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The Marxist Roots of DEI - Session 2: Diversity | James Lindsay

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🗓️ 20 March 2023

⏱️ 136 minutes

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Summary

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives have taken over the country, reaching into every aspect of our work, school, and lives. What is "DEI," though? New Discourses founder James Lindsay explains the idea and its history in unprecedented depth in this new series from an in-person workshop in Miami, Florida, breaking down each of the three letters in detail. What we'll find is that it's a contemporary and managerial repackaging of socialism. In this second episode of the series, following from his discussion of equity as (expanded) socialism, Lindsay articulates that "Diversity" initiatives are rooted in the goal of installing ideologically consistent political officers within organizations to effect and enforce policies directed toward achieving equity. These political officers, often called "Diversity Officers," are in fact a rebranding of the older concept of commissars, who enforced socialism in the same way. Understanding Diversity in this regard is relatively easy, but how did we get here in America? The answer is bad judicial interpretation of Civil Rights laws that center "disparate impact" rather than intention as evidence of discrimination. Join James Lindsay as he walks you through the history and philosophy of the Diversity scam. Session 1 - Equity: https://newdiscourses.com/2023/03/marxist-roots-dei-session-1-equity/ Session 3 - Inclusion: Coming Soon! Order James Lindsay's new book, The Marxification of Education: https://amzn.to/3RYZ0tY Support New Discourses: https://newdiscourses.com/support Follow New Discourses on other platforms: https://newdiscourses.com/subscribe Follow James Lindsay: https://linktr.ee/conceptualjames © 2023 New Discourses. All rights reserved. #newdiscourses #jameslindsay #diversity

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0:00.0

So D and I are going to be diversity and inclusion are going to be the mechanisms by which

0:22.5

equity is to be achieved institutionally.

0:24.6

If that gets switched out for anti-racism, it'll probably still be a very similar program

0:28.0

of very similar things being said.

0:29.7

I've heard the scuttle butt, but again, like I said last night, I don't know if this is

0:34.2

I don't know how solid this is yet, but the so-called scuttle butt around this is that diversity

0:39.7

and inclusion will be branded as not presenting the values that they're truly trying to align

0:46.2

with because it doesn't center race.

0:49.9

But we are in a switch gears to diversity now, inclusion tomorrow, and see how the nuts

0:55.4

and bolts of this work luckily, I have a lot of reading I'm going to do to you from

1:00.7

their literature on diversity.

1:04.1

But I think we should be able to do a tighter lecture on this than we did last night.

1:08.4

So what is diversity and what is it for?

1:10.6

We'll start with that kind of big picture just to kind of ease into the topic.

1:14.8

We mentioned it last night.

1:15.8

The idea of diversity is that you're bringing people with different perspectives together

1:20.2

in order to create something that's a more profitable or productive whole.

1:24.8

That's the rationale behind diversity.

1:28.1

It's very simple, it's laudable.

1:30.1

It actually, when the diversity is genuine and purposed or functional when you have functional

1:36.0

diversity, it actually does seem to produce results.

1:41.8

It actually does seem to actually help you overcome bigotry if that's a thing that's

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