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Elon Musk’s DOGE initiative has exposed a bizarre “antiracism” training program that framed newborn infants as racists, highlighting a shocking example of government waste driven by left-wing ideologies under President Joe Biden.

Conservative activist Chris Rufo outlined the program in a lengthy X post on Friday.

The program, funded by the Department of Education, was just one of many “antiracism” training programs used for teachers following the rise of Black Lives Matter after the death of George Floyd.

One slide, titled “Did You Know? Racial Awareness in the Early Years,” asserted that infants become racist before turning one year old if they are not exposed to diversity.

The slide argues that infants can begin to categorize faces based on race and even develop preferences for faces they see most often, which usually corresponds to their own race.

Funding for racist baby training is canceled https://t.co/M7H1ks4Vbr

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 15, 2025

The DEI consultant explains in the training:

“At nine months, infants are unable to distinguish the facial features of racial groups other than their caregiver unless they frequently see images of racially diverse people.

By the age of two, children are putting people into categories based on race, and they are observing and internalizing power dynamics,” a DEI consultant explained during the training.

At age three, children develop biases and begin assigning meaning to race by attributing positive traits to the dominant race.

However, children can still respond to positive messages about their own and others’ racial identities. By age five, children of all races demonstrate social biases, primarily by attributing negative traits to non-white races. At this age, children are capable of acting against racial injustice.”

The consultant then labeled young children as “racists,” saying, “Racist idiocy is a form of racism.”

Elon Musk pointed to the training as an example of the sheer decay within the federal government.

“Funding for racist baby training is canceled,” Musk wrote.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning DEI policies and training within the federal government.

Acting Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Charles Ezell, informed acting department and agency heads in a memo that all government DEI offices would be forced to close by the end of the day.

Employees at these agencies were informed they would be placed on paid leave.

Federal workers were also ordered to remove all DEI-related websites and social media accounts, cancel contracts or training programs, and report any efforts to disguise DEI programs using coded or imprecise language.

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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.”