Profits Of Division

The Unfair Equity Of The Diversity & Inclusion Industry

Have you noticed it?

The massive, and extremely woke, phenomenon often called Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, is not what it seems. A multi-billion dollar, rapidly growing, global industry lies behind these trendy buzz-words. And though it may be difficult to understand why these terms should not be taken at face value, we should be concerned with the ideological nature of which proponents evangelize them.

Manifesting in schools (k-12), universities & colleges, businesses & industries, public institutions, the military & police, legacy & social media, and everywhere else you dare look for it, equity work - the attempted social engineering of equal outcomes for all - has bulldozed its way over the entire firmament of society. We are now subject to the ever-changing whims of modern-day practitioners of woke dogma. These woke clerics go by many different titles, one of which the highly lauded, Equity Officer.

Business analysts categorize the industry simply as “Diversity & Inclusion” or D&I. Equity is a woke obsession, but whether or not configured adjacent and complementary to the previously mentioned couplet of woke pieties, the net result of their deployment is always the same; division.

Within the social justice framework, if you are talking about equity, you are talking about anti-racism. If you are talking about anti-racism, you are talking about Critical Race Theory. If you are talking about Critical Race Theory you are talking about white supremacy. In short, each term is a code word for a worldview that places white supremacy as the default mode of western society - and sees white men as the key oppressors of everyone else.

How inclusive does this sound to you?

Once white men are singled out, equity officers explain that it is mostly the straight white men at fault for the oppression westerners live under. This paves the way for additional victim claims from virtually every other group (women, LGBTQ, racialized minorities), and newly emerging “marginalized groups” identifying as made-up genders (genderfluid, pangender, gender outlaw, omnigender).

Next, diversity, equity and inclusion training advances to include intersectionality (the ideological framework that gives everyone definitive justification to hate straight white men). If you are talking about equity, you are bound to be talking about checking the privilege of oppressive toxic mansplaining straight white guys.

A study by Global Industry Analysts Inc. (GIA) “presents fresh perspectives on opportunities and challenges” for D&I. The report tells us that global spending for the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion industry will reach a staggering 15.4 billion by 2026. The 2020 numbers, estimated to be 7.5 billion, seemed alarming enough. This pervasive and highly insidious industry is on track to double in size (and power presumably) within six years. It’s no surprise GIA analysts see the “opportunity” in the D&I industry; for making loads of money, opportunity is exactly what it is.

But not everyone thinks that Diversity & Inclusion opportunities should be equal. In The Commodification And Capitalization Of The Anti-Racism Industry, published in Forbes, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion writer, Janice Gassam Asare opines:

“Where things start to get hazardous is when white-led anti-racism education platforms try to monetize and capitalize off of the content that was co-opted from Black, Indigenous and other people of color. Many of these white-led platforms do not make it known that they are white-led.”

These terms can tie you in knots. “White-led” should not be something ever needed to be said, and “anti-racism,” as a diversity, equity and inclusion writer intends, is entirely based on the premises of critical race theory. People like Janice Gassam Asare operate in a white supremacist world that desperately needs critical race theory to bring about equity.

What’s Good For The Diversity & Inclusion Industry Is Not Good For Society & Culture

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion will result in more racism and division throughout society. It insults BIPOC people by painting them as helpless victims in need of a white saviour equity industry. And it demoralizes white people with an ahistorical retelling of European history that claims they are guilty for continuing to reap unfair benefits. All of this unfolds into present day misinformation involving the tired “white privilege” and “male patriarchy” tropes, constantly fed “through the lens” of postcolonial and other critical theories.

With equity as the goal, admissions to higher education has been turned upside down by the D&I industry. John Staddon is a James B. Duke Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University. In an article posted to the National Association of Scholars, titled College Admissions Ride the Equality Roundabout, professor Staddon analyzes the problems of both meritocratic admissions systems and those requiring imposition of policies aimed at desirable - however unrealistic - outcomes like equality.

“Admitting unqualified students to elite schools—the “diversity” religion, now several decades old—seems to have led to corruption of much of the curriculum in the humanities and social sciences (and may be infecting the hard sciences too), as well as unhealthy growth in college bureaucracies.”

The expansion in bureaucracy Staddon refers to, is the ballooning of administrative departments like Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. With the D&I industry on track to double, we can expect the related bureaucracies in the academy to continue this “unhealthy growth.”

