Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) and other Republicans have introduced legislation abolishing DEI policies across the government and even with government contractors.
This is a wise move. These destructive policies moved from college campuses into almost every facet of our lives at lightning speed.
Get them out now before they evolve into something even worse.
Aaron Sibarium reports at the Washington Free Beacon:
Republicans Introduce Bill To Ban DEI in Government, Federal ContractingCongressional Republicans introduced a bill on Wednesday that would eliminate all diversity, equity, and inclusion positions in the federal government and bar federal contractors from requiring DEI statements and training sessions.The Dismantle DEI Act, introduced by Sen. J.D. Vance (R., Ohio) and Rep. Michael Cloud (R., Texas), would also bar federal grants from going to diversity initiatives, cutting off a key source of support for DEI programs in science and medicine. Other provisions would prevent accreditation agencies from requiring DEI in schools and bar national securities associations, like NASDAQ and the New York Stock Exchange, from instituting diversity requirements for corporate boards.”The DEI agenda is a destructive ideology that breeds hatred and racial division,” Vance told the Washington Free Beacon. “It has no place in our federal government or anywhere else in our society.”The bill is the most comprehensive legislative effort yet to excise DEI initiatives from the federal government and regulated entities. It offers a preview of how a Republican-controlled government, led by former president Donald Trump, could crack down on the controversial diversity programs that have exploded since 2020, fueled in part by President Joe Biden’s executive orders mandating a “whole-of-government” approach to “racial equity.”
You can read the bill here.
Ward Clark of RedState makes some great points about this:
These programs, just to belabor the obvious for a moment, not only violate the basic principle of equal treatment under the law by forcing federal hiring offices to use preferential hiring practices for selected groups, practices which have nothing to do with the job but with specific, irrelevant characteristics of the applicants, but may also actually endanger the country when put in place in institutions like the military services…What does it profit the country to have nuclear engineers training on the “roots of white male culture,” which evidently includes a “can-do attitude” and “hard work?” People with those attitudes are precisely the people we should want overseeing and maintaining our nuclear arsenal. And it doesn’t make a lick of difference how much melanin they have or whether they are setters or pointers.
And kudos to Senator Vance for taking this on.
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