selection process, it is by definition “discriminatory.”
The whole “diversity” thing is, at best, just a rebirth of “Affirmative Action” brought back to life with a new name, much the same as the way “Global Warming” was rebranded “Climate Change” when the earlier label lost its popularity.
There are plenty of excellently-qualified “diversity” candidates the country around, but they are a smaller number than the non-diversity labelled people. In some communities, by a lot. Not so much in others. It stands then to reason, that there will be fewer of those of any description occupying given positions depending on where they are.
Though I see no place for it in a free country, for government to implement DEI while simultaneously professing that it’s not discriminatory, is either a lie or a pledge to implement the ethic and then ignore it. DEI is discriminatory at its core. Just hire qualified people, not labels. Our town has no need of virtue signaling. Just look at it.
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