Diversity Thursday
Diversity Thursday
equality is the hardest easy concept to understand
We should savor the victories when they come our way. Elections matter, and the average American does not want to have sectarianism, division, and hate injected in to their children using their money.
As we've said here for 18-years, those promoting division based on race, creed, color, and other immutable characteristics have no place in a diverse 21st Century Republic.
Elections mean things because for some reason, it can be hard to find leaders with the moral courage to do the right thing.
Governor DeSantis on Tuesday announced a legislative proposal to eliminate programs, courses, and bureaucracies dedicated to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and critical race theory (CRT) at public Florida universities on the grounds that taxpayers shouldn’t be forced to subsidize harmful, divisive ideologies.
“We are going to eliminate all DEI and CRT bureaucracies in the state of Florida. No funding, and that will wither on the vine,” he said at a press conference. The removal of such departments, he suggested, will serve as an “ideological filter” and “political filter” for the schools.
The proposed legislation would prohibit DEI spending in state university budgets, which would effectively starve DEI departments of resources, giving them no choice but to discontinue classes and fire administrators.
If you are a regular here, you know we've documented the bloat, growth, and expansion of the Navy's branch of the diversity industry - especially at our educational institutions in detail.
One day, hopefully soon, someone like Governor DeSantis - perhaps DeSantis - will be elected as President and will do at the federal level what we are not doing in Florida.
The amount of wasted time, wasted resources, and empty hours listening to tenured radicals tell service members - most born in the 21st Century, that they should first and foremost see each other by the most artificial characteristics and then use that difference to position for advantage, conflict, and disorder firmly stuck in aspic from the perspective of the early 1970s..
Take a moment to listen. Good stuff.
Take the "W."
Remember, there is nothing stopping every (R) governor from doing this in their state but moral courage.
There is also nothing from stopping a (R) President - the Commander in Chief - from ordering his military to do the same, as it should.
As anyone with even the most basic of leadership training understands, anyone can give orders - its the enforcement that matters. This is all great policy, and a fully endorse these efforts, but without a realistic enforcement mechanism, its all just posturing. Sure, a school's curriculum might have the critical theory/DEI parts removed, but without constant supervision to ensure that the spiteful mutants aren't injecting their opinions into their day to day teaching, the degeneracy will continue. Rooting out the postmodern left from schools will require a level of sustained ruthlessness that I doubt the modern GOP can stomach.
Cdr, I have friends and relatives who are black. I grew up in Alabama when not being moved around the world with my Dad, a USN Naval Aviator and ship driver. I grew up somewhat confused about civil rights. But I know they're ia helluva lot that is unfair to minorities and they know it too. I have sat in Sr Executive meetings where our management (in LA) strategized how to get rid of a black woman, the only black person in our corny whom they had to hire for a minimum of 6 weeks to qualify for a federal contract. Most white [eope and especially conservative white people can not understand the problems and at least CRT explains them. We need to fix the problems.