DEI Pushback

University of North Carolina Axes DEI and Saves $17 Million

Josh Slocum / September 13, 2024

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.”

DEI Pushback

Ford Becomes Latest Company To Amend DEI Policies

Shay Bottomley / August 30, 2024

Auto giant Ford has become the latest company to withdraw some of its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies amid a growing movement by conservative campaigner Robby Starbuck.

Starbuck’s campaign against woke DEI policies has grown momentum over the course of 2024. His initial successes against farmyard manufacturers John Deere and Tractor Supply have expanded onto major corporations such as Harley-Davidson and Lowe’s in recent weeks.

Like others before it, Ford has pledged to withdraw from the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index which ranks employers on how accommodating they are to woke initiatives. There will be no further donations to pride-related events, while employee resource groups will be solely focused on business.

Furthermore, diversity quotas at suppliers or dealerships have been shelved, while Starbuck hinted the CEO had called for a “merit-based approach” with “respect and civility towards all ideologies”.

“This isn’t everything we want but it’s a great start. We’re now forcing multi-billion dollar organizations to change their policies without even posting just from fear they have of being the next company that we expose,” Starbuck told followers on X. “We will continue to communicate with our sources in companies we expose and report on any that step out of line. I can promise that if we have to do a second report, it will be much more aggressive.”

Many held high praise for Starbuck and his campaign.

Others users suggested Starbuck should aim his efforts towards other corporations with woke DEI policies in place.

DEI Pushback

Lowe’s Becomes Latest Corporation To Backtrack On DEI Policies As Conservative Campaign Builds Momentum

Shay Bottomley / August 28, 2024

Home improvement store Lowe’s has become the latest company to withdraw its “diversity, equity, and inclusion” policies amid a conservative campaign on social media.

The decision came following an inquiry to a Lowe’s executive by popular campaigner Robby Starbuck. In recent months, Starbuck’s activism has prompted motorcycle manufacturer Harley-Davidson to reverse DEI policies, as well as farmyard corporations Tractor Supply and John Deere.

Lowe’s’ decision to amend its corporate policy on DEI initiative came before the conservative campaigner exposed the company. In a three-minute video posted on X, Starbuck listed the preemptive changes: Lowe’s will withdraw from the Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index where companies are assessed on their inclusivity to LGBTQ+ individuals. It also pledged to prohibit donations to pride “or other divisive events” while ending Employee Resource Groups catered towards race or sexual orientation.

“We’re now forcing multi-billion dollar organizations to change their policies without even posting just from fear they have of being the next company that we expose,” Starbuck wrote on his social media profile. “We are winning and one by one we WILL bring sanity back to corporate America.”

Adding that his movement was “a force to be reckoned with”, Starbuck encouraged concerned followers to expose their woke workplace with tips and evidence to [email protected].

He received widespread praise on social media from supporters of his campaign.

He also received strong reviews from those who subscribe to his X account.

DEI Pushback, Woke

Matt Walsh Infiltrates White-Woman-Bashing Dinner Parties in New Film

Alec Johnson / August 28, 2024

Conservative podcaster and commentator Matt Walsh broke most of the rules of liberal Hollywood in 2022 with his wildly successful comic documentary What is a Woman. He traveled the world asking that simple question, which has, unbelievably, become incredibly difficult to answer in the West as society has succumbed to the insanity of gender ideology.

The only people in the film who seemed to understand how crackpot the question really is were the members of the African Masai tribe, who had no idea that Westerners had forgotten the difference between men and women.

Click below to start the hilarity.

Now Walsh is tweaking the noses of the progressive left by asking another short question. Am I Racist is the title of his new film. Taking the same approach he did for What is a Woman, Walsh manages to sneak himself into the conferences and dinner parties of the mentally unbalanced left who worship at the feet of narcissistic race grifters like Robin DiAngelo, author of White Fragility.

If you didn’t know that these people exist, you would think Walsh made them up. But we can assure you that they are real.

Regina Jackson and Saira Rao run a white-woman mortification scheme called “Race 2 Dinner.” White women paid $2,500 for the privilege of having dinner with the pair and other white women while being told that they’re awful Karens who were born with the original sin of racism simply because their skin is white. Yes, it does seem reasonable to suspect there’s a sexual and sadomasochistic element to these dire affairs.

Disguised in a bad wig and a Covid mask, Walsh managed to get hired as a catering waiter for one of the dinners. You have to watch this clip to believe it. Saira Rao bizarrely starts out claiming that she, an Indian woman, “used to be a white woman, an unsuccessful one,” before excoriating her white female dining companions for being awful people who live miserable lives. Everyone gets their jollies their own way, apparently.

As she attempted to lecture at her race-baiting dinner, Walsh interjected to completely derail the discussion in the funniest way possible – concluding with Walsh asking attendees to raise a glass if they’re racist – to which nearly the entire table complied.

Wokespy readers, we hope you let us know how this “hit you” in the comments below. Let’s see what people on social media had to say.

Galen was laughing despite himself: