Author name: Josh Slocum

DEI, DEI Pushback

University of North Carolina Axes DEI and Saves $17 Million

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How much do diversity, equity, and inclusion cost? If you’re the University of North Carolina, $17 million.

That’s how much the state’s university system is saving after shutting down huge swathes of DEI offices and positions in every school in the state network. Just take a look below at the table of North Carolina’s public universities, and how much they saved after ditching DEI.

That’s right, readers! The UNC Board of Governors met on September 11 and voted to cut a total of 59 staff positions and to “realign” another 132 job roles (that appears to mean the employees were sent to work in some other, non-DEI office). 

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, or DEI, has become a mind-numbingly common phrase. We hear it everywhere, all the time. At work. On the news. From the lips of politicians. Every “respectable” public figure, official, or institution talks about it as if “DEI” were the most obviously natural goal that every human should be concerned with above and beyond anything else (including academic excellence). 

We all know what this is really about: race grifting. DEI is simply a benefits and credentials program for non-white people. It’s anti-white racism that never gets called racism, because Americans have been programmed for so long to believe that the U.S. disenfranchises, impoverishes, or kills black people daily just for the sheer perversity of it. You’d never know in 2024 that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 actually passed, since black race baiters talk as if anti-black racism is worse today than in the days of lynching and Jim Crow. 

As far as the white portion of the population goes, the Civil Rights Act may as well never have been passed, as it certainly isn’t used to stop discrimination against white people. It’s a  legitimate question whether many Americans actually know that all racism, including the kind against white people, is illegal under the Act. In recent years companies have brazenly advertised jobs for “people of color,” “women,” and “LGBT” as if it were legal to exclude white people, men, or straight people from jobs. It is not legal, but since the law is rarely enforced when the victim is a white person, it has become de facto  legal to favor minorities in job hiring. 

Let’s see what X users had to say about the news. 

This one asks a question. . .

. . . and someone else has an answer. 

This guy said the quiet part out loud–no one wants to really admit that DEI is nothing but a scam to extract money from everyone to give to a special, sacred caste. 

Alex has a point–DEI watchers are well-advised to keep their eye on this to make sure it’s not just a monetary shell game. 

This sounds like the right lateral move for the newly “un-jobbed.”

Democrats

California Wants to Give Illegals Your Tax Dollars to Buy Houses

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Will California ever be worth its nickname The Golden State Again? The state has a $60 billion budget deficit, and all it can think of are new ways to spend taxpayer money that it doesn’t even have. 

Now, the state’s Democrats want to give even more tax money paid by U.S. citizens to illegal border crossers. This time, it’s in the form of an extension to the state’s existing California Dream For All Shared Appreciation Loan program, which gives first-time homebuyers up to 20 percent of the home’s purchase price as a loan for the down payment. 

Yes, it’s a loan, but it’s an interest-free loan, meaning it’s free money. Now, Assembly Bill 1840 would extend the program to illegal aliens. The state’s Senate Appropriations Committee approved the bill unanimously last week, which means it will move forward for a senate vote. But since Democrats control the senate, and uber-progressive Gavin Newsom is the Governor, it does not seem likely that the bill can be stopped. 

Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris seems to be studying the California approach as she recently rolled out a proposal to give first-time homeowners a $25,000 down payment and a $10,000 tax credit on top of it. But Harris’ program does not appear to include illegal aliens (yet). 

San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond said it was irresponsible of Democrats to ignore the needs of U.S. citizens living in the state in order to “prioritize illegal immigration,” especially in times of fiscal crisis. He called the expansion of the program “not just another handout,” but a big overreach that will leave taxpayers holding the bag. 

Unsurprisingly, one state Assemblymember said the original loan program, restricted to citizens, was just not inclusive enough. Joaquin Arambula of Fresno introduced the bill in the assembly in early 2024 specifically to include illegal aliens within the definition of “first-time homebuyer.” He said that owning a home “should be available to everyone.”

Many might agree, but for them, the definition of “available” does not mean, “paid for with interest-free tax dollars.” 

We’ve seen what state politicians have to say, so let’s check in with regular people on social media. 

Maybe this user has the right idea. After all, California’s been losing residents to other states in recent years. 

California’s ultra-liberal policies aren’t just driving out homeowners, but some of the largest businesses. Billionaire own of the social media platform X (formerly Twitter), said he’s moving his SpaceX rocket company to Texas after a recent California law that allows teachers to keep the “gender identity” of confused students secret from their parents. 

Entertainment, LGBTQ+

Netflix Race Follies: King Edward Now Black, Gay, and Wheelchair-Bound

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Merry Old England is getting a woke makeover once again, courtesy of Netflix. 

First, they showed us that Henry VIII’s second wife, Anne Boleyn, was black. Oh, you didn’t hear about this? Feast your eyes and weep (we’ve embedded a link to a woke apologia for the silliness just for you!):

Then came “Bridgerton,” another Netflix series that “reimagined” Regency England as a multicultural playland populated by as many black or mixed-race people, including royalty, as there were actual native white Britons. For reference, there were only estimated to be 15,000 blacks in all of England at the end of the 18th century – while the first Census in 1801 put England’s total population at 8.3 million, making this minority only 0.18% of the population at the time – in reality.

Now, Netflix brings us another bold, imaginative, and not-at-all-insulting-or-pandering  series set in early modern England that blacks-up and gays-up actual historical figures who were neither. Readers, you’re going to think I’m joking. You’re going to think, “surely, they cannot go this far.”

I am not joking. They have gone this far. 

Netflix has made King Edward VI, son of Henry VIII, a gay black man in a wheelchair. And it’s a wheelchair that looks like someone stole it from the set of The Hobbit. 

The show is called “My Lady Jane,” (you can see a trailer below) and it purports to tell the story of the tumultuous and brief nine days’ “rule” of Lady Jane Grey  in 1553. Funny how no historians until now have mentioned that the son of Henry Tudor was somehow, inexplicably, a black African who just happened to have wheelchair access, too.

The motivation is probably implied by the title: “MY Lady Jane.” The woke believe that they are entitled to rewrite the world to reflect themselves, personally. How many times do we hear young blue hairs complaining that a TV show or movie “doesn’t have anyone who looks like me?” Pathological narcissism masquerades as normal small talk in the 21st century. 

Here’s what really happened. When the boy King Edward VII (son of Henry VIII) sickened, he and an advisor cooked up a plan to take away the throne from its rightful heir, Edward’s half-sister Mary Tudor. He added a device to his will naming a cousin, Jane Grey, as his heir, and he did this to stop his Catholic sister Mary from being crowned and undoing the Protestant Reformation begun by his father. 

The plot failed, and Mary took the throne, eventually executing 16-year-old Jane Grey (she was forced into accepting the crown by her scheming older relatives). 

It’s anyone’s guess if the younger generations would know any of this history enough to be bothered by the ludicrous portrayal of a black African as a king of Tudor England. But as always, people on social media aren’t shy about sharing their views. 

There’s always one wokie who dishonestly pretends not to understand what “everyone’s so upset about.”

This fellow naively believes that when it comes to black and white race issues, that what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. 

Ernst has a smashing idea for a groundbreaking cinematic reimagining. 

Do you remember back about a month ago when Google’s new Gemini AI system made every historical character non-white, including the Vikings? User Aesthetica does!

Readers, I don’t know about you, but this one sums it up for me. 


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