DEI Industrial Complex Survival Guide: “hide it and conceal it and mask it”

“That’s why we are calling on the administration to update their executive orders, to issue a new executive order which includes intersectionality under the definitions of diversity, equity, and inclusion.”

Posted by William A. Jacobson Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 08:35pm 1 Comment

Our recent Report, Intersectionality – The Rise of a Dangerous Anti-American Ideology and How to Stop it , focused on the “Intersectionality Loophole” and the need for for the Trump administration to close it if it wanted the anti-DEI efforts to show greater impact.

My interview with Fox News covered more than the Intersectionality Loophole, I discussed more generally how the DEI Industrial Complex still existed and was trying to outlast Trump 2.0 through concealment and masking. Here’s my interview where I discuss the problem:

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There is a misconception out there that the passing of certain executive orders has eliminated DEI and those negative practices.

I will say the executive orders have had a very substantial impact, particularly the cutting off of funding, the cutting off of federal grants that used to support these practices. But it is still there.

Intersectionality, critical race theory as manifested in DEI, uh, is deeply, deeply embedded on the campuses. This was 30 years in the making. It’s not going to go away with a handful of executive orders.

What we are seeing is that the DEI industrial complex, and by that I refer to the consultants, the philanthropies that support it, the college administrators, the college professors. There’s an entire multi-billion dollar industry devoted to categorizing people by identity group and then handing out benefits based on those identity groups. It’s massive. It has not gone away. It is still there.

What we are seeing, particularly the universities do, is hide it and conceal it and mask it.

While the Trump administration has taken significant efforts through executive orders and otherwise to address critical race theory and diversity, equity, and inclusion, there is in fact a huge loophole, and I would refer to it as the intersectionality loophole. And we are calling on the administration to close that loophole.

What people are not allowed to do in federal contracting or with federal grant money under the rubric of diversity, equity, and inclusion, they should not have the loophole of calling it intersectionality because it is in many ways one in the same.

Think of diversity, equity, and inclusion is how universities, K-12, and companies implement intersectional theory. They may not even know they’re doing it. That’s why we are calling on the administration to update their executive orders, to issue a new executive order which includes intersectionality under the definitions of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

It’s a very simple remedy, issue a new executive order saying intersectionality shall be deemed a practice that falls under diversity, equity, and inclusion for the purpose of all the other executive orders we have issued. Close the intersectionality loophole.

Additionally, we hope that Congress will get involved. We’ve seen on many issues, including antisemitism, that congressional hearings have proven extremely informative and extremely effective at addressing the problems.

And intersectionality in many ways is the foundation of a lot of the campus antisemitism, because in the hierarchy of oppressed peoples, Jews are put in the white category under intersectionality, they are considered oppressors. It drives a lot of the anti-Israel rhetoric. And on almost every college campus, when you see organized anti-Israel, anti-Zionist, anti-Jewish efforts, it is always based on an intersectional theory, which is portraying it as a fight against white oppression. People of color versus white oppressors.

They put the United States in that category. They put capitalism generally in that category, and of course, they put Israel in that category. Certainly any individual scholar has the right to write about intersectionality. Any individual student has the right to read about it. But the question is, are federal funds being used to promote unlawful discrimination? And that’s the approach the administration has taken with regard to DEI.

If you read the executive orders carefully, it doesn’t attempt to ban DEI. It just says you cannot use federal money to advance racially discriminatory DEI.

And that’s the same issue with intersectionality. We are not calling for a ban on intersectionality as a theory. What we are calling on the government to do is to make sure that federal funds are not used to promote racially and ethnically and religiously discriminatory activities that take place under the name of intersectionality.

People may have a constitutional right to espouse intersectionality, but the government doesn’t have to pay for it.

This is also an additional problem that our report addresses, which is that intersectionality is also the ideology of the growing domestic terrorist movement. There was a recent arrest by the federal government, by the Department of Justice, of a group called Turtle Island Liberation Front. Turtle Island Liberation Front is essentially an intersectionality driven organization. Ideologically it considers the United States illegitimate, and that’s why they refer to it using the mythical Native American term of Turtle Island.

People have probably never heard the term Turtle Island, but if you are on a campus, I guarantee you have heard about Turtle Island. You have heard, at the opening of every event at Cornell and many campuses, they have to read a land acknowledgement, which acknowledges that we are on somebody else’s land. We’re essentially on stolen land.

The movement to delegitimize the United States, to delegitimize capitalism, to deconstruct our system, is driven by intersectionality. And we don’t think that people understand that.

And that’s why Legal Insurrection Foundation and Defensive Freedom Institute issued this report. Because it’s a wake up call. It’s an alarm that’s being sounded that as much as some of the problems have been recognized, the underlying ideological foundation has not been identified or understood.

Intersectionality theory is in many way the mother’s milk of critical race theory, and diversity, equity and inclusion, and increasingly the violent domestic terrorism through anarchist and other groups.