(Nota Bene: In this context, AA means “Affirmative Action,” not “Alcoholics Anonymous.” – FWP) Our favorite Graybeard puts the case as plainly as possible: I retired just over nine years ago, and DEI was far less prominent in everyday use than it is today, but another term was used that had the …
Category: “diversity, equity, and inclusion”
Feb 08 2025
The DEIhard Canard
Anyone with three or more functioning brain cells was aware from the first that the “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” (DEI) schtick was an ill-disguised scheme for discrimination on the basis of race, sex, and mental illness. It extended the pseudo-logic of “affirmative action” (i.e., quota enforcement) to include a few more “marginalized communities” (i.e., …
Nov 18 2024
“Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion:” The Nadir
I’ve ranted before about how this plague has infested entertainment, especially video productions. I thought at the time that I wouldn’t be moved to say any more about it – that I’d expunged the irritation, that the case was made, and what would follow, would follow. That was before yesterday evening’s “entertainment.” The …
Nov 15 2024
The “Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion” Pox
The Fortress “cut the cord” a few years ago. As of today, neither the C.S.O. nor I misses what we forsook. We’ve mostly watched Amazon Prime, Acorn, and BritBox when we’ve wanted visual entertainment. But lately the DEI plague has made inroads there as well. Among my disappointments with the fare the above …
Sep 28 2024
Wishful Thinking Dept.
In a column that reports on a crazy “professor” decrying Shakespeare as a symbol of “white supremacy,” Lincoln Brown deposeth and sayeth: There is no shortage of funds and support for black, brown, or native people to make their own movies. Let us have a new version of “Arrow to the Sun” made …
Sep 27 2024
Keeping Americans In Line Is Getting Harder
Apparently, the news stories about murders, rapes, muggings, apartment block takeovers, and so forth have had an effect: Openness or hostility to rising diversity serves as a clear dividing line between voters supporting Vice President Kamala Harris in the upcoming presidential election and those backing former President Donald Trump. A 56% majority of …
Sep 27 2024
Europe Is Self-Immolating
And her Establishment is in favor of it: The European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) has published a report warning of the danger that “whiteness” and “Europeanness” pose to the European Union. That alone is a blockbuster. But read on: “In most countries, non-white and Muslim people were underrepresented in candidate …
Sep 07 2024
Genesis And Catastrophe
As appropriate as the title of this piece is, I feel slightly guilty about it. It’s also the title of a brilliant Roald Dahl story. I shan’t tell you any more about that story; find it, read it, and reflect on the tragedy it foretells. The laws of cause and effect are inadequately …
Jul 13 2024
Cue Napoleon’s Maxim
The mess called California has had several architects, but none more prominent nor proud than Gavin Newsom. Yet Democrats are pondering whether he should replace Joe Biden as their 2024 presidential nominee. Let’s not interrupt them as they do so. Twenty years ago, California had passed a law, the Defense of Marriage Act, …
May 28 2024
I know there’s a word for this
It’s when you’re so brainwashed that every hard lesson ever learned by your ancestors is wiped clean from your skull, and you go through life making horrible mistakes because you never learned from history. What brought this to mind? A news story about a German woman who was killed by someone she should have avoided. …
May 15 2024
Tolerable Diversity, Mandatory Unity
That shibboleth word “diversity” just might have had its day. The myriad examples of what happens when a government attempts to compel “diversity” upon an institution or a society make it fairly plain that the notion is toxic. Resistance to such compulsion is mounting and will soon become insuperable. It’s been the case …
Apr 29 2024
A Voice Of Sanity
In publishing this transcript of a recent speech by Dutch activist Eva Vlaardingerbroek, Maura Dowling has done America and Europe a tremendous service. Please read it all. “Diversity” has never meant what its shouters claim it to mean. It means the elimination of the white race. Note that no majority-black country is being …
Apr 01 2024
From Tolerable To Intolerable…
…can be a very short journey indeed. Whether it’s possible depends on whether the State decides the protection and promotion of some human aberration would serve its interests. Buckle your seat belt and fold your tray-tables; this ride could get bumpy. *** I’ve ranted before about how the politicization of transgenderism has transformed …
Mar 26 2024
Is it just me
Or is there anyone else out there who reads an article like this and thinks “Nothing I can do about it. I hope they hit D.C.” So what is to be done? Well, we can vote the bums out, but even if we do, all too many Republicans are just as squeamish as Democrats about …
Mar 19 2024
The Diversity Hire strikes again
She’s either dumber than a wet sack of hammers, or she’s evil. There are no other options. In Monday’s oral arguments for Murthy v. Missouri, Jackson appeared to be skeptical that the government could not censor social media posts in “the most important time periods.”“ My biggest concern is that your view has the First Amendment …
Mar 08 2024
“Let The Bodies Hit The Floor!”
Nothin’ wrong with me… Nothin’ wrong with me… Nothin’ wrong with me… Nothin’ wrong with me… Oh fudge…who do I think I’m kidding? *** Courtesy of Ace’s long and detailed piece of yesterday, I’ve only just become aware of what he’s styled “GamerGate 2.0.” You may recall the original …
Mar 08 2024
What Must Be Said
If we can’t bring back the idea of personal agency and responsibility for one’s actions, along with a societal moral code of right and wrong, we are doomed. — Weird Dave at AoSHQ Bravo. It cannot be said too often or too loudly. But note that the Left, principally through its “DEI” and …
Feb 29 2024
Yes, they really are that stupid and evil.
The government thinks that ARs can shoot 600 rounds a second. And one of the Democrat idiotic trained barking seals on the court thinks that’s totally wrong. It’s 800 rounds a second, according to that diversity hire who can’t define a woman. Well, no wonder people are so afraid of the AR platform! That wimpy …
Feb 25 2024
True dat
I found that on this post on Twitter. Or X. Twix? Whatever you want to call it now, but someone has a video that was taken in Sweden where a blonde liberal female reporter tried to show just how wonderful all that vibrancy and diversity was. And, well…. it didn’t turn out well for them. …
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