Tuesday, April 8, 2025
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 8 April 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 12:04)
The Morality Tale of Corporate DEI: Businesses in the U.S. are Backing Off DEI – What Changed?
- Morgan Stanley Went Big on DEI, and No One Is Happy About It by The Wall Street Journal (AnnaMaria Andriotis and Lauren Weber)
- ‘Anti-Woke’ in the U.S., DEI at Home: the New Playbook for European Companies by The Wall Street Journal (Ben Dummett and Joe Wallace)
Part II (12:04 - 16:59)
DEI is Just Being Renamed: The Infectious Ideology Behind DEI Will Need More Than a Cultural Revolution to Uproot Its Influence Throughout Society
- Disney shareholders overwhelmingly reject anti-DEI proposal by USA Today (Jessica Guynn)
- New York Warns Trump It Will Not Comply With Public School D.E.I. Order by The New York Times (Troy Closson)
Part III (16:59 - 25:16)
San Francisco Rethinks Free Drug Program: One of the Most Liberal Cities in the U.S. Realizes Encouraging Drug Addiction was a Bad Idea – Go Figure
- ‘We’ve Lost Our Way’: San Francisco Rethinks Drug Paraphernalia Handouts by The New York Times (Heather Knight)
Part IV (25:16 - 28:44)
Sportsmanship and Statesmanship: Wayne Gretzky Shows Up to Celebrate the Breaking of His NHL Goal Record
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, April 8, 2025. I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:13.9 | Well, the DEI issue continues to make headlines, and deservedly so. And as you look over the course of the last, say, decade or so, the DEI movement, |
| 0:23.3 | that's diversity and equity and inclusion. That agenda began to be forced on many and worked |
| 0:29.7 | through so many different levels of society. And it is very interesting to see that there has |
| 0:34.8 | been a pushback to this and for very good reason, |
| 0:43.2 | because the DEI policies are often based on a very toxic brew of leftist ideologies and identity politics. And you're also looking at the fact that there is a backlash that tells us |
| 0:49.4 | a lot about the situation, and then there's a backlash to the backlash, and then there will be |
| 0:53.6 | another backlash to that. So let's try to figure out what's going on here. If you go back to some of the |
| 0:58.3 | big controversies in, say, the second decade of the 21st century, you go back to the George Floyd |
| 1:05.1 | incident, so many others, there was the suggestion drilled through the society, and it became not only |
| 1:10.1 | a suggestion, but a constant |
| 1:11.4 | message and a barrage, and then a demand, that these kind of DEI policies and perspectives, |
| 1:18.2 | even thought training experiments, needed to be put into place in American corporations and |
| 1:23.3 | government, on college campuses, and even just driven through the school systems. But that did |
| 1:29.3 | lead to a greater divisiveness, it can be argued, and it certainly didn't solve the problems. |
| 1:34.2 | And furthermore, it's based in this very crucial idea at the center of identity politics |
| 1:39.9 | and at the intersection of identity politics and leftist ideologies. And in particular, critical |
| 1:45.5 | theory, all the rest of it just put into a giant program that came with ideological force. And |
| 1:52.3 | often with absolute demand, absolute demand. If you're going to be a student here, you have to |
| 1:56.3 | take this class. If you're going to be an employee here, you have to buy into this ideology. If you are going |
| 2:02.4 | to be a public official, then you're going to have to agree to these programs. Even if you don't |
| 2:06.2 | agree, you're going to have to go to the programs. You're going to have to sit through the seminars. |
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