An unintended consequence noted by Staddon occurs when, in the name of equity, an unprepared racialized minority student will be un-meritocratically admitted to a school whereby they discover, within the first year or so, that STEM and other challenging subjects are beyond their reach. At that point they tend to gravitate to one of the “grievance studies” offered in the humanities. Programs like “white studies,” “women’s studies” or “fat studies,” and loads more are ground zero for woke indoctrination. This cycle produces a lot of people with degrees in “grievance” who subsequently find employment in the D&I industry. There is a growing number of people who have a financial and ideological stake (or dependence) in the “grievance” that supports the white supremacy narrative (and justifies the investment in all the equity officers). Meanwhile, the rapidly expanding D&I industry has no qualms with the grievance studies to equity office pipeline.

Equity Work Is Critical Race Theory In Action

Equity officers are racist hunters. If they don’t find racism in an office or classroom, they make it up. Indeed, their very job depends on it. They claim the default culture in western countries, like Canada, is white supremacy. Despite the fact that there is no convincing evidence for the existence of systemic racism in Canada, their job is premised on the assumption of racial discrimination - and success depends on their ability to continually point out the “problematic” ways it manifests.

Equity work informed by Critical Race Theory problematizes people of European descent (white people) and Jewish descent (claiming the Zionist movement is a colonial one). In schools, equity policies often promote discrimination against Asians - by holding them back even when they do better on tests than non-Asian students. Equity work is antithetical to meritocracy (or even to the idea that competent people should hold positions that require competence).

A 2009 study by the National Study of College Experience showed that Asian Americans college applicants’ SAT scores had to be 140 points higher than White students, 320 points higher than Hispanic students, and 450 points higher than Black students in order to gain acceptance to top universities.

Thomas Campbell, the former Dean of Fowler School of Law, feels the racial disparity issues at institutions of higher education should be addressed by improving education standards at the secondary school level. A focus on the unprepared post-secondary candidates to bring them up to standards is his prescription. Sounds good to me. Maybe a massive government funded program of peer-tutoring - where high achieving students can gain part-time employment helping future university students get prepared for the academic rigours of a post-secondary education.

“Affirmative action divides us, and I think that’s terrible,” Campbell said. “It puts one race against another in our state at a time when we should be united. There are many problems in the education field that we need to devote our resources to, but don’t do it on the basis of race. Do it on the basis of students who are not given the opportunities.” -From el Estoque

Canada is NOT systemically racist. Unless of course we want to talk about Anti-white, anti-Jewish and anti-Asian racism. These forms of racism are systemic (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives and policies ensures they are). Indeed, equity work explicitly involves discriminating against Jews, Whites and Asians, and yes, unfairly advantaging BIPOC. The talk that racist Desmond Cole recently gave at the Toronto District School Board is just one of many examples of a double standard and culture of “reverse racism” at the TDSB.

The equity efforts at Ontario school boards result in their white students being referred to as “settler people.” White Ontarians are most likely European descendants. Not settler people; this is highly offensive. Yet, it is written on the chalk boards of Ontario schools and taught to students as cavalierly as the alphabet. This thinking is informed by postcolonial theory (another critical theory foundational to equity work) that seeks to indoctrinate everyone to hate Europeans. Postcolonial theory functions by ahistorical catastrophizing!

With equity based lesson plans informed by Critical Race Theory, white students are told they are oppressors. Is it any wonder that a 6 year old little girl, from the TDSB, came home from school and told her parents she wishes she wasn’t white? This little girls’ aunt strained to hold back tears when telling this story to a private group meeting for parents I attended.

Uncle Tom meet Uncle Tim

In April of 2021 the insensitive pejorative “Uncle Tim” (A play on the racist slur “Uncle Tom”) referring to American senator Tim Scott went viral across social media. Sen. Scott and his “internalized racism” had asserted that America was not a racist country. We can’t have that! If America (and other western nations) are not systemically racist countries, how do we justify the multi-billion dollar equity industry that says it is.

Sen. Scott was the only black senator at the time. This accomplished man should be treated with admiration not only for his career achievements, but for having a mind of his own and the bravery to speak it. While this is a good example of the typical intolerance of the equity obsessed woke, my reason for bringing it up is an attempt to rescue the “Uncle Tim” pejorative and re-cast it as the “reverse pejorative” it always should have been.

