DEI and the Metaphor of the Boiling Frog
DEI “didn’t come out of nowhere. It was 20 to 30 years in the making, and it captured key institutions in our society.”
I was pleased to appear on an episode of the Stephen Gardner Youtube channel that broadcast on February 2, 2025. Stephen has almost 2 million subscribers on YouTube, and the show segment so far has almost 200,000 views.
So this is very much a modern streaming phenomenon that has a viewership larger than many legacy media outlets. I appreciated being able to access an audience that might not normally read Legal Insurrection.
We covered a variety of topics centering around DEI, starting with the history of how Critical Legal Theory led to Critical Race Theory led to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and the impact on society and education. Stephen made an analogy to the metaphor of the Boiling Frog (at 06:50):
WAJ (05:44): … And so this is how it all developed. And a lot of people felt [post George Floyd], where did this come from? It came out of nowhere. Well, no, it didn’t come out of nowhere. It was 20 to 30 years in the making, and it captured key institutions in our society.
Gardner (06:51): Okay, so like the story of the boiling frog, it’s just so gradual. You don’t realize the water temperature has doubled…..
WAJ (08:50): … Yeah, I mean, it was the boiling frog until the frog realizes it’s too late, the frog doesn’t realize it’s boiling…..
We also touched on DEI’s damage, it’s connection (or not) to the DC plane crash and California fires. We ended with a discussion of campus free speech in the context of the post-October 7 protests.
Watch below.
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While at MSFT- several of us were trying to escape from a terrible first level manager. A white female resembling the dumb manager right out of Dilbert.
Odd that the white males (and even non brown females) had to apply for dozens upon dozens of internal roles before landing something taking months while the two black girls- applied to exactly one job each to get their next jobs.
Racism is alive and well in the tech industry. This likely explains why very little innovation has happened for decades.
Academia is as bad or worse; when applying for a job you see “(insert minority group here) are encouraged to apply,” it is actually saying “whites, particularly white males, are specifically discouraged to apply. I’ve seen it in action.
When race trumps merit, failure is inevitable.
One of the reasons I bailed on it early. But in 30 years of fed service, I’ve had to maneuver around more than one DEI manager/co-worker.
The DEI pot has been simmering from some time. It came to full boil about over the Potomac River just outside of Washington, D.C. last Wednesday at 9 pm.
I have been told that the frog jumps out of gradually heated water. Somebody has done the experiment. Wikipedia agrees. It’s the frog put in boiling water that dies.
DEI frog jumped out of the pot and it is so hideous no one wants to look at it.
Some deny it’s a DEI Frog. Some want to kill it. Some have asked for time to scrub frog mucus from social media. Others just turn away in disgust.
But it’s out now. And we have to deal with it.
Until 2008, it existed but primarily on university grounds or at NGOs or IGOs. It was Obama that weaponized it by using government against political adversaries engaged in lawful activities and creating a circular noise machine to mislead and divide the public and make people feel threatened to express other than the party line.
It existed in the military long before Obama was around. I was in the Navy and the Carter years and saw plenty of it.
It was there even in the 80s. Got worse in the 90s.
I was there in the late 60s and early 70s when it began. The Navy had a horrible race problem back then, with full-blown riots breaking out . Google the USS Kitty Hawk riot in 1972.. The Navy began having a race relations CPO on every ship, i.e., a black chief to work with disaffected black sailors, among other things.
Actually, according to the Senate hearings on the racist, black, 1972 mutinies on the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk and the U.S.S. Constellation, the Navy already had racial committees which functioned as a shadow Navy chain of command.
https://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-shadow-navy-white-surrender-and.html
Can’t we just lick the toad??? 🙂
Biden did and look what happened to him.
You are being a bit hard on “Dr,” Jill, aren’t you?
Things are going to get really rough for former DEI employees, they were receiving unearned compensation and living high on the hog. They will not have a prayer in hell of ever earning that kind of money again. They are probably fully leveraged and will likely lose everything.
Displacement to illegals will leave potential jobs, but will there be enough?
It’s its.
Equality, as espoused by MLK Jr., rejects racism; “equity” DEMANDS it.
“Diversity” and “inclusion” just sprang out of that.
Ibram X. Kendi is a racist fool, but a rich one.
MLK Jr. was a racist who believed in racial spoils. I know, I know. “But MLK said…”
MLK said a lot of things. At his big speech at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, he said (“colorblind,” blah, blah, blah), but that was just a pull quote for the sake of his allies in the press, to use as “boob bait for the Bubbas.”
At the time he was assassinated, he was in Memphis, demanding that all public service jobs be reduced to racial spoils, where blacks would be hired for all jobs, based solely on the color of their skin, qualifications be damned. And that was his position all the time, except at the Lincoln Memorial.
Not a boiling frog but frogs, where everyone knows what’s happening but is afraid to speak up.
We do croak though.
I think the DEI Frog croaked.
Once I understood what was happening with the Thugvon case I became skeptical about all the black perks. That hardened over time, in large part because it became clear that black hypocrisy racism was totally out of hand. The shear viciousness of their attacks and never ending demands was the last straw.
That does not mean that I am against blacks who earn their way, in fact I kind of feel sorry for those who are catching fallout from the lower 85% of blacks conduct.
Cornell offers its own DEI certificate through eCornell.
$ 3,699.
Still offered, and next “class” starts 3/1.
Does anyone who pays for this ever not receive a certificate ?
How much does Cornell make from this ?
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