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It definitely takes a ground effort to end this DEI nonsense for good. It's great to see that people are seeing through and fighting against it. Unfortunately, and it's something I can tell you from my own experience, there will be companies out there that will dig their heels into the ground and intensify efforts to keep DEI/ESG as the status quo.

The more of a ground effort we can make of this, or grassroots effort, it'll lay an even more solid foundation to bring an end, or at least dwindle, DEI as we'd come to know it in the 2020s. Jon, thanks for the link to The Daily Economy piece. I'll be sinking my teeth into it next.

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In your opinion, do you think it’s more of the 30s and 40 year olds that are changing the system or do you think it’s all ages?

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From my experience, and this coming from what I’ve witnessed and heard, it’s all age groups. I’d say people in their 20s, 30's, 40s, and even higher. I also know that, for some close to me, it’s the same thing. To me, it ultimately appears to be coming from the higher-ups in a company, at least these days, and it trickles down to the rest of the company. But there are also DEI Boards of Advisors and similar groups.

That said, I’m sure there’s much, much more to it than that. But going by my experience and that of others, these are conclusions I can draw for the time being.

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Thank you for your post Jon! This is so fascinating to me since I tend to be more on the naïve side politically. I don’t watch television and I don’t read newspapers usually and my education mostly consists of reading memoir and spiritual or storytelling classes. So thank you for opening my eyes with this post.

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I prefer biographies and novels as well. :-)

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Something I've started doing was to study history, politics, economics, etc., from a lay perspective. It's a sound counter to what one might get from academia, and, in many instances, it paints a better and more accurate picture.

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And what sources do you turn to?

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But at least you’re up on the latest news haps…!

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About bloody time!

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This is a superb summary of the reality of DEI.

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Unethical and illegal. That cannot be repeated enough.

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If you’ve been discriminated against due to being the wrong skin color contact the Pacific Legal Foundation.

https://pacificlegal.org/stop-hiring-interns-based-on-race-plf-tells-los-angeles-zoo/

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