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‘America Is Under Attack’: Inside the Anti-D.E.I. Crusade

www.nytimes.com ‘America Is Under Attack’: Inside the Anti-D.E.I. Crusade

The backlash against “wokeism” has led a growing number of states to ban D.E.I. programs at public universities. Thousands of emails and other documents reveal the playbook — and grievances — behind one strand of the anti-D.E.I. campaign.

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D.E.I. programs explicitly treat people differently based on race. Such programs have no place in modern society.
- That only makes sense if we aren't already treating people differently based on race, which we do all the time.
  
  "We can't stop doing X as long as we're still doing X" doesn't exactly make much sense either.
- It does if you start with the assumption that you need to do ANYTHING POSSIBLE in the name of equity, including causing further inequities at the individual level.

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