But first I must ask, is there a person of colour in Ontario who will be an ally to European descendants? A black man or woman not worried about being charged with internalized racism or called “Uncle Tom.” I mean white people are expected to be allies of everyone else. Where are the white allies? Where are the people (who are not themselves white) who notice the systemic efforts to “other” and dehumanize white people? I find it hard to believe that BIPOC people across the board believe that white people are “problematic.” Or, as the equity officer informed by critical race theory says, “whiteness” not “white people” are problematic. How is repeating this notion not going to lead to more problems in this country?

Frustratingly, I realize that much of the D&I industry and its equity agenda of problematizing white people is in response to the demands of the true “Uncle Tim’s” of the world - progressive white people. These people are dangerous. They may start a race war, on the behalf of BIPOC, and then abruptly jump ship and change sides if things get real. Do not trust progressive white people. They are virtue signaling and trying to advance their careers and industry by doing so. You don’t need to fear Aunt Karen, it’s Uncle Tim you should be worried about.

There are powerful interests acting to ensure the fallacious white supremacy narrative is the dominant one. The critical race theorist equity officers are the foot soldiers of the D&I industry upholding the woke orthodoxy infiltrating corporations, schools and public institutions.

Quillette contributing editor, Jonathan Kay, in a piece called Anti-Racism as Office-Politics Power Play: a Canadian Academic Case Study, discusses the Canadian academic administrators meeting recently convened in Ottawa for their biannual Universities Canada membership meeting. Jonathan Kay describes the group as dedicated to “providing university presidents with a unified voice for higher education.” But despite the fact that Canadian universities have faced a multitude of challenges due to COVID, the only topics on the agenda fell under the Diversity & Inclusion umbrella. Anti-racism, Building a Race-Conscious Institution, and of course, diversity, equity and inclusion were the big features.

From Quillette:

“The report’s main theme is that university leaders must decisively reject the idea of “colour-blindness” (which the author asserts should properly be termed “colour evasion”) in favour of becoming “race-conscious individuals” who “explicitly reflect on their ethno-racial identity and group membership…To persist in colour evasion, the author warns, is to erect “discursive barriers to antiracist organizational change.” -Jonathan Kay

Earlier this week, a teachers’ union in southern Ontario implemented a controversial weighted voting system to increase minority representation. In the name of equity “the new system will ensure that Indigenous, Black and racialized teachers always represent 50 per cent of the votes at the bargaining unit.”

“Such weighted voting does not apply to the whole local’s rank and file; rather, it applies to decisions made by the board of local presidents, who represent the teachers at each school when it comes time to make decisions, explained Daryl LeBlanc, a teacher and branch president with the union.” - Tyler Dawson,m National Post

The teachers who pushed back predictably remained anonymous. No one is brave enough to risk the opprobrium attached to the criticizing of equity initiatives. But in this case, teachers’ representation when it comes to union decisions rests on whether or not their representative is racialized…“If your school rep is racialized, then you get a higher percentage of the vote,” the teacher said.

Sounds like a great plan, I don’t foresee there being any problems at all. As long as each bargaining unit makes sure their rep is racialized. Does this sound like diversity?

Conclusion

Critical Race Theory and other complicated, esoteric and highly woke academic ideas like Gender Ideology, Post Colonialism and Intersectionality are now being forced on society, through diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, as if they were established truths. They are not. They are unfair, racist and ahistorical. You are sure to encounter woke opportunists pedaling this nonsense where ever you hear “equity, diversity, or inclusion.”

If we cannot agree to judge people individually and apply universal standards equally we are going to lose western countries for good. In and effort to make things equal, equity treats people unequally. This is not consistent with our western traditions. It takes time and massive effort to build these “brilliant inventions,” but give woke progressive snowflakes a single generation and they will thoroughly destroy them! And they will do so in the name of diversity, equity and inclusion.

This is a guest post by Woke Watch Canada supporter James Pew aka @NotWokeThinker. Author of The Woke West: The Identity Politics, Cancel Culture, Radical Activism And Forbidden Knowledge Dividing The West...And What You Can Do About It!” - published serially to The Turn Substack.

Thanks For Reading! Also from this author - The Peel District School Board and White Supremacy