Trump’s Executive Orders on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) dominated the first days of his second presidency. I addressed the potential impact in my post, Trump’s Merit-Based DEI Executive Order Is A Sledgehammer.
Here is my ‘hot take’ on what it means going forward, excerpted from our full podcast recorded today, Operation Shock & Awe: Trump’s First Week. You can hear my much longer explanation of the DEI Executive Orders starting here.
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This is going to have a huge impact. We don’t know how far it will go.It’s not going to end DEI—this is something I think we need to talk about. People think this is the end of DEI. It’s not.It may be the end of some DEI practices. You may not see scholarships in the future that say, “Only people of color need apply.”You probably won’t see it so grotesquely as we do now, but it’s still going to happen behind the scenes, and the DEI ideology is still going to be there. Nothing is going to prevent the universities from pushing the group identity ideology that they have been pushing. They may not be able to implement it in a grotesquely discriminatory manner, but I think that is going to be an issue.So, Trump’s DEI sequence of executive orders is impactful in itself, may have an even bigger impact, but it is not going to end DEI.It may end DEI as we’ve known it, but it is not going to get it off the campuses.And I know at our Equal Protection Project and our CriticalRace.org project, we’re going to continue to focus on those core ideological and cultural battles on campuses that are not really addressed by the executive orders, nor can they be addressed by the executive orders.It’s a culture on the campuses that needs to change.
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