The DEI Disaster | 5-Minute Videos

Twenty years ago, if you asked someone which of the world’s countries was the most diverse, most equitable and most inclusive, they would have answered “the United States.” Not anymore. What changed? Christian Watson, host of Pensive Politics, has the surprising answer.
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Twenty or fifty or even a hundred years ago, if you asked someone which of the world’s countries was the most diverse, most equitable, and most inclusive, they would have almost certainly answered “the United States.”
Not anymore.
What changed?
Well, nothing… and everything.
Nothing in the sense that America is still the opportunity-rich place it’s always been.
And everything because the progressive left has hijacked those three words-diversity, equity, and inclusion-and turned them into weapons of mass destruction. This DEI trio makes up the neutron bomb that has laid waste to a good part of our educational and corporate institutions.
Given the damage that has been done, it might be a good idea to see what these words used to mean and what they mean now.
Diversity used to mean that people of different backgrounds were free to join a group or association.
Equity used to mean enforcing equal standards for all individuals and groups.
Inclusion used to mean allowing people of every background and identity to participate in a group or association.
Now, in their DEI context, these words all mean one thing: applying unequal standards to ensure preferential outcomes for individuals and groups based on race, sex, and gender identity.
The DEI movement is not about a sincere desire to make educational or corporate institutions more diverse, more equitable, or more inclusive.
If you don’t believe me, try having an open discussion on your company message board or at your next DEI seminar about why the same standards should apply to everyone, everywhere, regardless of race, sex, or gender identity.
Try that and you know what will happen: You’ll be shouted down, shunned, reprimanded, and maybe fired.
DEI is ultimately about only one thing: advancing those who are not white, heterosexual, and male at the expense of white, heterosexual men, regardless of their respective qualifications.
If you say, well, that’s fine because white, heterosexual men had too many advantages for too long, then I would ask: What about all the women, gays, blacks, and Latinos who were born into privilege? Should they be recipients of special DEI preferences?
And when do we know we’ve reached a DEI endpoint? When do we know that everything is finally diverse, equitable and inclusive?
There are no good answers to any of these questions. That’s a feature, not a bug of the DEI racket. America will never be able to DEI its way out of its DEI “problem.” It’s the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. You never reach your goal because it doesn’t exist. You’ll never quite be diverse enough, equitable enough or inclusive enough.
The DEI obsession has been great for one group of people and one group only: The lavishly paid DEI administrators at every Fortune 100 company, college, and university; and all those who work under them.
Corporations now pay millions upon millions of dollars to so-called DEI experts to spread division and distrust among their own employees. It may be the single most non-productive, self-destructive thing a business can do to itself. But businesses, to their everlasting shame, are doing it anyway.
They think they’re trapped. If they don’t set up a DEI office, that proves their company is racist, sexist and homophobic. But if they do set up a DEI office, that proves their company is racist, sexist and homophobic. Or why else did they set up a DEI office in the first place?
Heads DEI wins, tails you lose.
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[@herewegoagain...]

This is 100% true. My company actually went on record, during a DEI seminar, admitting they filter their candidate list to ensure that 75% of the candidates they choose to interview are women. I have no idea how that is legal.

[@pauldarling330]

Division, envy, inequity

[@crushynn90]

I’m so glad you’re talking about this. This DEI is invading every space & profession. We’ve got to push back.

[@deltafox1]

Boss wanted me to get involved in DEI efforts because I was the only black person in that team. I changed departments

[@nottaken81]

Rural Community Assistance Corporation based in CA is one of these organizations. I worked for them and they hired a "DEI" consulting firm (lol I know) to go through all of our departments to assess and see if we were "diverse" enough as an organization. I asked how they were making these determinations, and it was by names... My father was adopted and I am half Arabic but my name is as white as they come, and I was labeled a "white guy..." so many flaws in this logic it is insane. They then forced us to attend DEI meetings where they crammed socialist and LGBT rhetoric down our throat. They are given almost unlimited State and Federal funding which is used for this propaganda... its abhorrent.

