Employing significant numbers of diversity executives is all the rage. The average university, for example, now has 45.1 people dedicated to promoting diversity on campus.
The University of Michigan has a whopping 163 diversity officers. That’s 2.3 diversity officers for every one member of its history faculty. Is it any wonder that college tuition has skyrocketed?
A political commissar or political officer is responsible for ideological conformity in military units to ensure party control of the unit.
Political commissars were heavily used in the Soviet Red Army, as well as in the armed forces of Nazi Germany. The U.S. can now be added to the list.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) executives — our political commissars — are tasked with enforcing leftist policies in corporations, universities, and government agencies.
They do not contribute to the competent functioning of those institutions and in fact may detract from their profitability and efficiency. . . . .
. . . . Diversity, equity, and inclusion are words meant to deceive the American public. Their meaning has been distorted by the Left.
To progressives, diversity is an attempt to divide Americans between alleged oppressors — heterosexual white males — and victimized minorities. According special privileges to minorities via diversity is the Left’s way of marginalizing white people.
Diversity is destroying the critical American value known as meritocracy.
Meritocracy and diversity are opposites. Instead of hiring and promoting people based on competence, advocates for diversity want advancement to be based on race and gender.
Another problem we face is the Left’s demand for equity, which means equality of outcome. Everyone should have the same income, job success, house, neighborhood, etc. Equity attempts to achieve its warped conception of fairness by treating people differently based on their skin color. The downside to equality of outcome is that it can never be accomplished without control by a coercive centralized authority.
Biden’s latest executive order attempts to provide that coercive authority.
It requires that every federal agency must hire equity commissars to ensure that all new federal employees will be selected based upon their skin color so that preference can be given to non-whites. This is now the official policy of the U.S. government.
The drive for diversity, equity, and inclusion, wrote Bret Stephens in the New York Times, “is insulting to everyone who still believes we should be judged by the content of our character. It shouldn’t be hard to see that trying to solve the old racism with the new racism will produce only more racism,” Stephens concludes. “Justice is never achieved by turning tables.”
Justice is never achieved by hiring boatloads of diversity commissars.. . . . (read more on American Thinker)
Understand this: as the military struggle draws to a close, the political struggle intensifies. In the hour of victory, the military will have served its purpose – and all men will be judged politically- regardless of their military record. Boris Pasternak, “Doctor Zhivago.”