Can DEI be saved? Should it be saved?

Hi, I'm Scott Ott with Bill Whittle and Stephen Green. This episode of Right Angles brought to you by the members of Bill Whittle.com.

And gentlemen, there's a- Shortest right angle ever.

A contemplative piece in the Wall Street Journal that says even some of the kind of the intellectual forces behind the creation of diversity, equity, and inclusion programs

at corporations are having second thoughts and are trying to sort of re-explain to people

what the purpose of these things are.

And I found this very interesting.

And it's not altogether,. Yeah, theoretically with that

headline, it should be the shortest episode ever. But here's a couple of snippets from what they

said in the article. They said, like other business fads, DEI piled on some of the, some of

workers' least favorite things, things extra consultants more awkward human resources

sessions and new chiefs with lofty titles and fuzzy mandates some of the most visible steps

that businesses took after george floyd's uh they say murder in the in 2020 turned out to be

ineffective according to harvard sociologist Frank Dobbin.

Now, Frank Dobbins, the guy who wrote the book upon which much of the DEI movement has drawn its firepower.

Now, he's more of a scientist and a researcher and didn't really lay out a program for this,

but he just did a study of diversity

and equity and inclusion issues throughout the decades. And basically his, so he is saying,

hey, I think they misunderstood what we were trying to accomplish with this. And here's another

great quote from the story, Steve.

The unconscious bias training that was supposed to create anti-racist allies

turns out that people hate being told that they have hidden prejudices.

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