It’s pretty obvious right now that the commissars of the DEI world are going to ground, and trying to get around the ban on DEI from Trump and several state-level initiatives such as Texas and Florida by renaming the identity politics offices, and/or moving personnel to other units or giving them different job titles. Like this:
To be sure, these subterfuges will need to be rooted out by diligent surveilance, and the Trump Administration is on it:
But here’s the thing for the identitarians scrambling to find new euphemisms: It won’t work. “Diversity, equity, and inclusion” are the holy trinity of this racket—their “Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.” This is literally true: like land acknowledgements, the invocations of DEI sound like an academic version of the Nicene Creed. Have you ever noticed that virtually every DEI proclamation sounds exactly the same? (In fact, Vanderbilt University’s DEI office got caught a few years ago using AI to compose some DEI messages.)
The point is: the DEI racket depends on a common vocabulary of cliches. If they have to modulate their language, the way Star Trek ships modulate their shields against enemy particle beams, the identitarians won’t know what to say. It is just like the scrambling of the languages at the Tower of Babel. They will need endless translations for everyone to understand that they are the same old comrades hating on white people. If you think the identitarian racket is absurd now, it will be even more comical when they have to speak in ever more esoteric and ridiculous coded language. The whole DEI racket was Orwellian already; now it will be beyond even Orwell’s imagination.
I’d say stock up on popcorn, but since popcorn is white, it is clearly racist.
Meanwhile, some institutions seems to be getting the message, such as West Point:
Chaser—this chart is making the rounds of social media, adding evidence for the proposition that the DEI racket is just one more way for white liberals to feel virtuous about themselves. I can’t vouch for the source here, but my sense perception from looking at college DEI offices is that they are overwhelmingly staffed by minorities, which helps colleges fluff up their minority hiring numbers. But it ought to be a scandal with the identitarians that the heads of DEI offices are 76% white. (And the male-female pay gap is just gravy at this point.)