[@Richforce1]

For what it does, and the sake of accuracy Equity and Inclusion should be switched around, so DEI is changed to the more truthful DIE.

[@JCKH2]

The ironic thing is the MILLIONS and MILLIONS companies pour into DEI programs when they say they don't have the money to pay all their employees a better wage

[@thecuss6817]

In 1974, at my interview for medical school, I was told that 40 of the 81 available spots for the next class would go to women, even though only 20% of the applicants were women. I was also told that if I'd been non-white that I would've been a shoe-in. Anyway, I never tried again for med school, went into industry and retired well.

[@bhoxified8932]

I can't go a day without being inundated with DEI emails and newsletters at work. Amazing how much effort HR departments put into that racket. You would think we would be focused on providing the highest quality products and services.

[@n4vyblueyes377]

Nice to see Christian on here. Thanks for hosting him!

[@randywise5241]

You can't have equal opportunity and equity at the same time. Equal outcomes is robbing those that produce more to pay those that do nothing.

[@rabungop9269]

We are thrilled to see the partnership between Christian Watson & Prager University! We found Christian when he was just 15 years old and we knew then that he was a special and uniquely talented person. Hopefully we will see many more videos in the future.

[@Bolo2028]

Excellent video. It was great to see Christian Watson presenting.

[@1bluensx]

It’s baffling how much companies spend on this crap. How come basketball teams don’t have to follow DEI guidelines? Or railroad workers. Shouldn’t that split be 50/50 too?

[@chronobot2001]

I work for a large utility.

[@rathofturkey]

My company’s DEI emails are automatically forwarded to the trash. Because no matter how much they want to adhere to leftard politics, we are already massively diverse. I honestly never have been apart of or seen a more diverse company than the one I’m at now. It’s just mind boggling that we still bother

[@kenferguson9958]

To keep his license in the medical field a close relative had to take one of these classes and was so furious for being labeled a racist after 20 years of treating every patient with the utmost respect simply because he's white. He said his Hispanic teammates were just as resentful. .

[@SoloBoxer]

Way to go, Christian!

[@SwimminWitDaFishies]

Don't get me started. After I graduated college, I went to work for a well known company who had instituted "Affirmative Action" in a major way. Most of my coworkers were 10 to 15 yrs older than me, and most had no post secondary education. There was a wide range of abilities - some were great at what they did, some were average, and some made me wonder how they ever got the job. The 3rd group was a real drag on the productivity of the organization at every level because they were either apathetic, chronically lazy and/or missing whenever you needed them, or just difficult to deal with. I was one of the youngest in the department and I tried to learn as much as I could. I kept to myself and tried to avoid having to deal with Group #3. Fast forward to 2022 (my 35th yr in the corporate world. I've been working at a different (major) company for just over 20 yrs. Approximately 5 yrs ago this new wave of "Diversity hires" started trickling into my workplace. It's like deja vu all over again but this time around it's much worse because of the ATTITUDE that these people exhibit. Even more frustrating is that the hands of management are tied because these people are "fire proof" and they will complain and litigate in a NY minute if they dislike their job or perceive they are being forced to do any more than they feel like doing. Meanwhile, those who are capable are being pressured to do more and it's often to clean up what was not done correctly (or at all) by those who were hired just because... I am SO glad I don't have to work much longer!

[@QZQ8]

Thank you for Speaking the truth. This is exactly how my employer treats its employees that don’t go along with this BS. I work for the State of Oregon. It’s bad here. I work at the mental hospital and they expect employees to call men women, I won’t do it. And here in Oregon they are a protected class. We even have doctors that are supposed to be taking care of people that have mental illness that have pronouns. Doctors that will address patients not by their biological sex, but by their gender dysphoria sex. It’s truly sad. So everyone vote and vote RED LETS TAKE AMERICAN BACK.